340 results for '"DIO"'

Following Rome's long road to peace after decades of civil war, Cassius Dio provides the fullest account of the reign of the first emperor in Books 50 through 60 of his Roman History.For more than...

Il riconoscimento - l'agnizione dei latini, l'anagnorisis dei greci - è uno dei più grandi scandali della letteratura: ha luogo nell'azione drammatica, nel romanzo, nell'opera, nel cinema, e spesso...

"Se dice que el poderoso dios Quetzalcóatl, la serpiente emplumada, ayudó a crear la Tierra. Fue un héroe que tuvo la valentía de recuperar los huesos de la humanidad que había robado el malvado...

“Urgent, haunting, and fearless.” —Megan Abbott, author of Beware the WomanA Barnes & Noble Mystery & Thriller Pick | An Elle Best Book of the Summer | An Apple Best Book of May | A Most Anticipated...

For four decades, artist, writer, curator, and teacher Nayland Blake has been at the center of discussions of queer aesthetics and contemporary art. Their work has examined racial hybridity, the ins...

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Alain Badiou is one of the most inventive and compelling philosophers working in France todayOCoa thinker who, in these days of cynical resignation and academic specialization, is exceptional in...

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s classic tale of one man’s pure innocence in the face of a society obsessed with power, money, and manipulationThe twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several...

In a world obsessed with expertise and control, the figure of the idiot illuminates deeper truths about society. Dostoevsky and Nietzsche wrote about him; Dadaists and punks idolized him; artists...

By pulling Kid A from its canonical status and grounding the album in various contexts, Marvin Lin explains not only why Radiohead suddenly adopted a new songwriting methodology, but also how...

An audacious, unabashedly transgressive memoir about two acts of escape by the author: breaking from his family to seek a freer life in Paris and then, later, from the French military during the...

A landmark publication celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the House of Dior. Christian Dior's first collection in 1947 heralded the birth of a new fashion silhouette for women. Here, seventy of the...

From the Introduction: "Stoic philosophy, of which Epictetus (c. a.d. 50-130) is a representative, began as a recognizable movement around 300 b.c. Its founder was Zeno of Cytium (not to be confused...

In Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death, Deborah T. Levenson examines transformations in the Guatemalan gangs called Maras from their emergence in the 1980s to the early...

A witty yet thoughtful examination of stupidity and idiocy in modern life. This witty yet thoughtful book examines stupidity and idiocy, and their most dangerous incarnation: stupid idiocy--the...

An introduction to Badiou's philosophical thought and its implications for other humanistic disciplines and the social sciences.

An exploration of the captivating work and mystical outlook of the modern artist Remedios Varo, focusing on her years in Mexico City Winner of the Gold Medal, Fine Art category, 2025 Independent...