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Stravinsky and Balanchine

Charles M. Joseph

Igor Stravinsky and George Balanchine, among the most influential artists of the twentieth century, together created the music and movement for many ballet masterpieces. This engrossing book is the first full-length study of...

April 15, 2011, Paper, $45.00

Sleeping Like a Baby

Avi Sadeh

“Why doesn’t my baby sleep better?” weary parents ask. “How can we get more sleep?” There are as many answers to these questions as there are babies and families, says Dr. Avi Sadeh in this helpful and reassuring (some may...

April 15, 2011, Paper, $24.00

Spectacle Entertainments of Early Imperial Rome

Richard Beacham

The presentations in the theater, gladiatorial combats, chariot races in the circus, animal hunts, triumphal processions, and other public entertainments of early imperial Rome served as tangible expressions of Roman ideology...

April 15, 2011, Paper, $32.00

Democracy in Modern Spain

Richard Gunther, José Ramón Montero, and Joan Botella

This book, written by three of the world’s leading experts on Spanish politics, is the first comprehensive study of the origins and basic character of Spain’s democratic political system. It analyzes the regime’s core...

April 15, 2011, Paper, $47.00

On Hallowed Ground

John Patrick Diggins

In this provocative book, John Patrick Diggins, hailed by Alan Ryan in the New York Times as “one of the liveliest and most interesting of contemporary intellectual historians,” offers a sweeping...

April 15, 2011, Paper, $34.00

The Invisible Harry Gold

The Man Who Gave the Soviets the Atom Bomb

Allen M. Hornblum

The first account of one of the most important and enigmatic spies in U.S. history: the man who delivered the plans for the atom bomb to the Soviets In the history of Soviet espionage in America, few...

September 27, 2011, Paper, $22.00

Love and the Law in Cervantes

Roberto González Echevarría

The consolidation of law and the development of legal writing during Spain’s Golden Age not only helped that country become a modern state but also affected its great literature. In this fascinating book, Roberto González...

January 10, 2012, Paper, $26.00

What Ever Happened to Modernism?

Gabriel Josipovici

A personal, penetrating, and polemical account of what Modernism is and how contemporary literature has failed it The quality of today’s literary writing arouses the strongest opinions. For novelist and...

October 25, 2011, Paper, $24.00

Hermeneutics, Religion, and Ethics

Hans-Georg Gadamer; Translated by Joel Weinsheimer

In the years shortly before and after the publication of his classic Truth and Method (1960), the eminent German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer returned often to questions surrounding religion and ethics. In this...

April 15, 2011, Paper, $24.00

Defining Nations

Immigrants and Citizens in Early Modern Spain and Spanish America

Tamar Herzog

In this book Tamar Herzog explores the emergence of a specifically Spanish concept of community in both Spain and Spanish America in the eighteenth century. Challenging the assumption that communities were the natural...

April 26, 2011, Paper, $34.00

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