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A highly illustrated voyage through shipwrecks ancient and contemporary.Out of the Depths explores all aspects of shipwrecks across four thousand years, examining their historical context and...

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell meets A Tale of Two Cities in H. G. Parry’s A Far Better Thing, a heart-rending fantasy of faery revenge set during the French Revolution.Most Anticipated SSF Books...

Is socialism desirable? Is it even possible? In this concise book, one of the world's leading political philosophers presents with clarity and wit a compelling moral case for socialism and argues...

Fox has a mystery to solve—and a friendship to fix!In the dense forest, in a lonely cottage, there lives Fox. Fox is perfectly happy all by himself—until one day, a letter arrives: "Dear Fox: I know...

Illuminating selections from Jung’s writings on alchemy and the transformation of the human spiritThe ancient practice of alchemy, which thrived in Europe until the seventeenth century, dealt with...

Der Kunstfertige Schmied / Von Heinrich Beck -- Some Pictorial Conventions For The Recounting Of Thoughts And Experiences In Late Medieval Art / By Sixten Ringbom -- Triumph As A Motif In The Poems...

From the massive nationwide rally in support of immigrant rights in May 2006 to protests against the increasingly frequent immigration raids across the country, the public debate on immigration...

How and why did the Cold War begin? How and why did it end? What will its end mean for international relations?Opening his new book with the drama of people struggling to survive in rubble-strewn...

A revelatory and groundbreaking account of Imperial Japan's kamikaze--the suicide pilots of World War II--as told through the eyes of the survivors. In the final year of World War II, a horrific new...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Worldwide Puzzle Phenomenon • "Clever, satisfying and utterly addictive." ―Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The Appeal G. T. Karber, the creator of the popular online...

Tracing the origins of Britain’s current malaise to the abandonment of social democracyWhat has happened to Britain? As drivers on its roads can attest, it is the pothole capital of Europe...

"In the threatening situation of the world today, when people are beginning to see that everything is at stake, the projection-creating fantasy soars beyond the realm of earthly organizations and...

"Even today, with sophisticated surveys and computer-produced margins of error, we have trouble gauging the elusive voice we call 'public opinion,' but no one questions its importance in a democracy...

In a time of rampant misinformation about ways of growing your money, Burton G. Malkiel's gimmick-free investment guide is more necessary than ever. Whether you're considering your first 401k...

Fascism in Spain, 1923–1977, by celebrated historian Stanley G. Payne, is the most comprehensive history of Spanish fascism to appear in any language. This authoritative study offers treatment of all...

Make striking, classic origami designs with this easy origami kit.From world-renowned origami artist Michael G. LaFosse comes this affordable collection of classic origami paper craft...

Why Plato, Hobbes, and Marx are great—despite their argumentsPlato's Republic, Hobbes's Leviathan, and Marx's Communist Manifesto are universally acknowledged classics of Western political thought...

A new history of the United States that turns American exceptionalism on its headAmerican Empire is a panoramic work of scholarship that presents a bold new global perspective on the history of the...

This provocative volume, written by the distinguished diplomatic historian Thomas G. Paterson, explores why and how Americans have perceived and exaggerated the Communist threat in the last half...

"An in-depth look into the life of Romantic essayist Charles Lamb and the legacy of his work. A pioneer of urban Romanticism, essayist Charles Lamb (1775-1834) found inspiration in London's markets,...