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A lively, engaging guide to music around the world, from prehistory to the present   Human beings have always made music. Music can move us and tell stories of faith, struggle, or …

How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West’s intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century?   Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From …

A rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present day  A Seminary Coop Notable Book of 2023   “Ignorance: A Global History explores the …

National Bestseller   Winner of the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction • Finalist for the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Award in History • Winner of 2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book …

A dramatic and timely account of Stalin’s failed invasion of Finland in 1939, and the decade of wars and fraught relations that followed   In November 1939, Stalin directed his …

A groundbreaking history of women in British intelligence, revealing their pivotal role across the first half of the twentieth century   From the twentieth century onward, women …

The unlikely beginnings of the East India Company—from Tudor origins and rivalry with the superior Dutch—to laying the groundwork for future British expansion   The East India …

A wide-ranging illustrated history of transparency as told through the evolution of the glass window  “With impressive detail and wide-ranging erudition, Jütte charts the history …

The story of a remarkable era of reform, controversy, optimism, and Cold War confrontation in the Soviet Union   Beginning with the death of Stalin in 1953, the “sixties” era in …

What happens to a composer when persecution and exile means their true music no longer has an audience?   In the 1930s, composers and musicians began to flee Hitler’s Germany to …