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Gebonden — ISBN: 9780300110234
The decades from 1500 to 1550 in Florence encompassed one of the most original and outstanding periods in the entire history of art. This gloriously i…
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Ingenaaid — ISBN: 9781857093360
Situated between Western Europe and the civilizations of Byzantium and the Islamic world, Renaissance Venice was uniquely positioned at the crossroads…
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Ingenaaid — ISBN: 9780300108460
An insightful look at the history of Jewish women’s salons and their influence on art, music, literature, and politics From their debut in Berl…
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Gebonden — ISBN: 9780300073966
This book offers an insightful view of the complex relations between home and school in the working-class immigrant Italian community of New Haven, C…
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E-book — ISBN: 9781299907294
The forgotten protagonist of this true account aspired to be a cubist painter in his native Kyiv. In a Europe remade by the First World War, his talen…
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E-book — ISBN: 9781281740663
In Imagined Cities, Robert Alter traces the arc of literary development triggered by the runaway growth of urban centres from the early nineteenth cen…
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E-book — ISBN: 9781281721914
The Battle of Midway is considered the greatest U.S. naval victory, but behind the lustre is the devastation of the American torpedo squadrons. Of the…
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E-book — ISBN: 9781281721693
One of the twentieth century's most important poets, W. H. Auden, stands as an eloquent example of an individual within whom thought and faith not…
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E-book — ISBN: 9781281722515
East Germany, its economy, and its society were in decline long before the country's political collapse in the late 1980s. The clues were there in…
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E-book — ISBN: 9781281740717
How can a promise be a lie? Answer: when the promisor never intended to perform the promise. Such incidences of promissory fraud are frequently litiga…
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E-book — ISBN: 9781281731364
In this eagerly anticipated book, Boris Gasparov gazes through the lens of music to find an unusual perspective on Russian cultural and literary histo…
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E-book — ISBN: 9781281722713
What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeeho…
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E-book — ISBN: 9781281731142
Why are nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) so successful in today's world? How do they empower themselves? This insightful book provides importa…
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E-book — ISBN: 9781281735331
In one of Shakespeare's bawdier comedies, contemporary audiences still take great pleasure in the rapid-fire verbal battles between the shrewish K…
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E-book — ISBN: 9781281728982
One of the most powerful dramas ever written for the stage, Othello is a story of revenge, illusion, passion, mistrust, jealousy, and murder. If in Ia…
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E-book — ISBN: 9781281728968
Perhaps no other Shakespearean drama so engulfs its readers in the ruinous journey of surrender to evil as does Macbeth. A timeless tragedy about the …
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E-book — ISBN: 9781281740656
A biography of Bessie Smith, the great singer known as the Empress of the Blues. Considered by many to be the greatest blues singer of all time, Bessi…
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E-book — ISBN: 9781281731494
Computers can help teachers accomplish many of their tasks more efficiently and effectively, but how can a time-strapped teacher determine which piece…
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E-book — ISBN: 9781281731388
In Uniting America, some of America's most prominent social thinkers - among them Francis Fukuyama, Daniel Yankelovich, Amital Etzioni, Alan Wolfe…
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E-book — ISBN: 9781281722508
The emergence of Methodism was arguably the most significant transformation of Protestant Christianity since the Reformation. This book explores the r…
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E-book — ISBN: 9781281722775
Just days before Germany invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, Stalin refused to believe the detailed - and correct - intelligence from his own se…
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E-book — ISBN: 9781281731258
What does eating have to do with aesthetic taste? While most accounts of aesthetic history avoid the gustatory aspects of taste, this book rewrites st…
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E-book — ISBN: 9781281734464
How did neighbourhood groceries, parish halls, factories and even saloons contribute more to urban vitality than did the fiscal might of postwar urban…
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E-book — ISBN: 9781281731425
Drawing on nearly thirty years of field and documentary research in rural North China, this book explores the contested relationship between village a…
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E-book — ISBN: 9781281731456
Published some thirty years ago, Robert Manson Myers's Children of Pride: The True Story of Georgia and the Civil War won the National Book Award …
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