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Pardes has a remarkable gift for asking new questions about familiar texts and providing fresh insights into old problems. By looking closely at the key metaphors and the narrative details of the biblical story of the formation of the Israelite nation, she has teased out of the text a compelling biography."—Robert Alter, Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley"Ilana Pardes elegantly recasts the mythic...

In a world of trend-setting film icons, few are more familiar than Mae West. Yet for all her public controversy, West is also a mystery. Marybeth Hamilton combines elements of biography, cultural analysis, and social history to unmask West and reveal her commercial savvy, willpower, and truly shocking theatrical transgressions.

This is the first book to explore the English-language literary scene in Paris after World War II, including the intersecting lives of Richard Wright, Samuel Beckett, James Baldwin, and Maurice Girodias.

Transforming Madness "is the most uplifting, engaging, and informative story about the good news related to helping people with severe mental illness that I have ever read."--Dr. William A. Anthony, Director, Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation

Offering a collection of texts from letters, manifestos, notes and interviews, this book offers an insight into the way artists think and work.

Two longtime Philadelphia Inquirer journalists expose the inequities and fraud that are undermining our federal tax system and offer some modest, viable solutions.

Boettger's narrative is the first comprehensive history of Earthworks, setting the movement in its cultural, art historical, and political contexts of the late 1960s. The Earthworks movement, the forerunner of Land Art, began in the U.S. with Robert Smithson in the late 1960s and included Walter DeMaria, Michael Heizer, Carl Andre, and Jan Dibbets.

Offers an account of the author's friendship with Miles Davis. This book discusses Davis' musical output, situating his albums in the context of the times - both political and musical - out of which they emerged.

This is Reformation history as it should be written, not least because it resembles its subject matter: learned, argumentative, and, even when mistaken, never dull."--Eamon Duffy, author of "The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580

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Moss Roberts provides a scholarly reading of the Dao De Jing so generous, so vivid, you can feel valley mist on your face and smell the straw dogs. Here are the furious warlords, craggy landscapes teeming with the ten thousand creatures of Taoist philosophy, China's careful arts of government and war, science, yoga, alchemy, erotics, old bamboo texts hidden in caves for millennia. This book is for anyone who has met Laozi's 'dark' mind and wan...

The perfect wildflower book to pack for a day in the Coast Ranges, the Sierra Nevada, and the southern end of the Cascade Range (including Lassen Peak and Mount Shasta).

A biography of Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885), the author of Ramona, exploring her life and literary career.

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The Three Kingdoms gives us The Iliad of China. First of the five great works of traditional prose fiction, this master narrative transforms history into epic and has thereby educated and entertained readers of five centuries with unforgettable exemplars of martial and civic virtue, of personal fidelity and political treachery. Moss Roberts's translation, the first complete rendering in English, is one of surpassing excellence and impeccable s...

Lee examines a little-known, but striking, body of visual images and image-makers associated with San Francisco's Chinatown in its first 100 years, from 1850 to 1950. In so doing, he integrates insights and literature from the disparate fields of art history, history, and ethnic studies and expands our understanding of the art thriving in that place and time.

The miracle of "La Grande Jatte "is its coincidence of critical distinction and popular celebration. High, low, mass, and popular cultures meet in mutual delight, continuing to revel in the mysteries of that Parisian Sunday."--from "The Park in the Museum" by Neil Harris

John R. MacArthur -- who is the publisher of Harper's Magazine -- examines the government's assault on the constitutional freedoms of the U.S. media during the 1991 gulf war. With a new preface.

Painting on the Left follows the development of public mural painting in San Francisco from 1915 (the year of the Panama Pacific International Exposition) to the mid-1940s, when Anton Refregier painted the controversial murals at Rincon Annex. The heart of the book is the discussion of three murals by Diego Rivera.

An art history professor and author or editor of 30 books on art and culture maps the life of Japanese-American sculptor and designer Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) and his spiritual journey, both in the events of his life and in the milestones of his art--the sculptures, gardens, public spaces, and stage decors that gained force and significance from Noguchi's double heritage. Photographs.