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Ramesses the Great
Egypt's King of Kings
The life, dramatic reign, and enduring legacy of the pharaoh Ramesses the Great, with lessons for the present, from internationally acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson Ramesses II ruled the Nile Valley and the...
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...
The Art of Colour
The History of Art in 39 Pigments
A captivating new history of art told through the storied biographies of colors and pigments In this refreshing approach to the history of color, Kelly Grovier takes readers on an exciting search for the intriguing...
Tudor Liveliness
Vivid Art in Post-Reformation England
A groundbreaking approach to the problem of realism in Tudor art In Tudor and Jacobean England, visual art was often termed “lively.” This word was used to describe the full range of visual and material culture...
Sky Above Kharkiv
Dispatches from the Ukrainian Front
From Ukraine’s leading writer-activist comes an intimate account of resistance and survival in the earliest months of the Russian-Ukrainian war When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Serhiy Zhadan took...
Tales of Tangier
The Complete Short Stories of Mohamed Choukri
The complete short stories of acclaimed Moroccan author Mohamed Choukri, translated into English and collected in one volume for the first time Mohamed Choukri’s vivid stories invite the reader to wander the...
Gego
Weaving the Space in Between
An authoritative study of Gego, whose distinctive modernist practice sits at the intersection of architecture, design, and the visual arts This important book is the first extended study of the life and work of...
Seven Crashes
The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization
A leading economic historian presents a new history of financial crises, showing how some led to greater globalization while others kept nations apart In this book, leading economic historian Harold James presents...
The Art of Walking
A History in 100 Images
A lively and thought-provoking tour of the intertwined histories of art and walking What does a walk look like? In the first book to trace the history of walking images from cave art to contemporary performance,...
The Georgians
The Deeds and Misdeeds of 18th-Century Britain
What did the Georgians think of themselves, and of their exciting, turbulent, and controversial times? The Georgian era (1714–1830) was a time of innovations. It saw the end of monarchical absolutism, the world’s...