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...

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...

Jewish German philosopher Ernst Cassirer was a leading proponent of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism. The essays in this volume provide a window into Cassirer's discovery of the symbolic nature of human existence--that our entire...

"This Day: Photographs from Twenty-Five Years, The Northwest Coast" von Robert Adams ist eine Sammlung von Fotografien, die über einen Zeitraum von 25 Jahren entstanden sind und die natürliche Schönheit sowie die Veränderungen der...

"Venice from the Water: Architecture and Myth in an Early Modern City" von Daniel Savoy untersucht die einzigartige Beziehung zwischen Venedig und seinem aquatischen Umfeld während der frühen Neuzeit. Das Buch beleuchtet, wie Wasser...

A leading neuroscientist and pioneer in the study of mindfulness explains why addictions are so tenacious and how we can learn to conquer them &;Accessible and enjoyable. The Craving Mind brilliantly combines the latest science with...

A brisk, concise, and readable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the dawn of the twenty-first century Five centuries of Irish history are explored in this informative and accessible volume. John Gibney proceeds...

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...