Planning an upcoming train trip on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor from New York City to Washington, D.C.? Then this is the book for you! Learn about everything out your window milepost-by-milepost…

Czesaw Miosz (19112004) was a giant of twentieth-century literature, not least because he lived through and wrote about many of the most extreme events of that extreme century, from the…

Planning an upcoming train trip on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor from Boston to New York City? Then this is the book for you! Learn about everything out your window milepost-by-milepost and…

Planning an upcoming train trip on Amtrak's Southwest Chief from Albuquerque, New Mexico to Los Angeles, California? Then this is the book for you! Learn about everything out your window…

Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World is a much-needed teaching anthology that rethinks and broadens the scope of the stale and limiting classifications used for Early Christian-Byzantine…

At the turn of the twentieth century, Central and Eastern Europe was a configuration of nations dominated by three empires: Austrian, German and Russian, whose borders promised to be set…

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Gisella Perl’s memoir is an extraordinarily candid account of women’s extreme efforts to survive Auschwitz. It was the first memoir by a woman survivor and established the model for understanding…