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Madame de Pompadour
Painted Pink
A fresh take on a beloved masterpiece of portraiture, focusing on the complex significance of the color pink in eighteenth-century France François Boucher’s 1750 half-length portrait of Madame de Pompadour...
The Volga
A History of Russia's Greatest River
A rich and fascinating exploration of the Volga River and its vital place in Russian history—named a Best Book of 2021 by the Financial Times“A memorable journey into the heart of Russian social,...
Partisan Hearts and Minds
Political Parties and the Social Identities of Voters
In this authoritative study, three political scientists demonstrate that identification with political parties powerfully determines how citizens look at politics and cast their ballots."Partisan Hearts and Minds is
A Jonathan Edwards Reader
Prepared by editors of the distinguished series The Works of Jonathan Edwards, this authoritative anthology includes selected treatises, sermons, and autobiographical material by early America’s greatest theologian and...
The Theban Plays of Sophocles
A new and welcome translation of Sophocles’ great Oedipus cycle, by one of the distinguished translators of our era In this needed and highly anticipated new translation of the Theban plays of...
Walther Rathenau
Weimar's Fallen Statesman
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a figure of great intellectual power who ran the German state, however briefly, during one of its most tumultuous periods, and whose life was "the essence of German Jewish...
Slow Lightning
"[Corral] packs many, many lines with sharp, sensual, specific imagery—this is Technicolor poetry."—Booklist“Corral is a writer that cares both for the poetic line, but also for the bodies...
The American West
A New Interpretive History
Second Edition
A fully revised and updated new edition of the classic history of western America “A classic for the twenty-first century, The American West stands as the best one volume treatment of the American West...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Written by Himself
Critical Edition
One of the most influential literary documents in American and African American history, now available in a critical edition“This edition is the most valuable teaching tool on slavery and abolition...
A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume V
Probing the Authenticity of the Parables
Since the late nineteenth century, New Testament scholars have operated on the belief that most, if not all, of the narrative parables in the Synoptic Gospels can be attributed to the historical Jesus. This book challenges that...