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Empire

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Vidal, Gore, PUBLISHER: Modern Library, Empire () shows America in its Gilded Age at the end of the last century, the dominant world power and Empire builder. The central figure is newspaper proprietor Caroline Sanford, who battles the great figures of the age: William Randolph Hearst, presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, Henry James, and the magnate families -- the Astors, Vanderbilts, and Whitneys. "A wonderfully vivid documentary drama", said The New York Times Book Review.

Tragedy

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Valency, Maurice, PUBLISHER: New Amsterdam Books, This introduction to Greek tragedy, the origin of much of our modern drama, is the work of a remarkable scholar who is also a practical man of theater. The author of magisterial studies of Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov and Shaw, and of symbolism in the theater from the nineteenth century to our times, Maurice Valency has written for the stage and for television, and he translated, adapted and collaborated in producing two great Broadway successes Giraudoux's the Mad Woman of Chaillot and Durrenmatt's The Visit.

Art Embroidery

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Maidment, Liz, PUBLISHER: Andre Deutsch, In this book Liz Maidment explains how she chooses her subjects, the process of getting together the necessary fabrics, colours, and patterns, and the mixture of meditation and inspiration that goes into the creation of her landscapes.

The New Pomeranian

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Tietjen, Sari B., PUBLISHER: Howell Books, From the Pomeranian's glittering past of royal patronage and artistic favor to the Standard and its special requirements, Tietjen details the use of color genetics, breeding and special mating considerations, whelping and puppy rearing, as well as grooming and trimming for the show ring and in Obedience competition.

First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, the Capital of the

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lida, David, PUBLISHER: Riverhead Books, The definitive book on Mexico City: a vibrant, seductive, and paradoxical metropolis-the second-biggest city in the world, and a vision of our urban future. "First Stop in the New World" is a street-level panorama of Mexico City, the largest metropolis in the western hemisphere and the cultural capital of the Spanish-speaking world. Journalist David Lida expertly captures the kaleidoscopic nature of life in a city defined by pleasure and danger, ecstatic joy and appalling tragedy-hanging in limbo between the developed and underdeveloped worlds. With this literary-journalist account, he establishes himself as the ultimate chronicler of this bustling megalopolis at a key moment in its-and our-history.

China's New Rulers: The Secret Files

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Nathan, Andrew J. / Gilley, Bruce, PUBLISHER: New York Review of Books, "China's New Rulers, based on leaked secret Communist Party files that were compiled in choosing China's "Fourth Generation" of leaders, offers an unprecedented glimpse into the most orderly transition in the history of the People's Republic. It reveals the backgrounds, characters, and visions for the future of the men who will rule China for the next five years, profiles other key figures in the party, government and military, and provides new perspectives on Jiang Zemin's 13 years in power.

The Cold War-Volume 2: Magill's Choice

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gorman, Robert F., PUBLISHER: Salem Press, The three volumes in The Cold War offer a unique event-by-event history of the full sweep of the Cold War, with up-to-date essays on key events between and , a new introduction that surveys the origins and history of the Cold War, and a new epilogue which reviews post- developments and assesses the legacy of the Cold War in the early twenty-first century. All essays were selected from Salem's popular "Great Events from History" series.

South Africa: A Visual Souvenir

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Newlands, Glynne, PUBLISHER: New Holland Australia(AU), World class photography vibrantly illustrates the different faces of South Africa, including the world-renowned Kruger National Park, Table Mountain and the V&A Waterfront, majestic Drakensberg and the allure of the Garden Route. This lovely keepsake captures the essence of the country, depicting the variety of spectacular scenery, its cosmopolitan people, its unique flora and its rich architectural heritage.

