sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Words for the Heart Words for the Heart is a captivating treasury of emotion terms drawn from some of India's earliest classical languages. Inspired by the traditional Indian genre of a 'treasury' - a wordbook or anthology of short texts or poems - this... RRP: $55.00 $53.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Twelve Caesars What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book - against a background of today's 'sculpture wars' - Mary Beard tells the story of how... RRP: $49.99 $48.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Waterloo Sunrise Waterloo Sunrise is a panoramic and multifaceted account of modern London during the transformative years of the sixties and seventies, when a city still bearing the scars of war emerged as a vibrant yet divided metropolis. John Davis paints lively and... RRP: $49.99 $48.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Guanzi With this volume, W. Allyn Rickett completes the first full translation of the Guanzi into English.Named for the famous Chinese minister of state, Guan Zhong (d. 645 B.C.), the Guanzi is one of the largest collections of ancient Chinese writings still in... RRP: $125.00 $120.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Church of Saint Thomas Paine The forgotten story of the nineteenth-century freethinkers and twentieth-century humanists who tried to build their own secular religion.In The Church of Saint Thomas Paine, Leigh Eric Schmidt tells the surprising story of how freethinking liberals in... RRP: $49.99 $48.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Liberalism in Dark Times A timely defense of liberalism that draws vital lessons from its greatest midcentury proponents.Today, liberalism faces threats from across the political spectrum. While right-wing populists and leftist purists righteously violate liberal norms,... RRP: $59.99 $58.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The New Science of the Enchanted Universe From the perspective of Western modernity, humanity inhabits a disenchanted cosmos. Gods, spirits and ancestors have left us for a transcendent beyond, no longer living in our midst and being involved in all matters of everyday life from the trivial to... RRP: $49.99 $48.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Conchophilia Among nature's most artful creations, shells have long inspired the curiosity and passion of artisans, artists, collectors, and thinkers. Conchophilia delves into the intimate relationship between shells and people, offering an unprecedented account of... RRP: $89.99 $87.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The World the Plague Made A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern age.In 1346, a catastrophic plague beset Europe and its neighbours. The Black Death was a human tragedy that abruptly... RRP: $59.99 $58.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Up from the Depths Up from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history-the novelist and poet Herman Melville (18191891) and one of his earliest biographers, the literary critic and historian Lewis Mumford (18951990)... RRP: $49.99 $48.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Thoreau's Axe How nineteenth-century "disciplines of attention" anticipated the contemporary concern with mindfulness and being "spiritual but not religious"Today, we're driven to distraction, our attention overwhelmed by the many demands upon it-most of which emanate... RRP: $49.99 $48.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Inessential Colors The first comprehensive account of how and why architects learned to communicate through colour.Architectural draw traces the use of colour in European architectural drawings and prints, revealing how this phenomenon reflected the professional anxieties... RRP: $115.00 $111.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Distant Shores A pioneering history that transforms our understanding of the colonial era and China's place in it. China has conventionally been considered a land empire whose lack of maritime and colonial reach contributed to its economic decline after the... RRP: $69.99 $68.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added How to Stop a Conspiracy In 63 BC, frustrated by his failure to be elected leader of the Roman Republic, the aristocrat Catiline tried to topple its elected government. Backed by corrupt elites and poor, alienated Romans, he fled Rome while his associates plotted to burn the... RRP: $29.99 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Hungry Eye Eating and drinking can be aesthetic experiences as well as sensory ones. The Hungry Eye takes readers from antiquity to the Renaissance to explore the central role of food and drink in literature, art, philosophy, religion, and statecraft.In this... RRP: $79.99 $77.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws Adrienne Mayor is renowned for exploring the borders of history, science, archaeology, anthropology, and popular knowledge to find historical realities and scientific insights-glimmering, long-buried nuggets of truth-embedded in myth, legends, and... RRP: $34.99 $34.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Olympia A comprehensive and richly illustrated history of one of the most important athletic, religious, and political sites in the ancient Greek and Roman worldThe memory of ancient Olympia lives on in the form of the modern Olympic Games. But in the ancient... RRP: $62.99 $61.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Fears of a Setting Sun The surprising story of how George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson came to despair for the future of the nation they had createdAmericans seldom deify their Founding Fathers any longer, but they do still tend to venerate... RRP: $54.99 $53.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Digging Deeper An archaeologist with more than thirty seasons of excavation experience, Eric H. Cline has conducted fieldwork around the world, from Greece and Crete to Egypt, Israel, and Jordan. In Digging Deeper, Cline answers the questions archaeologists are most... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added 1177 B.C. From acclaimed archaeologist and bestselling author Eric Cline, a breathtaking account of how the collapse of an ancient civilised world ushered in the first Dark Ages In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the 'Sea Peoples' invaded Egypt... RRP: $29.99 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Nonstate Warfare How nonstate military strategies overturn traditional perspectives on warfareSince September 11th, 2001, armed nonstate actors have received increased attention and discussion from scholars, policymakers, and the military. Underlying debates about... RRP: $62.99 $61.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Modi's India A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intolerance.Over the past two decades, thanks to Narendra Modi, Hindu nationalism has been coupled with a form of... RRP: $62.99 $61.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added A War on Global Poverty A War on Global Poverty provides a fresh account of U.S. involvement in campaigns to end global poverty in the 1970s and 1980s. From the decline of modernisation programs to the rise of microcredit, Joanne Meyerowitz looks beyond familiar histories of... RRP: $54.99 $53.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Turkish Kaleidoscope Turkish Kaleidoscope tells the stories of four unfor-gettable protagonists as they navigate a society torn apart by violent political factions. It is 1975 and Turkey is on the verge of civil war. Faruk and Orhan are from conservative shopkeeping families... RRP: $39.99 $39.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Sharing Responsibility A look at the duty of nations to protect human rights beyond borders, why it has failed in practice, and what can be done about it. The idea that states share a responsibility to shield people everywhere from atrocities is presently under threat. Despite... RRP: $59.99 $58.