Spain's infamous "false chronicles" were alleged to have been unearthed in 1595 in a monastic library deep in the heart of the German-speaking territories of the Holy Roman Empire by the Jesuit priest Jeronimo Roman de la Higuera. Though rife with an...

Over the course of a seven-decade career, American artist Alex Katz (b. 1927) has conveyed his singular vision of the world through paintings that fuse realism and abstraction, allowing details to dissolve into bold swaths of color. Though perhaps be...

Private currencies have always existed, from notes printed by individual banks to the S&H Green Stamps that consumers once redeemed for household items. Today's economy has seen an explosion of new forms of monetary exchange not created by the federa...

Beautifully illustrated and based on more than three decades of research, "Arts & Crafts Stained Glass" is the first study of how the late-19th-century Arts and Crafts Movement transformed the aesthetics and production of stained glass in Britain and...

This collection of essays by scholar-activist W. E. B. Du Bois is a masterpiece in the African American canon. Du Bois, arguably the most influential African American leader of the early twentieth century, offers insightful commentary on black histor...

One of the most popular Latin texts on the market, "Learn to Read Latin" helps high school and college students acquire the skills to read and appreciate the great works of Latin literature. It not only presents basic Latin morphology and syntax with...

One of the most popular Latin texts on the market, "Learn to Read Latin" helps high school and college students acquire the skills to read and appreciate the great works of Latin literature. It not only presents basic Latin morphology and syntax with...

One of the most popular Latin texts on the market, "Learn to Read Latin" focuses on helping school and university students to acquire the skills to read and appreciate the great works of Latin literature. It not only presents basic Latin morphology a...

An illuminating history of state-building, nationalism, and bureaucracy, this book tells the story of how an international cohort of Austrian officials from Bohemia, Hungary, the Hapsburg Netherlands, Italy, and several German states administered Gal...

One of the most popular Latin texts on the market, "Learn to Read Latin" focuses on helping school and university students to acquire the skills to read and appreciate the great works of Latin literature. It not only presents basic Latin morphology a...