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Extravagant Crowd
Carl Van Vechten's Portraits of Women
Carl Van Vechten, one of the most distinctive photographic portraitists of the 20th century captured the visages of the famous and the talented. This catalogue, issued to celebrate the 2003 exhibition, focuses on his...
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol 14
Sermons
It has been known since the publication of pre-Boswellian biographies that Samuel Johnson wrote sermons which were preached by others. The twenty-eight that have survived are presented here in their first scholarly...
The Papers of United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali
3 Volume Set
Boutros Boutros-Ghali’s term as U.N. secretary-general was unique. His election in December 1991 brought him into office during the tumultuous post-cold-war years when the U.S.-Soviet confrontation that had largely...
The Language of Objects in the Art of the Americas
In this wide-ranging book, a distinguished scholar of Latin American art explores the meanings of created and depicted objects from the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking regions of the New World. Edward J. Sullivan begins...
An Ordinary Atrocity
Sharpeville and Its Massacre
On March 21st, 1960, police opened fire on members of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) protesting peacefully in the Vaal Triangle township of Sharpeville against apartheid's iniquitous "pass laws". Sixty-nine people died. The shots...
The Social Life of Coffee
The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse
What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this...
Kent: West and the Weald
An expanded and fully revised edition of John Newman's classic survey of the buildings of West Kent, first published in 1969. Here is an extraordinary concentration of architecture of the first rank, and an immense variety of...
The Big House
Image and Reality of the American Prison
The complex and fascinating history of what it’s like “doing time” in the “Big House,” and its influence on the American imagination.“The Big House" is America’s idea of the prison—a huge, tough,...
Signs of the Artist
Signatures and Self-Expression in American Paintings
Signatures are unique and often reveal something of our individual personalities. In this intriguing book, John Wilmerding—an eminent historian of American art—explores the unconventional use of signatures in paintings....
Courts, Law, and Politics in Comparative Perspective
This comprehensive book compares the intersection of political forces and legal practices in five industrial nations—the United States, England, France, Germany, and Japan. The authors, eminent political scientists and legal...