This fascinating book discusses the role played by psychoactive mushrooms in the religious rituals of ancient Greece, Eurasia, and Mesoamerica. R. Gordon Wasson, an internationally known ethnomycologist who was one of the first to...

A fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo Damrosch “Fully succeeds in communicating that ‘vivid presentness,’ that ‘joyful eagerness’ for life, which is what keeps us reading...

Caroline Evans analyses the work of experimental designers, the images of fashion photographers, and the spectacular fashion shows that developed in the final decade of the twentieth century to arrive at a new understanding of fashion's...

"Dickens and the Artists" von Leonee Ormond untersucht die Beziehung zwischen dem berühmten Schriftsteller Charles Dickens und der Kunstwelt des 19. Jahrhunderts. Das Buch beleuchtet, wie Dickens' Werke von zeitgenössischen Künstlern...

How can we distinguish between injustice and misfortune? What can we learn from the victims of calamity about the sense of injustice they harbor? In this book a distinguished political theorist ponders these and other questions and...

"Edward the Confessor" von Frank Barlow ist eine umfassende Biografie über einen der letzten angelsächsischen Könige Englands, der von 1042 bis 1066 regierte. Das Buch ist Teil der Yale English Monarchs Series und bietet eine...

"Petersburg Fin de Siècle" von Mark D. Steinberg ist eine historische Untersuchung, die sich mit der kulturellen und gesellschaftlichen Dynamik von St. Petersburg um die Jahrhundertwende vom 19. zum 20. Jahrhundert beschäftigt. Das Buch...

"Reconstructing America: The Symbol of America in Modern Thought" von James W. Ceaser untersucht, wie das Bild und die Idee Amerikas im Laufe der Geschichte von Intellektuellen und Denkern interpretiert und umgedeutet wurden. Ceaser...

The ultimate gift edition of Walden for bibliophiles, aficionados, and scholars "Replaces all other available editions of Walden as the most attractive and reliable way to approach this great American book."--Joel Porte, author of...

A wide-ranging, insightful history of culture in West Germany—from literature, film, and music to theater and the visual arts After World War II a mood of despair and impotence pervaded the arts in West Germany. The culture and...

An entertaining and lively guide to rediscovering the pleasure in art “Ben Street is one of the greatest communicators and writers on art. [This is] an expert guide to looking at and understanding art. Beautifully put together and...

In a lucid, pioneering volume, Willis Barnstone explores the history and theory of literary translation as an art form. Arguing that literary translation goes beyond the transfer of linguistic information, he emphasizes that imaginative...