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"Having left this material for his writer son, my father must have wanted the story told, even if he couldn't bear to tell it himself." So begins the story of a forgotten American dynasty, a farming...

In this vivid biography Geoffrey C. Ward brings back to life the most celebrated — and the most reviled — African American of his age.Jack Johnson battled his way out of obscurity and poverty in the...

Awarded the CWA Diamond Dagger – the highest honor in British crime writingA #1 internationally bestselling novel set in post-Civil War Spain by the author of Dominion and the Matthew Shardlake Tudor...

Au seuil de l'histoire et de la litterature de l'Occident (aux alentours du VIIIe siecle avant J.-C.), un immense poeme, l'Iliade, conte les exploits en meme temps que les peines des heros de la...

The fascinating story of a friendship, a lost tradition, and an incredible discovery, revealing how enslaved men and women made encoded quilts and then used them to navigate their escape on the...

Explaining the Cosmos analyzes the writings of three thinkers associated with Gaza: Aeneas, Zacharias and Procopius. Together, they offer a case study for the appropriation, adaptation, and...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “No single book is as relevant to the present moment.”—Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen“With unsettling insight and disturbing clarity, How Fascism Works is an essential...

The canon of postwar American fiction has changed over the past few decades to include far more writers of color. It would appear that we are making progress―recovering marginalized voices and...

A SOCIAL HISTORY OF BYZANTIUM“Until now, the social history of Byzantium has remained a neglected field. Professor John Haldon has put together a team of leading international Byzantinists, each of...

A groundbreaking history of Prohibition and a new creation story for the powerful American state.Prohibition has long been portrayed as a “noble experiment” that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous...

Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Berlin before 1918 -- History of Weimar and Nazi-Era Berlin...

This book seeks to elucidate picture engineering as a new discipline for hand- ling the entire scope of picture processing in a systematic manner. Picture engineering as a discipline has three...

The Second World War's Pacific conflict was one of the most complex in history. It embrioled peoples from opposite sides of the globe; it was fought in China, across the expanses of the Pacific, and...

In the early 20th century, Indonesia was divided into 350 greater and lesser kingdoms. Although Dutch imperialism influenced this pattern, the political history of the archipelago over the centuries...

From historian Peter Jones comes a surprising and insightful guide to navigating contemporary life through the wisdom of the Middle Ages A few years ago, Peter Jones was teaching medieval history at...

A concise and accessible guide to techniques for detecting doctored and fake images in photographs and digital media.Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Mussolini, and other dictators routinely doctored photographs...

A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year From "one of the most thoughtful ancient historians in Britain over more than half a century" (Mary Beard) comes a powerful look at how the modern...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The Joy Luck Club comes a gorgeous and witty exploration of birding and nature. This inspiring work cultivates hope and connection, revealing the...

Contemporary translations and adaptations of ancient Greek poet Callimachus by noted writer and critic Stephanie BurtCallimachus may be the best-kept secret in all of ancient poetry. Loved and...

A non-mathematician explores mathematical terrain, reporting accessibly and engagingly on topics from Sudoku to probability.Brian Hayes wants to convince us that mathematics is too important and too...