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A highly original collection of photographs that unlocks the hidden beauty of the insect world--now adapted for young readers! Adapted from the adult title Microsculpture, this book for young...

In Barcelona, an aging Brazilian prostitute trains her dog to weep at the grave she has chosen for herself. In Vienna, a woman parlays her gift for seeing the future into a fortunetelling position...

From the award-winning author of The First Rule of Punk comes the story of four kids who form an alternative Scout troop that shakes up their sleepy Florida town.*"Writing with wry restraint that's...

A fresh reflection on what makes life meaningfulMost people, including philosophers, tend to classify human motives as falling into one of two categories: the egoistic or the altruistic, the...

Passionate readers both, Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain courted through books, spelling out their expectations through literary references as they corresponded during their frequent separations...

Polygamy, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, punishing women for being raped, differential access for men and women to health care and education, unequal rights of ownership, assembly, and...

After nearly sixty years exhibiting his work, Richard Segalman remains a distinctive voice in contemporary artThis strikingly illustrated monograph presents for the first time his mastery in monotype...

Did American racism originate in the liberal North? An inquiry into the system of institutionalized racism created by Northern Jim CrowJim Crow was not a regional sickness, it was a national cancer...

The mystery, color, and magic of the circus was a subject of fascination for European artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The French Post-Impressionist painter Georges-Pierre Seurat...

In this collaborative work, photographer Rosamond Purcell and Shakespeare scholar Michael Witmore explore the transcendent emotion in Shakespeare's work through photographs, pairing the allusive...

Commissario Guido Brunetti confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young American is fished out of a fetid Venetian canal. Though all the signs point to a violent mugging, something incriminating...

In Barcelona, an aging Brazilian prostitute trains her dog to weep at the grave she has chosen for herself. In Vienna, a woman parlays her gift for seeing the future into a fortunetelling position...

The symposium held to celebrate the achievements of Albert Einstein is here provided to you in text. Among the many participants are: Felix Gilbert, Harry Woolf, Ernest Nagel, Gerald Holton, Arthur I...

A richly illustrated commemorative 2025 edition marking the opening of Princeton University’s new art museum Renaissance: A New Museum for Princeton reflects on the history of the Princeton...

"We crave places that support us, nourish us and inspire us. We dream of going through our lives togethe, inclusively and tolerantly. Can we re-enchant the raw material of our shared everyday? This...

What if you disappeared and no one remembered who you were? A forbidden garden. A missing girl. And the ancient legend that links them . . . Fran doesn't want to stay with her aunt and uncle and her...