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Architectural Ornament reveals the fascinating interplay of art, society, politics, and commerce from antiquity through modernism and explains ornament's near demise and recent revival. It is a...

In this landmark work, a Nobel Prize-winning economist develops a new way of understanding the process by which economies change. Douglass North inspired a revolution in economic history a generation...

How Obama overestimated the power of rhetoric and persuasion during his presidencyWhen Barack Obama became president, many Americans embraced him as a transformational leader who would fundamentally...

Peter Fine's innovative study traces the development of a mass visual culture in the United States, focusing on how new visual technologies played a part in embedding racialized ideas about African...

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year, a portrait of an intellectually rigorous German household opposed to the Nazis and how its members suffered for their political stance.Few...

They open a door and enter a world.

Following an initiative undertaken by the Mus, e du Louvre, in 2006-7 seven great French museums hosted exhibitions that revealed to the public the great wealth of Italian drawings of the seventeenth...

A fascinating history of the Renaissance told through the lives of people from all levels of society.Like every era, the Renaissance brims with stories. Fascinating, scandalous, and at times...

A study of the American cultural wars taking place in controversial museum exhibitionsMuseums have become ground zero in America's culture wars. Whereas fierce public debates once centered on...

Part of the New Century Bible Commentary Series

"Whatever sense of hope the Founder Fathers may have felt at the new government's birth, almost none of them carried that optimism to their graves. Franklin survived to see the Constitution in action...

Middle Eastern Muslim men have been widely vilified as terrorists, religious zealots, and brutal oppressors of women. The New Arab Man challenges these stereotypes with the stories of ordinary Middle...