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Lavishly illustrated in color, this book presents a spectacular collection of archaeological and artistic treasures covering the extent of Egyptian art from the Predynastic Period of the fourth...

Elizabeth David's books have influenced a whole generation of cooks and lovers of good food. Now, Italian Food includes over 400 recipes demonstrating the marvels of Italy's cuisine, including...

"From Saxon times to the present day, David Watkin directs the reader on a rich and enlightening journey that outlines the whole story of English architecture, focusing on buildings that can still be...

Young David Copperfield enjoys a happy childhood with his widowed mother, until she decides to marry the stern and unforgiving Mr Murdstone. Murdstone sends David away and David's circumstances...

The only major biography of Sam Peckinpah in print, David Weddle's If They Move...Kill 'Em! tells the wild story of Peckinpah's life with novelistic verve and does justice to one of the most...

"This is the book I've been waiting for my whole life." -Dan Hodgson, Area Pastor, Central Coast Vineyard Churches, Santa Barbara "I dare you to open this book and take a journey filled with border...

V. 1. Its Story To The Reformation -- V. 2. From The Reformation To The Eighteenth Century -- V. 3. From The Eighteenth Century To The First World War. David L. Edwards. Includes Bibliographical...

"Sedaris is a remarkably skilled storyteller and savvy essayist....And based, on this latest collection, he's getting only better." ---Los Angeles Times A guy walks into a bar car and...From here the...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Byrne’s incisive and enthusiastic look at the musical art form, from its very inceptions to the influences that shape it, whether acoustical, economic, social, or...

I loved David Gilmour's sleek, potent little memoir, The Film Club. It's so, so wise in the ways of fathers and sons, of movies and movie-goers, of love and loss. --- Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize...

Nietzsche and Heidegger saw in modernity a time endangered by nihilism. Starting out from this interpretation, David Levin links the nihilism raging today in Western society and culture to our...

This book examines the legal regulation of violence and the role of litigation in Athenian society. Using comparative anthropological and historical perspectives, David Cohen challenges traditional...

In Blessed Rage for Order, David Tracy examines the cultural context in which theological pluralism emerged. Analyzing orthodox, liberal, neo-orthodox, and radical models of theology, Tracy...

The Prince of Pleasure is the immaculately researched and engaging story of George IV (1762-1830), a rakish and contradictory figure who became one of the most controversial and outrageous monarchs...

David Hirson's La Bete and Wrong Mountain are widely regarded as two of the most controversial and original American plays produced on Broadway in the past decade. Critics have compared Hirson, who...

"Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? And is it really a cipher for state violence? To...

This is the first full-length survey of one of the leading playwrights of the postwar generation. Through his career as playwright, filmmaker, and director, David Hare has been at the forefront of...

Winner of the 2012 Award for Concept Analysis from the International Political Science Association How do transitional democracies deal with officials who have been tainted by complicity with prior...

From Mad Men to MAGA: how nostalgia came to be and why we are so eager to indulge it. From movies to politics, social media posts to the targeted ads between them, nostalgia is one of the most potent...

Jacques Derrida's De l'espirit: Heidegger et la question is one of his most interesting and accessible later works. In it, Derrida attempts to come to terms with Heidegger's Nazi connections by way...