The Actor's Art and Craft: William Esper Teaches the Meisner

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Esper, William / DiMarco, Damon / Mamet, David, PUBLISHER: Anchor Books, William Esper, one of the leading acting teachers of our time, explains and extends Sanford Meisner's legendary technique, offering a clear, concrete, step-by-step approach to becoming a truly creative actor. Esper worked closely with Meisner for seventeen years and has spent decades developing his famous program for actor's training. The result is a rigorous system of exercises that builds a solid foundation of acting skills from the ground up, and that is flexible enough to be applied to any challenge an actor faces, from soap operas to Shakespeare. Co-writer Damon DiMarco, a former student of Esper's, spent over a year observing his mentor teaching first-year acting students. In this book he recreates that experience for us, allowing us to see how the progression of exercises works in practice. "The Actor's Art and Craft" vividly demonstrates that good training does not constrain actors' instincts--it frees them to create characters with truthful and compelling inner lives. Acquista Ora

The New Way Things Work

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Macaulay, David / Ardley, Neil, PUBLISHER: Walter Lorraine Books, The information age is upon us, baffling us with thousands of complicated state-of-the-art technologies. To help make sense of the computer age, David Macaulay brings us The New Way Things Work. This completely updated and expanded edition describes twelve new machines and includes more than seventy new pages detailing the latest innovations. With an entirely new section that guides us through the complicated world of digital machinery, where masses of electronic information can be squeezed onto a single tiny microchip, this revised edition embraces all of the newest developments, from cars to watches. Each scientific principle is brilliantly explained--with the help of a charming, if rather slow-witted, woolly mammoth.

Religious and Spiritual Groups in Modern America

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ellwood, Robert S. / Partin, Harry Baxter, PUBLISHER: Prentice Hall, The book explores the major new or unconventional religions and spiritual movements in America that exists outside the Judeo-Christian tradition. Gives accounts of some 25 groups--divided into six types--covering their history, teaching, worship, and way of life. Considers bitter controversies about cults, brainwashing, and deprogramming that have arisen around them.

Page One: The New York Times: Major Events as

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: New York Times, PUBLISHER: Galahad Books, Gathering all the headline events of the twentieth century, Page One is a breathtaking chronicle of our times. This new edition contains history-making events from , including the Pope's historical visit to Cuba, the balancing of the federal budget, the Unabomber's guilty plea, and the Monica Lewinsky scandal at the White House. These stories join the major events of previous decades, from the peace treaty signed in Paris.ending the First World War to Nixon and Watergate; the re-unification of Germany to the demise of the Soviet Union; the Gulf War to the tragic bombings of the World Trade Center and Oklahoma City; and the assassination of Israel's Yitzhak Rabin. A definitive introduction to history, Page One delivers a thrilling journey into the events that have shaped this century.

Essays Politic and Moral, and Essays Moral and Theological

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Tuvill, Daniel, PUBLISHER: University of Virginia Press, These two sets of essays by the seventeenth-century clegyman Tuvil illustrate literary tastes and fashions of the time and offer examples of such popular genres as the sermon, the resolve, and the meditation.

Playgoing in Shakespeare's London

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gurr, Andrew, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, Andrew Gurr's classic account of Shakespeare's historical audience assembles evidence from the writings of the time to describe the physical, social and mental conditions of playgoing. In addition to revising and adding new material which has emerged since the second edition, Gurr develops new sections about points of special interest. Fifty new entries have been added to the list of playgoers and a dozen new quotations about the experience of playgoing. Second Edition Hb ( Second Edition Pb ( Acquista Ora

Life Class

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Barker, Pat, PUBLISHER: Hamish Hamilton, In this superb new novel, Pat Barker returns to her most renowned subject: the devastation and psychic damage wrought by WWI on all levels of British society. In the spring of , a group of young students gather in an art studio for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant and Elinor Brooke are two components of a love triangle, and at the outset of the war, they turn to each other. After volunteering for the Red Cross, Paul must confront the fact that life, love, and art will never be the same for him. Pat Barker is unrivaled in her ability to convey simple, moving human truths. Her skill in relaying the harrowing experience of modern warfare is matched by the depth of insight she brings to the experience of love and the morality of art in a time of war. LIFE CLASS is one of her genuine masterpieces. Acquista Ora

Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Cooke, Jacob E., PUBLISHER: Scribner Book Company, This groundbreaking compendium covers the colonial experience from the 11th-century Norse settlers in Newfoundland to the Spanish in New Mexico and the Russians in s Alaska. Articles speak to the daily circumstances, historical events and prevailing climates of thought that gave shape and purpose to people's lives during the centuries of imperial expansion and settlement.

