Follows the life and discusses the music of the insurance executive who composed in his spare time music of such originality and variety that he ranks today as one of this country's greatest and most thoroughly American composers.

A man of untiring energy and humor, Nicolas Slonimsky has led a long and accomplished musical life, and today in his nineties he is a vital presence in American music. In 1985, an extensive New Yorker profile described him as "a man of countless daffy...

In this classic study of the social and economic aspects of landcredit relationships in ancient Athens, first published in 1952, Moses Finley presents a systematic account of the guarantee aspects of credit. He examines the outward forms of credit...

Although the Iliad and Odyssey narrate only relatively small portions of the Trojan War and its aftermath, for centuries these works have overshadowed other, more comprehensive narratives of the conflict, particularly the poems known as the Epic Cycle...

Reprint of the Edinburgh Univ. Press edition of 1969. The original is cited in BCL3 . Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

The internationally celebrated photographer traces her life from her youth in the South to the present, discussing her work as a photographer around the globe and offering many examples of her work

The explosive development of the practice and technology of printed art has been a fundamental characteristic of the art of the 1960s and 1970s. Never in the past have so many artists devoted so much of their creative energy to the production of fine...

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Gathers eyewitness accounts of battle including Thucydides, Julius Caesar, Flavius Josephus, Davy Crockett, the Duke of Wellington, Ernest Hemingway, Ernie Pyle, and James Fenton, in wars ranging from the Peloponnesian War to the Vietnam War

This expansive book surveys the history of warfare from ancient Mesopotamia to the Gulf War in search of a deeper understanding of the origins of Western warfare and the reasons for its eminence today. Historian John France explores the experience of war...

Does gender have a poetics: What difference does gender make? How does it affect writing, reading, and the functions of text in society? The Poetics of Gender is a brilliant assembly of leading feminist critics whose collective effort presents the most...

The words "Pallaksch, Pallaksch" are reportedly those spoken by the mad Hoderlin to mean both yes and no. No one could interpret those words precisely; one could not know whether he meant yes I'd like soup or no, I wouldn't until he took the soup or...