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The tale—or tail?—of the canine has been fundamentally entwined with humanity since prehistory, and this ancient and fascinating story is told in Susan McHugh’s Dog.This book unravels the debate...

News media, movies, blogs and video games issue constant invitations to picture war, experience the thrill of combat, and revisit battles past. War, it's often said, sells. But what does it take to...

This is the very first comprehensive photographic guide to the birds of mainland Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Borneo, including the birds of Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, Indochina, South...

A surprising look at the role of menopause in human history—and why we should change the ways we think about itAre the ways we look at menopause all wrong? Susan Mattern says yes and, in The Slow...

Initially proposed as rivals of classical logic, alternative logics have become increasingly important in areas such as computer science and artificial intelligence. Fuzzy logic, in particular, has...

An exploration of the generative energy of literary texts, from Frankenstein’s origin stories and Jane Austen’s loose ends to the genius of William Empson In Romanticism’s Generative Reading, Susan...

Susan Sontag’s celebrated essays on cancer and AIDS now available in one volume.In 1978, Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as “one of the most liberating books of...

An accessible and attractive beginner’s guide to getting the most out of looking at picturesBeautifully illustrated with some of the world’s greatest pictures, from cave paintings and Roman mosaics...

An earthquake can strike without warning and wreak horrific destruction and death, whether it's the cataclysmic 2008 Sichuan quake in China that killed tens of thousands or a future great earthquake...

By developing the scale that bears his name, Charles Richter not only invented the concept of magnitude as a measure of earthquake size, he turned himself into nothing less than a household word. He...

The Drew siblings must face a powerful creature from the ocean depths to reclaim the golden grail in this third installment of Susan Cooper’s epic and award-winning The Dark Is Rising Sequence, now...

From supply chains to surveillance, how logistics drives modern power—and its consequences.   Movement is the lifeblood of capital, even more so than growth. If goods, people, and information don't...

A brilliant, clear-eyed consideration of the visual representation of violence in our culture—its ubiquity, meanings, and effects. Considered one of the greatest critics of her generation, Susan...

Throughout history, women (and men) have applied make-up to enhance, alter, conceal and even to disguise their appearance. Also, to a greater or lesser degree over time, cosmetics have been used as a...

The groundbreaking guide to trans history in America, revised and updated for a new political era Transgender History is the modern classic on transgender life in America since the nineteenth...

How Dwight D. Eisenhower led America through a transformational time―by a DC policy strategist, security expert and his granddaughter.Few people have made decisions as momentous as Eisenhower, nor...

An important new examination of Islamic themes in the art of Albrecht DürerAlbrecht Dürer’s depictions of Muslim figures and subjects are considered by many to be among his most perplexing images...

A fascinating history of the piano explored through 100 pieces chosen by one of the UK's most renowned concert pianists "Tomes . . . casts her net widely, taking in chamber music and concertos,...

Carolyn G. Heilbrun is renowned as a provocative feminist critic of the culture and (as Amanda Cross) a writer of witty detective novels. In Carolyn G. Heilbrun: Feminist in a Tenured Position, Susan...

Product Description Holiday is a book of poems chiseled into both public and private calendar markers, where the unfinished self seeks, desperately and defiantly, resolution through either...