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Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
Greil Marcus, author of Mystery Train, widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a fascination with …
Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947
In the aftermath of World War II, Prussia--a centuries-old state pivotal to Europe's development--ceased to exist. In their eagerness to erase all traces of the Third Reich from …
Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam
The late twentieth century has witnessed the emergence of an unexpected and extraordinary phenomenon: Islamist political movements. Beginning in the early 1970s, militants revolted …
Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire
An Economist and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year "Deserves to be hailed as a magnum opus."--Tom Holland, The Telegraph "Ambitious...seeks to rehabilitate the Holy Roman Empire's …
The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy
A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. …
Lit Guide to the Bible P
Rediscover the incomparable literary richness and strength of a book that all of us live with an many of us live by. An international team of renowned scholars, assembled by two …
Triumph of Music: The Rise of Composers, Musicians and Their Art
A distinguished historian chronicles the rise of music and musicians in the West from lowly balladeers to masters employed by fickle patrons, to the great composers of genius, to …
The Idea of Justice
Social justice: an ideal, forever beyond our grasp; or one of many practical possibilities? More than a matter of intellectual discourse, the idea of justice plays a real role in …
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found
Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million people each year. Yet it is also one of the most puzzling, with an intriguing and …
Byron's Letters and Journals
George Gordon Byron was a superb letter-writer: almost all his letters, whatever the subject or whoever the recipient, are enlivened by his wit, his irony, his honesty, and the …
The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857: 1830-1857
Gustave Flaubert wrote to his mistress, Louise Colet: "An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere." In his books, Flaubert …
A History of the Arab Peoples: With a New Afterword
"Here at last is a genuinely readable, genuinely responsive history of the Arabs."--Edward W. Said, Los Angeles Times Book Review Upon its publication in 1991, Albert Hourani's …