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
The paperback edition of this captivating story of Tudor dress, and the people who made and wore it.
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
From the president of Wesleyan University, a compassionate and provocative manifesto on the crises confronting higher education
The last book written by the most famous literary critic of his generation, on the sustaining power of poetry
In a time of social distancing and isolation, a meditation on the beauty of solitude
A concise history of how American law has shaped—and been shaped by—the experience of contagion
The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history
An eye-opening look at the invisible workers who protect us from seeing the worst of humanity on today’s commercial internet