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Kafka's The Trial
Philosophical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Kafka's novel The Trial, written from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925, is a multi-faceted, notoriously difficult manifestation of European literary modernism, and one of the most emblematic books of the 20th Century. It tells the story of Josef K., a man accused of a crime he has no recollection...
by Thomas Wynn, Frederick L. Coolidge
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
There have been many books, movies, and even TV commercials featuring Neandertals--some serious, some comical. But what was it really like to be a Neandertal? How were their lives similar to or different from ours? In How to Think Like a Neandertal, archaeologist Thomas Wynn and psychologist Frederick...
Homo Mysterious:Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature
Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
For all that science knows about the living world, notes David P. Barash, there are even more things that we don't know, genuine evolutionary mysteries that perplex the best minds in biology. Paradoxically, many of these mysteries are very close to home, involving some of the most personal aspects...
Through a Glass Brightly
Using Science to See Our Species as We Really Are
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
Human beings have long seen themselves as the center of the universe, the apple of God's eye, specially-created creatures who are somehow above and beyond the natural world. This viewpoint--a persistent paradigm of our own unique self-importance--is as dangerous as it is false. In Through a Glass...
Johannes Vermeer
(Grove Art Essentials)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer is considered one of the principal genre painters of the 17th century. His oeuvre, composed of only 35 attributable works, displays an unprecedented level of artistic mastery in its consummate illusion of reality. In this fully illustrated Grove Art Essentials title,...
The Price of Assimilation
Felix Mendelssohn and the Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitic Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2005
Most scholars since World War Two have assumed that composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847) maintained a strong attachment to Judaism throughout his lifetime. As these commentators have rightly noted, Mendelssohn was born Jewish and did not convert to Protestantism until age seven, his grandfather...
Giorgio Vasari
(Grove Art Essentials)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Giorgio Vasari, the "Father of Art History," first published his Vite in 1550. An instant sensation, the Vite was more than just a chronological sequence of biographies: it was the first critical history of artistic style. This fully illustrated Grove Art Essentials title delves into Giorgio...
Jacopo Tintoretto
(Grove Art Essentials)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Jacopo Tintoretto was the most prolific painter working in Venice in the later 16th century. Though his early career was marked by the struggle to achieve recognition, in his mature years he worked extensively on decorations for the Doge's Palace and for the meeting-house of the Scuola Grande di S...
Hermes Pan
The Man Who Danced with Fred Astaire
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
Armed with an eighth-grade education, an inexhaustible imagination, and an innate talent for dancing, Hermes Pan (1909-1990) was a boy from Tennessee who became the most prolific, popular, and memorable choreographer of the glory days of the Hollywood musical. While he may be most well-known for the...
All That Jazz
The Life and Times of the Musical Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
In 1975, the Broadway musical Chicago brought together a host of memes and myths - the gleefully subversive character of American musical comedy, the reckless glamour of the big-city newspaper, the mad decade of the 1920s, the work of Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon (two of the greatest talents in the musical's...
To Broadway, To Life!
The Musical Theater of Bock and Harnick
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2010
To Broadway, To Life! The Musical Theater of Bock and Harnick is the first complete book about these creative figures, one of Broadway's most important songwriting teams. The book draws from personal interviews with Bock and Harnick themselves to offer an in-depth exploration their shows, including...
Big Deal
Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Bob Fosse (1927-1987) is recognized as one of the most significant figures in post-World War II American musical theater. With his first Broadway musical, The Pajama Game in 1954, the "Fosse style" was already fully developed, with its trademark hunched shoulders, turned-in stance, and stuttering,...
Singled Out
How Two Million British Women Survived Without Men After the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2008
Almost three-quarters of a million British soldiers lost their lives during the First World War, and many more were incapacitated by their wounds, leaving behind a generation of women who, raised to see marriage as "the crown and joy of woman's life," suddenly discovered that they were left...
The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism
From Ancient Times to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
For thirty years the director of the Wiener Library in London--the leading institute for the study of anti-Semitism--Walter Laqueur here offers both a comprehensive history of anti-Semitism as well as an illuminating look at the newest wave of this phenomenon. Laqueur begins with an invaluable historical...