Growing up with the twentieth century, Alfred Barr (1902-1981), founding director of the Museum of Modern Art, harnessed the cataclysm …
Bringing together essays by museum professionals and academics from both sides of the Atlantic, Art and its Publics tackles current …
«Art: A Brief History» provides a combination of formal analysis and contextual art history designed to engage a diverse student …
Contents Introduction by Andrej GrubačićLECTURE I Critique and Self-Critique—The Rise of the Kurdish Freedom Movement from the Rubble of Two …
Love Cemetery is the story of one woman trying to come to terms with racism - on both personal and …
Secrets the Jesuits don't want you to know Out of Europe, a voice is heard from the secular world that …
Explores the hidden history of Freemasonry from ancient Rome, through the Middle Ages, to the present• Shows the close connection …
Investigating the secret societies, spies, classified projects, cults, and pacts that controlled the destinies of nations and empires, this historical …
What secrets lie beneath the deep blue sea? Underworld takes you on a remarkable journey to the bottom of the …
What does it mean to be human? Humanism has mostly considered this question from a Western perspective. Through a detailed …
In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, …
Morris' earlier work exposed the realities of how 700,000 Palestinians became refugees during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. While the focus …
InThe Middle East and the Making of the Modern World, Cyrus Schayegh takes up a fundamental problem historians face: how …
The first succinct and authoritative overview of the making of the modern Middle East, this lucid book brings a valuable …
This comprehensive work provides a penetrating analysis of modern Middle Eastern history, from the Ottoman and Egyptian reforms, through the …
Newly revised and updated for the second decade of the twenty-first century, the third edition of The Modern Middle East: …
The Modern Middle East is a collection of translated sources covering the period from 1700 to the present. Sources include …
From the bestselling authors of The Daily Stoic comes an inspiring guide to the lives of the Stoics, and what …
The only critical guide to the theory and method of Mesopotamian archaeology, this innovative volume evaluates the theories, methods, approaches …
Agincourt is one of the most famous battles in English history, a defining part of the national myth. This groundbreaking …
Antonia Fraser's Warrior Queens are those women who have both ruled and led in war. They include Catherine the Great, …
The fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 has become the commemorative symbol of the French Revolution. But this …
From the preeminent historian of Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries comes a superb, concise account of a cultural …
In Revolution, Peter Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the …
The book examines the ways that rulers, rogues, and rebels have worked together to forge modern Middle Eastern history from …
From the fall of the Ottoman Empire through the Arab Spring, this completely revised and updated edition of Mehran Kamrava’s …
Very little has been written about the history of Trans-Jordan between 1929-39, a decade of importance in the history of …
Since the publication of the first edition, substantial changes have occurred in the political landscape of Jordan and the Middle …
In The Brief History of the Middle East author Christopher Catherwood attempts to show how our entire world is ultimately …
This book, as the title suggests, tries to make the case for perceiving Poland, former Czechoslovakia and Hungary as a …
The ninth edition of this widely acclaimed text by Arthur Goldschmidt Jr. and Lawrence Davidson has been extensively revised to …
By the time of his death the English economist Lionel Robbins (1898-1984) was celebrated as a 'renaissance man'. He made …
This edited volume addresses the root causes of Africa's persistent poverty through an investigation of its longue durée history. It …
It's a scientific fact: Women rock! A charmingly illustrated and educational book, New York Times best seller Women in Science …
This succinct, yet comprehensive account of William Faulkner’s literary career, novels, and key short stories offers an imaginative topography of …
Memory, Trauma and World Politics focuses on the effect that the memory of traumatic episodes, and especially war and genocide, …
