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This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty-first century. The book explores the Lakotas' roots...

Second edition.

Winner of the Mathematics Association of America's 2021 Euler Book Prize, this is an inclusive vision of mathematics-its beauty, its humanity, and its power to build virtues that help us all...

A renowned Buddhist teacher's magnum opus, based on his fresh reading of the tradition's earliest texts

Born in Syria in 1930, Adonis is one of the most celebrated poets of the Arabic-speaking world. His poems have earned international acclaim, and his influence on Arabic literature has been likened...

An engaging scholarly examination of the intersection of landscape painting, self-exploration, and the life sciences in the mature work of Caspar David Friedrich.

Hieronymus Bosch’s (c. 1450–1516) Garden of Earthly Delights has elicited a sense of wonder for centuries. Over ten feet long and seven feet tall, it demands that we step back to take it in, while...

An essential biography offering an unprecedented, fine-grained portrait of Stalin, the man and dictator. Translated by Nora Seligman Favorov.

A major, general history of the French Revolution, which draws on a host of unfamiliar and under-utilised sources to evoke the experiences of the Revolution across the social spectrum.

Thoreau's literary classic, an elegantly written record of his experiment in simple living, has engaged readers and thinkers for a century and a half. This edition of Walden is the first to set...

A comprehensive new survey tracing the global history of urbanism and urban design from the industrial revolution to the present

This stunning collection showcases the love poetry and mystical teachings at the heart of the Islamic tradition in accurate and poetic original translations At a time when the association of Islam...

The Hundred Years War (1337-1453) dominated life in England and France for well over a century. It became the defining feature of existence for generations. This sweeping book is the first to tell...

Since the 19th century, dolls have served as commodities but also as objects of possession and obsession, love and lust. That century witnessed the emergence of the term "heterosexual" as...

The relevance of Christianity is as hotly contested today as it has ever been. "A New History of Early Christianity" shows how our current debates are rooted in the many controversies...

\"This richly illustrated publication explores the full career of the hugely influential and endlessly fascinating French-American artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968). A pioneer whose creative...

Une célébration complète et faisant autorité de la vie et de l'œuvre de l'un des artistes les plus en vue de la Renaissance vénitienneMéticuleusement recherché et luxueusement illustré, ce...

Jackson Pollock's revolutionary 'drip paintings' put American art on the map, representing the first real break with the formal structures of European art. But it was not only his...

Beautifully designed and illustrated, this book reexamines the work of one of the most accomplished and few women to practice as a designer and architect before the Second World War.