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The Last Days of Mankind
The Complete Text
Kraus’s iconic WWI drama, a satirical indictment of the glory of war, now in English in its entirety for the first time"[A] superb translation."—Bill Marx, Arts Fuse One hundred...
Military Strategy
A Global History
A global account of military strategy, which examines the practices, rather than the theories, of the most significant military figures of the past 400 years Strategy has existed as long as there has...
The Women Who Saved the English Countryside
A vibrant history of English landscape preservation over the last 150 years, told through the lives of four remarkable women In Britain today, a mosaic of regulations protects the natural environment and...
The Invention of China
"[A] smart take on modern Chinese nationalism" (Foreign Policy). Bill Hayton tells the story of how ‘China’ came to think of itself as China—and what it means for our world today In this compelling...
The Great Plague
A People's History
In this intimate history of the extraordinary Black Plague pandemic that swept through the British Isles in 1665, Evelyn Lord focuses on the plague’s effects on smaller towns, where every death was a singular blow affecting the entire...
The Guitar in Georgian England
A Social and Musical History
A fascinating social history of the guitar, reasserting its long-forgotten importance in Romantic England This book is the first to explore the popularity and novelty of the guitar in Georgian England, noting its...
Stanley Kubrick
American Filmmaker
An engrossing biography of one of the most influential filmmakers in cinematic history"A cool, cerebral book about a cool, cerebral talent. . . . A brisk study of [Kubrick's] films, with enough of the life tucked...
The Woman on the Windowsill
A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts
A true story of violence, punishment, and a transformative moment in Guatemalan history that “deftly ranges across Italian iconography, Maya cosmovision, casta paintings, Enlightenment urbanism, conceptions of death...
The Great British Reboot
How the UK Can Thrive in a Turbulent World
An optimistic exploration of how, through radical economic reform, the United Kingdom can prosper and flourish in the new global economy Taking a refreshingly realistic approach, Alex Brummer outlines how our...
The Quick and the Dead
Selected Stories
A collection of the finest stories from the Irish author of The Dirty Dust, published fifty years after his death “Every sentence is packed with explosive power, not a word wasted, and the whole is almost...