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Jennifer Hayden has never liked to cook. She’s not particularly good at it, either. But, like so many of us, she does it anyway. Why is that? Whe
Jean Pierre-Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet are leaders in a contemporary French classical scholarship that has produced a a stunning reconfiguration of Greek thought and literature. In this work,...
Faire de l'histoire, c'tait, mes yeux, rflchir sur la totalit. Il m'apparaissait que c'tait le meilleur moyen de m'intresser tout ce qui me passionnait l'histoire elle-mme, bien entendu [...], la...
"No one can fail to admire the brilliance of the connections Vidal-Naquet suggests... Audacity has been characteristic of Vidal-Naquet's career from the start; it marked his activities as a historian...
A sorrowful French sailor boy submerged in a confectionary sea, a doll-like dominatrix bound to a cheap vinyl-coated chair, the young Yves Saint Laurent, a coy Asian nude holding the Ace of Spades on...
Vidal on Vidal—a great and supremely entertaining writer on a great and endlessly fascinating subject.A New York Times best American memoir“In the hands of Gore Vidal, a pen is a sword. And he points...
Though only founded in 2004, the practice of Luis Vidal (LVA) is now one of the five largest in Spain, and has quickly established an international reputation for its large-scale public buildings...
Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical...
Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical...
This concise, abridged edition of Pierre Grimal's celebrated "Dictionary of Classical Mythology" brilliantly distils and captures the essence of Greek and Roman mythology. It is the ideal reference...
This work by Pierre Bourdieu develops the anthropological theory which has formed the basis of his scientific research. It discusses the problems posed by "structuralist" philosophers in order to...
Now in paperback, the "disturbing, brutally honest, and scrupulously fair " (Booklist) study of Germany during the Nazi years, by the celebrated author of The Nazi Question. In a highly praised study...
Masculine domination is so anchored in our social practices and our unconscious that we hardly perceive it; it is so much in line with our expectations that we find it difficult to call into question...