717 results for '"Lena Constante'

Available for the first time in English, here is an unforgettable novel about the desolation of Hitler’s post-war Germany.Late April, 1945. The war is over, yet Dr Doll, a loner and “moderate...

Covering the five centuries from Shakespeare's Bankside playhouses to today's West End, Paul Ibell's Theatreland explores the history and current state of the London stage, taking the reader through...

Spies, bugs, moles, double-agents, drop-offs, covert action. The world of intelligence is filled with intrigue, but at its core, the information-secret or otherwise-is valuable to governments for the...

The visual odyssey of a skater on the road, captured by a talented emerging photographerAt the age of twenty-nine, photographer Thomas Sweertvaegher spends most of his life on the road with friends,...

On the Semicivilized by Julia Elyachar is a sweeping analysis of the coloniality that shaped--and blocked--sovereign futures for those dubbed barbarian and semicivilized in the former Ottoman Empire...

Community and Communication: Oratory and Politics in Republican Rome brings together nineteen international contributions which rethink the role of public speech in the Roman Republic. Speech was an...

News media, movies, blogs and video games issue constant invitations to picture war, experience the thrill of combat, and revisit battles past. War, it's often said, sells. But what does it take to...

With this profound final work, completed in the days leading up to his death, Michel Serres presents a vivid picture of his thinking about religion—a constant preoccupation since childhood—thereby...

"The Sin of Abbé Mouret tells the compelling story of the young priest Serge Mouret. Striving after spiritual purity and sanctity, he lives a life of constant prayer, but his neglect of all physical...

Tate Modern exhibition: 17 September 2025 - 13 April 2026 Marking the centenary of one of Pablo Picasso's most famous paintings, The Three Dancers, this exciting publication brings to life the...

From an award-winning artist, a memoir of life with a difficult, beloved dog that will resonate with anybody who has ever had a less than perfectly behaved pet.When Nicole Georges was sixteen she...

This volume, written by eighteen monks, nuns, and lay scholars from seven countries and four continents, aims to recognize the contribution that Michael Casey has made to Cistercian and Benedictine...

Hugh Pearman deftly guides us through the compelling stories of fifty-five buildings that explain our world, from antiquity to the present dayAbout Architecture is an engaging introduction to...

The spectacular first entry in a middle-grade sci-fi trilogy by six-time Grammy Award-winning musician, Academy Award-winning filmmaker, and New York Times-bestselling author Ahmir “Questlove”...

"Bauer at her best . . . the true heir to the great Ruth Rendell."--Mail on Sunday (UK) Belinda Bauer is a phenomenal voice in British crime fiction, whose work has garnered rave reviews on both...

An experienced, multi-faceted historian shows how revisionist history is at the heart of creating historical knowledge“A rallying cry in favor of historians who, revisiting past subjects, change...

A fresh selection of the finest poems―some previously uncollected―by one of our finest English-language poetsWhy write poetry? For the weird unemployment.For the painless headaches, that must be...

Seapower has been a constant in world politics, a tool through which powerful countries have policed the seas for commercial advantage. Political geographer Colin Flint highlights the geography of...

The experiences of DACA recipientsThe children of immigrants who arrive in the United States each year sometimes grow up without any knowledge of their undocumented status and the risks it poses. In...

Since the publication of my lecture notes, Functional Differential Equations in the Applied Mathematical Sciences series, many new developments have occurred. As a consequence, it was decided not to...