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A highly illustrated, accessible guide to political art in the twenty-first century, including some of the most daring and ambitious artworks of recent timesWhy have so many artists turned to...

Aelius Aristides' Hieroi Logoi present a unique first-person narrative from the ancient world—a narrative that seems at once public and private, artful and naive. While scholars have embraced the...

Zen, haiku, martial arts, sushi, anime, manga, film, video games . . . Japanese culture has long enriched our Western way of life. Yet from a Western perspective, Japan remains a remote island...

Computability theory is a branch of mathematical logic and computer science that has become increasingly relevant in recent years. The field has developed growing connections in diverse areas of...

An engrossing and revolutionary biography of Isabella of Castile, the controversial Queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus's journey to the New World, established the Spanish Inquisition,...

Author of the most influential long poem of its era (Childe Harold's Pilgrimage) and the funniest long poem in European literature (Don Juan), Lord Byron was also the literary superstar of...

Computability theory is a branch of mathematical logic and computer science that has become increasingly relevant in recent years. The field has developed growing connections in diverse areas of...

A damning examination of how violence serves to maintain social order and elite power in the United StatesThe Violent Underpinnings of American Life boldly asserts that violence—far from going...

What do maypoles, charivari processions, and stoolball matches have to do with the English civil war? A great deal, argues Underdown in this provocative reinterpretation of the English Revolution...

How the creation of money and monetary policy can be more democraticThe power to create money is foundational to the state. In the United States, that power has been largely delegated to private...

The first comprehensive guide to the aquatic plants of the regionBeneath the surface of bodies of freshwater—springs, streams, rivers, ponds and lakes—there is a world of plants of great variety and...

A Caldecott Honor Book and ALA Notable Book of the Year! An innovative and charming tale about a plucky little bird, from the award-winning author-illustrator of Fox the Tiger.Readers will delight in...

A very nice copy, former owner's name written neatly on the paste down endpaper.

First Edition. Slight foxing to end pages, paste down and page edges. Plastic protective cover to DJ

In a clear and comprehensive manner, the reader is here provided with an authoritative general history of Greece from its earliest beginning down to the present day.

498 pp. 8vo, cloth. Name label on front paste down, else a very good, clean HARDCOVER copy. No dust wrapper.

Caldecott Honor winner Elisha Cooper invites readers to grab their oars and board a canoe down a river exploration filled with adventure and beauty.In Cooper's flowing prose and stunning watercolor...