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German typographer Paul Renner is best known as the designer of the typeface Futura, which stands as a landmark of modern graphic design. This title is the first study in any language of Renner's...

A highly energized verse structure, and techniques learned from both stage and cinema, have helped the author produce this English edition of Books Three and Four of Homer's Iliad. Logue has also...

"[This book] argues that the relationship between well-being and ethical life has been overlooked. The more specific argument of the book is that ethical life requires political engagement, and the...

A dazzling Pocket Classics collection of thirty-three short stories from across two centuries, showcasing the remarkable breadth and depth of Irish literary talentIreland has a long and glorious...

Timaeus of Tauromenium (350-260 BC) wrote the authoritative work on the Greeks in the Western Mediterranean and was important through his research into chronology and his influence on Roman...

The letters provide us with an intimate, multilayered understanding of this extraordinary poet’s life and mind.Every now and again I need to get down here, to get into the Diogenes tub, as it were,...

The story of F. Scott Fitzgerald's creation of Jay Gatsby—war hero and Oxford man—at the beginning of the Jazz Age, when the City of Dreaming Spires attracted an astounding array of intellectuals,...

This unique interpretation of Alfarabi's thought stresses the ways in which the tenth-century Arab philosopher self-consciously broke the metaphysical tradition that began with Plato. By examining...

As One Of The Founding Figures Of Impressionism, Camille Pissarro Exerted Considerable Influence Over The Movement's Other Members, Such As Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, Edgar Degas, And...

• NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Night at the Museum meets The Land of Stories in this thrilling new graphic novel adventure series in which two siblings, a mysterious Night Librarian, and a motley cast of...