The author of the award-winning Matisse: A Life gives us the definitive biography of writer Anthony Powell--and takes us deep into the heart of twentieth-century London's literary life.

Witty, provocative, and compelling, Egan's The Educated Mind offers a bold and revitalizing new vision for today's uncertain educational system.

Biographies of prominent women (community and government leaders, activists, artists, writers, scholars, politicians, and others) who made important contributions to Utah's history and culture.

Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and domestic.

This exploration of fashion in American silent film offers fresh perspectives on the era preceding the studio system, and the evolution of Hollywood's distinctive brand of glamour.

Enclosure marshals bold new arguments about the nature of the conflict in Israel/Palestine.

The unpublished followup to Hitler's autobiography never published during the dictator's lifetime includes details of his vision for a foreign policy based on continual aggression that would inevitably result in a confrontation with the ...

Provides an overview of the entire war from a global perspective, looking at diplomatic actions, military strategy, economic developments, and pressures from the home front