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\nA compelling history of British imperial culture, showing how it was adopted and subverted by colonial subjects around the…

\nA clear-eyed analysis of the role the United States should play in the world as it exists today\n…

The most complete picture to date of the moral worlds of the political left and right and how their different views relate…

• Rok vydání 1965

\nThe unlikely beginnings of the East India Company-from Tudor origins and rivalry with the superior Dutch-to laying the…

\nThis no-holds-barred narrative of the failure of conservation in northern New England’s forests envisions a wilder, more…

\nThe first integrative history of Nazi mass killing-showing how policies of mass murder were crucial to the regime\'s…

A prominent authority on China\'s Belt and Road Initiative reveals the global risks lurking within Beijing\'s project of the…

\nThe origins and evolution of Irish American identity, from colonial times through the twentieth century\n…

\nA fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo Damrosch\n…

\nThe story of a remarkable era of reform, controversy, optimism, and Cold War confrontation in the Soviet Union\n…

\nA new understanding of the slow drift to extremes in American politics that shows how the anti-abortion movement remade…

\nA new and exciting interpretation of Bosch\'s masterpiece, repositioning the triptych as a history of humanity and the…

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• Rok vydání 2021

The revelation of a misidentified face in a photograph―once thought to be Vincent, now known to be Theo van…

\nAn engaging introduction to the cutting-edge discipline of experience design for students and practitioners in creative…

\nThe definitive account of the superior fighting force that powered the English Revolution\n…

\nA challenge to the conventional wisdom surrounding financial risk, providing insight into why easy solutions to control…

\nA definitive account of the great revolt of Jews against Rome and the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple\n…

\nThe first comprehensive natural history guide to the Connecticut River and its environs, with more than 750 illustrations\n…

\nA compelling new history of the EU and the people who sought to shape and challenge it-from Maastricht to today\n…

\nA comprehensive survey of Syriac Christianity from its origins in Hellenistic and ancient Near Eastern cultures to the…

\nA compelling biography of Sheikh Abdullah, the charismatic, combative, and controversial Kashmiri politician\n…

An engaging and accessible introduction to one of the 20th century's greatest and most enigmatic artists…

A penetrating look into the extreme plutocracy Vladimir Putin has created and its implications for Russia's future…

\nAn authoritative account of Stalin as a wartime leader-showing how his paradoxical policies of mass mobilization and…

\nThe first account of the new Cold War-revealing how today\'s renewed era of global great power competition could threaten…

The rhythm of the body moving through space has been the motivating source of most of my work.--Richard Serra…

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• Rok vydání 2023

A copiously illustrated global history of magic books, from ancient papyri to pulp paperbacks Grimoires, textbooks of magic…

\nAn award-winning historian\'s revisionary account of the early modern world, showing how apocalyptic ideas stimulated…

\nA lively new history of London told through twenty-five buildings, from iconic Georgian townhouses to the Shard\n…

A major new history of the Crusades that illuminates the strength and sophistication of the Western and Muslim armies…

\nThe first in-depth examination of Matisse\'s work in the 1930s, a key decade of creative innovation and renewal for this…

A clear, concise introduction to the quickly growing field of complexity science that explains its conceptual and…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nA detailed study of Tudor textiles, highlighting their extravagant beauty and their impact on the royal court, fashion,…

\nA new history of English trade and empire-revealing how a tightly woven community of merchants was the true origin of…

\nA three-thousand-year history of the Yellow River and the legacy of interactions between humans and the natural landscape\n…