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A guide that takes the reader on eight walking tours to archaeological sites throughout the boroughs of New York City. This title presents a new way of exploring the city through the rich history that lies buried beneath it.

Jaroslav Pelikan compares the methods by which the official interpreters of the Bible and the Constitution - the Christian Church and the Supreme Court, respectively - have approached the necessity of interpreting, and reinterpreting, their important texts.

A comprehensive overview of renowned Belgian artist Berlinde De Bruyckere's work since 2014, inspired by the figure of the angel

The extraordinary sculptures of Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon

The work of 38 established and emerging artists explore the creative potential of risk-taking and transgression in contemporary life

The revelation of a misidentified face in a photograph-once thought to be Vincent, now known to be Theo van Gogh-leads to a novelesque story of revised art history

A sweeping overview of the work of a prominent Belgian visual artist

An in-depth examination of the crucial role that Amsterdam played in Rembrandt's evolution as an artist

Some international conflicts can be solved while others defy solution. Haass argues that for diplomatic efforts to succeed, conditions must be ripe for diplomacy. He studies conflicts in the Middle East, Cyprus and the Aegean, the Indian subcontinent, South Africa and Northern Ireland.

Provides an insight into the subtleties and diversities of contemporary clinical practice by exploring the problematic concept of transference neurosis. This work discusses the development of transference neurosis from Freud's initial theories to the testimonies of modern analysts.

A groundbreaking examination of the implications of synthetic biology for biodiversity conservation

Kay Swift (1897-1993) was one of the few women composers active on Broadway in the first half of the 20th century. Vicki Ohl describes a remarkable life, which included being the first woman to write a Broadway musical and eloping to Oregon with a rodeo cowboy she met at the 1939 World's Fair.

Offering a new reading of Spinoza's masterpiece, Smith asserts that the 'Ethics' is a celebration of human freedom and its attendant joys and responsibilities and should be placed among the great founding documents of the Enlightenment.

This translation of four of Plato's dialogues brings these classic texts alive for modern readers. Allen introduces and comments on the dialogues in an accessible way, inviting the reader to re-examine the issues Plato continually raises in his works.

In this work two theorists of international relations analyze the strategies designed to avoid international conflict. Using a combination of game theory, statistical analysis and case histories, the authors evaluate the conditions that promote negotiation, the status quo and war.

This volume draws on research on bird species and their habitats to explain how basic principles of bird ecology and landscape ecology can help us protect and restore the diversity of North American birds. This edition includes reviews of literature that has appeared since the first edition.

Born in Galicia, possessed of little education and less money, Eduardo Barreiros (1919-1992) rose to become a successful entrepreneur and one of Spain's prominent industrialists. This biography recounts Barreiros' origins as a car mechanic, his success in the motor industry, and his little-known role as a motor industry founder in 1980s Cuba.

This volume tells the story of Calvinism's origins, expansion and impact across Europe, from the upheavals of the early Reformation to the end of the 17th century.

This biography of Edward the Confessor, first published in 1970, aims to rescue the image of the King from what the author sees as myth and bogus scholarship. Disentangling fact from legend, the text recreates the final years of the Anglo-Danish monarchy and examines England before the Normans.

In this comprehensive study, a specialist and scholar of African affairs argues that the current crisis in African development can be traced directly to European colonial rule, which left the continent with a "singularly difficult legacy", unique in modern history.

A comprehensive study of Bedouin law, including oral, pre-modern law. It shows how a nomadic desert-dwelling society provides for its own law and order in the traditional absence of any centralized authority or enforcement agency to protect it.

A biography of a pioneering child analyst.

The reign of Queen Anne was a period of significant progress for the country, but the Queen has received little credit for these achievements. This biography seeks to shatter the image of a weak and ineffective monarch and establish her as a personality of integrity and invincible stubbornness.

A new approach to the foundations of single variable calculus, based on the introductory course taught at Caltech

American public opinion about World War II was manipulated both by wartime images that citizens were allowed to see and by the images that were suppressed. This book tells of how this occurred, and offers visual essays with photographs from the army's censored files.

The life and legacy of one of Mohammad's closest confidants and Islam's patron saint: Ali ibn Abi Talib

Selections from the "Pandemic Files" published by The Yale Review, the preeminent journal of literature and ideas