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The Other Modern Movement
Architecture, 1920–1970
A revealing new look at modernist architecture, emphasizing its diversity, complexity, and broad inventiveness Usually associated with Mies and Le Corbusier, the Modern Movement was instrumental in advancing new...
The New Yale Book of Quotations
Updated to include over one thousand new quotations, this reader-friendly volume contains more than twelve thousand famous quotations, arranged alphabetically by author and sourced from literature, history, popular culture, sports,...
Early Modern European Society, Third Edition
The early modern period was one of profound change in Europe. It was witness to the development of science, religious reformation and the birth of the nation state. As Europeans explored the world – looking to Asia and the...
The Piano
A History in 100 Pieces
An astonishingly versatile instrument, the piano allows just two hands to play music of great complexity and subtlety. For more than two hundred years, it has brought solo and collaborative music into homes and concert halls, and has...
Hot Protestants
A History of Puritanism in England and America
On fire for God—a sweeping history of puritanism in England and America Begun in the mid-sixteenth century by Protestant nonconformists keen to reform England’s church and society while saving their own...
The Polymath
A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag
From Leonardo Da Vinci to Oliver Sacks: the first history of the western polymath, from the Renaissance to the present "An absorbing group portrait and intellectual history."—Kirkus Reviews
Going to Church in Medieval England
Parish churches were at the heart of English religious and social life in the Middle Ages and the sixteenth century. In this comprehensive study, Nicholas Orme shows how they came into existence, who staffed them, and how their...
The Story of Work
A New History of Humankind
We work because we have to, but also because we like it: from hunter-gathering over 700,000 years ago to the present era of zoom meetings, humans have always worked to make the world around them serve their needs. Jan...
How I Became a Tree
Sumana Roy offers a new vision of what it means to be human in the natural world. Increasingly disturbed by the violence, hate, insincerity, greed, and selfishness she observes around her, the author turns to the trees for wisdom. “I...
Idi Amin
The Story of Africa's Icon of Evil
The first serious full-length biography of modern Africa’s most famous dictator“Sharply written, forensically researched. . . . A meticulous re-examination of Amin’s life, producing a narrative packed...