In this compelling portrait of a city in transition, Joan DeJean shows that by 1700 Paris had become the capital that would transform forever our conception of the city and of urban life
The classic children's series with over 2 million copies sold.With the same wit and perception that distinguished his charming books on London, New York, and San Francisco, here this famous Czech...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a captivating, brilliantly imaginative story of three extraordinary animals—and a young boy—whose lives intersect in...
" . . . impressive and challenging reevaluation of the sixteenth-century origins of the Enlightenment." ―Sixteenth Century JournalIn this book, George Huppert introduces the reader to a group of...