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Diary
Selections from the moving, beautifully crafted diary of a celebrated storyteller and surgeon Susan Cheever observed in a New York TimesBook Review appraisal of his memoir Down from Troy...
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol 2
"The Idler" and "The Adventurer"
Notebooks
Tennessee Williams’s Notebooks, here published for the first time, presents by turns a passionate, whimsical, movingly lyrical, self-reflective, and completely uninhibited record of the life of this monumental...
Mortal Coil
A Short History of Living Longer
A highly engaging history of humankind's preoccupation with longevity, from 1600 to the present day An obsession with perpetual youth may seem a particularly modern phenomenon, but it is a goal that...
Encounters
Chinese Language and Culture, Screenplay 2
Encounters Screenplay 1 and Screenplay 2 include the script of the twenty part Encounters: Chinese Language and Culture dramatic series. Screenplay 1 includes the dialogue in English, pinyin, and...
The Miraculous Image in Renaissance Florence
In Renaissance Florence, certain paintings and sculptures of the Virgin Mary and Christ were believed to have extraordinary efficacy in activating potent sacred intercession. Cults sprung up around these “miraculous images...
Citizens' Wealth
Why (and How) Sovereign Funds Should be Managed by the People for the People
A wide-ranging analysis of a powerful but controversial new economic tool that has rapidly eclipsed the size of the hedge fund market In 2006, Chile teemed with protesters after finance minister Andrés...
Crown, Church and Episcopate Under Louis XIV
This book presents an eloquent account of the power, character, and mentalité of the French church under Louis XIV and of its relationship to the crown and other elite institutions as well as its critics and...
Roofed Theaters of Classical Antiquity
This book is the first to explore the roofed theater sites of classical antiquity. George Izenour, one of the most distinguished modern experts on theater design, engineering, and acoustics, examines the...
Poetry and the Pre-Raphaelite Arts
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris
Focusing on two of the most influential figures in the Pre-Raphaelite movement, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris, this book explores new ways of considering art and literature together. Elizabeth Helsinger traces...