W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his...
The historical study of crime has expanded in criminology during the past few decades, forming an active niche area in social history. Indeed, the history of crime is more relevant than ever as...
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...
This work meets a long-standing need in the helping professions by being the first and only comprehensive book devoted to these priority-defining and goal-setting values clarification strategies...
A postwar tragicomedy of manners, an Edwardian romance, and a historical drama are collected in this volume of works aby the award-winning novelist. Ribbon marker.
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...
Tutankhamun's royal voyage into paradise, as told żeby ancient Egyptian treasures. When acclaimed photographer Sandro Vannini started his work in Egypt in the late '90s, a technological...
This concise volume fills a long-standing need for a sophisticated, brief primer on American national politics. A major theme of the book is the interplay between constitutional and...
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...
The key resource you need to prepare for the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Certification and Maintenance of Certification examinations. Now in its twelfth edition, Mayo Clinic Internal...
This text uses a case-study approach to present the core principles of biochemistry and molecular biology in the context of human disease to students who will be involved in patient care. The 33...
In this Very Short Introduction, Vanessa Schwartz argues that modern France, as both a world stage and a global crossroads, is an essential actor in the development of contemporary culture. Indeed,...
The only one-volume hardcover edition of the two uncommonly powerful novels written żeby the youngest of the famous Bront sisters. Anne Bront wrote these two fantastically successful novels just...
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...
This stimulating Very Short Introduction throws open the doors on a remarkably diverse musical genre, with a world-wide reach that goes far beyond America's shores to discuss folk music of...
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...
The Oxford Handbook of World Philosophy provides the advanced student or scholar a set of introductions to each of the world's major non-European philosophical traditions. It offers the...
This up-to-date introduction to the most fundamental ideas of molecular orbital theory leads the reader through a clear and non-mathematical presentation of electronic structure, geometry, and...
First published in 1954 and having gone through several editions, this comprehensive book remains the authoritative source in the field. This paperback edition includes all of the 350 illustrations...
Campbell's Psychiatric Dictionary is widely recognized as the definitive dictionary of psychiatry--up-to-date, comprehensive, and authoritative. Distinguished by its clarity and scholarship, it...
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,...
C.S. Lewis's space trilogy - Out of the Silent Planet (1938), Perelandra (1943), That Hideous Strength (1945) - has been both admired and dismissed for its staging of a sharply defined struggle...