Exploring the career and legacy of the artist Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, whose sculptural figures embody her uncompromising sovereignty over her work and life
The most ambitious work of fiction by one of the world’s greatest writers
The first comprehensive account of the pioneering ceramic work of Julian Stair
A powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners’ own voices, based on more than 140 interviews with former miners and their families
The fascinating story of the so-called “Prayer Book Rebellion” of 1549 which saw the people of Devon and Cornwall rise up against the Crown
The leading U.S. expert on abortion law charts the many meanings associated with Roe v. Wade during its fifty-year history
A haunting novel that probes the enigmas of time and memory, by Nobel Prize–winning author Patrick Modiano
A sweeping, lavishly illustrated one-volume history of the rise of American naval power during World War II
An informative and entertaining account of how actions send signals that shape behaviors and how to design better incentives for better results in our life, our work, and our world
John Lukacs reconstructs five tense and decisive days during which Churchill and the British War Cabinet debated the future of the war
The unlikely beginnings of the East India Company—from Tudor origins and rivalry with the superior Dutch—to laying the groundwork for future British expansion
The first history of childhood in Tudor England