An award-winning historian’s revisionary account of the early modern world, showing how apocalyptic ideas stimulated political, religious, and intellectual transformations
A fresh perspective on the influential critic, offering new ways of understanding the art of the Harlem Renaissance
An impassioned case for argument’s central role in human life, by one of America’s most distinguished cultural critics
The story of the prophet Elijah’s transformation from fierce zealot to compassionate hero and cherished figure in Jewish tradition
A fascinating journey into global politics that made classical music a proxy for power, inadvertently creating the “sound of Hollywood,” and excluding hundreds of composers
The definitive account of the superior fighting force that powered the English Revolution
The latest revised volume in the Pevsner Architectural Guides, covering Birmingham and the towns and settlements of the Black Country
The first biography of Charles Cornwallis in forty years—the soldier, governor, and statesman whose career covered America, India, Britain, and Ireland
A new translation and commentary on the extracanonical Coptic text that describes Judas’ special status among Jesus’ disciples
An authoritative re-definition of the social, cultural and visual history of the emergence of the “avant-garde” in Paris and London
A leading theologian presents a hopeful account of the universe after Einstein, exploring it as a meaningful drama of awakening
A deluxe sleeved set that includes a facsimile republication of a classic work on Louis Kahn and an accompanying volume of new writings by colleagues, architects, and the Kahn family