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Daniel Cottier
Designer, Decorator, Dealer
The story of an innovative designer and farsighted art entrepreneur and the important role he played in the dissemination of 19th-century Aestheticism This book follows the phenomenal rise of Daniel Cottier (1838...
A Little History of Music
A lively, engaging guide to music around the world, from prehistory to the present Human beings have always made music. Music can move us and tell stories of faith, struggle, or love. It is common to all cultures...
The Writers
Portraits
Intimate photo essays of thirty-eight important writers, including Margaret Atwood, Gabriel García Márquez, Zadie Smith, and Colm Tóibín “We’ve all seen writers on the dust jackets of their books. These portraits,...
Psychonauts
Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind
A provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs to explore the hidden regions of the mind Until the twentieth century, scientists investigating the effects...
The War of Words
A Glossary of Globalization
A timely call for recovering the true meanings of the nineteenth‑century terms that are hobbling current political debates “Masterful. . . . James cuts through the tangled terminological and conceptual jungle of...
Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism
One of the world’s most celebrated theologians argues for a Protestant anti-work ethic In his classic The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber famously showed how Christian...
Vivienne Westwood
The Complete Collections
Forty years of catwalk photography featuring seventy groundbreaking collections from the inimitable Vivienne Westwood—over 1,000 looks as they originally appeared in Westwood’s iconic shows “The only reason I’m in...
Versace
The Complete Collections
The first comprehensive presentation of Versace’s womenswear collections from its 1978 debut to today, seen through stunning catwalk photography “Dive into this Versace-celebrating book, which amasses more than 40...
Revolutionary Things
Material Culture and Politics in the Late Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
How objects associated with the American, French, and Haitian revolutions drew diverse people throughout the Atlantic world into debates over revolutionary ideals “By excavating the power of material objects and...
Artemisia Gentileschi
The Language of Painting
An important reassessment of the later career and life of a beloved baroque artist Hailed as one of the most influential and expressive painters of the seventeenth century, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–ca....
