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Destined to become a classic of historical criticism, this last collection of essays by the award-winning biographer and historian John Clive is a testament to his lifelong passion for the study of...

"John Varriano's book is not only a delightful read but draws fascinating parallels between two hitherto disparate fields: art history and the history of food in the Renaissance. Outstanding...

Nominated for the National Book Award, this book is set in colonial Massachusetts where, in 1704, a French and Indian war party descended on the village of Deerfield, abducting a Puritan minister and...

In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot -- "the...

John Bodel & Stephen Tracy. Includes Index. One Of Nine Volumes Published ... To Celebrate The Eleventh International Congress Of Greek And Latin Epigraphy At Rome In 1997--p. [4] Of Cover.

An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! Don't miss the seventh picture book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Food Group series from Jory John and Pete Oswald! The Big Cheese is the best at...

*National Bestseller* A brilliant and empowering collection of final reflections and words of wisdom from venerable civil rights champion, the late Congressman John Lewis at the end of his...

The Radical Twenties breaks with standard accounts of the period. Drawing on the work of DH Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Ivor Gurney, Patrick Hamilton and others, John Lucas...

An innovative retrospective look at the work of one of America's most iconic artists, utilizing the concepts of mirroring and doubling, which have long preoccupied Johns Jasper Johns (b. 1930) is...

In an age of great and copious letter writers, there was no more interesting letter writer than John Henry Newman. The 155 letters presented here--a sample drawn from the complete Letters and Diaries...

The coherence of this volume arises from the way in which John Calvin serves as the centering focus of various disciplines and scholarly approaches that touch on the life of the church. Its five...

A provocative reappraisal of a pivotal figure, John Henry Newman also offers an important reconsideration of the religious and intellectual history of the nineteenth century. One of the most...

In a compelling inquiry into public events ranging from the building of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial through ethnic community fairs to pioneer celebrations, John Bodnar explores the stories, ideas,...

Based on John Dewey's lectures on esthetics, delivered as the first William James Lecturer at Harvard in 1932, Art as Experience has grown to be considered internationally as the most distinguished...

We recognize the names: Achilles, Odysseus, Zeus, and Apollo. We're taught that The Iliad is a foundational text of civilization. But who has really read the text? Until now, The Iliad was hijacked...

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Fiction John Rechy's first novel, City of Night, an international bestseller, is considered a modern classic. Subsequent work asserts his place among...

Although shearers have been the heroes of the Australian labour movement's most enduring legends, here John Merritt argues that their reputation as militants has been greatly exaggerated. Based on...

The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! Don't miss the sixth picture book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Food Group series that's ripe with humor from Jory John and Pete Oswald! The Sour...

An ambitious history of how medieval writers came to terms with paganism From the turn of the fifth century to the beginning of the eighteenth, Christian writers were fascinated and troubled by the...

A fresh and lively biography of the revolutionary landscape painter John Constable.John Constable, who captured the landscapes and skies of southern England in a way never before seen on canvas, is...