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The Story of Modern Art is firmly established as an outstanding introduction to the subject. Writing in a clear and direct style, Norbert Lynton aims at helping the reader to...

David Cairns weaves a brilliantly engaging narrative, which puts Mozart's operas in the context of his life, showing how they illuminate his creativity as a whole. Mozart's unusual childhood as...

The purpose of this text is to try to understand how Germany could attempt to exterminate its Jewish population during the Nazi period. Through individual stories, beginning with Moses Mendelsohn...

Russell's letters span 70 years, from the late Victorian age to the 1960s, and range from private love letters to impassioned pleas to political leaders to technical philosophical letters. His...

The book titled The Airman's War, 1914-18 by the author Peter Liddle. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Knots and Splices , first published in 1953, has been used by many thousands of sailors all over the world. The new edition of this much loved reference has now...

A powerful and illuminating biography - the first in English for two generations - of one of the most popular painters of all time. Of all Italian painters, Caravaggio (C....

Using a variety of unpublished and little-known sources, Taylor paints a portrait of William Makepeace Thackeray as an endearing, exasperating and paradoxical individual. This biography sets out to redefine Thackeray...

Examines the actual physical and mental experiences of the American and British front-line soldier in World War II. This book is the result of research among memoirs published and unpublished...

The book titled Operation Deathwatch by the author Leo Kessler. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A beautiful and practical desk jotter of 60 tear-off sheets decorated with images of exotic flowers and birds from the world-famous RHS Lindley Library, and with plenty of space to...

London now ranks alongside Paris, New York and Milan as a global fashion capital, and it has produced such outstanding designers as John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan and Stella...

This narrative history tells the story of the German occupation of Normandy (1940-44), and the Allied liberation. Following the fall of France in 1940, Normandy formed part of the Reich's...

The book titled From the Cockpit: Spitfire by the author T.F. Neil. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Armada!: The Planning, the Battle and After by the author Robert Milne-Tyte. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In this account of the origins and development of the RAF, the author offers evidence of its organization, strategy and preparedness for the Battle of Britain. Drawing on the facts...

The book titled The Kents: A Royal Family by the author Audrey Whiting. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Victims by the author Hugh Miller. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In Valiant Company marks the 50th anniversary of Australia's most significant Korean War engagement, the infamous Battle of Kapyong. Ben O'Dowd, a Lieutenant Colonel, was in the thick of the...

The book titled By the Seat of Their Pants: More Great Australian Air Stories by the author Terry Gwynn-Jones. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

The book titled On a Wing and a Prayer by the author Terry Gwynn-Jones. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Essentials of Psychoanalysis by the author Sigmund Freud. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Having escaped her overbearing family in Mexico, Tatiana settles in Berlin and cultivates solitude while distancing herself from the city s past. Yet the phantoms of Berlin seeping in through...

A selection reflecting the varied enthusiasms of A.S. Byatt, this work sweeps from the Romantics and Victorians to modern British writers, from the art of Van Gogh to the poems...

From Jane Austen to Salman Rushdie, from Yeats to the media coverage of the Gulf War, this is an account of the roots of imperialism in European culture. While many...

This is an anthology of poetry, with one or two prose excerpts, which explores the world on nonsense, fantasy and satire from the Middle ages to the present day, revealing...

The oracle and sanctuary of the Greek god Apollo at Delphi were known as the "omphalos"--the "center" or "navel"--of the ancient world for more than 1000 years. Individuals, city leaders,...

High-frequency trading is an algorithm-based computerized trading practice that allows firms to trade stocks in milliseconds. Over the last fifteen years, the use of statistical and econometric methods for analyzing...

Amid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a new form of collective government--the commune--arose in the cities of northern and central Italy. Sleepwalking...

Entering Islam through the same biblical door Muhammad did, this book introduces readers with Christian or Jewish backgrounds to one of the world's largest, most active, and - in the...

As rancorous debates over Confederate symbols continue, Robert Bonner explores how the rebel flag gained its enormous power to inspire and repel. In the process, he shows how the Confederacy...

In this depiction of daily political life in Baroque Rome, Laurie Nussdorfer argues that lay persons managed to sustain a civic government under the increased papal absolutism of Urban VIII...

Now faced with the "zero hour" created by a new freedom of expression and the dramatic breakup of the Soviet Union, Soviet cinema has recently become one of the most...

Al Alvarez, poet, critic, novelist, sportsman, poker player, has for seventy years been hard to categorize. To many, he is the author of the best-selling study of suicide, "The Savage...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls comes a wonderfully written novel about a small town in New York whose citizens have fallen on hard times. "Immensely readable and...

The book titled Safety of Objects by the author A. Homes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Beautiful Loot: The Soviet Plunder of Europe's Art Treasures by the author Sylvia Hochfield. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The book titled The Birth of Pleasure by the author Carol Gilligan (New York University). This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Novellas of Martha Gellhorn by the author Martha Gellhorn. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

What do we mean when we refer to our "identity", and how do we represent it in the stories we tell about our live? Is "identity" a sustained private core,...

In this extensive inquiry into the sources of modern selfhood, Charles Taylor demonstrates just how rich and precious those resources are. The modern turn to subjectivity, with its attendant rejection...

Anne Hollander begins with the great masters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries-Van Eyck, Durer, Bruegel-and progresses through the history of European art to the advent of film in the...

Readers interested in history, and in the development of the modern sensibility, will relish this large-scale yet intimately detailed examination of the blossoming of the ordinary and extraordinary people of...

Since his death in April 1992 Francis Bacon has been acclaimed as one of the very greatest of modern painters. Yet most analyses of Bacon actually neutralize his work by...

Discusses the images of women in art, films, and literature, social attitudes towards women, and changing perceptions of sexual roles.

Many westerners used to call the Soviet Union 'Russia'. Russians too regarded it as their country, but that did not mean they were entirely happy with it. In the end,...

Imperialism as we knew it may be no more, but Empire is alive and well. It is, as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri demonstrate in this bold work, the new...