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This thought-provoking book traces the science of invisibility from its sci-fi origins in the nineteenth-century writings of authors such as H. G. Wells and Fitz James O'Brien to modern stealth technology, invisibility cloaks, and metamaterials. Physicist Gregory J. Gbur explores the history of invisibility and its diverse science and technology connections.

The most complete picture to date of the moral worlds of the political left and right and how their different views relate to specific political issues

A spirited dive into the life and career of a performer, writer, and director who dominated twentieth-century American comedy

A wide-ranging illustrated history of transparency as told through the evolution of the glass window

How the character of war is changing and how militaries can successfully adapt to meet the challenge

This is the first major biography, now available in English, of Martin Heidegger (1889?1976) in many years. Drawing on previously untapped sources, Guillaume Payen presents a balanced portrait of the German philosopher's life, from his upbringing in an uncompromising Catholic family to his membership in the Nazi Party and beyond.

A profound and genre-defying work of literature about love, death, and illness from one of Portugal's most celebrated writers

An exploration of Maimonides, the medieval philosopher, physician, and religious thinker, author of The Guide of the Perplexed, from one of the world's foremost bibliophiles

Biography of the unwanted daughter of Henry VIII who went on to become queen and reign during one of England's most glorious eras.

An examination of what algorithmic polarization means for society and how conservative elites use media literacy tactics to spread propaganda

How the United States was created-a complex and surprising story of patriots, Indigenous peoples, loyalists, visionaries and scoundrels

A wonderfully engaging, accessible introduction to war, from ancient times to the present and into the future

The first truly global history of work, an upbeat assessment from the age of the hunter-gatherer to the present day

An informed modern plan for post-2020 American foreign policy that avoids the opposing dangers of retrenchment and overextension

Your voice as biometric data, and how marketers are using it to manipulate you

The experiences of two families-one in seventeenth-century Holland, the other in America today-and how they coped when a family member changed religions

A first-ever collection of contemporary Muslim women's khutbahs (sermons) drawing on their social, religious, and spiritual experiences and framed by original reflections on an emerging Muslim feminist ethics

A comprehensive account of a pioneering archaeological project in the province of Shandong that transformed understandings of regional settlement patterns

Explores the numerous circumstances that have shaped art in Europe, deconstructing and demystifying the long history of Western art to reveal its paradigms, rationales, and biases

The drawings of Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) are critical to understanding his larger career, but they have been underexplored in scholarship. This long-awaited publication is the first comprehensive compilation of Motherwell's drawings. During a career that lasted half a century, Motherwell, one of the preeminent artists of the Abstract Expressionist movement, created a large and varied body of work. He employed a broad range of imagery, inventing, refining, and reinventing his signature motifs. Drawing, which Motherwell described as "perhaps the only medium as fast as the mind itself," was crucial to his output. This two-volume catalogue raisonnâe includes works from private collections never before seen by the public, as well as works from public collections worldwide. The first volume explores the significance of drawing throughout Motherwell's career and illuminates how his drawings both inform and are distinct from his work in other media; it also includes a detailed bibliography and exhibition history of the drawings. The second volume illustrates and thoroughly documents his 1,413 known drawings.

Marking the occasion of Didier Vermeiren's eponymous solo exhibition at WIELS in Brussels, this book illuminates the recurrent strategies of repetition, reversal, doubling and inversion that the artist explores in his work.