This landmark volume captures all aspects of Boston's past in a series of 57 stunning full-color spreads. Each section features newly created thematic maps that focus on moments and topics in that history.
This is Nature editor Henry Gee’s magnum opus, a major account of the development of vertebrates.
A look at Aby Warburg and his great work Mnemosyne Atlas.
Deemed by Heinrich Heine a city of merchants where poets go to die, Hamburg was an improbable setting for a major intellectual movement. This book considers not just the men but also the historical significance of the time and place where their ideas took form.
Brilliantly uniting the personal and the critical, French Lessons is a powerful autobiographical experiment. It tells the story of an American woman escaping into the French language and of a scholar and teacher coming to grips with her history of learning.
During WWII, four hundred thousand cats and dogs were euthanized in Britain. In The Great Cat and Dog Massacre, Hilda Kean unearths the history, piecing together the compelling story of the life—and death—of Britain’s wartime animal companions.