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Stand and Prosper is the first authoritative history in decades of black colleges and universities in America. It tells the story of educational institutions that offered, and continue to offer,...

Lambert Strether, a mild middle-aged American of no particular achievements, is dispatched to Paris from the manufacturing empire of Woollett, Massachusetts. The mission conferred on him by his...

The King is dead: long live the King. In 1509, Henry VII was succeeded by his son Henry VIII, second monarch of the house of Tudor. But this is not the familiar Tudor world of Protestantism and...

In the early twentieth century brutal nation-states such as Mussolini’s Italy, Stalin’s Russia and Hitler’s Germany came to the fore and the twin evils of dictatorship and war ensured the rapid...

FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FUNNY STORY!A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend...

The main purpose of this book is to enable bird-watchers in Ceylon to identify the 400 species which are to be seen in the Island, but the author has also provided a framework of general information...

Uncovered along with Crazy Cock in 1988 by Miller biographer Mary V. Dearborn, Moloch emerged from the misery of Miller's years at Western Union and from the squalor of his first marriage. Set in the...

The 1980s were a time of bold exploration, dazzling creativity, inspiring unity--and stark division. Technology, media, gender roles, race, sexuality, geopolitics, climate, and even our place in the...

A colorful survey explores the diverse styles of the arbiters of modernism in Florida. Alberto Alfonso, René González, Chad Oppenheim, and Guy Peterson―The Florida Four―are making a mark for...

Paul Samson is living in London and picking up some extra work for a private security company when he is almost killed by a thuggish assassin while tailing a mysterious and gifted young employee of a...