320 results for '"Goldoni, Carlo'

Does the business of daily living distance us from life's mysteries? Do most Americans value spiritual thinking more as a hobby than as an all-encompassing approach to life? Will the concept of the...

Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) is one of the most fascinating, if hitherto inaccessible, intellectuals of the Italian Renaissance. His work ranges across many of the intellectual, ecclesiastical, and...

The first full and authoritative biography of an American--indeed a world-wide--musical and cultural legend. "No one worked harder than B.B. No one inspired more up-and-coming artists. No one did...

James Merrill described Elizabeth Bishop’s poems as “more wryly radiant, more touching, more unaffectedly intelligent than any written in our lifetime” and called her “our greatest national treasure...

Introduction 1. On power and illusion: the concept of transparency in international law Andrea Bianchi Part I. International Environmental Law: 2. Transparency and international environmental...

The first full-length biography of Alice Coltrane, the jazz musician and spiritual leader whose forward-thinking music was overshadowed by her more famous husband, even as she brilliantly laid the...

Pletorico e envolvente na melhor tradicao dos grandes ciclos romanescos, Bau de ossos reconstitui a genealogia dos antepassados e os primeiros anos da infancia do autor. Amigo de escritores,...

In the history of twentieth-century ballet, no company has had so profound and far-reaching an influence as the Ballets Russes. It existed for only twenty years--from 1909 to 1929--but in that brief...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE • An epic, authoritative, gripping account of the years when a new wave of revolutionaries seized the skies and the streets to hold the world for ransomIn...

“Undoubtedly, the single finest collection of Wallace Stevens ever produced.” — Library JournalWallace Stevens’s unique voice combined meditative speculation and what he called “the essential...

In the years between the beginning of the twentieth century and the end of World War II, American poetry was transformed, producing a body of work whose influence was felt throughout the world. Now...

"An engrossing and impossibly wide-ranging project . . . In The Free World, every seat is a good one." ―Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post"The Free World sparkles. Fully original, beautifully written...

A century of complex relations between Communists and workers in ChinaIn 2021, the Chinese Communist Party celebrated a century of existence. Since the Party’s humble beginnings in the Marxist groups...

New York Times bestsellerOne of O: The Oprah Magazine's 15 Favorite Books of 2018A Library Journal Best Book of 2018The internationally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author returns to the...

“An engrossing and impossibly wide-ranging project . . . In The Free World, every seat is a good one.” —Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post“The Free World sparkles. Fully original, beautifully written...

Winner, American Library Association Booklist’s Top of the List, 2019 Adult NonfictionAcclaimed writer Marie Arana delivers a cultural history of Latin America and the three driving forces that have...

Product Description Comment distinguer le poétique des autres expériences fondamentales de l''existence et de la pensée? Comment en comprendre l''autonomie? Qu''en est-il de ses rapports avec la...

This volume contains one of the fullest, and certainly the most accurately edited, collections of Shelley's poetry and prose available. All the texts have been re-edited from primary sources...

Una obra mítica que sigue viva tras más de dos mil quinientos años. La edición definitiva del texto más emblemático de la tradición china, por primera vez traducido directamente del chino al español,...