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Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s
A timely reassessment of the artist’s early performances and feminist sculptures, affirming their radical engagements and art historical significance This volume is a focused look at two bodies of work, the Tirs
Victorious in Defeat
The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887-1975
An extensively researched, comprehensive biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth century’s most powerful and controversial figures Chiang Kai-shek (1887–1975) led the Republic...
Trees Are Shape Shifters
How Cultivation, Climate Change, and Disaster Create Landscapes
An exploration of the anthropogenic landscapes of Lucca, Italy, and how its people understand social and environmental change through cultivation In Italy and around the Mediterranean, almost every stone, every...
The Wounded Storyteller
The Traumatic Tales of E. T. A. Hoffmann
E. T. A. Hoffmann’s classic tales of Gothic horror and fantasy are presented in a new translation accompanying the beguiling drawings of Natalie Frank E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822) was one of the greatest German...
About Architecture
An Essential Guide in 55 Buildings
About Architecture is an engaging introduction to architecture, exploring the ways in which we construct our built environment, and why. Hugh Pearman guides us through the architecture that shapes our lives—from how our towns...
American Slavers
Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644-1865
The first telling of the unknown story of America’s two-hundred-year history as a slave-trading nation A total of 305,000 enslaved Africans arrived in the New World aboard American vessels over a span of two...
Enheduana
The Complete Poems of the World's First Author
The complete poems of the priestess Enheduana, the world’s first known author, newly translated from the original Sumerian Enheduana was a high priestess and royal princess who lived in Ur, in what is now southern...
The New Testament
A Translation
Second Edition
The second edition of David Bentley Hart’s critically acclaimed New Testament translation David Bentley Hart’s translation of the New Testament, first published in 2017, was hailed as a “remarkable feat” and as a ...
The Age of Guilt
The Super-Ego in the Online World
How Freud’s concept of the super-ego can help us to understand the harsh cultural climate of the digital age Cancellation, scapegoating, raving on Twitter. How did the Internet, which began as a place for open...
Near East to Far West
Fictions of French and American Colonialism
A new look at French Orientalism’s influence on the art of the American West, showing how aesthetics and ideology jointly informed approaches to colonialism and expansion during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in both...