Initially proposed for the US Pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal, Buckminster Fuller's World Game was played for the first time in 1969 in New York. Over the next decade the World Game evolved and expanded. Across its different manifestations the World...

This is a fascinating window giving on the private thoughts of one of the great American writers of the twentieth century. It follows on Carcanet's publication of "Edgar Allan Poe and the Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts and Fragments", edited by...

Celebrating a major collection of Islamic art, this volume spans the entire history of Islam to bring together items produced throughout the vast region between Andalusia and Mughal India. The Farjam Collection of Islamic, and Modern and Contempora...

For several years Sujata Bhatt has been working on two parallel projects, a new collection of poems to be called "Habitat" (her most recent book was "Poppies in Translation" in 2015) and her Appa stories, a move into prose. Appa is a physician, a fat...

For sale in CIS only! A timely study of the intrinsic connections between Western European nations and their non-Christian minorities in the age of state formation. Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are on the rise in twenty-first-century Europe, but...

A major new publication looking at the rich history of photographic practice by Black female and non-binary artists from the late 19th century to the present day. For decades, women have been overlooked in the cultural history of photography, especi...

The J. Paul Getty Museum's collection of ancient glass – astonishingly delicate, richly hued, and fancifully shaped-is among the most celebrated in the United States. With objects ranging from the Bronze Age to the medieval period (1500 BCE - 1000 CE...

A spectacular study of calligraphy, the most esteemed form of visual and textual expression in the Islamic world, through a storied collection of Qur'an manuscripts. Spanning more than a millennium, from the seventh through the nineteenth century,...

A comparative legal history of Jewish sovereignty and religious freedom, illuminating the surprising ways that collective and individual rights have evolved over the past two centuries. It is a common assumption that in Israel, Jews have sovereignt...