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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 Return of the Taliban
Afghanistan after the Americans Left
The first account of the new Taliban—showing who they are, what they want, and how they differ from their predecessors Since the fall of Kabul in 2021, the Taliban have effective control of Afghanistan—a scenario...

After Disbelief
On Disenchantment, Disappointment, Eternity, and Joy
An intimate, philosophic quest for eternity, amidst the disenchantments and disappointments of our time “Anyone who, in our age of disbelief, longs to believe in God will find Mr. Kronman worth reading.”—Andrew Stark,...

Homelands
A Personal History of Europe
Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tells the story of postwar Europe’s triumphs and tragedies Timothy Garton Ash, Europe’s “historian of the present,”...

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...