"A brilliant young film maker who longs to free himself from facts, from 'things as they really are,' Caleb travels to Vienna, and thence to points east, ostensibly in search of the theme and subject...

Wheat fires, salt hollows, lightning as a type of razor wire, lymphatic fog, parrots with bot-cutter beaks - here's an anamnesis of rural Australia, but a poet unafraid to honour it with the full...

Il s'efforçait depuis quelques jours d'être heureux des nuages qu'il amoncelait sur sa toile au-dessus d'un chemin de pierres. Mais qu'est-ce que la beauté quand on sait que l'on va partir ? Demain...

Challenging decades of scholarship and Supreme Court jurisprudence, newly discovered historical documents reveal that the First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause was meant to protect only the freedom...

"In his seventy-two years, William Howard Taft lived a great many lives, including as an enterprising young lawyer in the Attorney General's office, admired across the aisle for his fairness and good...

The intimate inside account of superpower arms negotiations, dramatically and definitively told by the author of Deadly Gambits. First time in paperback.

The study guide bridges all course components and lists the learning objectives of each of the course units. Each chapter corresponds directly to one of the 13 course units. The first two chapters...

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Caustic, cranky, and inadvertently hilarious, the bestselling Victorian author Mrs. Favell Lee Mortimer rarely left the house-but that didn't stop her from writing several successful travel books...

In this eagerly anticipated sequel to the classic bestseller In Search of Schrodinger's Cat, John Gribbin digs even deeper into the mysterious and confounding world of quantum mechanics. Gribbin...

Her seventh and most wide ranging collection. In the 1st of 2 sections, the poems move from the amusingly elegiac to the erotic, the classical to the funny. The 2nd section is a series of 15 poems...

Constantine Cavafy, though the foremost modern Greek poet, has only recently begun to gain widespread recognition in this country. He was admired by, T.S. Eliot E.M. Forster and W.H. Auden and...