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The Stripping of the Altars
Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580
New Edition
This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people’s experience of religion, showing that late-medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but a strong and vigorous tradition. For this edition,...
Beethoven
A Life in Nine Pieces
A major new biography published for the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, offering a fresh, human portrayal “Illuminating. . . . Tunbridge’s pithy A Life in Nine Pieces is different and welcome: a...
Going to Church in Medieval England
An engaging, richly illustrated account of parish churches and churchgoers in England, from the Anglo-Saxons to the mid-sixteenth century Parish churches were at the heart of English religious and social...
Women and Gender in Islam
Historical Roots of a Modern Debate
A classic, pioneering account of the lives of women in Islamic history, republished for a new generation This pioneering study of the social and political lives of Muslim women has shaped a whole generation of...
The Virus in the Age of Madness
A trenchant look at how the coronavirus reveals the dangerous fault lines of contemporary society As seen on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS: “A stirring alarm addressed to an unsettled world.” (Kirkus Reviews)
Mathematics for Human Flourishing
Winner of the Mathematics Association of America's 2021 Euler Book Prize, this is an inclusive vision of mathematics—its beauty, its humanity, and its power to build virtues that help us all flourish...
Henry III
The Rise to Power and Personal Rule, 1207-1258
The first in a ground-breaking two-volume history of Henry III’s rule“Professor Carpenter is one of Britain’s foremost medievalists…No one knows more about Henry, and a lifetime of scholarship is here...
A Good and Dignified Life
The Political Advice of Hannah Arendt and Rosa Luxemburg
A timely and provocative essay about the parallel lives of Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt and their mission for a more humane society “[A] short but moving book . . . Even better, the volume’s advice is not...
The Book of Mormon
The Earliest Text
Second Edition
Now in paperback, this corrected text is based on the earliest sources and represents the most accurate and readable edition of the Book of Mormon ever published"The product of over two decades of painstaking...
Memory Unearthed
The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross
Emotionally resonant photographs of everyday life in the Jewish Lódz Ghetto taken during WWII From 1941 to 1944, the Polish Jewish photographer Henryk Ross (1910–91) was a member of an official team...