Draper's startlingly original account of the causes and nature of the American Revolution is an acute dissection of the process that led to the final break with England and to the armed revolt in 1775. He lucidly examines the logic of dissolution, and...

Explores a wide range of subjects, from biological existence to ethics and politics, and how all these things fit in the grand scheme of the universe

Un aphorisme hante la philosophie occidentale : celui d'Héraclite, qui veut que "la Nature aime à se voiler". Près de vingt-cinq siècles durant, ces quelques petits mots ont successivement signifié : que tout ce qui naît tend à mourir ; quer la Nature...

What Charles Rosen's celebrated book The Classical Style did for music of the Classical period, this new, much-awaited volume brilliantly does for the Romantic era. An exhilarating exploration of the musical language, forms, and styles of the Romantic...

Généalogie d'une démence.Carnets, au jour le jour, parfois heure par heure, d'une lutte avec le démon.D'où il ressort que mon maître était un Pierre Rivière philosophe; un possédé savant; un halluciné hanté par la volonté de comprendre et de regarder son...

Top Jesus scholars Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan join together to reveal a radical and little-known Jesus. As both authors reacted to and responded to questions about Mel Gibson's blockbuster The Passion of the Christ, they discovered that many...

The renowned American composer recounts his life and career since the beginning of World War II and discusses the background of his major works

Chronicles Mozart's ten years in Vienna, detailing what everyday life in the city was like and profiling famous leaders of the day and the composer's wife, Constanze

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...

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...