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The American Phage Group
Founders of Molecular Biology
A fascinating historical account of the American Phage Group and how its new research framework became the foundation for molecular biology This book is the first critical and analytical study of the American...
The Idea of Italy
Photography and the British Imagination, 1840-1900
A unique portrait of nineteenth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of the first generation of British photographers This book examines the ways in which the new medium of photography influenced the British...
The Tragic Mind
Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power
A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy “Classical drama provides crucial lessons for policymakers. . . . A road map for effective, well...
Art and Myth of the Ancient Maya
This nuanced account explores Maya mythology through the lens of art, text, and culture. It offers an important reexamination of the mid-16th-century Popol Vuh, long considered an authoritative text, which is better understood as one...
Perceptual Drift
Black Art and an Ethics of Looking
A powerful reframing of the study of Black art and the historical and contemporary status of Black livesPerceptual Drift offers a new interpretive model drawing on four key works of Black art in the Cleveland...
A Revolution on Canvas
The Rise of Women Artists in Britain and France, 1760-1830
The first collective, critical historical study of women artists in Britain and France during the Revolutionary era In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, hundreds of women in London and Paris...
Louise Bourgeois
Paintings
An unprecedented look at the little-known paintings from Louise Bourgeois’s early years in New York that laid the groundwork for her sculptural practice Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) is celebrated today for her...
Chloe
The Complete Collections
The brilliance of the house of Chloé is on full view in this panorama of catwalk photography, celebrating the brand’s seventy years of collections by leading designers including founder Gaby Aghion, Karl Lagerfeld, Phoebe Philo,...
A Map of Longings
The Life and Works of Agha Shahid Ali
The beautifully written first biography of one of the world’s finest twentieth-century poets Agha Shahid Ali (1949–2001) was one of the most celebrated American poets of the latter twentieth century, and his works...
Belfast
The Story of a City and its People
A lively and comprehensive history of Belfast—covering the highs and lows of a resilient city Modern Belfast is a beautiful city with a vibrant tradition of radicalism, industry, architectural innovation, and...