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Bravura The first major history of the bravura movement in European paintingThe painterly style known as bravura emerged in sixteenth-century Venice and spread throughout Europe during the seventeenth century. While earlier artistic movements presented a... RRP: $115.00 $111.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The New Makers of Modern Strategy The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern worldThe New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next generation of the definitive work on strategy and the key figures who have shaped the theory and practice of war and... RRP: $79.99 $77.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Teachers as State-Builders The little-known history of public school teachers across the Arab world-and how they wielded an unlikely influence over the modern Middle EastToday, it is hard to imagine a time and place when public school teachers were considered among the elite... RRP: $160.00 $154.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Adam Smith's America The unlikely story of how Americans canonized Adam Smith as the patron saint of free marketsOriginally published in 1776, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was lauded by America's founders as a landmark work of Enlightenment thinking about national... RRP: $62.99 $61.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Western Europe's Democratic Age Washington Post, One of E.J. Dionne Jr.'s Recommendations A major new history of how democracy became the dominant political force in Europe in the second half of the twentieth century What happened in the years following World War II to create a... RRP: $62.99 $61.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Obama Portraits A richly illustrated celebration of the paintings of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle ObamaFrom the moment of their unveiling at the National Portrait Gallery in early 2018, the portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama have become two of the... RRP: $44.99 $44.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Sexing the World From the moment a child in ancient Rome began to speak Latin, the surrounding world became populated with objects possessing grammatical gender-masculine eyes (oculi), feminine trees (arbores), neuter bodies (corpora). Sexing the World surveys the many... RRP: $62.99 $61.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Only Woman in the Room A feminist biography of the only woman to become prime minister of IsraelIn this authoritative and empathetic biography, Pnina Lahav reexamines the life of Golda Meir (18981978) through a feminist lens, focusing on her recurring role as a woman standing... RRP: $62.99 $61.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Folds of Olympus A cultural and literary history of mountains in classical antiquity.The mountainous character of the Mediterranean was a crucial factor in the history of the ancient Greek and Roman world. The Folds of Olympus is a cultural and literary history that... RRP: $79.99 $77.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Alexander von Humboldt and the United States As Featured on Wall Street Journal's Holiday Books Round-up Nature The enduring influence of naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt on American art, culture, and politics.Alexander von Humboldt (17691859) was one of the most influential... RRP: $135.00 $130.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added An Infinite History *Shortlisted for the American Library in Paris Book Award**Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize, McGill University*"Winner of the PROSE Award in European History, Association of American Publishers*An innovative history of deep social and... RRP: $62.99 $61.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Empires of Vice During the late nineteenth century, opium was integral to European colonial rule in Southeast Asia. The taxation of opium was a major source of revenue for British and French colonizers, who also derived moral authority from imposing a tax on a peculiar... RRP: $39.99 $39.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Joshua Generation How a controversial biblical tale of conquest and genocide became a founding story of modern IsraelNo biblical text has been more central to the politics of modern Israel than the book of Joshua. Named after a military leader who became the successor to... RRP: $62.99 $61.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added A Matter of Obscenity For Victorian lawmakers and judges, the question of whether a book should be allowed to circulate freely depended on whether it was sold to readers whose mental and moral capacities were in doubt, by which they meant the increasingly literate and... RRP: $62.99 $61.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Political Economy of the Special Relationship How America's global financial power was created and shaped through its special relationship with BritainThe rise of global finance in the latter half of the twentieth century has long been understood as one chapter in a larger story about the postwar... RRP: $72.99 $71.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Niccol Machiavelli A colorful, comprehensive, and authoritative account of Machiavelli's life and thoughtThis is a colorful, comprehensive, and authoritative introduction to the life and work of the Florentine statesman, writer, and political philosopher Niccolo... RRP: $34.99 $34.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Indian Sex Life How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuring the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and elite Indian... RRP: $180.00 $173.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Nobel Factor How the creation of the Nobel Prize in Economics changed the economics profession, Sweden, and the worldOur confidence in markets comes from economics, and our confidence in economics is underpinned by the Nobel Prize in Economics, which was first... RRP: $47.99 $47.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Nevada Test Site A photographic study of the land that served as the main testing site for American nuclear devices for four decadesMore nuclear bombs have been detonated in America than in any other country in the world. Between 1951 and 1992, the Nevada National... RRP: $89.99 $87.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added This Land Is Our Land From one of our finest writers and leading environmental thinkers, a powerful book about how the land we share divides us-and how it could unite usToday, we are at a turning point as we face ecological and political crises that are rooted in conflicts... RRP: $34.99 $34.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Michelangelo, God's Architect The untold story of Michelangelo's final decades-and his transformation into one of the greatest architects of the Italian RenaissanceAs he entered his seventies, the great Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo despaired that his productive years were... RRP: $54.99 $53.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Gilgamesh Acclaimed literary historian Schmidt provides a unique meditation on the rediscovery of Gilgamesh and its profound influence on poets today. He describes how the poem is a work in progress even now, an undertaking that has drawn on the talents and... RRP: $44.99 $44.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Arab Winter A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceWhy the conventional wisdom about the Arab Spring is wrong.The Arab Spring promised to end dictatorship and bring self-government to people across the Middle East. Yet everywhere except Tunisia it led to either... RRP: $42.99 $42.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
