Book by Roethke, Theodore

Text: English (translation)Original Language: Chinese

The world-renowned authors of the international best-seller Empire follow with an astonishing, politically energizing manifesto that argues that some of the most troubling aspects of the new world order contain the seeds of radical global social...

'The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.' This fragment of verse by the Greek poet Archilochus describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Tolstoy, in which he underlines a fundamental distinction between...

With this volume, Steven T. Katz initiates the provocative argument that the Holocaust is a singular event in human history. Unlike any previous work on the subject, The Holocaust in Historical Context maintains that the Holocaust is the only example of...

The description for this book, The Sculpture of Donatello: Incorporating the Notes and Photographs of the Late Jeno Lanyi, will be forthcoming.

Hard cover with dust jacket kept in mylar cover. Beautiful photographs depicting the richness of Venetian painting.

“It’s a stunner.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) From award-winning South African author Nadia Davids comes a gothic psychological thriller set in the 1920s, where a young maid finds herself entangled with the spirits of a decaying manor and the...

From the award-winning author of An Everlasting Meal comes a record of daily delights from inside the kitchen and just outside it; designed to help you find joy every day.“Delight in food, in eating, in cooking, in serving, in recognizing our luck when...

The gorgeous 75th-anniversary edition of Brideshead Revisited, the novel selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best of the century and called "Evelyn Waugh's finest achievement" by the New York Times. The wellsprings of desire and the impediments...

Collected and annotated lyrics from one of music's most visionary bards, John Darnielle. A work of rapturous beauty, This Year: 365 Songs Annotated celebrates the creative life and the musical genius of John Darnielle through his most meaningful songs...

Now with a new chapter on the Distribution Barons!"Frerick's prose throughout is both direct and masterfully controlled, with every point supported by extensive references and notes. This is no alarmist screed but rather a careful, systematic, and...

A spirited abecedarium-style book that shows how architects have engaged with animals as references and metaphors in modern and postmodern architecture.Through an examination of 26 case studies (26 different animals explored by 26 different architects,...

Now back in print in an updated edition, this stunning, award-winning visual odyssey encapsulates the essence of Tom Waits' enigmatic persona and Anton Corbijn's distinctive photographic style. Spanning over three decades, this extraordinary book...

An economist examines three modern forces that have redefined what "money" means, who controls it, and what the future of finance might look like. Money is increasingly cheap, digital, and mobile. In Money in the Twenty-First Century, economist...