A brand new look at the extraordinary accomplishments of early modern Italian women artists
The fascinating story of the evolution of the country house in Britain, from its Roman precursors to the present
A prominent scholar explores King Arthur’s historical development, proposing that he began as a fictional character developed in the ninth century
An innovative retrospective look at the work of one of America’s most iconic artists, utilizing the concepts of mirroring and doubling, which have long preoccupied Johns
A blueprint for creating sustainable businesses, emphasizing the power and potential of cooperative models
An award-winning historian makes the case for food's cultural importance, stressing its crucial role throughout human history
How a strategist's ideas were catastrophically ignored in 1914—but shaped Britain’s success in the Second World War and beyond
In the fourth volume in the Why I Write series, the iconic Samuel Delany remembers fifty years of writing and shaping the world of speculative fiction
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