813 results for '"Louis Auslander'

"For more than two thousand years, comparative anatomy--the study of anatomical variation among different animal species--has been used to make arguments in natural philosophy, reinforce religious...

If readers are to come to Shakespeare and to Chekhov, to Henry James and to Jane Austen, then they are best prepared if they have read Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, Robert Louis Stevenson and...

The Canal du Midi, which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, was an astonishing feat of seventeenth-century engineering--in fact, it was technically...

The Miracle of Analogy is the first of a two-volume reconceptualization of photography. It argues that photography originates in what is seen, rather than in the human eye or the camera lens, and...

W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his...

The American musical has long provided an important vehicle through which writers, performers, and audiences reimagine who they are and how they might best interact with the world around them...

"Pop music didn't begin with the Beatles in 1963, or with Elvis in 1956, or even with the first seven-inch singles in 1949. There was a pre-history that went back to the first recorded music, right...

This anthology brings together 120 poems about World War II by sixty-two American poets, chosen, as editor Harvey Shapiro writes in his introduction, “with a purpose: to demonstrate that the American...

The birth of photography coincided with the expansion of European imperialism in the Middle East, and some of the medium's earliest images are Orientalist pictures taken by Europeans in such places...

"Based on ten years of in depth archival research in the United States, Sweden, Germany, and France, Ideal Beauty is the definitive biography of Greta Garbo as well as a major study of Euro-American...

The inspiration for the musical film adaptation starring Peter Dinklage and directed by Joe WrightPoet and soldier, brawler and charmer, Cyrano de Bergerac is desperately in love with Roxane, the...

Unique perspectives from an acclaimed art historian on the relationship between drawing and paintingFrom Drawing to Painting interweaves biographical information about five renowned French...

How rulers in ancient and medieval Europe expressed their power through cities, buildings, and sitesThe Power of Place explores the nature of power—the power of kings, emperors, and popes—through the...

About the Author MARIO ROSSI is a former special correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor and United Nations correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He is the author of The Third...

Bring art into your everyday life with this elegant, standing desk calendar showcasing a masterpiece from The Met’s world-class collection each day of the year. Art enthusiasts, museum lovers, and...

Reforming the World offers a sophisticated account of how and why, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American missionaries and moral reformers undertook work abroad at an...

Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and Science Friday A quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history—and figure out why people abandoned them. In Four Lost Cities,...

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Winner of the Alex Award and the Massachusetts Book Award • Named a Best Book of the Year by...

- The ultimate insider's guide to New York City- Features interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides- Part of the international 111 Places/Shops series with over 650 titles...

A Financial Times Best Book of the YearA Guardian Best Architecture Book of the Year“Sharp, revealing, funny.”—The Guardian“An original and even occasionally hilarious book about losing ideals and...