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Britain possesses a literary heritage virtually unrivaled in the Western world. This lavishly illustrated volume explores the richness, diversity, and continuity of that tradition. Under the general...

The finest writers throughout the centuries--Charles Dickens, O. Henry, Truman Capote, and countless others--have graced us with their literary visions of Christmas. But what has been sorely missed...

***Top pick for Hispanic Heritage Month by NYT best-selling author Elizabeth Acevedo for Good Morning America***This landmark Latinx poetry collection offers "a wondrous journey through the passions,...

This beautifully illustrated book is the most ambitious one-volume survey of the Reformation yet. A timely and much-needed account, it looks at every aspect of the Reformation world and considers new...

Italian Studies, World History

Money. Rhino. The long green. It is "the most important thing in the world" (George Bernard Shaw). It is "power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings" (Carl Sandburg). It is...

A new edition of the book that millions of SCRABBLE players consider the only necessary resource for winning the game! Is your word an official SCRABBLE one? Over 500 new playable words including...

Franz Brentano (1838-1917) led an intellectual revolution that sought to revitalize German-language philosophy and to reverse its post-Kantian direction. This volume brings together newly...

Most social commentators and politicians have espoused the Tocquevillian conviction that voluntary efforts contribute vitally to the health of American society, making up a third sector "between...

How Jewish was Karl Barth? This provocative question by David Novak opens Karl Barth, the Jews, and Judaism--a volume that brings together nine eminent Jewish and Christian theologians reflecting on...

These writings deal with the phrase "We are a community. We are a nation. We are alive"

The book is the first comprehensive attempt to study and develop a hermeneutic of liberation in the context of the Israeli Occupation of the Palestinian land. It analyses the importance of culture,...

The Spanish Civil War became the pivotal political and cultural event of the 1930s and inspired a generation of writers and artists. This book brings together an unprecedented wealth of historical...

Global Lockdown is the first book to apply a transnational feminist framework to the study of criminalization and imprisonment. The distinguished contributors to this collection offer a variety of...

The first large-scale application of feminist theory to the study of Greek and Roman cultures, this book points to some striking similarities between our culture and that of the ancient world,...

This complete guide to ancient Greek rhetoric is exceptional both in its chronological range and the breadth of topics it covers. Traces the rise of rhetoric and its uses from Homer to Byzantium...

Long ignored by scholars in the humanities, sound has just begun to take its place as an important object of study in the last few years. Since the late 19th century, there has been a paradigmatic...

And overview -- The 1920s: birth, insurgency, retrenchment -- Militancy and combat: third period communism, 1929-1934 -- The popular front against fascism, 1935-1945 -- Cold War and demise, 1945--

Transient Worlds: On Translating Poetry is a personal guide to global poetry in translation by 25 th U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze. Focusing on an accessible selection of key works, Sze takes readers...

Can Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany be compared? Not long ago, the answer seemed obvious: they could be and they were. Nationalist rhetoric, hostility to the left and to parliamentary government, and...