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An absurdist comedy and fifteenth winner of the Yale Drama Prize, exploring family, religion, identity, desire, and beauty in Korean American culture

Michael Haas sensitively records the experiences of the composers who fled the Nazis, escaping Hitler's Germany to make new lives across the globe. Haas traces the distinctive contribution these composers made to the twentieth-century soundscape?and offers a moving record of the incalculable effects of war on culture.

An original and provocative exploration of the relationship between contemporary art, politics, and activism

A compelling and innovative exploration of how animals shaped the birth of natural history and its ecological afterlives

A gripping account of the Knights Templar, challenging received wisdom to show how these devout medieval knights played a profound role in making modern Britain

Introduces a previously unpublished major collection of Islamic, Modern, and Contemporary Middle Eastern art, notable for its exceptional range and breadth from earliest times to the present

A leading film critic on the evolving world of streaming media and its impact on society

How democracies compete with autocracies to bias international order in their favor--and why democracies are losing

A fresh look at the world's water crises, and the existing and emerging solutions that can be used to solve them

An elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why the movement continues to resonate

The tragic life of Julian, the last non-Christian emperor of Rome, by award-winning author Philip Freeman

The daring, mischievous micro-essays of award-winning French humorist Éric Chevillard, published in English for the first time

The first full-length biography of civil rights hero and congressman John Lewis

An account of the emergence of creative nonfiction, written by the “godfather” of the genre

A journey guided by science that explores the universe, the earth, and the story of life

An epic account of how a new world order under Tamerlane was born out of the decline of the Mongol Empire

After the death of Stalin, the Soviet Union underwent profound changes as the communist project was rejuvenated. Robert Hornsby details this remarkable era of Soviet history, in which mass repression was reined in, cultural restrictions slackened, new connections with the outside world proliferated, and the Cold War reached its peak.

An intimate portrait illuminating the life and work of Amos Oz, the award-winning Israeli writer and activist

How debates over secrecy and transparency in politics during the eighteenth century shaped modern democracy

Bringing to life the world of Spanish royal tailor Mateo Aguado and his colleagues during the reign of Philip IV, and exploring the distinctive look of the court in seventeenth-century Madrid

A history of the United States' greatest archival project and how it has shaped what we know about the Civil War

A new portrait of Betty Friedan, the author and activist acclaimed as the mother of second-wave feminism

A rich and fascinating account of one of music history's most ancient, varied, and distinctive instruments

A generous selection of poems by a major Victorian writer, a virtuoso of traditional forms who came to be recognized as a uniquely inventive and original voice in modern poetry

The essential companion for lovers of the contemporary novel

An introduction to the postmodern photographs of Allan Chasanoff, whose work interrogates and subverts the notion of photography as a truthful record of the real

The first posthumous survey of Ojibwe artist Jim Denomie's paintings, which invite further conversation about American history, memory, and place

A new history of Brazil's eighteenth century that foregrounds debates about wealth, difference, and governance Transformations in Portugal and Brazil followed the discovery of gold in Brazil's hinterland and the hinterland's subsequent settlement. Although earlier conquests and evangelizations had incorporated new lands and peoples into the monarchy, royal officials now argued that the extraction of gold and the imperatives of rivalry and commerce demanded new approaches to governance to ensure that Brazil's wealth flowed to Portugal and into imperial networks of exchange. Using archival records of royal and local administrations, as well as contemporary print culture, Kirsten Schultz shows how the eighteenth-century Portuguese crown came to define and defend Brazil as a "colony" that would reinvigorate Portuguese power. Making Brazil a colony entailed reckoning with dynamic societies that encompassed Indigenous peoples, Africans, and Europeans; the free and the enslaved; the wealthy and the poor. It also involved regulating social relations defined by legal status, ancestry, labor, and wealth to ensure that Portuguese America complemented and supported, rather than reproduced, metropolitan ways of producing and consuming wealth.

Michael H. Kater explores the complex manifestations of the West German cultural scene and its attempts to grapple with the vestiges of Nazism. Ranging from partition to reunification, he shows how the gradual reemergence of democracy was possible only through the efforts of artists to reckon with their past.

Choosing twelve illustrative songs, John Potter offers a personal tour of the vibrant tradition of song, from John Dowland's "Flow My Tears? to George Gershwin's "Summertime.? Throughout, he reveals who wrote and sang these masterpieces?revealing aspects of our common musical humanity as the story evolves from the Middle Ages to the present.