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A leading critic’s acclaimed story of “the photo boom” during the crucial decades of the 1970s and ’80s

From one of the nation’s preeminent constitutional scholars, a sweeping rethinking of the uses of history in constitutional interpretation

The novel contains imagined lives that achieve a kind of meaning and intensity our own lives do not. Out of the novelist's moral imagination--the breadth and depth of his awareness of human motivations, tensions, and complexities--emerge fictional persons through whom we learn to read ourselves. This eloquent book, exploring fictional lives in crucial moments of choice and change, stresses both their difference from and their deep connections with life. Martin Price writes here about ways in which character has been conceived and presented in the novels of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Beginning with chapters that cogently argue the artistic value of character, Price then deals with the different forms character has taken in individual novels. His first discussions center on authors--Jane Austen, Stendhal, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Leo Tolstoy--who define individuals by their adherence or opposition to social norms. The next chapters deal with novelists for whom the moral world is largely internalized. The characters of Henry James, Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence, and E.M. Forster live in society and act upon it, but the authors are particularly concerned with the confusions, terrors, and heroism that lie within consciousness. The last chapter uses novels about the artist by James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Thomas Mann in order to apprehend the process by which experience is transformed into art. Avoiding both formalistic and moralistic extremes, this new book by a distinguished critic helps us recover a fuller sense of literary form and the forms of life from which it emerges.

A lively and inviting history of Belfast-exploring the highs and lows of a resilient city   Modern Belfast is a beautiful city with a vibrant tradition of radicalism, industry, architectural innovation, and cultural achievement. But the city's many qualities are all too frequently overlooked, its image marred by association with the political violence of the Troubles.   Feargal Cochrane tells the story of his home city, revealing a rich and complex history which is not solely defined by these conflicts. From its emergence as a maritime port to its heyday as a center for the linen industry and crucible of liberal radicalism in the late eighteenth century, through to the famous shipyards where the Titanic was built, Belfast has long been a hub of innovation. Cochrane's book offers a new perspective on this fascinating story, demonstrating how religion, culture, and politics have shaped the way people think, act, and vote in the city-and how Belfast's past continues to shape its present and future.

"The Bloomsbury Group denied its own existence and yet was one of the most successful and influential groups of the 20th century. The Bloomsbury Look explores how the Bloomsbury group fashioned a coherent, distinctive and radical identity through dress, portraits and art collections"--

The leading U.S. expert on abortion law charts the many meanings associated with Roe v. Wade during its fifty-year history

A wide-ranging exploration of the birth of impressionism centered around the landmark exhibition in Paris in 1874

This monograph of Lerooy’s drawings, paintings, and sculptures surveys nearly 100 works from the vital years of his career.

An insightful retrospective of the genre-defying contemporary artist and MacArthur Fellow Joyce J. Scott, showcasing contributions from an extraordinary group of artists and scholars

Two never-before-published novels by Mina Loy, the celebrated modernist poet, artist, and feminist

A new and necessary examination of how nineteenth-century Cuban white elites viewed the natural world, material culture, and political power as intertwined

The complete poems of the priestess Enheduana, the world’s first known author, newly translated from the original Sumerian

The first history of childhood in Tudor England

A powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners’ own voices, based on more than 140 interviews with former miners and their families

A deeply researched and poignant reflection on the practice of forgiveness in an unforgiving world

A great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller’s dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights

Who set the mysterious fire that burned down much of New York City shortly after the British took the city during the Revolutionary War?

Groundbreaking research that utilizes archaeological discoveries and ancient texts to revolutionize our understanding of the beginnings of Judaism

"A myth-busting explanation of inflation, the desperate gullibility of central bankers and finance ministers--and our abject failure to learn from history."--

The result of 27 years of work accomplished in collaboration with an international team of researchers and scientists. Marc Restellini showcases the first up-to-date definitive six-volume catalogue raisonné that documents the entire body of paintings made by Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920). Modigliani catalogue raisonné offers an unprecedented level of detail and precision in the provenance of each painting and is the largest compilation of scientific data ever created on Modigliani's oeuvre. It includes Volume 1 as a full explanation of the methodology, Volume 2 as a full chronology of Modigliani's life and body of work, Volumes 3-5 of Modigliani's paintings, each of them being represented by a full-page reproduction and accompanied by full provenance, exhibition history and bibliography, and Volume 6 comprising all the indexes concerning the data used in the catalogue as well as a technical and iconographic index. This six-volume boxed set reveals the depths of Restellini's research with beautiful illustrations throughout.

A translation of Muhammad Rashid Rida’s best-known work, which examines the compatibility of Islamic political and legal tradition with modern thought

An unflinching investigation of the false promises of land sparing, exposing how its illusory successes mask the failures of green capitalism

Now back in print, a revealing look at the visionary French furniture designer and architect, highlighting his virtuoso designs and versatile creativity

Why did England’s one experiment in republican rule fail?

An investigation of how seven cutting-edge contemporary artists use high-key, kaleidoscopic color to express the hybrid and multiform nature of identity

A companion to the Whitney's signature exhibition, featuring artists who are shaping the conversation about contemporary art in the United States today

How bankers created the modern consumer credit economy and destroyed financial stability in the process

A compelling biography of Sheikh Abdullah, the charismatic, combative, and controversial Kashmiri politician

The true history of tattoo as both art and profession in the West