Part of the Complete Works series, On Benefits, written between 56 and 64 CE, is a treatise addressed to Seneca's close friend Aebutius Liberalis. The longest of Seneca's works dealing with...
Richard III ruled England for a mere twenty-six months, yet few English monarchs remain as compulsively fascinating, and none has been more persistently vilified. In his absorbing and universally...
"The journey to understand the painting is also the journey to understand Rothko, because the work is so thoroughly suffused with the man."--Christopher Rothko Mark Rothko (1903-1970),...
"White Guard", Mikhail Bulgakov's semi-autobiographical first novel, revolves around a Russian family in their home city of Kiev in 1918. Alexei, Elena, and Nikolka Turbin, adult...
This is a full-length biography of Mark Rothko, arguably one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. Drawing on exclusive access to his personal papers and over 100 interviews with artists,...
Instantly recognizable with his iconic eye patch, Moshe Dayan (1915-1981) was a powerful yet controversial figure in Israel from the 1950s through 70s. A fearless warrior and a strong-headed,...
By the time Richard Stark sat down to write "Deadly Edge" in 1971, he'd been bronicling the adventures of his antihero, Parker, for nearly a decade. But it turns out he was just warming...
Die Geschichte über "junge reine Liebe" beginnt, als sich drei Highschool-Schüler während ihres Abschlussjahres begegnen. Taichi soll der Mitschülerin Futaba zu einem Date verhelfen - mit...
In this nuanced portrait of Athelstan, Sarah Foot offers the first full account of the king ever written. She traces his life through the various spheres in which he lived and worked, beginning...
In addition to his many remarkable paintings and drawings, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) left behind a fascinating and voluminous body of correspondence. This highly accessible book includes a broad...
The law of God: these words conjure an image of Moses breaking the tablets at Mount Sinai, but the history of the alliance between law and divinity is so much longer, and its scope so much broader,...
Christopher Lynch offers a substantial interpretive essay alongside Machiavelli's text that covers its historical and political contexts. He also discusses the military, political, and...
By the time Richard Stark sat down to write "Deadly Edge" in 1971, he'd been bronicling the adventures of his antihero, Parker, for nearly a decade. But it turns out he was just warming...
In Giuseppe Arcimboldo's most famous paintings, grapes, fish, and even the beaks of birds form human hair. A pear stands in for a man's chin. Citrus fruits sprout from a tree trunk that...
Examining the breadth and depth of thirty-five years of work żeby Jeff Koons (b. 1955), one of the most influential and controversial artists of the 20th century, this highly anticipated volume...
Wenn der Frühling kommt, geht das verrückte Treiben auf dem Bauernhof wieder so richtig los. Da laufen bunte Schafherden und kleine Rabauken über den Hof und Hühner verschwinden plötzlich. Na, wenn...
What was it like to be a soldier on a Napoleonic battlefield? What happened when cavalry regiments charged directly at one another? What did the generals do during battle? Drawing on memoirs,...
This study places the reign of Edward IV in the context of late-medieval power politics, and analyzes the methods aby which a usurper sought to retain his throne and re-assert the power of a...