Along with reproduction, balancing energy expenditure with the limits of resource acquisition is essential for both a species and a population to survive. But energy is a limited resource, as we...
Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation from--or antidote to--ten centuries of misogyny. In this major contribution to gender studies, R. Howard Bloch...
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...
A postwar tragicomedy of manners, an Edwardian romance, and a historical drama are collected in this volume of works by 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 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...
The only one-volume hardcover edition of the two uncommonly powerful novels written aby the youngest of the famous Bront sisters. Anne Bront wrote these two fantastically successful novels just...
From the lazy, fiddling grasshopper to the sneaky Big Bad Wolf, children's stories and fables enchant us with their portrayals of animals who act like people. But the comparisons run both ways,...
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...
When the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded on January 28, 1986, millions of Americans became bound together in a single, historic moment. Many still vividly remember exactly where they were and...
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...
Since its original publication in France in 1963, Pierre Hadot's lively philosophical portrait of Plotinus remains the preeminent introduction to the man and his thought. Michael Chase's...
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,...
The vast remote Tibetan steppe, the Chang Tang, is home to a unique assemblage of large mammals, including the Tibetan antelope, gazelle, argali sheep, wild ass, wild yak, wolves and snow leopards....
The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz has long been considered to be among the best of musical autobiographies. Like his massive compositions, Berlioz (1803-69) was colorful, eloquent, larger than life....
Leo Tolstoy's earliest published work, the trilogy Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth, was written when he was in his twenties, offering a tantalizing first glimpse of the literary talents that...
En novembre 2020, Depeche Mode entrait au Rock & Roll Hall of Fame et Dave Gahan recevait cet hommage avec ces mots: «Je voudrais remercier Anton Corbijn qui, grâce à Dieu, est monté à bord au...
Both eclipsed and influenced by television, American print ads of the 1970s departed from the bold, graphic forms and subtle messages that were typical of their sixties counterparts. More literal,...
Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel is in many ways his most intriguing. A highly atmospheric tale of murder, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" foreshadows both the detective stories...
Anton Chekhov's short novels are here brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky....