The fourth book in the Braziller series of Australian poets. PhilipHodgins is unique in his unfli...

A woman whose function it once was to read books aloud to Marie-Antoinette is haunted by the memo...

In this gripping account of the human cost of the war in Iraq, Dr. Ronald Glasser offers an unpar...

Beginning with his first book, Return Again, Traveler, and through Succeeding volumes, Norman Ros...

'Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie has had a success which few historiansexperience and which is usually re...

This revised edition of the important work published in 1961 offers an opportunity to focus on th...

The Donner Party consists of three books of poems. Each book has nine poems.

Encompassing two thousand years of building history, The Architecture Reader includes 40 key text...

Elements of music and dance found in Georgia O'Keeffe's work have never before been explored - un...

Austerities

Americans recently celebrated the 350th anniversary of the first Jewish settlement in America. 'F...

'Miss Emecheta's prose has a shimmer of originality, of English being reinvented. . . . Issues of...

The Middle Ages in Spain, 'the period from the Muslim Conquest in 711 to the expulsion of the Jew...

Sexuality and Catholicism offers a concise and well-rounded analysis of all the most important an...

Looks at the development of the piano and the composers and musicians who made it a revolutionary...

An acclaimed American poet, Jay Parini is widely recognized for his ability to confront modern is...

These papers are wide ranging studies of the forms, the expressive character, the content, and th...

'Eerie, disturbing...joins mega-tech nightmare with the nature mythology of the gentle tribes who...

Renaissance Architecture

What did people who lived during the Middle Ages eat? How did they eat? Dr. Cosman proves just ho...

I Have What I Gave

Uniting the voices of thirty master poets, this sweeping anthology explores the influence of lite...

According to Dieter Hildebrandt, the piano is a revolutionary figure and its story a grand advent...

Persian Brides is a novel of rare beauty and extraordinary accomplishment. Set at the turn of the...

The fables and fantasies in Snowman Snowman, 'written in a torrential poetic prose' (The New York...

The fifteenth U.S. Poet Laureate collects his latest essays on subjects ranging from poetry to hi...

'Originally published in the [sic] Great Britain by Williams [sic] Collins Sons & Co. Ltd.'--T.p....

Distinguished by long, sloping gables, horizontal lines, and a continuous shingle covering on the...

The essential book on the innovative American landscape painter, with a new preface by the author...

Newly available, here is the most comprehensive poetry collection from the half-century between 1...

Selected Early Poems spans the years 1963-1983 and includes works from Simic's first twelve colle...

The Romantics to Rodin

From Constantinople, the great city of the so-called Dark Ages, Byzantine architecture was export...

Bertalanffy's selected writings on his theory of lawsapplicable to virtually every scientific fie...

Those who practice 'the miraculous art of stitching words into a web' have 'not merely the right ...

Voices of the Earth

Yasmina Reza is best known as the author of the immensely successful Tony award-winning play Art....

An acclaimed American poet, Jay Parini is widely recognized for his ability to confront modern is...

The Golden Age

Egon Schiele

'The happiest, sweetest, and liveliest little book imaginable.'--John Canaday.

Glasser sheds light on the profound wounds, physical and emotional, that our troops face in Iraq....

A Caribbean resort specializing in faked cartel kidnappings is the site for Villoro's profound an...

Double Yoke

A young Ibo girl named Aku-nna flees an unwanted marriage to be with her true love, Chike, the so...

Assigned to Zama, an Army hospital in Japan in September 1968, Glasserarrived as a pediatrician i...

This revised edition of Meyer Schapiro's exceptional collection of essays includes a new preface ...

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