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Volume III of the Cambridge History of Law in America covers the period from 1920 to the present, 'the American Century'. It charts a century of legal transformations - in the state, in legal thought...

Who says quack? Not a hen, or a pig, or a cow—or a host of other noisy animals. They cluck, oink, moo, and more—and children can guess the sound each one makes as they turn the pages of this fun and...

The Gaither sisters are at it again! A sequel to the Newbery Honor Book One Crazy Summer, this Coretta Scott King Award-winning novel will find a home in the hearts of readers who loved Brown Girl...

Once, the spraycan kings of New York's subways astounded the world with their exuberant graffiti images. Now a new generation of artists has hit the streets and is decorating neighbourhood walls with...

This volume collects the adventures of the spunky Maggie; her annoying, pixie-ish best friend and sometime lover Hopey; and their circle of friends, including their bombshell friend Penny Century,...

With stylistic brilliance and historical imagination, the first five books of Livy's monumental history of Rome record events from the foundation of Rome through the history of the seven kings, the...

Catalogue prepared for an exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art and the Royal Academy of Arts from Nov. 1977 through My 1978. 120 entries for Rowlandson drawings, with 36 of them reproduced 6...

The ultimate illustrated guide to elephants and their prehistoric relatives Today, only three species of elephants survive—the African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana), the African forest...

A great anthology honoring the centenary of P.G. Wodehouse's birth. Published in connection with the Morgan exhibit, it's a collection of 25 essays, most of them written for this occasion, byvarious...

The Roadbrings together short stories, journalism, essays, and letters by Vasily Grossman, the author ofLife and Fate,providing new insight into the life and work of this extraordinary writer. The...

"I loved every page. This is middle grade fiction at its best."-- Ann PatchettFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians comes a must-read, wholly original middle-grade debut...

In Immeasurable Weather Sara J. Grossman explores how environmental data collection has been central to the larger project of settler colonialism in the United States. She draws on an extensive...

In the immediate aftermath of World War II, more than a quarter million Jewish survivors of the Holocaust lived among their defeated persecutors in the chaotic society of Allied-occupied Germany...

When the Germans invaded Russia in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for the Red Star, the Soviet Army's newspaper, and reported from the frontlines of the war. A Writer at War...

An NYRB Classics OriginalFew writers had to confront as many of the last century’s mass tragedies as Vasily Grossman, who wrote with terrifying clarity about the Shoah, the Battle of Stalingrad, and...

A sweeping look at the evolution of commercial banks over the past two centuriesCommercial banks are among the oldest and most familiar financial institutions. When they work well, we hardly notice;...

Ostensibly the villain, but also a model of female power, poise, and intelligence, the femme fatale embodies Hollywood’s contradictory attitudes toward ambitious women. But how has the figure of the...