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A dramatic and timely account of Stalin’s failed invasion of Finland in 1939, and the decade of wars and fraught relations that followed

Highlighting the central role of drawing throughout Ruth Asawa's career, this book's essays illuminate diverse aspects of her drawing practice with reproductions of more than one hundred works, many never before published.

This fresh look at artist Takashi Murakami takes on the “monstrous” themes of rampant consumerism, human fallibility, and the perils of life in the digital fast lane, in works from the past decade

This lavishly illustrated exploration of fashion designer Gaby Aghion's life, career, and legacy at the French fashion house Chloé features seventy years of clothing and designs along with recollections from designers Karl Lagerfeld, Stella McCartney, and others.

A compelling new history of the EU and the people who sought to shape and challenge it—from Maastricht to today

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

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.

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.

A highly original and compelling account of individual Jews who resisted Nazi persecution, challenging the traditional portrayal of Jewish passivity during the Holocaust

A chronicle of recent events that have shaken the world, from the author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century

This text offers a unique approach to assisting German learners at various levels of proficiency in developing their writing skills in eight different genres. The guide includes information and activities for structuring sentences, paragraphs, and entire texts; building vocabulary; and raising awareness of cultural issues related to writing for specific audiences and purposes. By providing writing activities targeted at beginning, intermediate, and advanced learners, the guide will offer instructors a concrete means of unifying their German curricula across individual levels and courses. As a supplementary writing guide, Schreiben lernen fills a need that exists in German curricula at all levels.

A revelatory meditation on class and consumer culture, from 2022 Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux

A powerful record of the first four months of the Russian-Ukrainian war, this book is at once the testimony of one man entering a new reality as he writes and the story of a society unified in its fight for the right to exist.

The first full-scale history of Theoderic and the Goths in more than seventy-five years, tracing the transformation of a divided kingdom into a great power

Artist Natalie Frank's evocative drawings accompany five of E. T. A. Hoffmann's most influential short stories, published here in a new translation by fairy-tale scholar Jack Zipes. Tales including The Sandman speak to twenty-first century preoccupations in this thoughtful and visually compelling rendition.

How herbaria illuminate the past and future of plant science

Illuminating three centuries of European artistry and ingenuity, this volume in The Met’s acclaimed How to Read series provides a wide-ranging exploration of decorative arts from British writing tables to Russian snuffboxes

Culture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human. Defining culture and pinpointing its role in our lives is not, however, so straightforward. Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, is uniquely poised to take on the challenge. In this keenly analytical and acerbically funny book, he explores how culture and our conceptualizations of it have evolved over the last two centuries-from rarified sphere to humble practices, and from a bulwark against industrialism's encroaches to present-day capitalism's most profitable export. Ranging over art and literature as well as philosophy and anthropology, and major but somewhat "e;unfashionable"e; thinkers like Johann Gottfried Herder and Edmund Burke as well as T. S. Eliot, Matthew Arnold, Raymond Williams, and Oscar Wilde, Eagleton provides a cogent overview of culture set firmly in its historical and theoretical contexts, illuminating its collusion with colonialism, nationalism, the decline of religion, and the rise of and rule over the "e;uncultured"e; masses. Eagleton also examines culture today, lambasting the commodification and co-option of a force that, properly understood, is a vital means for us to cultivate and enrich our social lives, and can even provide the impetus to transform civil society.