Paperback. 1965. 191 p. 7.90 x 5.10x0.40. The Classic Work on Sex and Cruelty

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'I write about love, I write about friendship,' remarked Thom Gunn: 'I find that they are absolutely intertwined.' These core values permeate his correspondence with friends, family, lovers, and fellow poets, and shed new light on 'one of the most...

Edward Said, the renowned literary and cultural critic and passionately engaged intellectual, is one of our era's most formidable, provocative, and important thinkers. For more than three decades his books, which include Culture and Imperialism, Peace...

An illuminating visual essay on female life and being around the world, this collection of photographs explores the changing and unchanging nature of the universal woman at work, at home, with friends, lovers, parents, and children

Figure historique des avant-gardes du XXe siècle, Sonia Delaunay joue avec son époux, Robert Delaunay, un rôle décisif dans les débuts de l'abstraction. La créatrice tient également une place privilégiée dans l'univers de la mode et des arts décoratifs,...

Le cerf vit mille ans. Le sanglier porte ses cornes dans sa bouche. Les papillons sont des fleurs qui volent. L'écureuil est un animal diabolique, paresseux, lubrique, avaricieux. La zoologie médiévale n'est pas la zoologie moderne. Plusieurs notions qui...

Ideals of character and beauty, and conceptions of self and society, were in flux during Late Antiquity, a period of extensive dramatic cultural upheaval for the Roman world, as the extraordinary growth of Christianity eclipsed paganism. Textiles from...

Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, the Gorgias debates crucial questions about the nature of government. While the aspiring politician Callicles propounds the view that might is right, and the rhetorician...

Celebrated for bringing a personal touch to history in her Pulitzer Prize-winning epic "The Guns of August" and other classic books, Barbara W. Tuchman reflects on world events and the historian's craft in these perceptive, essential essays. From...

The idea that there once existed a language which perfectly and unambiguously expressed the essence of all possible things and concepts has occupied the minds of philosophers, theologians, mystics and others for at least two millennia. This is an...

Now in paperback, Umberto Eco’s groundbreaking and much-acclaimed first illustrated book has been a critical success since its first publication in 2004. What is beauty? Umberto Eco, among Italy’s finest and most important contemporary thinkers, explores...

Readers of earlier works by Douglas Hofstadter will find this book a natural extension of his style and his ideas about creativity and analogy; in addition, psychologists, philosophers, and artificial-intelligence researchers will find in this elaborate...

ix 363p hardback, black cloth with grey jacket, very good condition, light wear to jacket spine, pages clear and bright, one very light pencil mark, binding tight, very good pre-owned copy with few signs of use

Since the death of Albert Einstein in 1955 there have been many books and articles written about the man and a number of attempts to "explain" relativity. In this new major work Abraham Pais, himself an eminent physicist who worked alongside Einstein in...

Treats Homeric society as a functioning cultural system in an examination of Hector as a tragic hero