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This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of recorded...

What if Troy was not destroyed in the epic battle immortalized by Homer? What if many legendary cities of the ancient world did not meet their ends through war and conquest as archaeologists and...

Nur Jahan was one of the most powerful and influential women in Indian history. Born on a caravan traveling from Teheran to India, she became the last (eighteenth) wife of the Mughal emperor Jahangir...

“I’ve been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much of which, despite the pouring heavens, seems likely to...

D. Nurkse’s Burnt Island explores tragedy both grand and intimate, in city and country, in our own troubled moment and across the greater scope of geological time. Arranged in three “suites” of...

Long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, a novel about violence, love, and religion in modern IndiaOn a train bound for the seaside town of Jarmuli, known for its temples, three elderly women meet a...

Filled with luminous and captivating illustrations, this fascinating book introduces young readers to the astonishing ways animals travel, communicate, and survive together. Endlessly engaging and...

The Nobel Prize–winning scientist’s elegant explanation of the fundamental ideas in biology and their uses today.The renowned biologist Paul Nurse has spent his career revealing how living cells work...

“This is why we read fiction at all” raves the Washington Post: Family life meets historical romance in this critically acclaimed, “gorgeous, sweeping novel” (Ms Magazine) about two people who find...

From the award-winning poet: a powerful collection that explores the biblical past and the terrifying politics of the present, the legacy of fathers and the flawed kingdoms they leave their sons. Now...

Un Excepcional Testimoni De Les Més Nobles Manifestacions De La Nostra Cultura Al Llarg De Deu Segles.la Panoràmica Inèdita De L’art Català Més Universal, Escrita Per Una Generació D’historiadors Que...

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D. Nurkse’s deeply satisfying new collection is a haunted love letter to the far corners of his hometown, Brooklyn, New York, and a meditation on the selves that were left behind in those indelible...

“Nuruddin Farah is one of the real interpreters of experience in our troubled continent. His insight goes deep, beyond events.”—Nadine GordimerWinner of the Neustadt International Prize for...

The fascinating and complex evolutionary relationship of the monarch butterfly and the milkweed plantMonarch butterflies are one of nature's most recognizable creatures, known for their bright colors...

The first book to explore how African American writing and art engaged with visions of Ethiopia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesAs the only African nation, with the exception...