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Through biographies of China's most colorful and famous personalities, John Wills displays the five-thousand-year sweep of Chinese history from the legendary sage emperors to the tragedy of Tiananmen...

With searing wit and incisive commentary, John Kenneth Galbraith redefined America's perception of itself in The New Industrial State, one of his landmark works. The United States is no longer a...

The fourth book in an exciting new chapter book series by John Bemelmans Marciano and Caldecott medalist Sophie Blackall. Welcome to Benevento, an ancient town famous for its witches! The children...

"From global navigation to natal charts and from memory palaces to particle accelerators, a fascinating account of humanity's attempts to imagine new spaces. How do you conceive of space? To start,...

In War, Wine, and Taxes, John Nye debunks the myth that Britain was a free-trade nation during and after the industrial revolution, by revealing how the British used tariffs―notably on French wine―as...

A sweeping history of Islam and the West from the seventh century to todayEurope and the Islamic World sheds much-needed light on the shared roots of Islamic and Western cultures and on the richness...

Contributions in Legal Studies Number 16. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year Drawing on extensive interviews with George...

The American philosopher John Dewey transformed how people around the world view the purposes of schooling. In Democracy and Education (1916), Dewey opposed the model of education in which adults...

For centuries readers have struggled to fuse the seemingly scattered pieces of Donne’s works into a complete image of the poet and priest. In John Donne, Body and Soul, Ramie Targoff offers a way to...

John Marx is of the generation of design architects who witnessed their pencils morph into mouses and their drafting tables into computer desktops. Throughout this transition, he has maintained a...

Einstein's standard and battle-tested geometric theory of gravity--spacetime tells mass how to move and mass tells spacetime how to curve--is expounded in this book by Ignazio Ciufolini and John...

In this new selection of poems by Karl Shapiro, master literary craftsman John Updike provides a long-overdue reassessment of the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet who first rose to prominence with his...

Peace, many would agree, is a goal that democratic nations should strive to achieve. But is democracy, in fact, dependent on war to survive?Having spent their celebrated careers exploring this...

A fully revised and updated new edition of the award-winning, bestselling field guide to East African birdsBirds of East Africa is widely regarded as one of the best field guides to any region of the...

This is a detailed history of one instance of a vanishing phenomenon, the small New England textile town. Source materials such as company records, public records, newspapers, personal interviews,...

“A game-changer in the world of biography.” —Mary Beard, The GuardianShortlisted for the Costa Biography AwardBorn on the brink of the modern world, John Aubrey was witness to the great intellectual...

Guesstimation is a book that unlocks the power of approximation--it's popular mathematics rounded to the nearest power of ten! The ability to estimate is an important skill in daily life. More and...

The first publication of the unknown poetry of a major twentieth-century sculptorIn 1955, long before he became famous for his abstract metal sculptures, John Chamberlain lived at Black Mountain...

A unique "moneyball" look at the 2012 U.S. presidential contest between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney"Game changer." We heard it so many times during the 2012 U.S. presidential election. But what...