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A fascinating and moving history of the British and German war dead buried on enemy soil in the two world wars

An investigation of the emotional power of narrative that illuminates the relationship between the human brain and the stories we tell

A sweeping study of sexual assault trials in the Jim Crow South, detailing the racial and economic inequities of rape law and the resistance of ordinary women

Why the crisis of Christianity has become a crisis for democracy

An unprecedented examination of the underexplored late work of the iconic American modernist

Historian Sarah E. Bond retells the traditional story of Ancient Rome, revealing how groups of ancient workers unified, connected, and protested as they helped build an empire

The next phase of the war over reproduction in America

How the U.S. policy of competition with China is detrimental to democracy, peace, and prosperity—and how a saner approach is possible

The enduring legacy of the nineteenth-century struggle for Black literacy in the American South

How a Mvskoke traditionalist leader forged a movement to resist the division of tribal lands and keep his people on the everlasting Medicine Way

The first-ever biography of the ultra-radical thinker Robert Wedderburn, from his native Jamaica to metropole London, by an award-winning historian

A deep dive into the importance of daily communication and how we can harness its power to create a better life

An award-winning economic journalist on why the US dollar is positioned to maintain global primacy—and what that means for America and the world

The first account of Jewish children’s flight from Nazi Germany to France—and their subsequent escape to America from the Vichy regime

The last work by “one of the most singular voices of twentieth-century French philosophy” (Critical Inquiry) on the complexities of love in public and private life

From Homer’s epics to mainstream news, stories have lives of their own—and humans may not always control the narratives we create

For the first time, this book locates her, ‘centre frame’, focusing on her importance as a painter, designer and decorator. One of the first British artists to produce fully-resolved abstract paintings, and a driving force behind the Omega Workshops, of which she was a co-founder and director, Bell’s work was often collaborative and anonymous.   Bell provided a role model for her younger sister, Virginia Woolf, in her determination to operate professionally on an equal footing with the best male artists of her generation. New research and previously unpublished correspondence establishes how she deployed her skills as a networker, hostess and administrator, operating ‘beneath the radar’ through her brother and fellow artists, Roger Fry and Duncan Grant. The book outlines the specific prejudices and obstacles that Bell encountered as a professional woman in the first decades of the twentieth century. Her self-deprecating tactics, championing the work of the men in her circle and even allowing them to take credit for her own creative practice while providing the invisible labour of a housekeeper, caregiver and muse will resonate for feminists today.

An ambitious look at how the twentieth century’s great powers devised their military strategies and what their implications mean for military competition between the United States and China

The story of Abraham, the first Jew, portrayed as two lives lived by one person, paralleling the contradictions in Judaism throughout its history

Charting the parallel careers and lives of J. M. W. Turner and John Constable, whose distinct artistic visions revolutionized British art and landscape painting. J. M. W. Turner and John Constable are Britain’s two most famous artists. They were also exact contemporaries. Yet their lives and works could not have been more different. By delving into their contrasting backgrounds and biographies, paintings and private lives, this book uncovers a fascinating history of symmetry and equilibrium, contrast and coincidence. It is the tale of two artists—the “yin and yang” of the art world—complementary opposites who between them transformed the shape of British art.   Traditionally the two men have been cast as rivals, even enemies. This book reveals a more nuanced account, reexamining those moments when their paths crossed as competitors but also as colleagues and even, at times, friends. Toe-to-toe they shared the fight for the recognition and appreciation of landscape and in doing so ensured their reputations were forever intertwined and interlinked. Ultimately the story of Turner and Constable is the story of brothers in arts, the twin pillars of landscape painting at its greatest and most influential moment.

How European enslavers tried to meet African consumer demand for their trade goods in the eighteenth-century transatlantic slave trade

Exploring the role the decorative arts played in the representation of Black people in European visual and material culture

A fascinating and highly original history of medieval magic told through twenty key illuminated manuscripts

This expansive book considers twelve centuries of Persian ceramics through the lens of the extraordinary Hossein Afshar Collection

One of the world’s leading scholars of Buddhism presents the story of its dramatic journey across the globe, from 2,500 years ago to the present day

An exploration of the multifaceted characters and complex events that have defined the Lone Star State from its inception through today

A study of why the ancient Mediterranean and Indian Ocean took different paths to peace and stability and its lessons for international order today

The tragic life of Julian, the last non-Christian emperor of Rome, by award-winning author Philip Freeman