146 results for '"RIUS"'

A cartoon book about Marx? Are you sure it's Karl, not Groucho? How can you summarize the work of Karl Marx in cartoons? It took Rius to do it. He's put it all in: the origins of Marxist philosophy,...

Winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner AwardWinner of James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize, SHEARWinner of the Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana HistoryWinner of the Humanities Book of...

La letteratura classica nasconde alcune gemme che, per circostanze varie, non sono conosciute in maniera adeguata. In questo breve scritto, dedicato al commento di alcuni versi dell'"Odissea"...

A provocative, raucous dark comedy about race and racism in America, now back in print after twenty-five years and with a new preface by the author.Darius James’s scabrous, unapologetically raunchy,...

The bookshop is, and will always be, the soul of the trade. What happens there does not happen elsewhere. The multifariousness of human nature is more on show there than anywhere else, and I think...

Il secolo che si è appena concluso è oggetto di un vivace, a volte aspro, dibattito tra gli storici. La sua eredità è controversa, la memoria ancora divisa. Il volume di Mariuccia Salvati è un'agile...

A short guide to living well by understanding better what you really value—and what to do when your goals conflictWhat do you want out of life? To make a lot of money—or work for justice? To run...

This is the most comprehensive, and most comprehensively chilling, study of modern torture yet written. Darius Rejali, one of the world's leading experts on torture, takes the reader from the late...

1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered purple cloth (top edge lightly spotted - otherwise Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 269 (no inscriptions).

The first biography in English of Tristan Tzara, a founder of Dada and one of the most important figures in the European avant-garde.Tristan Tzara, one of the most important figures in the twentieth...

A vivid and musical rendering of the poetry of Catullus, whose passionate verses have captivated readers for centuries In the fourteenth century, a manuscript surfaced in Verona that had been lost...

A sensitively written and illustrated story about a young Jewish boy growing up in the horrors of World War II.“My name was Eitan and it was the summer of 1943. I was sitting onthe rooftop with my...

The Rule of Benedict, one of the most influential documents in Western civilization, has its roots planted deeply in the scriptures. As a result, the forms of monastic life and the spirituality it...

The Meiji Restoration of mid-nineteenth-century Japan was the outgrowth of upheaval as vital as the American Civil War or the French Revolution, and marked the beginnings of Japan as a...