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Mirror-Travels
Robert Smithson and History
Robert Smithson (1938–1973), an artist of paramount importance in postwar America, created radical new perspectives for landscape architecture, photography, art criticism, and site-specific installation. His Spiral Jetty—a 1...
Le Corbusier before Le Corbusier
Applied Arts, Architecture, Painting and Photography, 1907-1922
In his numerous writings, Le Corbusier remained uncharacteristically silent about his early career. This intriguing book examines his nascent years as a designer and architect, focusing on the period from 1907 to 1922...
Germaine de Staël and Benjamin Constant
A Dual Biography
The first full-length exploration of the tempestuous relationship between two leading writers, thinkers, and political activists of the French revolutionary age When they first met in 1794, shortly after the Reign...
Dream in Shakespeare
From Metaphor to Metamorphosis
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Conflicts Unending
The United States and Regional Disputes
Some international conflicts can be solved while others defy solution. Haass argues that for diplomatic efforts to succeed, conditions must be ripe for diplomacy. He studies conflicts in the Middle East, Cyprus and the Aegean...
Commander of the Armada
The Seventh Duke of Medina Sidonia
The seventh Duke of Medina Sidonia is best known as the man who led to defeat the Spanish Armada of 1588. This book by Peter Pierson is the first complete biography in any language of this important figure. Based on...
Legal Issues in Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Second Edition, Revised and
Empedocles
The Extant Fragments
One of the most important Presocratic philosophers was the Sicilian Empedocles. He presented his work in the form of two hexameter poems, of which about 450 lines are extant, revealing a formidable range of interests,...
The Parisian Jazz Chronicles
An Improvisational Memoir
An engaging personal account of the jazz scene in Paris in the ’80s and ’90s In his Beat-like jaunt through the Parisian and European jazz scene, Mike Zwerin is not unlike Jack Kerouac, Mezz Mezzrow, or...
Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination
Ruins, Relics, Rarities, Rubbish, Uninhabited Places, and Hidden Treasures
Translated here into English for the first time is a monumental work of literary history and criticism comparable in scope and achievement to Eric Auerbach’s Mimesis. Italian critic Francesco Orlando explores Western literature...