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Comprising forty-two selections from primary source materials, each translated with an introduction and commentary by a specialist in the field, this collection illustrates the religious cycles,...

The Orlando Sentinel described The Grove Book of Hollywood as "a marvelous overview of the mythical world of Screenland through the eyes of those who observed it firsthand." In pieces by bemused...

The description for this book, Brick Temples of Bengal: From the Archives of David McCutchion, will be forthcoming.

Explores how the Italian avant-garde has changed the history of 20th century art and design Highlights the cross-pollination between art and design during a fundamental period in the history of...

** A New York Times New and Noteworthy Book **Library of America and Connie Willis present 150 years of diverse, ingenious, and uniquely American Christmas storiesChristmas took on its modern cast in...

As America and the world grapple with the consequences of global environmental change, the author, a writer and activist offers this anthology gathering the best and most significant American...

Introduces the “Smart Light” movement that is illuminating and enriching our urban spaces and nighttime surroundings with spectacular new lighting technologyIn recent years, new lighting technologies...

Leading historians from around the world reflect on the great revolutions of modern history and explore their lasting legacies.Whether it’s because their rhetoric—“liberty, fraternity,...

Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused is a showcase for 20 writers from the new literary generation in China. Hard-core realism, experimental prose, and black humor; exoticism and eroticism;shocking tales...

Series presents coverage of wide-ranging field of geography. Each volume is organized around a particular theme which is introduced from a global perspective, then explored within the contexts of the...

In eighteen cogent, readable essays, mostly by twentieth-century philosophers, this volume examines life's meaning from three different points of view. In Part One, the readings assert and defend the...

The eight essays in this volume, the first in the series The Making of Modern Freedom, treat the evolution of English ideas of liberty from the end of the Elizabethan period up to the 1640's in the...

Bibliographical footnotes. Bibliography: p. 210-213.

In the 1930s the history of Japanese photography evolved in two very different directions: one toward documentary photography, the other favoring an experimental, or avant-garde, approach strongly...

Between the end of World War I and the Nazi assumption of power, Germany's Weimar Republic (1919-1933) functioned as a thriving laboratory of art and culture. As the country experienced unprecedented...

Prominent writers such as CLR James, Ben Okri, Hanif Kureishi and Salman Rushdie address themes of migration, exile, race and sexuality, and the struggle to come to terms with a new identity.

"The influence and development of Le Corbusier was inextricably connected to the rise of the twentieth century's central form of popular media: photography. The Swiss-born architect of his generation...

Essays and articles about Richard Hamiton, “the intellectual father of Pop art.“Still little-known in the United States, Richard Hamilton is a key figure in twentieth-century art. An original member...

Completely updated with new entries and extensive revisions of the previous 1,800, The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia Of Rock & Roll is the authoritative volume on the world's music makers—from the...