Der Band untersucht das OEuvre Ostades erstmals unter dem Gesichtspunkt der Komik. Es wird dabei in Bezug gesetzt zur Kultur des Komischen im 17. Jahrhundert im Bereich der Literatur und der...
A compelling narrative exploring the culture and civilization of the most famous "warrior people": the Spartans of ancient Greece, told by the world's leading expert. The narrative also...
The second volume of the new series Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses points out the roots of the concept of "human rights" in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It shows how far the...
This vastly readable and richly illustrated volume examines film as art form, technological innovation, big business, and cultural bellwether. It takes in stars from Douglas Fairbanks to Sly...
Is there "anything" that Martin Amis can't write about? In this virtuosic, career-spanning collection he takes on James Joyce and Elvis Presley, Nabokov and English football, Jane...
"Principles of Laser Spectroscopy and Quantum Optics" is an essential textbook for graduate students studying the interaction of optical fields with atoms. It also serves as an ideal...
With a New Foreword In "So Damn Much Money", veteran "Washington Post" editor and correspondent Robert Kaiser gives a detailed account of how the boom in political lobbying since...
How can insights from Construction Grammar (CxG) be applied to foreign language learning (FLL) and foreign language teaching (FLT)? This volume explores several aspects of Pedagogical Construction...
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...
London, 1840: Wagner's latest opera plays to packed houses while disgruntled workers gather in crowded pubs to eat ice cream and plan the downfall of the bourgeoisie. Meanwhile, the Pirate...
This book provides an in-depth insight of different multi criteria decision making (MCDM) techniques, with particular enphasis to their application. Among others, techniques such as Analytic...
The enormously engaging account of life and death in secluded and hauntingly beautiful Savannah, Georgia, continues to take America aby storm. "Mr. Berendt's writing is elegant and wickedly...
Lansdale's classic Hap and Leonard characters return in this incredible, mad-dash, Edgar Award-winning mystery, loaded with crack addicts, a serial killer, and a body count.
In the third volume of the Millennium series, Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition in a Swedish hospital, a bullet in her head. But she's fighting for her life in more ways than one: if...
Summer is the fourth volume of the Seasons quartet, a collection of short prose and diaries written żeby a father for his youngest daughter, with stunning artwork aby Anselm Kiefer.'Knausgaard...
Richard Stites views the struggle for liberation of Russian women in the context of both nineteenth-century European feminism and twentieth-century communism. The central personalities, their...
A groundbreaking history of the last days of the French empire in AfricaAs the French public debates its present diversity and its colonial past, few remember that between 1946 and 1960 the...
When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century,...
Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth...
This electrifying book exposes the inner logic of eating disorders, demolishes the myths surrounding them, and outlines a radical new approach to their successful, permanent treatment.
Mary Wesley published her first novel at seventy and went on to write a further nine bestsellers, including the legendary The Camomile Lawn, in a style best described as arsenic without the old...
"Dazzlement and enchantment are Bester's methods. His stories never stand still a moment."--Damon Knight, author of Why Do Birds Alfred Bester took science fiction into hyperdrive,...