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Book Madness
A Story of Book Collectors in America
The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb’s library in 1848 Charles Lamb’s library—a heap of sixty scruffy old books singed with smoke, soaked with gin, sprinkled with...
Untimely Moderns
How Twentieth-Century Architecture Reimagined the Past
A novel exploration of the idea of nonlinear time and its place at the heart of modern art and architecture Through much of the twentieth century, a diverse group of thinkers engaged in an interdisciplinary...
Supplement to Max Farrand's Records of the Federal Convention of 1787
The Federal Convention of 1787 engaged in the great and complex labor of framing the Constitution for the union of the states. For thirty years afterward, little was known of its deliberations, and nothing official was...
Views of Difference
Different Views of Art
In a fascinating series of case studies, this book looks at the ways in which European colonizers interpreted the arts of the people they colonized, as well the ways in which they have tended to view art produced by the...
Versions of History from Antiquity to the Enlightenment
The problems, purposes, and methods of history writing have been the subject of debate for almost three millennia. Should history be political or philosophical? Is the writing of history an art or a science? What are...
The Devil Within
Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West
A fascinating, wide-ranging survey of the history of possession and exorcism through the ages In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the era of the Reformation, thousands of Europeans were thought to...
The Lady in the Painting
A Basic Chinese Reader, Expanded Edition, Traditional Characters
The Lady in the Painting is the only full-length story written in Chinese for low-intermediate level learners of Chinese as a foreign language. The story is told with vocabulary and structures familiar to students...
The Neighborhoods of Queens
A grand tour of the neighborhoods of Queens in all their richness and diversity This up-to-date, intimate portrait of the 99 neighborhoods of Queens is a wonderful tribute to the borough’s past history...
The Pearl
A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great's Russia
The unforgettable story of the serf who became one of Russia’s greatest opera singers and her noble master, a man who defied all tradition to marry her Filled with a remarkable cast of...
The Formation of the Jewish Canon
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls provides unprecedented insight into the nature of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament before its fixation. Timothy Lim here presents a complete account of the formation of the canon in...