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Devotion
“Devotion is short enough to devour at one enjoyable sitting and thought-provoking enough to deserve re-reading.”—Suzi Feay, Financial Times “Devotion shows rather than tells what...
The Age of Undress
Art, Fashion, and the Classical Ideal in the 1790s
Neoclassicism recast as a feminine, progressive movement through the lens of empire-style fashion, as well as related art and literatureThe Age of Undress explores the emergence and meaning of...
Princess of the Hither Isles
A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South
A compelling reconstruction of the life of a black suffragist, Adella Hunt Logan, blending family lore, historical research, and literary imagination "Both a definitive rendering of a life and a remarkable...
Becoming Elijah
Prophet of Transformation
The story of the prophet Elijah’s transformation from fierce zealot to compassionate hero and cherished figure in Jewish tradition “In a series on Jewish Lives, this volume is about the Jewish life—the...
Calculus for Cranks
A new approach to the foundations of single variable calculus, based on the introductory course taught at Caltech In mathematics, “cranks” are people who insist they understand something new about math even when the...
Boilly
Scenes of Parisian Life
In a long career that spanned the French Revolution, the rise and fall of Napoleon, and the Bourbon Restoration, Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761–1845) created innovative and daring paintings in the midst of the most turbulent...
Assembled for Use
Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literatures
A wide-ranging, multidisciplinary look at Native American literature through non-narrative texts like lists, albums, recipes, and scrapbooks “An intricate history of Native textual production, use, and...
Horace Pippin, American Modern
A nuanced reassessment that transforms our understanding of this self-taught artist Arguably the most successful African American artist of his day, Horace Pippin (1888–1946) taught himself to paint in the...
Prada
The Complete Collections
A dazzling and authoritative look at three decades of Prada’s groundbreaking fashion designs through stunning runway photography “[A] ‘greatest hits’ riffing on Miuccia Prada’s own obsessions with maid...
Revise
The Scholar-Writer’s Essential Guide to Tweaking, Editing, and Perfecting Your Manuscript
A helpful, engaging guide to the revision of scholarly writing by an editor and award-winning author “Pamela Haag has been called ‘the tenure whisperer’ for good reason. Any scholar who hopes to attract a wider...