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Caravaggio and the Creation of Modernity
Undeniably one of the greatest artists of all time, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio would develop a radically new kind of psychologically expressive, realistic art and, in the …
Miracles of Our Own Making
A bewitching and authoritative historical overview of magic in the British Isles, from the ancient peoples of Britain to the rich and cosmopolitan landscape of contemporary …
Agents of War
Often described as the misuse of science, chemical and biological weapons have incurred widespread opposition over the years. Despite condemnation from the United Nations, …
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway has enjoyed a rich legacy as the progenitor of modern fiction, as an outsized character in literary lore who wrote some of the most honest and moving accounts of …
History of Language
This second edition of Steven Roger Fischer's fascinating book charts the history of communication from a time before human language was conceived of to the media explosion of the …
Nick Drake
Since his death in 1974 at the age of twenty-six, singer-songwriter Nick Drake has gained a huge international audience and come to be thought of as the epitome of English …
Adam Smith
Universally acknowledged as the father of capitalism, the eighteenth-century Scottish thinker Adam Smith is best known for his "e;invisible hand"e; theory. This theory …
Lewis Carroll
Though he's known now primarily as the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, in his lifetime Lewis Carroll was interested at least as much in photography as in writing. This …
'Race Is Everything'
A timely and revealing look at the intertwined histories of science, art, and racism. 'Race Is Everything' explores the spurious but influential ideas of so-called racial science …
Landscape as Weapon
Once the playgrounds and raw material for the avantgarde, abandoned places and things-decommissioned military sites, postindustrial spaces, contested and forgotten edgelands-are …