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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol 10
Political Writings
Given Johnson’s intense concern throughout his life with problems of human morality, it is not surprising, in an age when such writers as Defoe, Swift, Pope, Goldsmith, and Burke were highly politically conscious, to...
Yale French Studies, Special Issue
After the Age of Suspicion: The French Novel Today
This special issue of Yale French Studies presents a panoramic array of virtuoso talent. Included are extracts from the writings of sixteen contemporary French novelists, from Nathalie Sarraute and Claude Simon to Jeanne...
The Essential Edmund Leach
Volume 2: Culture and Human Nature
The aim of these two volumes is to bring together a representative selection of the writings of Edmund Leach (1910–1989), a brilliant and prolific anthropologist known not only in his field but to the educated public at...
The Artist Grows Old
The Aging of Art and Artists in Italy, 1500-1800
How does the artist’s self-conception change in old age? How does old age affect artistic practice? In this intriguing study, art historian Philip Sohm considers some of the greatest artists of Renaissance and Baroque...
A Woman's Guide to Menopause and Perimenopause
The most up-to-date, scientifically accurate, and readable guide to menopause available anywhere Recent groundbreaking research has provided abundant new information on menopause and how women should...
Brutal Need
Lawyers and the Welfare Rights Movement, 1960-1973
During the 1960s a new breed of "poverty lawyers"—in collaboration with welfare recipient activists—mounted a legal campaign to create a constitutional right to welfare. The collaboration worked significant changes in the...
The Ambitious Generation
America`s Teenagers, Motivated but Directionless
Are today’s teenagers really slackers, the apathetic, baggy-pants wearing, unmotivated individuals so often portrayed by the media? This engrossing account—based on a landmark study of 7,000 teens—gives us good news and bad...
American Modernism
Graphic Design, 1920 to 1960
A groundbreaking survey of the Modernist movement in American graphic design This insightful book is the first to present a comprehensive survey of the Modernist movement as it emerged in America between...
The Impressionist Print
Degas, Pissarro, Cassatt, Renoir, Morisot, Bracquemond, Manet, Whistler—these and other Impressionist painters often experimented with printmaking techniques, producing black and white etchings, aquatints, dry points, and...
Wall Street
America's Dream Palace
Meet the imperious aristocrat, the wily confidence man, the Napoleonic hero, and the soulless sinner—iconic figures on the Street since the days of the Revolution Wall Street: no other place on earth is...