ISBN: 9780300218688
A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential
ISBN: 9780300181258
Born in Syria in 1930, Adonis is one of the most celebrated poets of the Arabic-speaking world. His poems have earned international acclaim, and his influence on Arabic literature has been likened...
ISBN: 9780300169584 Autor: Blum, Dilys E.
Italian couturier Roberto Capucci (born 1930) is revered żeby contemporary fashion designers for his innovative silhouettes and masterful use of colour and materials. Capucci refers to his...
ISBN: 9780300144345
The Khmer Rouge revolution turned Cambodia into grisly killing fields, as the Pol Pot regime murdered or starved to death a million and a half of Cambodia's eight million inhabitants. This book...
ISBN: 9780300209341
No one has failed to notice that the current generation of youth is deeply - some would say totally - involved with digital media. Professors Howard Gandner and Katie Davis name today's young...
ISBN: 9780300224344
A renowned Buddhist teacher's magnum opus, based on his fresh reading of the tradition's earliest texts
ISBN: 9780300205411
Jonathan Swift is best remembered today as the author of Gulliver's Travels, the satiric fantasy that quickly became a classic and has remained in print for nearly three centuries. Yet Swift...
ISBN: 9780300212648
Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have entered the Climate Casino and are rolling the global-warming dice,...
ISBN: 9780300181609
The work of Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996), one of Russia's great modern poets, has been the subject of much study and debate. His life, too, is the stuff of legend, from his survival of the siege...
ISBN: 9780300227482
A vivid account of the forgotten citizens of maritime London who sustained Britain during the Revolutionary Wars
ISBN: 9780300212440
In this sparkling debut, a young critic offers an original, passionate, and erudite account of what it means to feel Jewish
ISBN: 9780300206296
Poet John Hollander surveys the schemes, patterns and forms of English verse in this classic text, illustrating each variation with an original and witty self-descriptive example. In new essays for...
ISBN: 9780300052411
In this illustrated book, Martin Kemp examines the major optically oriented examples of artistic theory and practice, from Brunelleschi's invention of perspective and its exploitation żeby...
ISBN: 9780300160055 Autor: Martin, Thomas R.
In this compact yet comprehensive history of ancient Greece, Thomas R. Martin brings alive Greek civilization from its Stone Age roots to the fourth century B.C.E.. Focusing on the development of...
ISBN: 9780300203769 Autor: O Cadhain, Mairtin
A Brilliant New Translation Of O Cadhain's Modern Irish Literature Masterpiece, Meant To Spark Debate And Comparison With Alan Titley's Dirty Dust, Now With Bonus Materials On Its History,...
ISBN: 9780300190793 Autor: Steele, Valerie / Hill, Colleen
This fabulously illustrated book explores western culture's fascination with extravagant and fashionable shoes. Over the past decade, shoe design has become increasingly central to fashion,...
ISBN: 9780300218312
The disintegration of Europe's post-Cold War consensus in the face of anti-Semitism, populist nationalism, and territorial aggression
ISBN: 9780300228861
A groundbreaking work that explores human size as a distinctive cultural marker in Western thought
ISBN: 9780300219067
The remarkable story of the stylistic, cultural, and technical innovations that drove the surge of comics, caricature, and other print media in 19th-century Europe
ISBN: 9780300076622
Lenin the man has become part myth arising from the tumult of the Russian Revolution and part image controlled żeby leaders of the Soviet Union. This work seeks to correct that myth and revise that...