• Rok vydání 2025

A compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library "[A] fascinating new study.”—Michael…

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• Rok vydání 2025

A worldwide exploration of the history, purpose, and inescapable influence of the Iliad and the Odyssey that will inspire…

• Rok vydání 2004

Thoreau's literary classic, an elegantly written record of his experiment in simple living, has engaged readers and thinkers…

\nThe remarkable story of Western polymaths from the fifteenth century to the present day\n…

\nA timely and provocative essay about the parallel lives of Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt and their mission for a more…

\nA portrait of one of the ancient world\'s first political celebrities, who veered from failure to success and back again\n…

\nThe wartime adventures of the legendary SOE agent Harry Ree, told in his own words\n…

'How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?' The author asks at the beginning of this work of literary…

An entirely new portrait of Keats, rich with insights into the torments of his life and the imaginative sources of his works…

• Rok vydání 2017

Pol Bury (1922-2005) was a painter, sculptor, jewelry designer, writer, and graphic artist, but is perhaps best known to the…

\nAn exploration of Maimonides, the medieval philosopher, physician, and religious thinker, author of The Guide of the…

From a master biographer and leading scholar of eighteenth-century literature comes an award-winning new portrait of the…

\nA riveting exploration of the brilliant, combative, and controversial \"Father of the Nuclear Navy\"\n…

\nAn intimate portrait illuminating the life and work of Amos Oz, the award-winning Israeli writer and activist\n…

\nA revealing biography of Sidney Reilly, the early twentieth-century virtuoso of espionage\n…

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

\nAn intimate, philosophic quest for eternity, amidst the disenchantments and disappointments of our time\n…

Ben Hecht\'s critically acclaimed autobiographical memoir, first published in 1954, offers incomparably pungent evocations…

\nThe story of the notorious Jewish gangster who ascended from impoverished beginnings to the glittering Las Vegas strip\n…

The rise and fall of one of America's first Black sports celebrities…

\nA renowned scientist and environmental advocate looks back on a life that has straddled the worlds of science and…

\nAn intimate look at Elie Wiesel, author of the seminal Holocaust memoir Night and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize\n…

\nWritten by an authority on Martin Luther, this is the definitive biography of the central figure of the Protestant…

An authoritative account of the life and work of Francis Poulenc, one of the most prolific and striking figures in…

\nA captivating biography of one of the world’s greatest adventurers, the itinerant Mughal Princess Gulbadan, based on her…

\nThe fourth and final volume of Michel Leiris’s renowned autobiography, now available in English for the first time,…

\nAn extensively researched, comprehensive biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth…

\nA powerful and inspiring biography of Merze Tate, a trailblazing Black woman scholar and intrepid world traveler\n…

\nA portrait of Martin Heidegger as a man and a philosopher\n…