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The Italian Renaissance Altarpiece
Between Icon and Narrative
The comprehensive study of the Italian Renaissance altarpiece from the 13th to the early 17th century The altarpiece is one of the most distinctive and remarkable art forms of the Renaissance period. It is difficult...
From Sarah to Sydney
The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family
The untold life story of All-of-a-Kind Family author Sydney Taylor, highlighting her dramatic influence on American children’s literature This is the first and only biography of Sydney Taylor (1904–1978),...
A Writing Guide for Learners of Chinese
An accessible guide to writing Chinese at the intermediate level This guide is an easy way to add more writing practice to the intermediate Chinese curriculum, helping Chinese learners express themselves correctly...
Mathematical Models in the Biosciences I
An award-winning professor’s introduction to essential concepts of calculus and mathematical modeling for students in the biosciences This book introduces mathematical modeling to bioscience students, with first...
Solving Public Problems
A Practical Guide to Fix Our Government and Change Our World
How to take advantage of technology, data, and the collective wisdom in our communities to design powerful solutions to contemporary problems The challenges societies face today, from inequality to climate change to...
Strange Natures
Conservation in the Era of Synthetic Biology
A groundbreaking examination of the implications of synthetic biology for biodiversity conservation Nature almost everywhere survives on human terms. The distinction between what is natural and what is human-made,...
The New World Written
Selected Poems
A lyrical collection of the finest poems by a leading Mexican poet, superbly translated for English readers The poetry of María Baranda is a haunting homage to the natural world: transcendent in scope, attentive to...
Introduction to the Apocrypha
Jewish Books in Christian Bibles
An ambitious introduction to the Apocrypha that encourages readers to reimagine what “canon” really means Challenging the way Christian and non-Christian readers think about the Apocrypha, this is an ambitious...
Greater American Camera
Making Modernism in Mexico
An engaging investigation of how the relationships between four U.S. photographers and Mexican artists forged new developments in modernism Photographers Edward Weston, Tina Modotti, Paul Strand, and Helen Levitt...
Democracy, Race, and Justice
The Speeches and Writings of Sadie T. M. Alexander
The first book to bring together the key writings and speeches of civil rights activist Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander – the first Black American economist In 1921, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander became the first...