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The Art of War in an Age of Peace
U.S. Grand Strategy and Resolute Restraint
An informed modern plan for post-2020 American foreign policy that avoids the opposing dangers of retrenchment and overextension Russia and China are both believed to have a “grand strategy”—a detailed set of goals...
Coral Reefs
Majestic Realms under the Sea
An eye-opening introduction to the complexity, wonder, and vital roles of coral reefs When mass coral bleaching and die-offs were first identified in the 1980s, and eventually linked to warming events, the...
The Multifarious Mr. Banks
From Botany Bay to Kew, The Natural Historian Who Shaped the World
A fascinating life of Sir Joseph Banks which restores him to his proper place in history as a leading scientific figure of the English Enlightenment“An extensive, admiring account of his subject’s...
Clairvoyant of the Small
The Life of Robert Walser
The first English-language biography of one of the great literary talents of the twentieth century, written by his award-winning translator“Susan Bernofsky's deep and decades-long involvement with Robert Walser's...
Islamic Thought in Africa
The Collected Works of Afa Ajura (1910-2004) and the Impact of Ajuraism on Northern Ghana
The first book length-work on Afa Ajura and translation of his complete poems This is the first English translation and commentary of the collected poems of Alhaj Yusuf ?ali? Ajura (1910-2004), a Northern Ghanaian...
French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard
Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums
Dazzling works on paper from a vast and celebrated collection The Harvard Art Museums house one of the most significant collections of works on paper in North America. Among its many strengths are sheets by...
The House of Fragile Things
Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France
A powerful history of Jewish art collectors in France, and how an embrace of art and beauty was met with hatred and destruction In the dramatic years between 1870 and the end of World War II, a number of...
Warda
A Novel
Sonallah Ibrahim’s 2000 masterpiece offers readers a view of twentieth-century world events through the diary pages of his titular character 1950s Cairo. At a leftist meeting, idealistic journalist Rushdy encounters...
Sodom and Gomorrah
In Search of Lost Time, Volume 4
An authoritative new edition of Marcel Proust's Sodom and Gomorrah, the fourth volume of the In Search of Lost Time series Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is considered by many to be the...
The First Irish Cities
An Eighteenth-Century Transformation
The untold story of a group of Irish cities and their remarkable development before the age of industrialization A backward corner of Europe in 1600, Ireland was transformed during the following centuries....