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Howard Smither has written the first definitive work on the history of the oratorio since Arnold Schering published his Geschichte des Oratoriums in 1911. This volume is the first of a four-volume...

An inside look at the role and future of central banking in the global economyThe crash of 2008 revealed that the world's central banks had failed to offset the financial imbalances that led to the...

Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history. Traditional accounts of the...

This second volume completes a critical history of the social, political, and theoretical forces behind Marxian economics--the only work in English to offer such comprehensive treatment. Beginning...

A basic introduction to the life and career of this great American filmmaker.

Patrick Marber's blackly comic play about a hard-nosed and successful Jewish showbiz agent dealing with a mid-life crisis follows his Dealer's Choice and Closer to complete a loose trilogy set in...

This second volume completes a critical history of the social, political, and theoretical forces behind Marxian economics--the only work in English to offer such comprehensive treatment. Beginning...

"The passion, playfulness, and regret in these wonderful poems will make many women think this book was written just for them." -- Susan Cheever "Susan Kinsolving's poems skate with a dark elegance...

This volume presents a colourful and entertaining overview of German intellectual history by a central figure in its development. Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), famous poet, journalist, and political...

"Before the movement for black lives made black radicalism cool for millennials, Cedric Robinson did the work of excavating an intellectual history we rely upon today."--The Root "Like W. E. B. Du...

SNCC: The New Abolitionists influenced a generation of activists struggling for civil rights and seeking to learn from the successes and failures of those who built the fantastically influential...

A Young People's History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, enslaved people, immigrants, women, Black people, Latino Americans, Asian Americans, American Indians,...

"A timely, ever-so-useful guide" (Douglas W. Tallamy, author of Nature's Best Hope) to creating a native plant garden These days, home gardeners know that many traditional, non-native garden...

"Surf the web" with this volume of Science Comics, First Second’s action-packed nonfiction graphic novel series!When a sister and brother agree to help a talking spider find her missing child, they...

Beginning with the primitive matchlock, the author describes the progressive inventions of the wheel-lick, flint-lock and percussion cap, and the development of the revolver.

This penetrating political history of the American Revolution by a left activist and philosopher (SUNY, Stony Brook) was first published in French as part of the political debate leading up to the...