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The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art
Terracotta Oil Lamps
This publication, the fourth in a series that meticulously catalogues works in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s renowned Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art, focuses on the collection’s 453 terracotta oil lamps dating from the Classical...
Striking Back
How the West is Failing on National Security
How can western nations, faced with relentless technological aggression in the twenty-first century, fight back to preserve international stability? Conflict in the last century was defined by the horrific...
John Singer Sargent Complete Catalogue of Paintings Cumulative Index
The cumulative index to John Singer Sargent: The Complete Paintings comprises two indexes covering the nine volumes of the complete catalogue raisonné: a comprehensive general index and an index of the titles of all...
County Durham
This volume surveys one of northern England’s most varied and rewarding counties. County Durham, flanked by the rivers Tyne and Tees, boasts Durham Cathedral, England’s most impressive Norman church, located unforgettably...
Mission France
The True History of the Women of SOE
Formed in 1940, Special Operations Executive was to coordinate Resistance work overseas. The organization’s F section sent more than four hundred agents into France, thirty-nine of whom were women. But while some are widely...
An Insider's Guide to the UN
Prominent NPR journalist Linda Fasulo’s guide to the United Nations has established a reputation as the most lively, authoritative, and insightful book on its subject. The fourth edition comes at a time when nuclear proliferation has...
Adapting to Climate Change
It is all but certain the next century will be hotter than any we’ve experienced before. Even if we get serious about fighting climate change, it’s clear that we will need to adapt to the changes already underway in our environment....
The Atlas of AI
What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? Drawing on more than a decade of original research, award-winning...
Nikolai Astrup
Visions of Norway
Nikolai Astrup (1880–1928) was a Norwegian Modernist artist known for intensely colored paintings and woodcuts of his native landscape. Astrup received a formal art education in Kristiania (now Oslo), Germany, and Paris, but...
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 1
Ancient Israel, from Its Beginnings through 332 BCE