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The Architectural History of Venice
Revised and enlarged edition
This book is the indispensable guide to the history of architecture in Venice, encompassing the city’s fascinating variety of buildings from ancient times to the present day. Completely updated and filled with splendid new...
Richard III
Richard III ruled England for a mere twenty-six months, yet few English monarchs remain as compulsively fascinating, and none has been more persistently vilified. In his absorbing and universally praised account, Charles Ross...
Inuit Morality Play
The Emotional Education of a Three-Year-Old
Psychological anthropologist Jean Briggs shows how Inuit adults use dramatic play to transmit cultural messages and moral lessons to their children"I could not be more enthusiastic about this brilliant...
The Iceman Cometh
"We live and die, in the spirit, in solitude, and the true strength of Iceman is its intense dramatic exemplification of that somber reality. . . . Life, in Iceman, is what it is in Schopenhauer: illusion."...
The Pol Pot Regime
Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79
Third Edition
This edition of Ben Kiernan’s definitive account of the Cambodian revolution and genocide includes a new preface that takes the story up to 2008 and the UN-sponsored Khmer Rouge tribunal. “Deeply detailed,...
Bicycle: The History
In this, the definitive history of the bicycle, David Herlihy recounts the saga of this far-reaching invention and the passions it aroused. The pioneer racer James Moore insisted the bicycle would become “as common as...
Romare Bearden, American Modernist
Romare Bearden (1911-1988) was a modernist artist renowned for his experimental and socially conscious works. Bearden is best known for his paintings and collages but also made significant contributions to the fields of...
Profit with Honor
The New Stage of Market Capitalism
This wise and optimistic book examines the rampant scandals that plague American corporations today and shows how companies can reverse the resulting climate of mistrust. By seizing the opportunity to...
Jabotinsky
A Life
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, an insightful new biography of Vladimir Jabotinsky, the most controversial and perhaps most fervent of all Zionist political figures“A well-written, passionate...
The Sight of Death
An Experiment in Art Writing
A renowned art historian confronts the specific powers of painting, and the hold of the visual image on the viewer's imagination Why do we find ourselves returning to certain pictures time and again? What...