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The End of Genetics
Designing Humanity's DNA
An urgent plea for a broader understanding and awareness of the unconsidered dangers of new genetic technologies Since 2010 it has been possible to determine a person’s genetic makeup in a matter of days at an...
Revolutions without Borders
The Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World
A sweeping exploration of revolutionary ideas that traveled the Atlantic in the late eighteenth century Nation-based histories cannot do justice to the rowdy, radical interchange of ideas around the...
Murder and the Movies
A renowned movie critic on film’s treatment of one of mankind’s darkest behaviors: murder"[Thomson's] analysis of death in Hitchcock movies is gorgeous. His restlessness is palpable. There is an anxiety in this...
Implication (DUMMY HC RECORD FOR BORN DIGITAL BOOK)
An Ecocritical Dictionary for Art History
Ecocriticism is an interdisciplinary mode of inquiry that examines the environmental significance of art, literature, and other creative endeavors. In Implication: An Ecocritical Dictionary for Art History, Alan C. Braddock, a...
Centre Pompidou
Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, and the Making of a Modern Monument
A lively intellectual biography of one of the 20th century’s most iconic buildings The Centre Georges Pompidou, also called Beaubourg, is today considered an icon of contemporary Paris, the quintessence of...
Charles Percier
Architecture and Design in an Age of Revolutions
Handsomely designed and richly illustrated, this publication surveys the magnificent spectrum of projects undertaken by French architect and interior designer Charles Percier (1764–1838). After gaining an illustrious...
Agents of Faith
Votive Objects in Time and Place
Votive objects or ex-votos are a broad category of material artifacts produced with the intention of being offered as acts of faith. Common across historical periods, religions, and cultures, they are presented as...
The Lions' Den
Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky
A lively intellectual history that explores how prominent midcentury public intellectuals approached Zionism and then the State of Israel itself and its conflicts with the Arab world In this lively...
Sundays in August
A Novel
From beloved storyteller and Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, a masterly and gripping crime novel set in picturesque Nice on the French Riviera Stolen jewels, black markets, hired guns, crossed lovers,...
Such Fine Boys
A Novel
Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano’s spellbinding tale of adolescent schoolmates and the vicissitudes of fate As a boarding school student in the early 1960s, Patrick Modiano lived among the troubled teenage...