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James Campbell has ably blended both scholarship and personal recollection."—New York Times   "Must reading for anyone interested in James Baldwin."—Washington Post   "A marvelously illuminating literary biography . . . [and] an affectionate yet critical portrait."—Publishers Weekly   "Campbell brings a mixture of intellectual integrity and something like truculence to the biographer's task."—Times Literary Supplement

The fascinating world of Aztec glyphic writing, magnificently explained by an erudite expert in the ancient art of tlacuilolli.”—María Castañeda De La Paz, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México "Drawing from a deep knowledge of global writing systems and many years’ experience studying Aztec hieroglyphs, Whittaker has compiled a must-read primer that is accessible to novices and advanced students alike. His illumination of the general struct...

This is the story of a voyage that was in reality one of the most disastrous in the history of overseas exploration but which has now become one of its greatest triumphs—and of a man who failed at almost everything he set out to do and yet became one of the great heroes of modernity. Scintillating and compelling, and told with all of Felipe Fernández Armesto's habitual verve and wit, it is at the same time a sobering insight into how we have c...

No historian on either side of the Atlantic has captured this sweeping, epic story of inhumanity, mass migration, cultural transformation, and global empire quite like James Walvin. Walvin is to slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic world what Dickens was to English literature in the nineteenth century. He writes like a perfectly tuned machine that cannot be stopped, the results are lyrical and deeply informed. With each new book, Walvin...

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Exhibition itinerary: Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, George, February 14-April 26, 1998 and Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina, May 21-July 19, 1998.

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Campbell's work always opens my eyes, challenging assumptions the world has turned into facts. . . . Whenever I get a chance to read Campbell's work, I seize it."—Jake Tapper, CNN anchor, chief Washington correspondent, and author of The Outpost and The Hellfire Club “Pioneering pollster George Gallup once noted wryly that the only 'crime' in his business was to get an election wrong. If so, it’s a profession full of recidivists, as W. Joseph ...

“In this amazing book, Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini excavate the forms of human shielding, including as a pacifist tactic, in a diverse range of locales around the world and over a century and a half. With its insights into the politics of who counts as human, Human Shields is one of the most important interventions ever in the critical history of the laws of war.”—Samuel Moyn, author of Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World "Compell...