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In Through a Glass Darkly, William Boelhower applies semiotics to the study of American ethnicity, incorporating a wide range of critical references--from Umberto Eco to Michel Serres--and providing...

In the age of revolutions, at the end of the 18th century, the mental and spiritual life of Europe and North America began to undergo a historic and irreversible change. The ideas of spontaneity,...

Around the world, consciousness of the threat to our environment is growing. The majority of solutions on offer, from using efficient light bulbs to biking to work, focus on individual lifestyle...

'The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest': thus George Borrow (1803-81) subtitled his great autobiographical work Lavengro; and his epithet may stand, though, as David Williams's biography of this...

On a rainy day, Sylvester finds a magic pebble that can make wishes come true. But when a lion frightens him on his way home, Sylvester makes a wish that brings unexpected results.How Sylvester is...

“Trevor was our twentieth century Chekov."—Wall Street JournalSelected as one of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year. Four-time winner of the O. Henry Prize, three-time winner...

Writings about Andy Warhol by critics, artists, cultural theorists, and Factory associates together with archival material, interviews, and texts by Warhol himself. The impact of Andy Warhol on...

The incredible true story of how a cycle of rain, cold, disease, and warfare created the worst famine in European history—years before the Black Death, from the author of Justinian's Flea and the...

For decades, the Battle of the Somme has exemplified the horrors and futility of trench warfare. Here William Philpott argues that the battle ultimately gave the British and French forces on the...

A groundbreaking account of the origins and history of the idea of fetishism.In recent decades, William Pietz’s innovative history of the idea of the fetish has become a cult classic. Gathered here,...

Ovid’s Metamorphoses has entranced audiences for two thousand years, from Rome under Augustus to humanities classrooms today. Borrowing liberally from Greek and Roman mythology, the poem tells...

Paperback. Pub Date :2014-02-13 Pages: 350 Language: English Publisher:. Fourth Estate Ltd Raymond Williams seminal exploration of the history of meaning of some of the most important words in the...

NOTE: This loose-leaf, three-hole punched version of the textbook gives students the flexibility to take only what they need to class and add their own notes -- all at an affordable price. For...

Headrests from Southern Africa - The architecture of sleep presents the subject of southern African headrests in a fascinating new light. The book, richly illustrated – often with in situ...

The Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare's vision of the Trojan War. This story of doomed love explores the relationship between Troilus, a prince of Troy, and Cressida, the daughter of a...

A scholarly edition of Sir William Davenant's Gondibert. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

This book explores the relationship between various types of reproduction and the evolutionary process. Starting with the concept of meiosis, George C. Williams states the conditions under which an...

A Letter Concerning Toleration is an important work written by John Locke and originally published in latin in the late 17th century. John Locke argues in this writing for there to be a new...

In the heat of June in 1943, a wave of destructive and deadly civil unrest took place in the streets of Detroit. The city was under the pressures of both wartime industrial production and the nascent...

Winner of the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for BiographyA Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2020 in NonfictionA resonant biography of America’s most celebrated novelist of the Great Depression.The...