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Theory of the Novel: A Historical Approach

Michael McKeon, author of 'The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740, ' here assembles a collec...

Lorenzo de’ Medici and the Art of Magnificence (Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History)

Historian F. W. Kent offers a new look at Lorenzo de Medici's relationship to the arts, aesthetic...

The Delirium of Praise: Bataille, Blanchot, Deleuze, Foucault, Klossowski

The laudatory essay, in which one author praises the work of another, is frequently characterized...

Sex and Gender in Historical Perspective: Selections from Quaderni Storici

How we did the 'fallen' women of Bologna regain their lost honor as wives or nuns? Why did the ch...

Seven Wonders of the Universe That You Probably Took for Granted

With illustrations by Lee Jamison, this is a whimsical tour revealing the wonders of the universe.

Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: America’s First Women in Space Program (Gender Relations in the American Experience (Paperback))

Margaret Weitekamp traces the rise and fall of the Lovelace Woman in Space program within the con...

Growing Up Amish: The Rumspringa Years (Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies)

On the surface, it appears that little has changed for Amish youth in the past decade: children l...

Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine

Generic drugs are now familiar objects in clinics, drugstores, and households around the world. W...

Blackness and Race Mixture: The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia (Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History & Culture)

Peter Wade focuses on the 'racial democracy' of Colombia-- specifically the black population of t...

Eisenhower: Becoming the Leader of the Free World

Coal and Empire: The Birth of Energy Security in Industrial America

Since the early twentieth century, Americans have associated oil with national security. From Wor...