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...

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...

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...

"The Green Rainbow: Environmental Groups in Western Europe" von Russell J. Dalton untersucht die Rolle und den Einfluss von Umweltgruppen in Westeuropa. Das Buch bietet eine umfassende Analyse der Entwicklung, Struktur und Strategien...

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...