Join the culinary experts at The Gourmand journal on an in-depth exploration of the literary, linguistic, historic, and gastronomic legacy of lemons, where the line between food and art is happily...
Entrez dans un monde balayé par les vents magiques, peuplé d'amoureux au destin maudit, de géants malveillants et de trolls, et de bien d'autres merveilles issues des illustrations les plus...
L' criture fait des miracles: elle nous transporte dans les moments qui ont fait l'Histoire, la cr ativit et le quotidien de l'humanit, et nous relie intimement des personnages qui ont...
Der kleine "Rabe Socke" mit dem vorlauten Schnabel ist längst ein moderner Klassiker und erfreut sich einer riesigen Fangemeinde. Vier Titel erzählen seine Abenteuergeschichten und zwei...
En 2002, Simon «Woody» Wood imaginait toutes sortes de stratagèmes pour obtenir des sneakers gratuites. Deux semaines plus tard, il était le fier patron de Sneaker Freaker, et sa vie en était...
Even among the geniuses of the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci is a figure of exceptional significance. This updated XXL monograph, comprising all of his paintings and almost 700 drawings, provides...
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...
Tutankhamun's royal voyage into paradise, as told by ancient Egyptian treasures. When acclaimed photographer Sandro Vannini started his work in Egypt in the late '90s, a technological...
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) ist selbst in der an Genies nicht armen Renaissance eine Ausnahmeerscheinung. Diese nach neuestem Forschungsstand aktualisierte XL-Monografie ist das umfassendste...
At first glance, Walton Ford's large-scale, highly detailed watercolors of animals recall the prints of 19th-century illustrators John James Audubon and Edward Lear. A closer look reveals a...
Il Musaeum Hermeticum è un compendio di testi alchemici pubblicato in Germania nel XVII secolo. Tra le sue pagine il lettore sarà condotto in un viaggio fantastico e avventuroso che unisce i...
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...
Ein Jahrhundert nach seinem Tod erstaunt der Wiener Künstler Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) noch immer mit seiner unverfrorenen Erotik, blendenden Oberflächen und künstlerischer Experimentierfreude. In...
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...
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...
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,...
Nel pieno del realismo artistico che caratterizzava il periodo tardo gotico e gli inizi del Rinascimento, il pittore olandese Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) rappresentava qualcosa di più di...
Considerato un vero eroe popolare in America Latina e uno dei più importanti artisti messicani – così come sua moglie, la pittrice Frida Kahlo – Diego Rivera (1886–1957) visse intensamente,...
"A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy" is a milestone along the complex and difficult road to significant understanding by Westerners of the Asian peoples and a monumental contribution to...
A sweeping exploration of animals in Japanese art and culture across sixteen centuriesFew countries have devoted as much artistic energy to the depiction of animal life as Japan. Drawing upon the...
First published in 1979, Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare has established itself as a seminal work in ecology. Now with a new foreword by ecologist and writer Cristina Eisenberg, this penetrating...
This widely acclaimed introduction to N = 1 supersymmetry and supergravity is aimed at readers familiar with relativistic quantum field theory who wish to learn about the supersymmetry algebra....
Offering a treatment of visionary experience in some of the main texts of Jewish mysticism, this book reveals the visual nature of religious experience in Jewish spirituality from antiquity through...