Neutrino Physics

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Winter, Klaus, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, Thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition presents a comprehensive overview of modern neutrino physics. The book covers all the major areas of current interest. An international group of distinguished contributors discuss the intrinsic properties of neutrinos, the theory of the interaction of neutrinos with matter, experimental investigations of the weak interaction in neutrino processes, the theory and supporting experiment for the basic properties of the interaction of neutrinos with fermions, and neutrinos in astrophysics and cosmology. This edition presents new data on solar neutrinos and an update of the results of searches for double beta decay. It also contains a new chapter on direct measurements of the neutrino mass, with high precision data from experiments at Fermilab and CERN, and at the Kamiokande Laboratory in Japan. This is an essential reference text for particle physicists, nuclear physicists and astrophysicists.

Michel foucault ?the birth of the clinic ?

Michel foucault ?the birth of the clinic ? an archaeology of medical reception language american vintage books a division of random house,inc content: space and classes a politica consciousness the free field the hold age of the clinic the lesson of the hospitals signs and cases seeing and knowing open up a few corpses the visible invisible crisis in fevers spedisco anche

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: McCloud, Scott, PUBLISHER: Harper Perennial, Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, this innovative comic book provides a detailed look at the history, meaning, and art of comics and cartooning.

PACT 21: The First Iron in the Mediterranean

Proceedings of the Populonia/Piobino Symposium, looks at various aspects of the Iron Age in the Mediterranean and Europe - the arrival of iron, the history of its use, and scientific research. Papers are in English and Italian.

Summer in the City: New York Baseball

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ziegel, Vic / Guglberger, Claus, PUBLISHER: ABRAMS, Between , when Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, and , when the Dodgers and the New York Giants played their last season in the East, New York baseball teams appeared in ten World Series. In seven of those years, either the Giants or the Dodgers vied for the championship with the lordly Yankees. These were truly the glory years of New York baseball, when the city breathlessly followed the game in the tabloids rather than on the tube. And the "New York Daily News, the nation's largest newspaper, had the best photographers, the best equipment, and the best field position to record the action, bringing the art of baseball photography to its highest pitch. Accompanied by an evocative text by veteran sportswriter Vic Ziegel, the dramatic photographs (complete with their colorful original captions), featuring such superstars as Robinson, Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, Roy Campanella, Mickey Mantle, and Willie Mays, allow the reader to follow year by year the course of baseball's most exciting decade in the world's greatest city.

Development Microeconomics

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bardhan, Pranab K. / Udry, Christopher, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, Development Microeconomics is the first in a series of books which looks at the entire spectrum of development economics issues and combines the strengths of conventional developmental thought with the insights of contemporary mainstream economics. The main new conceptual tool used is the application of the theory of imperfect information and the effects this has on the behavior of economic agents. This book is designed specifically for graduate students.

State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Owen, Roger, PUBLISHER: Routledge, Roger Owen has fully revised and updated his authoritative text to take into account the very latest developments in the Middle East. This new edition continues to explore the emergence of individual Middle Eastern states since the fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the First World War and the key themes that have characterized the region since then. The book continues to serve as an excellent introduction for newcomers to the modern history and politics of this fascinating region.

Making Choices:

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Various / Storr, Robert / Umland, Anne, PUBLISHER: Museum of Modern Art, Making Choices celebrates the diversity of modern art by focusing on four landmark years--, and . A variety of works representing all of New York MOMA's curatorial departments--architecture and design, drawings, film and video, painting and sculpture, photography, and prints and illustrated books.

Golf: Implements and Memorabilia

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: McGimpsey, Kevin / Neech, David / Neach, David, PUBLISHER: Philip Wilson Publishers, A detailed study covering golfing art and memorabilia, patents, designs, the origins of the game and related sports. Many books have been written on the various aspects of golf, but this is the first that attributes the game's popularity to the introduction of the solid gutta percha gof ball in and the American rubber-cored ball in . The book describes, in the light of these dramatic gof ball changes, how the ball and club have evolved, the types of material used, the people who made the clubs and balls, those who have excelled at the game, and the effects the implements had on the development of the swing and on gof-course design. There are well-illustrated chapters on golfing art and golfing memorabilia, as well as shorter chapters on patents, designs and the origins of the game and related games. Included is a directory of golf-club- and ball-makers and golf artists.

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