Awarded Honorable Mention: Natural History Literature by the 2019 National Outdoor Book Awards The t... more

A visually stunning journey into the diversity and wonders of forests. In his international bestsell... more

Alessandro Orsini is one of Italy’s premier analysts of political extremism. His investigation of th... more

Published in Tunis in 1938, Ninette of Sin Street is one of the first works of Tunisian fiction in F... more

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Originally published in 1940, this book traces the development of theories concerning currency and c... more

Ivan Jablonka’s grandparents’ lives ended long before his began: although Matès and Idesa Jablonka w... more

An examination of the moral and political aspects of the philosophical work of Jan Patočka, one of t... more

An examination of the moral and political aspects of the philosophical work of Jan Patočka, one of t... more

Before the Nazis took power, Jewish businesspeople in Berlin thrived alongside their non-Jewish neig... more

’He was about to commit a forbidden act. A transgression. For no man should rummage through a woman’... more

Dance Medicine in Practice is the complete physical textbook for dance, written specifically to help... more

Dance Medicine in Practice is the complete physical textbook for dance, written specifically to help... more

Building Total Quality is an essential reference to all those involved in the construction of a tota... more

Meddeb wages a war of interpretations in this book demonstrating that Muslims cannot join the concer... more

This is your rhetoric translated. These wretches, these executioners, the guillotine are your speech... more

A literary exploration into the serendipitous convergences underpinning the writing of a novel (here... more

"Talismano" is a novelistic exploration of writing seen as a hallucinatory journey through half-reme... more

This book is a decisive contribution to the study of Kurdish history in Syria since the mandatory pe... more

the original sequence of the 1554 text, it allows readers the opportunity to encounter Stampa as she intended. Jane Tylus...... more

Featuring an eight-page gallery of full-color illustrations, here is a major new biography of Serge ... more

The integration of the blind into society has always meant taking on prejudices and inaccurate repre... more

The tale is simple, if grim: a disenfranchised teenage boy from the housing projects on the outskirt... more

This book is a decisive contribution to the study of Kurdish history in Syria since the mandatory pe... more

One of the most profound and disturbing works of nineteenth-century literature, Notes from the Under... more

The Power of Flies begins in a courtroom, where a man is undergoing an interrogation. He has committ... more

The hiring of a new secretary shouldn’t be a big deal--just a slight a change in the office environm... more

In a landmark study of history, power, and identity in the Caribbean, Pedro L. San Miguel examines t... more

The history of the Holocaust keeps being written and rewritten in ever greater detail, but almost al... more

A hero to many, Polish writer Adam Michnik ranks among today’s most fearless and persuasive public f... more

Preeminent medieval scholar Georges Duby argues that the structure of sexual relationships took its ... more

Why society’s expectation of economic growth is no longer realistic Economic growth--and the hope of... more

On Christmas Eve 1951, Santa Claus was hanged and then publicly burned outside of the Cathedral of D... more

In Europe today, staunchly nationalist parties such as France s National Front and the Austrian Free... more

The ancient Greek statesman is a familiar figure in the Western political tradition. Less well known... more

York; JANE H.M. TAYLOR is Emeritus Professor of French at Durham University....... more

Maurer and a new introduction by translator Jane Guyer, this expanded edition is certain to become the standard English...... more

"Whatever happens, the flame of French resistance must not and will not go out." As Charles de Gaull... more

On Christmas Eve 1951, Santa Claus was hanged and then publicly burned outside of the Cathedral of D... more

Important essays from one of the giants of literary criticism, including a dozen published here in E... more

A sweeping history of Islam and the West from the seventh century to today Europe and the Islamic Wo... more

Yegor Gaidar, the first post-Soviet prime minister of Russia and one of the principal architects of ... more

This book is the first intellectual biography of Marcel Mauss (1872-1950), the father of modern ethn... more

The last of Cyrus the Great’s dynastic inheritors and the legendary enemy of Alexander the Great, Da... more

Gathering for the first time all of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s writings on Japanese civilization, The Oth... more

Georgi Dimitrov (1882-1949) was a high-ranking Bulgarian and Soviet official, one of the most promin... more

An intimate, penetrating study of Joseph Brodsky s life and work, written by his lifelong friend, th... more

Secularism: the definition of this word is as practical and urgent as income inequalities or the pat... more

Over 5,000 years ago, the history of humanity radically changed direction when writing was invented ... more

"I loved this book and can’t stop talking about it. . . . Transcendent." --Carolyn See, The Washingt... more

In premodern China, elite painters used imagery not to mirror the world around them, but to evoke un... more

Slavery may no longer exist as a legal institution, but we still find many forms of non-freedom in c... more

This narrative of events between the years 1173 and 1202--as recorded by Jocelin of Brakelond, a mon... more

Philosophers and theologians have long engaged in intense debate and introspection over the represen... more

long-awaited translation the poet Jane Wilson Joyce employs a loose, six-beat line in her English translation, which allows her to...... more

This new biography of Francis Jeanson follows the existential philosopher and political activist fro... more