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International in scope, this series of non-fiction trade paperbacks offers books that explore the lives, customs and thoughts of peoples and cultures around the world.

A charming, richly illustrated, pocket-size exploration of the world’s beetlesPacked with surprising facts, this delightful and gorgeously designed book will beguile any nature lover. Expertly...

A major rethinking of twentieth-century abstract art mobilized by the work of Brazilian artist Lygia ClarkWhat would it mean to treat an interval of space as a line, thus drawing an empty void into a...

From the author of the acclaimed Beetles of Eastern North America, a triumphant follow-up guide to western beetles, lavishly illustrated with more than 1,500 stunning color photographsBeetles of...

Over the last twenty years, the humanities and social sciences have become peculiarly preoccupied with the limitations of language--especially what language cannot do. Rather than ask whether...

When Pocahontas, America's first "ethnic" heroine, laid her head over John Smith's to save him from her father, she also unknowingly lay down certain themes that would permeate America's female...

Frontispiece. Table of contents, preface, addendum, chronological index. Includes a historical introduction with endnotes. viii, 187+ 1 pages. cloth. 8vo..

The Thirty Years War was the central political and military encounter of the seventeenth century. It drew in virtually all of Europe, with the exception of England, and by 1650 no European country...

Between 327 and 70 B.C. the Romans expanded their empire throughout the Mediterranean world. This highly original study looks at Roman attitudes and behavior that lay behind their quest for power...

The global phenomena and bestselling romantasy saga continues as amid the Etherworld’s ancient battles and wrenching betrayals, the lines between villains and heroes, enemies and lovers, right and...

Financial Times Business Book of the Year Finalist“Illuminating and very timely . . . a fascinating — and sometimes alarming — survey of big data’s growing effect on just about everything: business,...