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Recasting the Past
Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago
Founded in 1879 as the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago began a tradition of collecting plaster casts of Classical sculpture for display in its galleries and use in its studio art classes. Other...
Claretta
Mussolini's Last Lover
A master historian illuminates the tumultuous relationship of Mussolini and his young lover Claretta Petacci,"One of the finest historians of modern Italy, Bosworth has written both a love story, full of...
Abraham Joshua Heschel
A Life of Radical Amazement
New in the acclaimed Jewish Lives series: A biography of the rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, who became a symbol of the marriage between religion and social justice “Zelizer’s book is absolutely riveting, both as a study...
The Aeneid
A powerful and poignant translation of Vergil’s epic poem, newly equipped with introduction and notes"Ruden set the bar for Aeneid translations in 2008, and has raised it now with this revision. I am...
The Bhutto Dynasty
The Struggle for Power in Pakistan
A major new investigation into the Bhutto family, examining their influence in Pakistan from the colonial era to the present day"Students of geopolitics and South Asia will find this a valuable book."—
How to Enjoy Art
A Guide for Everyone
An entertaining and lively guide to rediscovering the pleasure in artHow to Enjoy Art: A Guide for Everyone provides the tools to understand and enjoy works of art. Debunking the pervasive idea that...
The Will to See
Dispatches from a World of Misery and Hope
An unflinching look at the most urgent humanitarian crises around the globe, from one of the world’s most daring philosopher-reporters“Call[s] on people not just to see the world, but to be moved and interested...
Yale
A History
This lively history of Yale traces the development of the college from its founding in 1701 by a small group of Puritan clergymen intent on preserving the purity of the faith in Connecticut, to its survival in the...
The Library at Night
A celebration of reading, of libraries, and of the mysterious human desire to give order to the universe Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire,...
Melancholy
A leading European intellectual reflects on the changing concept of melancholy throughout history Alberto Manguel praises the Hungarian writer László Földényi as “one of the most brilliant essayists of our...