In Poetry and Humanism, M. M. Mahood writes on the great religious poets of seventeenth-century England and their relationship to Renaissance humanism.
An elegant and richly evocative collection about the nature of paradise and the complexities of desire, these eight magical stories are about the Edenic spaces that people create in their lives and the serpents that subtly inhabit them.
"Zooks! At last, the culture, folklore, and mythology of computing. Here's the digital dirt from our computer age...collected and retold by Karla Jennings." -Cliff Stoll, author of The Cuckoo's Egg
"Giant Killers is one of the rare books that is fun to read, fascinating and educational about the realities of modern Washington lobbying. Mike Pertschuk has done a great service, with good humor and lively anecdotes." -Joseph A. Califano, Jr., former Secretary of Health and Human Services
In many respects early Pennsylvania was the prototype of North American development. Its conservative defense of liberal individualism, its population of mixed national and religious origins, its dispersed farms, county seats, and farm-service villages, and its mixed crop and livestock agriculture served as models for much of the rural Middle West. To many western Europeans in the eighteenth century life in early Pennsylvania offered a veritable paradise and refuge from oppression. Some called it "the best poor man's country in the world." The Best Poor Man's Country was the winner of the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Society.
"BioGraffiti is a highly diverting mix of the whimsical and scholarly, of science and art. It will be read-and reread-by those interested in biology and life." -Paul R. Ehrlich
Fig Tree John was an enigma to the whites around him, a proud and mysterious man whose passionate tale unfolds in this long-neglected American classic now republished by Liveright.
On New Hampshire's thin, cold soil, strewn with rocks, generations of resourceful, tough, independent men and women created a landscape of meadows and pastures, of stone walls and weathered barns and clapboard houses, that has affected the American imagination.
Peter Theroux describes Los Angeles, the City of Dreams, from a variety of angles: he encounters the diversity of citizens and immigrants, attends movie premieres, smells the incense for sale on the boardwalk in Venice and drives along a six-lane highway.
"Readers who have come to expect Miss Chase to provide stunning evocations of time and place, particularly of nineteenth-century Maine, will not be disappointed by The Lovely Ambition." -New York Times Book Review
Zhores Medvedev, a Soviet biochemist and outspoken critic of the Soviet bureaucracy, who was railroaded into a mental hospital, and his brother, historian Roy Medvedev, who rallied the Soviet scientific and intellectual community in protest, together tell the story of "repression by psychiatry" in Russia today.
Articles by and about composers, beginning with Charles Ives and including Edgard Varese, Roger Sessions, Aaron Copland, Walter Piston, Elliott Carter, Stefan Wolpe, and others.
Understanding child health and wellness through a holistic lens.
A lavishly illustrated survey of American Art Deco architecture.
In this storybook-cookbook the authors translate some of the 1001 Arabian Nights stories Scheherazade recounted for Shahryar and adapt ancient recipes for the traditional sweet treats mentioned in them. This vibrant, lovely book brings modern cooks delicacies from one of the world's magnificent civilizations.
Invaluable advice by regional experts and master photographers on where to find the most stunning sites at their peak and how to shoot them.
A definitive visitor's guide to the beauty and tranquility of South Dakota, covering not only historical sites and tourist attractions, but also hiking, hunting, fishing and camping as well as other forms of outdoor exploration.
Tim Matson surveys an often overlooked aspect of independent living-firelight.
Leave the inner city for biking the nearby country roads and lanes in the New York tristate area.
This triumph of American art, reflecting a decade of travel in the Islamic work, unites two cultures with its transcendent power.
Quick and delicious recipes for the best-ever parties
From tried and true classics to new and exciting flavor profiles, use these exciting sides to spice up any meal
Brilliantly written essays on the aesthetic principles and enduring motives of architecture.
Since its publication in 1908, Anne of Green Gables has been an enduring bestseller and arguably Canada's most famous novel.
With today's shifting demographics can arise tricky family issues-here are tips for therapists on how to steer clients through them.
An acclaimed acoustician presents a proven methodology for designing successful venues for concert performance in a variety of building types.
This update of a classic text folds the new field of neuroscience for design into well-established environment-behavior (E-B) methods and approaches.
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