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Albrecht Durer: Art and Autobiog...

David Ekserdjian

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Alone: Reflections on Solitary L...

Daniel Schreiber

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Crooner: Singing from the Heart ...

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In Defense of Processed Food - F...

Anastacia Marx de Salcedo

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Living with the Dead: How We Car...

Dr Vibeke Maria Viestad

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The Lost Princess: Women Writers...

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Squirrel Nation: Reds, Greys and...

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Stones: A Material and Cultural ...

Cally Oldershaw

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The Worst Military Leaders in Hi...

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Winters in the World: A Journey ...

Cover for Eleanor Parker · Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year (Paperback Book) (2023)

Basilisks and Beowulf: Monsters ...

Cover for Tim Flight · Basilisks and Beowulf: Monsters in the Anglo-Saxon World (Paperback Book) (2023)

Games People Played: A Global Hi...

Cover for Wray Vamplew · Games People Played: A Global History of Sport (Paperback Book) (2023)

Concrete Poetry: A 21st-century ...

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Aldus Manutius: The Invention of...

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The Beauty of the Flower: The Ar...

Stephen A. Harris

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Dante’s New Lives: Biography and...

Cover for Elisa Brilli · Dante’s New Lives: Biography and Autobiography (Hardcover Book) (2023)

Dinner in Rome: A History of the...

Andreas Viestad

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Francis of Assisi: His Life, Vis...

Michael F. Cusato

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Making the Renaissance Man: Masc...

Cover for Timothy McCall · Making the Renaissance Man: Masculinity in the Courts of Renaissance Italy (Hardcover Book) (2023)

Radicals and Rogues: The Women W...

Cover for Lottie Whalen · Radicals and Rogues: The Women Who Made New York Modern (Hardcover Book) (2023)

Way Makers: An Anthology of Wome...

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Bede and the Theory of Everythin...

Michelle P. Brown

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Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives

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Enchanted Forests: The Poetic Co...

Cover for Boria Sax · Enchanted Forests: The Poetic Construction of a World before Time (Hardcover Book) (2023)

The Return of Inflation: Money a...

Cover for Paul Mattick · The Return of Inflation: Money and Capital in the 21st Century (Paperback Book) (2023)

Hieronymus Bosch: Visions and Ni...

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The Illuminated Window: Stories ...

Virginia Chieffo Raguin

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Cover for Kevin Butt · Worm - Animal (Paperback Book) (2023)

Zora Neale Hurston - Critical Lives

Cheryl R. Hopson

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The Art of the Chinese Picture-S...

Shane McCausland

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Exquisite Dreams: The Art and Li...

Cover for Amy Lyford · Exquisite Dreams: The Art and Life of Dorothea Tanning (Hardcover Book) (2023)

International Departures: Art in...

Cover for Devika Singh · International Departures: Art in India after Independence (Hardcover Book) (2023)

Cover for Alan Rauch · Sloth - Animal (Paperback Book) (2023)

Today Is Always Yesterday: Conte...

Cover for Michael Asbury · Today Is Always Yesterday: Contemporary Brazilian Art (Hardcover Book) (2023)

Frantz Fanon - Critical Lives

James S. Williams

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Cloven Country: The Devil and th...

Harte, Jeremy (Reviews Editor)

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All Mapped Out: How Maps Shape Us

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Antoni Gaudi - Critical Lives

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Audubon as Artist: A New Look at...

Roberta J. M. Olson

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The English Actor: From Medieval...

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How the Spanish Empire Was Built...

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

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Insurrection: What the January 6...

John Rennie Short

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Piero di Cosimo: Eccentricity an...

Sarah Blake McHam

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Women Artists in Midcentury Amer...

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A Devilish Kind of Courage: Anar...

Andrew Whitehead

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The English Soul: Faith of a Nation

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Griffinology: The Griffin’s Plac...

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Libertine London: Sex in the Eig...

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Outposts of Diplomacy: A History...

