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When Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, the force of the explosion blew the top right off the mountain, burying nearby Pompeii in a shower of volcanic ash. Ironically, the calamity that proved so lethal for...

A fresh view of animals and what we owe them.Do animals have moral standing? Do they count, morally speaking? In Animal Rights, Mark Rowlands argues that they do and explores the implications of this...

A hilarious, informative, and vibrantly illustrated guide to 101 bird songs that sound surprisingly familiar. Have you ever gone for a walk in the woods and wondered what bird was making a sound...

Between 1480 and 1520, a concentration of talented artists, including Melozzo da Forlì, Bramante, Pinturicchio, Raphael, and Michelangelo, arrived in Rome and produced some of the most enduring works...

How London was bought and sold by the Super-Rich, and what it means for the rest of us Who owns London? In recent decades, it has fallen into the hands of the super-rich. It is today the essential...

A queer pirate fantasy standalone adventure by Alexandra Rowland, the author of A Taste of Gold and Iron"Come for the irrepressible gremlin of a narrator, stay for the plot-relevant cake...

Critical essays probe the works, literary style, and influence of the medieval English poet

Paris is "the world capital of memory and desire," concludes one of the writers in this intimate and insightful collection of memoirs of the city. Living in Paris changed these writers...

The 1948 crime film The Naked City (later a television show) ended with this iconic line: “There are eight million stories in the naked city.” Things have not changed; every era and neighborhood is...

The Cambridge Companion to the Piano is an informative and practical guide to one of the world's most popular instruments. This collection of specially commissioned essays offers an accessible...

This volume contains essays on frequency-doubling chordophones and their relevance to the 'plucked' drums and to the string/table angles in harps; different aspects of word-setting in Burmese and...

Book by Paulson, Ronald

The period of Egyptian history from its rule by the Macedonian Ptolemaic dynasty to its incorporation into the Roman and Byzantine empires has left a wealth of evidence for the lives of ordinary men...

Oxyrynchus in Egypt is the best documented city of the Roman empire. This book uses the thousands of papyrus documents found there to examine how its urban landowning class derived its wealth from...

Catalogue prepared for an exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art and the Royal Academy of Arts from Nov. 1977 through My 1978. 120 entries for Rowlandson drawings, with 36 of them reproduced 6...

Book by Rowlands, John

This volume brings together examples of English verse satire written during the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, interpreting satire widely to include reflective poems modelled on Horace,...

This volume brings together examples of English verse satire written during the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, interpreting satire widely to include reflective poems modelled on Horace,...

Lives and the Eminent Philosophers of Diogenes Laertius is a crucial source for much of what we know about the origins of philosophy in Greece. The work covers a larger number of figures and a longer...