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The Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland
A History
This authoritative book is the most detailed account to date of the Arts and Crafts movement in Scotland. Arts and Crafts ideas appeared there from the 1860s, but not until after 1890 did they emerge from artistic circles...
The Democratic Faith
Essays on Democratic Citizenship
Can the citizens of a democracy be trusted to run it properly? Modern political science has concentrated on cataloguing voters’ failings—their lack of knowledge, tolerance, or consistency in political...
In the Shadow of Velázquez
A Life in Art History
In this lucid, witty book, the eminent art historian Jonathan Brown examines links between his personal life and his study of Hispanic art of the Golden Age. His adventures are offered as a model for understanding how art history is...
Apocalypse as Holy War
Divine Politics and Polemics in the Letters of Paul
Prevailing theories of apocalypticism assert that in a world that rebels against God, a cataclysmic battle between good and evil is needed to reassert God’s dominion. Emma Wasserman, a rising scholar of early Christian...
The Poetry of Kabbalah
Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition
The first ever English-language collection of poetry from the Kabbalistic tradition, masterfully translated by MacArthur-winning poet Peter Cole This groundbreaking collection presents for the first time...
1940
FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler—the Election amid the Storm
The spellbinding story of the Roosevelt-Willkie election season, when bitterly divided Americans debated the fate of the nation and the world In 1940, against the explosive backdrop of the Nazi onslaught in...
David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society
A compact and accessible edition of Hume’s political and moral writings with essays by a distinguished set of contributors A key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume was a major influence on...
The Killing Compartments
The Mentality of Mass Murder
An incisive exploration of why acts of mass annihilation take place and how people become mass killers By historical standards, the early years of the twenty-first century have been remarkably peaceful....
Do Guns Make Us Free?
Democracy and the Armed Society
An essential examination of the political and philosophical arguments of the contemporary gun rights movement in the United States Possibly the most emotionally charged debate taking place in the United...
The Hatred of Music
How does a man who once adored music beyond measure come to revile it as a form of tyranny? Throughout Pascal Quignard’s distinguished literary career, music has been a recurring obsession. As a musician he...