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Sheila Hicks
Weaving as Metaphor
“I found my voice and my footing in my small work. It enabled me to build bridges between art, design, architecture, decorative arts, crafts.”—Sheila Hicks “Chunky and chalky, with a blind-embossed textile...
Forests Adrift
Currents Shaping the Future of Northeastern Trees
A captivating analysis of the past, present, and future of northeastern forests and the forces that have shaped them"Charlie Canham takes us on an inspiring walk through the past, present, and future of...
Holy Resilience
The Bible's Traumatic Origins
A leading biblical scholar offers a powerful reexamination of the Bible’s origins and its connections to human suffering Human trauma gave birth to the Bible, suggests eminent religious scholar David Carr....
Reformations
The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
A lively, expansive history of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the momentous changes they set in motion This fast-paced survey of Western civilization’s transition from the Middle Ages to...
Against the Grain
A Deep History of the Earliest States
An Economist Best History Book 2017 “History as it should be written.”—Barry Cunliffe, Guardian “Scott hits the nail squarely on the head by exposing the staggering...
An Insider's Guide to the UN
Thoroughly revised and updated, a new edition of the most popular guide to the United Nations for students and interested readers “My UN bible. Linda Fasulo knows all the right questions and brings back all the...
How the Old World Ended
The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution 1500-1800
A magisterial account of how the cultural and maritime relationships between the British, Dutch and American territories changed the existing world order – and made the Industrial Revolution possible ...
Our Beloved Kin
A New History of King Philip's War
Winner of the 2019 Bancroft Prize: A compelling and original recovery of Native American resistance and adaptation to colonial America“By making what we thought was a small story very large indeed—Ms....
A Short History of Ireland, 1500-2000
A brisk, concise, and readable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the dawn of the twenty-first century Five centuries of Irish history are explored in this informative and...
The Emperor's New Road
China and the Project of the Century
A prominent authority on China’s Belt and Road Initiative reveals the global risks lurking within Beijing’s project of the century“A reality check on Beijing’s global infrastructure project.”—Peter...