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A fascinating exploration of the devious tricks and ingenious tools used by early modern spies—from ciphers to counterfeiting, invisible inks to assassination

An expansive look at the multifaceted American artist Toshiko Takaezu within the history of postwar artmaking

An incisive, authoritative account of the West’s failures in Afghanistan, from 9/11 to the fall of Kabul

An exploration of the development of the art scene, its socio-political context, and the role of the fine arts in nineteenth-century Nordic society

An ambitious alternative history of the modern Middle East

A unique illustrated exploration of the development of finance that combines data from every part of the world and covers five thousand years of history   From the emergence of money in the ancient world to today’s interconnected landscape of high-frequency trading and cryptocurrency, the story of finance has always taken place on an international stage. Finance is one of the most globalized and networked of human activities, and one of the most important social technologies ever invented.   This volume, the first visually based book dedicated to finance, uses graphics and maps to bring the complex and abstract world of finance down to earth, showing how geography is fundamental for understanding finance, and vice versa. It illuminates the people—including Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes—who have shaped our thinking about global finance; brings to life the ways that place-specific histories, laws, regulations, and institutions influence finance; shows how finance relates to innovation, globalization, and environmental change; and details how finance plays a key part in drawing the landscape of uneven development, inequality, and instability.   The Atlas of Finance, with word and image, will change the way you view both your money and your world.

A new study of Mary Cassatt that explores the centrality of work to both her inventive technical practice and her distinctive approach to modern subjects

A detailed presentation of the iconic Naseby Cup that illuminates the Victorian vessel’s extraordinary numismatic importance and contextualizes the circumstances surrounding its creation

A dynamic look at how artists used paper to radically redefine the relationship between the body and its surroundings, and to propose new conceptions of ecology

An exploration of late nineteenth-century American literary posters—a vibrant genre at the vanguard of modern commercial art and graphic design

Reassessing the career of the hugely influential Harper’s Bazaar art director, who changed the course of twentieth-century American photography and graphic design

An exploration of the evolution of the Japanese Mingei (folk art) movement within the context of today’s concerns

A ';gripping [and] splendidly readable' portrait of the battle within the British War Cabinetand Churchill's eventual victoryas Hitler's shadow loomed (The Boston Globe). From May 24 to May 28, 1940, members of Britain's War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue what became known as the Second World War. In this magisterial work, John Lukacs takes us hour by hour into the critical events at 10 Downing Street, where Winston Churchill and his cabinet painfully considered their responsibilities. With the unfolding of the disaster at Dunkirk, and Churchill being in office for just two weeks and treated with derision by many, he did not have an easy time making his casebut the people of Britain were increasingly on his side, and he would prevail. This compelling narrative, a Washington Post bestseller, is the first to convey the drama and world-changing importance of those days. ';[A] fascinating work of historical reconstruction.'The Wall Street Journal ';Eminent historian Lukacs delivers the crown jewel to his long and distinguished career.'Publishers Weekly (starred review) ';A must for every World War II buff.'Cleveland Plain Dealer ';Superbcan be compared to such classics as Hugh Trevor-Roper's The Last Days of Hitler and Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August.'Harper's Magazine

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 vivid new history of the criminal underworld in the medieval Holy Land

A revealing examination of how mental illness informs and connects the highly charged work of Edvard Munch and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

A richly crafted tribute to the avant-garde artist and designer Sonia Delaunay, whose boundary-breaking approach is echoed in the volume’s interdisciplinarity and its inspired design

A vivid and musical rendering of the poetry of Catullus, whose passionate verses have captivated readers for centuries

The remarkable story of how a handful of intrepid scientific navigators underpinned British naval dominance in the conflict with Napoleon

A landmark survey of the artistic traditions and cross-cultural exchange of Ethiopia, from the early centuries of our era to today

A beautifully curated and translated collection of the Qur’anic surahs and verses that are most cherished and memorized by Muslims the world over

Two never-before-published novels by Mina Loy, the celebrated modernist poet, artist, and feminist

A lively new history of London told through twenty-five buildings, from iconic Georgian townhouses to the Shard

A revolutionary study of nineteenth-century Parisian cartography and its role in shaping a modern conception of space

The fourth and final volume of Michel Leiris’s renowned autobiography, now available in English for the first time, translated by Richard Sieburth