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In the year of his one-hundredth birthday, pre-eminent literary critic, scholar and teacher M.H.  >> more

A narrative portion of the Hebrew Bible overflowing with action and character, the books included in Ancient Israel move from folk memories of magically powerful figures to a finely wrought historical account of deadly court intrigue—among the greatest in all of Western literature.  >> more

John James Audubon’s Birds of America has been reproduced often, beginning with the double elephant folio printed in England by Havill.  >> more

From southern Greece to northern Russia, people have long believed in female spirits, bringers of fertility, who dance in the fields and forests.  >> more

For years, fans have urged Rick Bayless to collect recipes for his prized margaritas, guacamoles and snacks in one book.  >> more

This, the story of Grand Central Terminal in New York City, begins with the historic struggle to save the station, followed by a chronological history of the site.  >> more

Beginning with the first insurgencies in the ancient world—when Alexander the Great discovered that fleet nomads were harder to defeat than massive conventional armies—Max Boot, a best-selling author and US military advisor in Iraq and Afghanistan, masterfully guides us from the Jewish rebellion against the Roman Empire up through the horrors of the French-Indochina War and the shadowy, post-9/11 battlefields of today.  >> more

In 1703, Peter the Great founded his eponymous capital on a Baltic marsh.  >> more

John Broome examines climate change through an invigorating new lens.  >> more

The Theatre of E.E. Cummings collects in their entirety Cummings’s long out-of-print theatrical works: the plays HIM (1927), Anthropos (1930) and Santa Claus (1946), and the ballet treatment Tom (1935).  >> more

When, in early 2011, people poured onto the streets of Arab cities to demand freedom, it was not for the first time.  >> more

In this engaging book, leading primatologist and thinker Frans de Waal offers an illuminating new perspective on human nature.  >> more

Composed between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, these virtually unknown, yet deeply influential, erotic and satirc poems lie at the root of the Western comic tradition.  >> more

On the eve of the 1943 invasion of Italy, just weeks before Allied bombs nearly destroyed Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper in Milan, General Dwight Eisenhower empowered a new kind of soldier to protect mankind’s greatest cultural treasures.  >> more

For almost six decades, Elliott Erwitt has had a keen eye for the often-overlooked world of children.  >> more

Shahnameh is part myth, part history—beginning with the legend of the birth of the Persian nation.  >> more

A brutally honest exposé, After Mandela provides a sobering portrait of a country caught between a democratic future and a political meltdown.  >> more

"Sit back, relax and enjoy the flight", pilots intone but the reality of commercial air travel—a business obsessed with efficiency and the bottom line—has little to do with soaring serenely above the clouds.  >> more

Henry James (1843-1916) has had many biographers but Michael Gorra has taken an original approach to this great American progenitor of the modern novel, combining elements of biography, criticism and travelogue in re-creating the dramatic backstory of James’s masterpiece, Portrait of a Lady (1881).  >> more

This deluxe and augmented edition commemorates the 1812 publication of the Grimms’ Children’s Stories and Household Tales, when the European oral folk tradition was first brought into print.  >> more