The first-ever biography of the most pivotal Justice on the Supreme Court whose decisions, like the overturning of Roe, will drive the reshaping of America, by prize-winning journalist Peter Canellos. When the Supreme Court handed down its decision in...

Art & Beauty Magazine is at once a satirical take on aesthetics and a continued exploration of Crumb's subversion of sexuality and mainstream values. Drawings of women in positions ranging from lascivious to modest or mid-sport are accompanied by...

An illuminating, fine-grained account of how Indo-Arabic numerals facilitated the spread of practical knowledge in Western Europe—reshaping both commerce and mathematics in the process.In the thirteenth-century Mediterranean, commerce transformed as...

An engaging, wide-ranging exploration of the end of Roman Britain and the beginnings of England In 410 CE, Roman rule of Britain collapsed, bringing a centuries-long occupation to an end. A century later, Britain was dividing into two areas with...

An aged, near-blind, book-loving king sends two of his subjects out into the world to learn about unusual and magical books. One year later, they return to tell the stories they've learned. A book that makes the sound of turning pages fractionally too...

A vivid history of the evolution of printmaking as a means of creative expression, from prehistory to the present day The significance of printmaking within the history of art is often underplayed, obscured or misunderstood. This book tells the story...

Indigenous enslavement was a colossal phenomenon of almost unimaginable consequences that ensnared nearly 600,000 Native Americans in North America. In a saga that predates 1619, this double-stealing of Indigenous people and their lands upends virtually...

A leading Israeli American scholar of the Holocaust explores and explains his native country's intensifying turn toward violence and exclusion.The distinguished historian Omer Bartov was born on a kibbutz, grew up in Tel Aviv, and served in the Israel...

A luminous memoir in essays from the Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist, who reflects on her origins and the mysteries of memory.“Understand: born and raised in West Virginia, you can never truly leave. Those who stay, and those who don’t, stand in the...

Told through the lives of three remarkable artists devoted to the pursuit of liberty, an illuminating new history of the ideals that fired the American Revolution.The war that we now call the American Revolution was not only fought in the colonies with...

Discover a new way to engage with nature and travel in this beautiful, approachable guide to outdoor sketching for artists and journalers. Step outside and record the world in your sketchbook. Capture the majesty of mountain landscapes, study the...

From Pulitzer And National Book Award Finalist Anand Gopal, A Mesmerizing And Powerful Account Of Six Syrians Fighting For A Better World, In The Tradition Of Classic Works By Philip Gourevitch And Katherine Boo. In 2011, In A Northern Syrian City, A...

The polymath mystic's final suite of illustrated visions presented in its entirety for the first time Around 1170, the German abbess, mystic and composer Hildegard von Bingen embarked on her final journey to recount her visions. At this point, Hildegard...

Transient Worlds: On Translating Poetry is a personal guide to global poetry in translation by 25 th U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze. Focusing on an accessible selection of key works, Sze takes readers through nearly two millennia of poetry from every part...

Ai Weiwei: Bridging Cultures Through Art and Activism--A Life Transformed by Displacement, Advocacy, and a Vision for Humanitarian CommunicationArtist and activist Ai Weiwei is famous around the world. He builds bridges through art and has been fighting...

The preeminent historians of the founding era speak their mind on the anniversary of the United States' birth In these powerful and personal essays, some of the most celebrated historians of the American Revolutionary era reflect on the meaning of 1776...

A history of illustration from the beginning of popular print to the rise of mass literacy and into today’s age of digital mediaOf all the visual arts, illustration shares a unique relationship with the written word, often serving to visualize, enhance,...

Throughout the history of the Western world, Jews have suffered various forms of exclusion, stigmatisation, and discrimination that have forced them always to be aware of their very particular situation. The Jews became a community under siege and, as...

One of the world's greatest bassists lays down the heart of Black music, revealing how its rhythmic structures and the long history of the African diaspora made it the world's most popular form Why do Bob Marley, John Coltrane, Aretha Franklin, and...