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by Galileo Galilei, Albert Van Helden, Albert Van Helden
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Galileo Galilei’s Sidereus Nuncius is arguably the most dramatic scientific book ever published. It announced new and unexpected phenomena in the heavens, “unheard of through the ages,” revealed by a mysterious new instrument. Galileo had ingeniously improved the rudimentary “spyglasses”...
Documenting the World
Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Imagine the twentieth century without photography and film. Its history would be absent of images that define historical moments and generations: the death camps of Auschwitz, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Apollo lunar landing. It would be a history, in other words, of just artists’...
From Reverence to Rape
The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
A revolutionary classic of feminist cinema criticism, Molly Haskell’s From Reverence to Rape remains as insightful, searing, and relevant as it was the day it was first published. Ranging across time and genres from the golden age of Hollywood to films of the late twentieth century, Haskell analyzes...
Blowin' Up
Rap Dreams in South Central
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Dr. Dre. Snoop Dogg. Ice Cube. Some of the biggest stars in hip hop made their careers in Los Angeles. And today there is a new generation of young, mostly black, men busting out rhymes and hoping to one day find themselves “blowin’ up”—getting signed to a record label and becoming famous....
Freaks Talk Back
Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2009
Using extensive interviews, hundreds of transcripts, focus-group discussions with viewers, and his own experiences as an audience member, Joshua Gamson argues that talk shows give much-needed, high-impact public visibility to sexual nonconformists while also exacerbating all sorts of political tensions...
Reinventing Hollywood
How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
In the 1940s, American movies changed. Flashbacks began to be used in outrageous, unpredictable ways. Soundtracks flaunted voice-over commentary, and characters might pivot from a scene to address the viewer. Incidents were replayed from different characters’ viewpoints, and sometimes those versions...
by Ronald Schechter
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
In contemporary political discourse, it is common to denounce violent acts as “terroristic.” But this reflexive denunciation is a surprisingly recent development. In A Genealogy of Terror in Eighteenth-Century France, Ronald Schechter tells the story of the term’s evolution in Western thought,...
Character, Scene, and Story
New Tools from the Dramatic Writer's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
Will Dunne first brought the workshop experience down to the desk level with The Dramatic Writer’s Companion, offering practical exercises to help playwrights and screenwriters work through the problems that arise in developing their scripts. Now writers looking to further enhance their storytelling...
A Very Queer Family Indeed
Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
“We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual kind.”
So begins A Very Queer Family Indeed, which introduces us to the extraordinary Benson family. Edward White Benson became Archbishop of Canterbury at the...
What the Anti-Federalists Were For
The Political Thought of the Opponents of the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
The Anti-Federalists, in Herbert J. Storing's view, are somewhat paradoxically entitled to be counted among the Founding Fathers and to share in the honor and study devoted to the founding. "If the foundations of the American polity was laid by the Federalists," he writes, "the Anti-Federalist...
Storycraft
The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
From the work of the New Journalists in the 1960s, to the New Yorker essays of John McPhee, Susan Orlean, Atul Gawande, and a host of others, to blockbuster book-length narratives such as Mary Roach’s Stiff or Erik Larson’s Devil in the White City, narrative nonfiction has come into its own. Yet...
Love Game
A History of Tennis, from Victorian Pastime to Global Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Tennis has never been played better than it is today. To watch Rafael Nadal spin a forehand at 4000 rpm, Maria Sharapova arabesque out of a serve, Serena Williams utterly destroy a short ball, or Roger Federer touch a volley into an impossibly angled winner is to watch not only the best players with...
by Wayne C. Booth
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Wayne Booth transformed the study of fiction in the twentieth century and wrote some of the most influential and engaging criticism of our time. In What Every Novelist Needs to Know about Narrators, Booth tackles one of the most difficult issues writers of fiction face: the choice of which narrative...
Erika and Klaus Mann in New York
Escape from the Magic Mountain
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
This is the riveting tale of two brave nonconformists whose dramatic lives open up new perspectives on the history of the twentieth century. Thomas Mann’s two eldest children, Erika and Klaus, were unconventional, rebellious, and fiercely devoted to each other. Empowered by their close bond, they...