3054 results for '"Gilbert and George Staff'

Georg Büchner died in 1837 at a tragically early age, and his three works for the stage remained virtually unknown for half a century. Today all three, especially Danton's Death, his great play about...

A Kirkus Best Book of the YearFollowing the smash-hit Olympians series, George O'Connor embarks on a new saga about the Norse gods. This second volume tells the story of Thor, god of thunder! Perfect...

Philip IV of Spain (ruled 1621-1665), known as the 'Planet King', shone more brightly in the sphere of the arts than would Louis XIV the Sun King after him. The focus of much of his patronage was the...

An exclusive tour of one of the most diverse and high-quality collections of Scottish Wemyss Ware Lavish illustrations cover an impressive range of Wemyss subjects - animals, flowers, insects, birds...

One of the most influential books of the twentieth century gets the graphic treatment in this first-ever adaptation of George Orwell's 1984. War is Peace * Freedom is Slavery * Ignorance is Strength...

, 288 pages, fully illustrated throughout with 71 colour and 87 black and white images of the art works and 50 documentary photographs

A new history of French social thought that connects postwar sociology to colonialism and empireIn this provocative and original retelling of the history of French social thought, George Steinmetz...

"The generation weaned on the Marvel Universe will find much to love in O’Connor’s 12-book series." —New York Times In Olympians, O'Connor draws from primary documents to reconstruct and retell...

Reckoning with the current state of ethnic studies. Ethnic studies is more visible than ever. A project that once struggled at the margins of academic and public life has now achieved significant...

George Weisz offers a comprehensive analysis of the French university system during the latter half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Examining the major reforms of higher education...

George Psychoundakis was a twenty-one-year-old shepherd from the village of Asi Gonia when the battle of Crete began: “It was in May 1941 that, all of a sudden, high in the sky, we heard the drone of...

How Frederick the Great and George Washington embody the competition between liberal democracy and authoritarianismBoth Frederick the Great and George Washington saw themselves as model rulers...

Papers presented at the meetings held in 1981 and 1982 by the Konstanzer Arbeitskreis feur Mittelalterliche Geschichte.

George Washington's place in the foundations of the Republic remains unrivalled. His life story--from his beginnings as a surveyor and farmer, to colonial soldier in the Virginia Regiment, leader of...

Written originally as a series of entries in a travel diary and now considered one of the most important memoirs of our time, Sketches from a Life is George F. Kennan's peerless, impressionistic...

George S. Zimbel nous offre avec Le livre des lecteurs un hommage aux lecteurs rencontrés sur sa route. Des années 50 à aujourd'hui, les lecteurs de Zimbel nous replongent dans cet instant de grâce,...

The remarkable transformation of Orwell from journeyman writer to towering iconIs George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to John Rodden’s provocative book about the...