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Empire of Destruction
A History of Nazi Mass Killing
Adventurers
The Improbable Rise of the East India Company: 1550-1650
The Playful Entrepreneur
How to Adapt and Thrive in Uncertain Times
A compelling account of how incorporating play into work can help us overcome the uncertainty and turbulence that surrounds work How can we learn to deal with uncertainty at work? The answer, as Dodgson and...
100 Poets
A Little Anthology
The Fortunes of Francis Barber
The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson's Heir
The story of the extraordinary relationship between a former slave and England’s most distinguished man of letters This compelling book chronicles a young boy’s journey from the horrors of Jamaican slavery...
On the Basis of Art
150 Years of Women at Yale
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the first women students at Yale, who came to study at the Yale School of the Fine Arts (now Yale School of Art) when it opened in 1869, and the 50th anniversary of undergraduate...
Andre Kertesz
Postcards from Paris
This elegant book unites all of the known carte postale prints by the photographer André Kertész (1894–1985), including portraits, views of Paris, careful studio scenes, and exquisitely simple still lifes. Essays shed new light on the...
King Arthur
The Making of the Legend
A prominent scholar explores King Arthur’s historical development, proposing that he began as a fictional character developed in the ninth century According to legend, King Arthur saved Britain from the...
Marie-Antoinette
The Making of a French Queen
A new look which fundamentally overturns our understanding of this famously "out of touch" queen“Presents [Marie-Antoinette] as much more than a symbol whose meaning is in the eye of her beholder . . ....
The Yellow River
A Natural and Unnatural History
From Neolithic times to the present day, the Yellow River and its watershed have both shaped and been shaped by human society. Using the Yellow River as a case study in understanding the long-term effects of environmentally...