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Here Howard Becker makes available for an English-speaking audience a collection of the provocative work of Antonio Candido, one of the leading men of letters in Brazil. Trained as a sociologist,...

Antonio Negri offers a profound understanding of Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) and his contemporary legacy, demonstrating the thinker's ongoing relevance across politics and philosophy

Argentinian figurative artist Antonio Berni (1905-1981) is known for his aesthetic originality and for art steeped in social commentary. In the 1950s, he inaugurated a series of works that documented...

The most complete volume of writings by one of the most fascinating thinkers in the history of MarxismAntonio Gramsci was one of the most important theorists of class, culture, and the state since...

The full-size plaster models that represented the passage from a preliminary designing phase to the production of the marble sculpture were of great significance to Italian sculptor Antonio Canova's...

An all-access ticket to the celebrated and wholly original mind of Mark Leyner, “one of the smartest and funniest humans since Aristophanes” (Jay McInerney)Praised as “chaotic and vibrant” (Charles...

A leading neuroscientist explores with authority, with imagination, and with unparalleled mastery how the brain constructs the mind and how the brain makes that mind conscious. Antonio Damasio has...

Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, journalist Antonio Iturbe tells the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the...

A masterful collection about intimacy, loneliness, and time, each inspired by different works of art, spanning the entirety of the great Italian writer's career.In Stories with Pictures, Antonio...

“Damasio undertakes nothing less than a reconstruction of the natural history of the universe. . . . [A] brave and honest book.”—The New York Times Book ReviewThe Strange Order of Things is a...

A reporter embarks on an investigation of a string of unconnected suicides—which then leads into an exploration of the phenomenon of suicide itself—in this elegant existential novel, the third and...

*Written by the author of the global bestseller Empire*Two keys essays written in prison two decades apartTime for Revolution explores the burning issue of our times: is there still a place for...

A polyphonic novel set over the course of three days, Midnight is Not in Everyone's Reach is a stunning meditation on memory and time from Antonio Lobo Antunes, considered by many to be Portugal's...

A highly original first anthology on the cultural history of the unconscious that is destined to become definitive.“Know thyself”—the injunction that was once inscribed upon the Temple of...

From one of the world’s leading neuroscientists: a succinct, illuminating, wholly engaging investigation of how biology, neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence have given us the tools...