Mieke Bal has had a significant impact on every field she has touched, from Old Testament scholarship and narratology to critical methods and visual culture. This brilliant and controversial intellectual invariably performs a high-wire act at the poi...

Often overlooked in accounts of World War II is the Soviet Union's quiet yet brutal campaign against Polish citizens, a campaign that included, we now know, war crimes for which the Soviet and Russian governments only recently admitted culpability. S...

Some of the most celebrated images of nineteenth-century American photography emerged from government-sponsored geological surveys whose purpose was to study and document western territories. Timothy H. O'Sullivan and William Bell, two survey photogr...

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The book focuses on probability metrics suitable for the characterization of random variables in Hilbert or Banach space. It provides details of various stochastic processes, such as testi...

Collected essays by a preeminent authority on American Jewish history.

Has corporate business overtaken the art world? It's no secret that art and business have always mixed, but their relationship today sparks more questions than ever".Museum, Inc". describes the new art conglomerates from an insider's perspective, pro...

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The history, origins and development of the government and state as an institution is an essential question concerning not only the history of Mesopotamia but the development of the human...