Amitav Ghosh, Queen s College, CUNY, author of The Glass Palace and In an Antique Land This is a quirky and fascinating book brilliant and exasperating in equal measure which gives one a unique insight into theexperience of an Indian ...

With this remarkable third collection, Smith establishes herself among the best poets of her generation.

Taken from the Heimskringla - Snorri Sturluson's complete account of Norway from prehistoric times to 1177 - this is a brilliantly human depiction of the turbulent life and savage death of the last great Norse warrior-king.

This book combines book history and literary criticism to explore how early modern books were richer things than previously imagined.

... in author Karachi of a when viciously I first anti-India heard the book ... Durant's lifetime achievement is his eleven volume series The Story of Civilisation a monumental set of volumes written in collaboration with his wife Ariel ...

The book contains 350 pages and is illustrated with 480 color photos and screenshots. This is the comprehensive guide to the golden era of home computers.

Spanning the sixteenth century, Emotion in the Tudor Court explores Cardinal Thomas Wolsey and Henrician satire; Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and elegy; Sir Philip Sidney and Elizabethan pageantry; and Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, and ...

. World Without End reminds us that the far-flung Spanish Empire was the work of many minds and hands, and by the end their myriad stories carry a cumulative charge.”—The New York Times Book Review “A sweeping, encyclopedic history of ...

These new works confront America’s historical and contemporary racism and injustices, while they also rise toward the registers of the ecstatic, the rapturous, and the sacred—urging us toward love as a resistance to everything that ...