'Legends of the Fall, an epic tale of three brothers and their lives of passion, madness, exploration and danger at the beginning of the Great War, confirms Jim Harrison's reputation as one of the finest American writers of his generation. This...

Introduction: First And Last Romantics -- The Internalization Of Quest Romance -- Visionary Cinema Of Romantic Poetry -- Dialectic Of The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell -- Blake's Jerusalem: The Bard Of Sensibility And The Form Of Prophecy -- Napoleon And...

Paul Muldoon, one of the most important poets of his generation, has produced a firework display of scholarship, wit, and intrigue in this idiosyncratic wander through the alphabet of Irish literature. From Beckett and Bowen, through Joyce, MacNeice,...

The letters of seven people, including a British gentlewoman who finds herself pregnant by her young American lover and a bachelor lawyer who enjoys incest on his final cruise in preparation for suicide, take readers on a journey through history

A hero of Czech and Jewish legend, Rabbi Loew is known to posterity as the creator of the Golem, an artificial man endowed with superhuman powers. This book not only analyzes the legends and their influence on modern literature and ethics, but also...

"This unusual and beautiful volume offers, for the first time, a panoramic view of the evolution of that most popular and beloved of Jewish classics, the Passover Haggadah, from the beginnings of Hebrew printing in the fifteenth century to the present...

From the Author's Preface:"I believe that in his greatest music Beethoven was primarily concerned to express his personal vision of life. This vision was, of course, the product of his character and his experience. Beethoven the man and Beethoven the...

This prequel to Callenbach's classic Ecotopia is a multi-stranded novel that dramatizes the rise and triumph of a powerful American movement to preserve the earth as a safe, sustainable environment.The story springs from harsh realities: Toxic...

The author asks, "Why cannot liberal democracies solve their problems?" The author's answer is a study of the competing political traditions first developed in the 19th c. to mollify social tensions.

In Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary, Stanford University lecturer Bertrand M. Patenaude tells the dramatic story of Leon Trotsky's final years in exile in Mexico. Shedding new light on Trotsky’s tumultuous friendship with painter Diego Rivera, his...

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In this book Noam Chomsky offers an analysis of America's pursuit of total domination and the catastrophic consequences that follow. The United States is in the process of staking out not just the globe but the last unarmed spot in our neighborhood--the...

Lester S. King, M.D., focuses on those aspects of medicine that remain constant through the centuries--the problems that doctors always face and the critical judgment needed to solve them. According to Dr. King, modern technological advances are really...