"The passion for destruction is a creative passion," wrote the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin in 1842. Since then, the popular image of anarchism has been one of violence and terror. But this picture is wildly misleading, and the media has done more to...

Presents a series of anecdotes that tell the history and meaning of American uniforms, identifying their cultural significance in terms of how uniforms unite and divide people as well as how they vary throughout the world.

Winner of both the National Book Award for Arts and Letters and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was one of the most original and gripping volumes ever written about the First World War...

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This novel is a biting critique of colonial life and missionary activity.

Men and women of different ages and social classes experience the change from traditional to contemporary values in modern Mexico City

In the first half of the 20th century, Mexico was home to a burgeoning of art comparable in energy to the political revolution that shook the country between 1910 and 1920. This surge of artistic activity is the subject of this compelling new book, which...

Improvisation, spontaneity, fusion, freedom, innovation. Jazz has always been about more than music, and the ideas and moods of jazz have sent ripples through every branch of the arts. Produced by the Smithsonian, this spectacular compilation is the...

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with 600 fabulous photographs selected from the archives of the Daily Mail , The Beatles unseen archives, comprehensively chronicles the heady years in which the group bestode the world like a colossus...

Photographs and essays by leading authorities in the field provide diverse perspectives on the aesthetics of mountains and mountain climbing

Tense with suspense from the first line, this is one of the great American realist novels. In this page-turning, breathtaking novel, the characters will walk off the page and into your life. And a small house will seem like the most important piece of...

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A Man Without a Country is Kurt Vonnegut's hilariously funny and razor-sharp look at life, art, politics, himself, and the condition of the soul of America today.Written over the last five years with the examples of Mark Twain, Jesus Christ, Abraham...

A mental journey to the temple city of Gatta, a partially ruined city in India, serves as an excuse to consider the nature of time, space, and reality. Reissue.