L’humour espiègle d’Ellen von Unwerth imprègne les pages de Heimat, un voyage enchanteur à travers la Bavière. La célèbre photographe de mode revisite sa terre natale en compagnie d’une bande de...
How is expanding students strengths more effective than improving their weaknesses? Why is creating a school where staff and students feel safe necessary for learning? How can anchoring with simple...
Tom Ripley has a lovely house in the French countryside, a beautiful and very rich wife, and an art collection worthy of a connoisseur. But this gracious life has not come easily; it is based on...
When the ancient Greeks looked up into the heavens, they saw not just sun and moon, stars and planets, but a complete, coherent universe, a model of the Good that could serve as a guide to a better...
This Norton Critical Edition includes: The first edition of the novel (1859) accompanied by twenty-seven illustrations, from original images żeby Halbot Knight Browne ("Phiz") to cartoons...
This important addition to our understanding of art history’s masterworks puts some of theworld's most famous paintings under a magnifying glass to uncover their most small and subtle elements...
From the perfect pot roast to the fragrant complexity of braised endive, there's no food more satisfying than a well-braised dish. The art of braising comes down to us from the earliest days of...
William Faulkner's provocative and enigmatic 1929 novel, The Sound and the Fury, is widely acknowledged as one of the most important English-language novels of the twentieth century. This...
Few scenes capture the American experience so eloquently as that of a lonely train chugging across the vastness of the Great Plains, or snaking through tortuous high mountain passes. Although this...
The sixteenth-century Mediterranean witnessed the expansion of both European and Middle Eastern civilizations in the guises of the Hapsburg monarchy and the Ottoman empire. Here, Andrew C. Hess...
In this groundbreaking book, a world authority on human communication and communication therapy points out a basic contradiction in the way therapists use language.
Rollo May brings together the ideas of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and other great thinkers to offer insight into the ideas and techniques of existential psychotherapy, of which he was a major force....
Desde el nacimiento de la modernidad, la producción visual y la música han tenido una relación especialmente íntima. Desde el manifiesto futurista de 1913 de Luigi Russolo L'Arte dei Rumori (El...
Emprenda un viaje asombrosamente misterioso con este chispeante libro sobre magia y ilusionismo que descubre tanto las taumaturgias medievales como los trucos de los showmen del siglo XX. Con...
The preeminent scholar of comparative studies of Indo-European society, Georges Dumezil theorized that ancient and prehistoric Indo-European culture and literature revolved around three major...
After World War II, most scientists in Germany maintained that they had been apolitical or actively resisted the Nazi regime, but the true story is much more complicated. In Serving the Reich,...
Beards--they're all the rage these days. Take a look around: from hip urbanites to rustic outdoorsmen, well-groomed metrosexuals to post-season hockey players, facial hair is everywhere. The...
Here, a recognised expert on mindfulness and therapy reveals practical techniques that enable readers to harness their energies to promote healthy minds.
For nearly half a century, Roger Ebert's wide knowledge, keen judgment, prodigious energy, and sharp sense of humor made him America's most renowned and beloved film critic. From...
Friedrich A. Hayek is regarded as one of the preeminent social theorists of the twentieth century as much for his work outside of economics as for his work within it. During a career spanning...
For a century and a half, the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned the bourgeoisie. And for a millennium and a half, the philosophers and theologians of Europe have scorned the...
Tears and Saints focuses not on martyrs or heroes but on the mystics - primarily female - famous for their keening spirituality and intimate knowledge of God. Their Christianity was...