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
Children's Lives After the Holocaust. Told for the first time from their perspective, the story of children who survived the chaos and trauma of the Holocaust.
Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France. A powerful history of Jewish art collectors in France, and how an embrace of art and beauty was met with hatred and destruction.
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
A vibrant history of the castle in England, from the early Middle Ages to the present day
How hunger shaped both colonialism and Native resistance in Early America
How the collapse of empires helps explain the efforts of China, Iran, Russia, and Turkey to challenge the international order
A new translation and commentary on I Maccabees that offers a fresh interpretation of the author’s values and purpose
A behind-the-scenes history of the sixteenth-century South Indian temple hall installation in the Philadelphia Museum of Art