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Designing Type
The now-classic introduction to designing typography, handsomely redesigned and updated for the digital age In this invaluable book, Karen Cheng explains the processes behind creating and designing type,...
Arabs
A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
A SUNDAY TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR "Masterly and brilliant"—Simon Sebag Montefiore "A book of vast scope and stunning insight."—Anthony Sattin, Spectator ...
We Alone
How Humans Have Conquered the Planet and Can Also Save It
A thoughtful exploration of how humans have endangered the Earth but can pull it back from the brink, as told by a renowned conservationist This personal and thoughtful book by renowned Kenya...
The Misinformation Age
How False Beliefs Spread
The social dynamics of “alternative facts”: why what you believe depends on who you know“Empowering and thoroughly researched, this book offers useful contemporary analysis and possible solutions to one of the...
Goering's Man in Paris
The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World
A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world? "[Petropoulos] brings Lohse into sharper focus, as a personality and axis point from which to explore a network of...
Founding God's Nation
Reading Exodus
A chapter-by-chapter explanation of the Book of Exodus, revealing its wisdom about nation building and people formation"Kass draws from Exodus’ record of the founding of Judaism timely—even urgent...
This Is Not Normal
The Politics of Everyday Expectations
How our shifting sense of "what's normal" defines the character of democracy"A provocative examination of social constructs and those who would alternately undo or improve them."—Kirkus Reviews...
The Pocket
A Hidden History of Women's Lives, 1660–1900
A New York Times Best Art Book of 2019“A riveting book . . . few stones are left unturned.”—Roberta Smith’s “Top Art Books of 2019,” The New York Times This...
Why Food Matters
From the author of Ten Restaurants That Changed America, an exploration of food’s cultural importance and its crucial role throughout human history“A rich and fascinating narrative that reaches deep into...
The Vampire
A New History
An authoritative new history of the vampire, two hundred years after it first appeared on the literary scene Published to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori’s publication of The Vampyre, Nick...