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Snowdrop - Botanical

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Andreas Vesalius: Anatomy and th...

Sachiko Kusukawa

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Liqueur: A Global History - Edible

Lesley Jacobs Solmonson

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Nether World: Crime and the Poli...

Cover for Drew D. Gray · Nether World: Crime and the Police Courts in Victorian London (Hardcover Book) (2024)

The Splendour of Modernity: Japa...

Rosina Buckland

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Strike Up the Band: New York Cit...

Cover for Helen Crisp · Strike Up the Band: New York City in the Roaring Twenties (Hardcover Book) (2024)

Symbolism, Dada, Surrealisms: Se...

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Who Killed Cock Robin?: British ...

Cover for Stephen Sedley · Who Killed Cock Robin?: British Folk Songs of Crime and Punishment (Paperback Book) (2024)

Zerox Machine: Punk, Post-Punk a...

Cover for Matthew Worley · Zerox Machine: Punk, Post-Punk and Fanzines in Britain, 1976–88 (Paperback Book) (2024)

Behind the Privet Hedge: Richard...

Cover for Michael Gilson · Behind the Privet Hedge: Richard Sudell, the Suburban Garden and the Beautification of Britain (Hardcover Book) (2024)

China in Seven Banquets: A Flavo...

Thomas David DuBois

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Dirty Real: Exile on Hollywood a...

Peter Stanfield

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Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the ...

Cover for Mary Flannery · Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard - Medieval Lives (Hardcover Book) (2024)

In the Service of the Shogun: Th...

Cover for Frederik Cryns · In the Service of the Shogun: The Real Story of William Adams (Hardcover Book) (2024)

Olivier Messiaen: A Critical Bio...

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Pine - Botanical

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Precious beyond Measure: A Histo...

Cover for Beth McKillop · Precious beyond Measure: A History of Korean Ceramics (Hardcover Book) (2024)

The Teutonic Knights: Rise and F...

Aleksander Pluskowski

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Amaravati: Art and Buddhism in A...

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Caravaggio and the Creation of M...

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Contemporary Korean Art: New Dir...

Cover for Mina Kim · Contemporary Korean Art: New Directions since the 1960s (Hardcover Book) (2024)

J.-K. Huysmans - Critical Lives

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Rembrandt’s Holland - Renaissanc...

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Saving the World: How Forests In...

Brett M. Bennett

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The Three Kingdoms of Korea: Los...

Richard D. McBride II

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‘A Seditious and Sinister Tribe’...

Donald Rayfield

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The Art of Medieval Falconry - M...

Yannis Hadjinicolaou

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Being Ill: On Sickness, Care and...

Professor Neil Vickers

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British Comics: A Cultural History

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Chequered Past, Uncertain Future...

Cover for Tahir Kamran · Chequered Past, Uncertain Future: The History of Pakistan (Hardcover Book) (2024)

Endgame: Economic Nationalism an...

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Mango: A Global History - Edible

Constance L. Kirker

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The Medieval Scriptorium: Making...

Sara J. Charles

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Myths, Muses and Mortals: The Wa...

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Out of the Depths: A History of ...

Alan G. Jamieson

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The Troubadours - Medieval Lives

Linda M. Paterson

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Wood, Whiskey and Wine: A Histor...

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England’s Green: Nature and Cult...

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Archimedes: Fulcrum of Science -...

Nicholas Nicastro

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The Assyrians: Lost Civilization...

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Attention: Beyond Mindfulness

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Bamboo - Botanical

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The Barbarians: Lost Civilizatio...

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Botanical Architecture: Plants, ...

Paul Dobraszczyk

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Botticelli: Artist and Designer ...

Ana Debenedetti

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Cosplay and the Dressing of Iden...

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Creator of Nightmares: Henry Fus...

Christopher Baker

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Cuckoo - Animal

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Dylan Thomas - Critical Lives

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The English Table: Our Food thro...

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Fernando Pessoa - Critical Lives

Bartholomew Ryan

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