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Kierkegaard's Muse, the first biography of Regine Olsen (1822-1904), the literary inspiration and one-time fiancée of Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, is a moving portrait of a long romantic...

"The day will come when not only my writings, but precisely my life--the intriguing secret of all the machinery--will be studied and studied." Søren Kierkegaard's remarkable combination of genius and...

'Double Take' presents forty astonishingly accurate reconstructions of iconic photographs--ranging from the earliest known to the world's most expensive. These images have been painstakingly...

Softcover VG (Label, bookplate, pocket) Gray & color illus. wraps, French flaps, 159 pp., BW & color illus. Text is in Italian. Considers well the life and work of Italian artist Giorgio Vasari...

Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55) was an almost unbelievably prolific writer. At his death he left not only a massive body of published work (25 volumes in the recently completed Princeton University Press...

A bilingual edition of a renowned work of Puerto Rican literature, Cortijo’s Wake/El entierro de Cortijo is novelist Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá’s vivid description of the funeral of legendary Puerto...

Il volume confronta esempi di scritture autobiografiche di critici letterari italiani e stranieri (Corti, Luperini, Segre, Eagleton, Reich-Ranicki, Said, Steiner), e ne interpreta il ripiegamento...

Why “aporophobia”—rejection of the poor—is one of the most serious problems facing the world today, and how we can fight itIn this revelatory book, acclaimed political philosopher Adela Cortina makes...

"In a world built on the political, economic and social contract, the poor seem to break the rules of give and take. As a result, there is a growing tendency to exclude them. The problem is not one...

Often underestimated as 'the stress hormone', we need cortisol to keep us alive. However, you can have too much of a good thing and, right now, we're finding that out the hard way... Everything I...

On the night of the 2000 presidential election, Americans watched on television as polling results divided the nation's map into red and blue states. Since then the color divide has become symbolic...