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'Here is a comprehensive, critical portrait of Christianity from its beginnings to the present, warts and all. It is a synoptic portrait which only a master could depict...The style is crisp and...

This book presents a lively analysis of the Arab Gulf states' stunning rise to global power over the last half-century and of the daunting challenges they confront today. The author considers such...

The Yorkshireman Richard Rolle (c. 1300-1349) was the first and most immediately influential of the English medieval mystics. His passionate insistence on a personal communion between Creator and...

Thousands of texts, written over a period of three thousand years on papyri and potsherds, in Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, Persian, and other languages, have transformed our knowledge of...

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The nature of the visual has, over the past decade, moved to the center of debates in the humanities. No longer simply the study of timeless masterpieces, art history as a discipline is now...

"History of My Heart," winner of the William Carlos Williams Prize, first appeared in 1984. In "The New Republic," J.D. McClatchy called it "one of the best books of the past decade." It is Pinsky's...

Definitive illustrated catalogue: every medieval ivory in America. Sets new scholarly standard.

Robert Graysmith’s New York Times bestselling account of the desperate hunt for a serial killer and his own investigation of California’s unsolved Zodiac murders.A sexual sadist, the Zodiac killer...

Best-selling poet and painter Richard Siken uses strong, bold strokes to reveal a world abstract, concrete, and exquisitely complex.

What is truth? What value should we see in or attribute to it?The war over the meaning and utility of truth is at the center of contemporary philosophical debate, and its arguments have rocked the...

The tenth anniversary edition of the book that changed lives in profound ways. In 2005, a groundbreaking feature-length movie revealed the great mystery of the universe -- The Secret. In 2006,...

How Maoism captured the imagination of French intellectuals during the 1960sMichel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Phillipe Sollers, and Jean-Luc Godard. During the 1960s, a who’s who of...

A history of Catholicism from the Council of Trent in the middle of the sixteenth century to the suppression of the Society of Jesus in the eighteenth century, this accessible study of Catholicism...

Myers, A.R., Parliaments And Estates In Europe To 1789

In Calvin’s Geneva, the changes associated with the Reformation were particularly abrupt and far-reaching, in large part owing to John Calvin himself. Adultery and Divorce in Calvin’s Geneva makes...

This is the first comprehensive book in English on the fate of the homosexuals in Nazi Germany. The author, a German refugee, examines the climate and conditions that gave rise to a vicious campaign...

Robert O. Paxton's classic study of the aftermath of France's sudden collapse under Nazi invasion utilizes captured German archives and other contemporary materials to construct a strong and...