A groundbreaking account of Napoleon Bonaparte, Pope Pius VII, and the kidnapping that would forever divide church and state "In gripping, vivid prose, Caiani brings to life the struggle for power that would shape modern Europe. It all makes for a historical read which is both original and enjoyable.
The complete history of Northern Ireland from the Irish Civil War to Brexit "A wonderful book, beautifully written. . . . Informative and incisive."-Irish Times After two decades of relative peace following the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, the Brexit referendum in 2016 reopened the Northern Ireland question.
A "highly readable" (Wall Street Journal) account of the role Britain played in Einstein's life-first by inspiring his teenage passion for physics, then by providing refuge from the Nazis "A vivid look at how the U.K. affected the German-born physicist's life and thinking.
The first comprehensive history of seventeenth-century London, told through the lives of those who experienced it "Lively and arresting. . . . [Lincoln] is as confident in handling the royal ceremonials of political transition . . . as she is with London's thriving coffee-house culture, and its turbulent maritime community."-Ian W. Archer, Times Literary Supplement "Vivid and engrossing.
A timely and provocative essay about the parallel lives of Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt and their mission for a more humane society "[A] short but moving book . . .Even better, the volume's advice is not only pragmatically political-necessary during a time of threats to democracy and mounting failures to deal with the climate crisis-but modestly uplifting.
Selections from the "Pandemic Files" published by The Yale Review, the preeminent journal of literature and ideas
A new and expansive collection of essays from one of the world's best-known popular philosophers
A case for why regionalization, not globalization, has been the biggest economic trend of the past forty years The conventional wisdom about globalization is wrong. Over the past forty years as companies, money, ideas, and people went abroad more often than not, they looked regional rather than globally.
A wonderfully accessible handbook to the art of writing and reading poetry-itself written entirely in verse
A beautifully illustrated and unique history of the "queen of flowers" in art, medicine, cuisine, and more
A quirky, funny, and accessible blend of science and art that delves into the heart of Einstein's theory of relativity
A thousand-year history of how China's obsession with silver influenced the country's financial well-being, global standing, and political stability