A celebration of the diverse world of American watercolors from the late nineteenth through the twentieth century, featuring works from the Harvard Art Museums’ collection
A revelatory meditation on class and consumer culture, from 2022 Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux
The first book to chronicle how innovation in laboratory designs for botanical research energized the emergence of physiological plant ecology as a vibrant subdiscipline
Now back in print, this seminal publication offers an unexpected discussion of cutting-edge fashion in the 1990s and its relation to deep cultural anxieties
An investigation into the evolution of the seven-day week and how our attachment to its rhythms influences how we live
A collection of John Carey’s greatest, wisest, and wittiest reviews—amassed over a lifetime of writing
An engaging and authoritative history of Scotland’s influence in the world and the world’s on Scotland, from the Thirty Years’ War to the present day
The misguided forces driving conflict escalation between America and China, and the path to a new relationship
A presentation of eight contemporary artists whose work considers environmental questions in terms of their social and political implications
An exhilarating chronicle of the ruling families of France and England, showing how two dynasties formed one extraordinary story
A fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo Damrosch