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Textures
Pour approfondir la communication orale et écrite
Language proficiency emerges not solely as mastery of discrete skills, but also through one’s ability to express ideas fully in a variety of cultural contexts. This innovative French-language textbook employs a holistic...
Chicago Renaissance
Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis
A fascinating history of Chicago’s innovative and invaluable contributions to American literature and art from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century This remarkable cultural history celebrates...
Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Art of the Figure
In late 1504 and early 1505, Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) and Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) were both at work on commissions they had received to paint murals in Florence’s City Hall. Leonardo was to depict a historic battle...
A Question of Balance
Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies
The 2018 Nobel laureate for economics shows how economic analysis can help us design economic policies to address the looming challenges of global warming As scientific and observational evidence on...
JFK and LBJ
The Last Two Great Presidents
A firsthand observer weighs the achievements—and failures—of two fabled American presidents As a young White House correspondent during the Kennedy and Johnson years in Washington, D.C., Godfrey Hodgson...
La France et la Francophonie
With Online Media
This workbook and accompanying video (available online) present a cross-section of French-speaking people from European, African, North American, and Caribbean countries talking about contemporary French culture. Designed as...
Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears
An exemplary collection of work from one of the world’s leading scholars of intellectual history“Földényi . . . stage[s] a broad metaphysical melodrama between opposites that he pursues throughout this...
The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers
Here a distinguished American historian challenges the belief that the eighteenth century was essentially modern in its temper. In crystalline prose Carl Becker demonstrates that the period commonly described as the Age of...
J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys
The Real Story Behind Peter Pan
An enchanting biography of J. M. Barrie, the man who created Peter Pan and his Lost Boys “For an insightful exploration of Barrie and the boys who inspired him, nothing rivals [this book].”—Norman Allen,
Reading American Art
This anthology brings together twenty outstanding works of recent scholarship on the history of the visual arts in the United States from the colonial period to 1945. The selected essays—all written within the past two...