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This book is the indispensable guide to the history of architecture in Venice, encompassing the city's fascinating variety of buildings from ancient times to the present day.

Simon Bolivar was a revolutionary who freed six countries, an intellectual who argued the principles of national liberation, and a general who fought a cruel colonial war. His life, passions,...

Surveys the centuries of folklore about vampires, and offers a scientific explanation.

History associates the early Roman Empire with its male rulers, yet not one of the Julio-Claudian dynasty's emperors was the blood son of his predecessor. Now, this captivating popular history...

A discussion about how each age created Jesus in its own image, discovering in his life and teachings the answers to fundamental questions of human life and destiny. It studies the images of Jesus...

The Virgin Mary has been an inspiration to more people than any other woman who ever lived. For Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and Muslims, for artists, musicians, and writers, and for women and men...

A biography of French author Marcel Proust, dealing at length with the themes of Jewishness and homosexuality.

In this incisive book, leaders from international fashion research and artistic practices probe the nuanced relationship between fashion and politics.

In this completely updated edition of Henry Kamen's classic survey of the Spanish Inquisition, he incorporates the latest research in multiple languages to offer a new - and thought-provoking -...

"Five Spice Street" is a novel about a street in an unnamed city whose inhabitants speculate on the life of a mysterious Madam X. The novel interweaves their endless suppositions into a...