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The story of the prophet Elijah's transformation from fierce zealot to compassionate hero and cherished figure in Jewish folklore

The Cold War reconsidered as seventy-five years of slow nuclear warfare

The definitive account of the superior fighting force that powered the English Revolution

An exploration of the scale, practical reality, and future implications of the growing integration of biodiversity conservation with global security concerns

In medieval England, the "advowson"?the right to appoint a parson to the local church?brought great power and influence. In tracing conflicts between the king, monasteries, and local landowners over this control, Tate shows how the innovations made necessary by advowson law helped give birth to modern common law.

An authoritative re-definition of the social, cultural and visual history of the emergence of the "avant-garde" in Paris and London

A reflection on Federico Garcia Lorca's life, his haunting death, and the fame that reinvigorated the marvelous in the modern world

The incredible pianist Maria Yudina lived on the fringes of Soviet society, yet acquired legendary status during her lifetime. Elizabeth Wilson sets Yudina's extraordinary life within the context of her times, where her musical career is measured against the intense intellectual and religious ferment of the post-revolutionary period and the ensuing years of Soviet repression.

How six conservative media moguls hindered America and Britain from entering World War II

An award-winning scholar's sweeping history of American secularism, from Jefferson to Trump

A riveting exploration of the brilliant, combative, and controversial "Father of the Nuclear Navy"

The latest revised volume in the Pevsner Architectural Guides, covering Birmingham and the towns and settlements of the Black Country

The first biography of Charles Cornwallis in forty years-the soldier, governor, and statesman whose career covered America, India, Britain, and Ireland

A synthetic reconstruction of women's religious engagement and experiences in preexilic Israel

A beautifully illustrated exhibition catalogue accompanying the first ever exhibition dedicated to Julie Manet

Stirring words of the most outspoken of the Hebrew prophets are reexamined in this concluding volume of the esteemed Anchor Bible Commentary on Jeremiah. This final book of the three-volume Anchor Bible Commentary gives us translation and commentary on the concluding sixteen chapters of Jeremiah. Here, during Judah's darkest days, when nationhoo..

This second book of the three-volume Anchor Bible Commentary offers an astute translation and commentary on the middle sixteen chapters of Jeremiah. Important themes in the present volume include injustice within Judah's royal house, sexual immorality among the clergy, and true versus false prophecy. Yet the prophet who thundered Yahweh's judgme.

The most complete English-language collection of the prose of Tadeusz Borowski, the most challenging chronicler of Auschwitz, with a foreword by Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny

Brings together, for the first time, Lucian Freud's oil on copper paintings, including his lost portrait of Francis Bacon and two works that have never been reproduced before.

A beautifully illustrated book exploring the art of Iran and Central Asia from the 5th to the 2nd Millennium BC.

A concise history of how American law has shaped-and been shaped by-the experience of contagion

In this third Why I Write volume, Eileen Myles addresses the social, political, and aesthetic conditions that shape their work