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Mona Hatoum
Terra Infirma
A fresh and engaging look at the groundbreaking work of contemporary artist Mona Hatoum The work of London-based artist Mona Hatoum (b. 1952) addresses the growing unease of an ever-expanding world that is...
Roni Horn
When I Breathe, I Draw
Describing drawing as her “primary activity,” for over thirty years Roni Horn (b. 1955) has created innovative and experimental works on paper marked by both conceptual and technical complexity. This carefully curated survey...
By the Rivers of Babylon
A profound and genre-defying work of literature about love, death, and illness from one of Portugal’s most celebrated writers Incapacitated after the removal of a malignant tumor, the narrator, António, spends his...
The Origins of Victory
How Disruptive Military Innovation Determines the Fates of Great Powers
How the character of war is changing and how militaries can successfully adapt to meet the challenge This book by military strategist Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr., is the definitive take on the race for military...
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A Writing Guide for Learners of German
Second Edition, 2
Designed for German students of all levels, the second edition of this unique writing guide is updated with prompts for exploring contemporary culture and identities Considered by educators to be unique and...
The Two Moralities
Conservatives, Liberals, and the Roots of Our Political Divide
The most complete picture to date of the moral worlds of the political left and right and how their different views relate to specific political issues The left and right will always have strong policy disagreements...
Cy Twombly, Treatise on the Veil, 1970
A breathtaking exploration of one of Twombly’s largest paintings, the second version of his Treatise on the Veil One of the most important American postwar artists, Cy Twombly (1928–2011)...
Into the World’s Great Heart
Selected Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay
An annotated selection of the letters of the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay, from childhood through the last year of her life Throughout her life, Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote...
The Invention of Scarcity
Malthus and the Margins of History
A radical new reading of eighteenth-century British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus, which recovers diverse ideas about subsistence production and environments later eclipsed by classical economics With the...
Atlas of the Senseable City
A fascinating exploration of how the growth of digital mapping, spurred by sensing technologies, is affecting cities and daily lives What have smart technologies taught us about cities? What lessons can we learn...