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Henry Graham Greene (1904 – 1901) wrote many novels surveying the political and moral issues of the day. Some of his novels displeased many people, including Graham Greene himself. Many of his works are now quite valuable and this eBook explores the values of each of those novels and why some are...

In the 1990s, the New Orleans murder rate exploded. In 1996, 350 people were killed—the highest number in the city’s history, and the highest rate in the nation. In response to this crisis, gallery owner and artist Jonathan Ferrara and artist Brian Borrello, launched a powerful project: Guns in the...

The digital age created the ability for individuals to immerse themselves in social media, sending texts from their cell phones, or Tweets (status updates) using Twitter. While convenient, it brought on a language of its own with the potential to cause confusion. Is BYOB and invitation for you to...

Grandes figuras de la literatura peruana del siglo XX como Mario Vargas Llosa, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, José María Arguedas, Ciro Alegría, Martín Adán, Julio Ramón Ribeyro y Sebastián Salazar Bondy fueron fotografiados en los años 60 en Lima y en París por el español Baldomero Pestana (1918-2015)....

The second issue of Beechwood Review features minimalist writing and art – including haiku, flash fiction, and visual art – from 72 contributors. This issue highlights space, the gaps between milestones, life, and death, after which the world keeps moving. It questions: does nothing only exist...

A certain eighteenth-century German noble ventured abroad for military service and returned with a series of amusingly outrageous stories. Baron Munchausen's astounding feats included riding cannonballs, traveling to the Moon, and pulling himself out of a bog by his own hair. Listeners delighted in...

Through the centuries, Gypsies all over the world have been misunderstood, maligned, rejected. Outcasts of the countries in which they live, they have wandered for centuries over the face of the earth. They have no homeland, no political unity, no recognition among nations. They have been alone, sundered,...

This impressive collection of engravings illustrating the dramatic works of Shakespeare takes a new look at the long-neglected area of romantic early-19th-century art. Nearly 100 illustrations depict dramatic scenes from A**Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Tempest, Two Gentlemen...

This dictionary, from the pen of the well-known philosopher Dagobert D. Runes, is offered as an attempt to define the borderlines of human thinking and human morality. In 152 pages organized alphabetically, Dr. Runes has created a dictionary of his own philosophical musings indexed by evocative words....

Anyone who has observed cats for a while has probably noticed how closely they resemble their wild counterparts who make their living in the desert and forests of the world. We seem to see in our domestic cats a reflection of their wild counterparts, and we thrill to the mystique sense of danger that...

Après Georges de La Tour, c'est Lorenzo Lotto, autre «reconquête» de l'histoire de l'art, qui a été mis a l'honneur à Paris au Grand Palais, d'octobre 1998 à janvier 1999, dans une rétrospective qui fut d'abord présentée à la National Gallery of Art de Washington puis à l'Accademia Carrara...

Brian McElney was born in Hong Kong in the early 1930s, and for more than two decades was one of the territory's top lawyers. But in his spare time, he also put together one of the most comprehensive collections of East Asian antiques in the world, many of them spotted by him amongst the knick-knacks...

Odyssey Works infiltrates the life of one person at a time to create a customtailored, life-altering performance. It may last for one day or a few months and consists of experiences that blur the boundaries of life and art—is that subway mariachi band, used book of poetry, or meal with a new friend...