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"A richly illustrated history of the glittering world of queer artistic life in the 1920s and '30sIn Queer Modernism, Alice Friedman tells the fascinating story of the queer avant-garde of the 1920s...

Explains the underlying philosophies of Buddhism, introduces the historical Buddha, and discusses the philosophical differences between the Theravada, Madhyamaika, Tantric, and Zen forms.

A catalog of Penn's black and white still life studies from 1979 and 1980. Beautiful reproduction and layout.

Why do we keep returning to certain pictures? What is it we are looking for? How does our understanding of an image change over time? This investigates the nature of visual complexity, the capacity...

Jesus and his coming.

1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered brown cloth (VG), dustwrapper (VG, not price clipped). Pp. 95 (no inscriptions).

Sumptuous and addictive, An Education in Malice is a dark academia tale of blood, secrets and insatiable hungers from S.T. Gibson, author of the cult hit A Dowry of Blood. Deep in the forgotten...

Making a strong case for the use of economic analysis in studying history and culture, Philip Hoffman shatters the widespread myth that traditional agricultural societies in early modern Europe were...

In Don't Call It Sprawl, the current policy debate over urban sprawl is put into a broader analytical and historical context. The book informs people about the causes and implications of the changing...

This introduction to the philosophy of social science provides an original conception of the task and nature of social inquiry. Peter Manicas discusses the role of causality seen in the physical...

"The extraordinary representation of the Italian Baroque in the private collections of New York is a subject of an exhibition at The Art Museum, Princeton University, from April until September 1980...

During the 20th century, England had surrendered her status as a major world power to the U.S. and Soviet Union. Meanwhile, life at home has become more tolerable for the unfortunate and more secure...