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Children of the Dead
The magnum opus of 2004 Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek-a spectral journey through the catastrophic history embedded in the landscape of Austria The Alpenrose is a mountain …
From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane
An epic account of how a new world order under Tamerlane was born out of the decline of the Mongol Empire By the mid-fourteenth century, the world empire founded by Genghis Khan …
Mathematica
A fascinating look into how the transformative joys of mathematical experience are available to everyone, not just specialists Math has a reputation for being inaccessible. …
How to Lose a War
An incisive, authoritative account of the West's failures in Afghanistan, from 9/11 to the fall of Kabul In 1958, Richard Nixon described Afghanistan as …
Problem of the Christian Master
A bold rereading of Augustinian thought for a world still haunted by slavery Over the last two decades, scholars have made a striking return to the resources of the Augustinian …
Nature, Culture, and Race in Colonial Cuba
A new and necessary examination of how nineteenth-century Cuban white elites viewed the natural world, material culture, and political power as intertwined In the decades before …
Real Thing
A clear-sighted and entertaining defence of literary realism, and an account of its key practitioners Realist fiction is one of the most enduring artforms history has ever …
Written in Water
A deeply personal yet broadly relevant exploration of the ephemeral life of the classic in art, from the eighteenth century to our own day Is there such a thing as a timeless …
Conjurers, Cranks, Provincials, and Antediluvians
The best essays from America's premier cultural historian Jackson Lears has been hailed as the "e;dean of American cultural history"e; and "e;one of the few …
Lost Writings
Two never-before-published novels by Mina Loy, the celebrated modernist poet, artist, and feminist Mina Loy (1882-1966) is an essential figure of the European and American …
Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting
An account of the emergence of creative nonfiction, written by the "e;godfather"e; of the genre In the 1970s, Lee Gutkind, a leather-clad hippie motorcyclist and former …