An engaging guide to the waterways of Rome and their role in shaping the city’s culture, history, and landscape
An expansive look at the contemporary artists confronting, challenging, and reimagining R. Buckminster Fuller’s techno-utopianism to envision sustainable futures
A human history of one of the planet’s most iconic lakes, and the civilizations that surrounded its shores
A social psychologist reveals how to nudge local cultures toward positive structural change by moving people from individual action to collective action
An evocative voyage through the Carpathian mountain range and its threatened landscape, peoples, and history
This book will be a major survey of one of the most famous artist couples namely Hans (Jean) Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp, two of the most important artists of the 20th-century avant-garde.
Essential reading for anyone interested in art, community, and the built environment
Experience the world of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and the tremendous challenges he faced and overcame, with the help of Stoic philosophy
A revealing exploration of how prescient nineteenth-century artists, writers, and scientists began to sound the alarm on climate crisis
The first volume of a groundbreaking two-part commentary on the book of Genesis by leading biblical scholar Ronald Hendel
A thrilling new biography of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky—composer of some of the world’s most popular orchestral and theatrical music
A major new history of Churchill in the 1930s, showing how his meetings at Chartwell, his country home, strengthened his fight against the Nazis
A gripping new history of London during the Blackout—revealing the violent crime that spread across the capital under the cover of darkness
A new history of Futurism and its fraught ideological ambitions, centered on sculptural experimentation
A compelling, authoritative history of how women shaped the Reformations and transformed religious life across the globe
How modern data-driven government originated in the creation and use of administrative archives in the British Empire
An exploration of the human figure and artistic imagination in public art of the American Renaissance, from the nation’s centennial to World War I
A fascinating historical examination of the Santiago Metro system as a microcosm of Chilean national identity during the twentieth century
A deeply researched biography of the prominent and divisive writer Ayn Rand, whose pro-capitalist novels and nonfiction have influenced three generations of Americans
Tracing the metaphor of America as the Book of Revelation’s New Jerusalem, Yii-Jan Lin shows how apocalyptic narratives are used to exclude unwanted immigrants
A deep dive into the nature of translation from one of its most acclaimed practitioners
A comparative legal history of Jewish sovereignty and religious freedom, illuminating the surprising ways that collective and individual rights have evolved over the past two centuries
A landmark survey, offering a nuanced and deeply researched account of the career and life of the iconic modern architect
The story of humanity’s evolving relationship with the natural world from pre-history to the present day
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