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The innovation engine that powered the U.S. economy to unmatched prosperity over the last century is now failing, threatening the way we work and live. As the nation spins its wheels--reeling from...

Daring in concept and astonishing in scope, The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts is a unique reference work: a topically classified chronology of more than 30,000 artworks from circa...

Mary Brave Bird grew up fatherless in a one-room cabin, without running water or electricity, on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Rebelling against the aimless drinking, punishing...

"A rich and luminous biography of nineteenth century music from the acclaimed author of Debussy: A Painter in Sound. When one thinks of "great" classical music -- music with the most emotional...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones comes a “masterpiece” (Locus Magazine) of a novel about revenge, cultural identity, and the cost of breaking from tradition...

This work recounts the dramatic changes in the role and status of Indian women in the Rajput caste of Khalapur that have taken place between 1955 and 1975. It explains the relationship of these...

Marking the 700th anniversary of his death, this new publication of Dante's Divine Comedy features 50 original lithographs by Italian artist Mimmo Paladino, and essays by notable Italian scholars and...

In the follow-up to Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables, James Beard Award-winning author Joshua McFadden teaches home cooks how to use storebought dried pasta to create seasonal,...

"One of the most respected and influential rock and roll guitar players of all time, Mike Campbell was the guitarist for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers from the band's inception in 1976 to Petty's...

How do we define 'taste'? The only certainty is that it shifts and changes - sometimes abruptly. With the explosion of vulgar consumerism in the mid-19th century, the Victorians seized upon 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.

This book, by a leading Reformation scholar, is the only comprehensive introduction to Zwingli's thought for the student and general reader. In it Stephens discusses the main areas of debate in...

Why was England the only country in Europe to maintain an all-male public theater in the Renaissance? Stephen Orgel uses this question as the starting point of a fresh and stimulating exploration of...

A New Yorker "Best Book of the Year" "An excellent work of history."—The Wall Street Journal A rich and luminous biography of nineteenth century music.When one thinks of “great” classical...

A USA Today bestseller • Winner of the 2017 Bram Stoker Award for Long FictionStephen Graham Jones, the New York Times bestselling author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, brings readers on a...

The strengths and weaknesses of the presidents who led the United States to the Civil WarThe United States witnessed an unprecedented failure of its political system in the mid-nineteenth century,...

Stephen Everson presents a comprehensive new study of Aristotle's account of perception and related mental capacities. Recent debate about Aristotle's theory of mind has focused on this account,...

A central figure in the political and cultural life of our time for over fifty years, Sir Stephen Spender has witnessed and participated in some of this century's most significant events and has...