A brilliant distillation of the key ideas behind successful self-improvement practices throughout history, showing us how they remain relevant today
A study of the internal tensions of British imperial rule told through murder and insanity trials
A three-thousand-year history of the Yellow River and the legacy of interactions between humans and the natural landscape
The first integrative history of Nazi mass killing—showing how policies of mass murder were crucial to the regime’s strategy to win the war
An exploration of hypothetical turning points in history from Ancient Greece to September 11
An account of the alliance between the Catholic Church and the Italian Fascist regime in their campaign against Protestants
A revised and updated edition of an essential reference book filled with more than twelve thousand famous quotations
A wide-ranging retrospective that reveals a master printer’s own photographs to be technically brilliant work of remarkable breadth and complexity
An updated and refreshed edition of the groundbreaking book that shows how people can be nudged toward decisions that will improve their lives
Exploring how artists at midcentury addressed the social issues of their day—from Jacob Lawrence to Elizabeth Catlett, Rose Piper to Charles White
A close look at Man Ray’s interwar portraiture, as well as the friendships between the photographer and his subjects: the international avant garde in Paris
A study of two exhibitions that took place five years apart in the same building in Brussels city-centre