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Gropius

Fiona MacCarthy

• Hardcover | Engels
• "This is an absolute triumph--ideas, lives, and the dramas of the twentieth century are woven together in a feat of storytelling. A masterpiece." --Ed... Lees meer

Forgotten Wars

Christopher Bayly, Tim Harper

• Paperback | Engels
• In September 1945, after the fall of the atomic bomb--and with it, the Japanese empire--Asia was dominated by the British. Governing a vast crescent o... Lees meer

Samuel Johnson

Peter Martin

• Paperback | Engels
• Bewigged, muscular and for his day unusually tall, adorned in soiled, rumpled clothes, beset by involuntary tics, opinionated, powered in his conversa... Lees meer

Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

Stephen Jay Gould

• Paperback | Engels
• With his customary brilliance, Gould examines the puzzles and paradoxes great and small that build nature's and humanity's diversity and order. Lees meer

Zhivago's Children

Vladislav Zubok

• Hardcover | Engels
• Among the least-chronicled aspects of post-World War II European intellectual and cultural history is the story of the Russian intelligentsia after St... Lees meer

The Romani Gypsies

Yaron Matras

• Hardcover | Engels
• "Gypsies" have lived among Europeans since the Middle Ages. Yet Roms still seem exotic to Westerners, who often rely on fictional depictions for what ... Lees meer

Underground Asia

Tim Harper

• Hardcover | Engels
• An Economist Best Book of the Year A Financial Times Best Book of the Year A major historian tells the dramatic and untold story of the shadowy networ... Lees meer

A Nation of Agents

James E Block

• Hardcover | Engels
• In this sweeping reinterpretation of American political culture, James Block offers a new perspective on the formation of the modern American self and... Lees meer

Hearing Things

Angela Leighton

• Hardcover | Engels
• Hearing Things is a meditation on sound's work in literature. Drawing on critical works and the commentaries of many poets and novelists who have paid... Lees meer

Lipstick Traces

Greil Marcus

• Paperback | Engels
• Greil Marcus, author of Mystery Train , widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new... Lees meer

Adams Family Correspondence

Adams Family

• Hardcover | Engels | Adams Papers | nr. 4
• This volume continues the incredible family saga of the Adamses of Massachusetts as told through their myriad letters to one another, to their extende... Lees meer

The Damnation of Theron Ware

Harold Frederic

• Paperback | Engels | John Harvard Library | nr. 21
• This Faustian tale of the spiritual disintegration of a young minister, written in the 1890s, deals subtly and powerfully with the impact of science o... Lees meer

Huck's Raft

Steven Mintz

• Paperback | Engels
• Like Huck's raft, the experience of American childhood has been both adventurous and terrifying. For more than three centuries, adults have agonized o... Lees meer

The Politics Presidents Make

Stephen Skowronek, S Skowronek

• Paperback | Engels
• Stephen Skowronek's wholly innovative study demonstrates that presidents are persistent agents of change, continually disrupting and transforming the ... Lees meer

Why They Marched

Susan Ware

• Paperback | Engels
• "Lively and delightful...zooms in on the faces in the crowd to help us understand both the depth and the diversity of the women's suffrage movement. S... Lees meer

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume 1

• Hardcover | Engels
• In the 1960s, art patron Dominique de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western ... Lees meer

A History of American Magazines, Volume IV: 1885-1905

Frank Luther Mott

• Hardcover | Engels
• In the fourth volume of his widely acclaimed History of American Magazines (volumes two and three of which received the Pulitzer Prize), Frank Mott ca... Lees meer

Andrea del Sarto, Volume 2: Catalogue Raisonné

S J Freedberg

• Hardcover | Engels
• Sydney J. Freedberg presents an interpretive analysis and a full Catalogue Raisonné of Andrea del Sarto's achievement. The interpretive work includes ... Lees meer

Macaulay

Robert E Sullivan

• Hardcover | Engels
• On the 150th anniversary of the death of the English historian and politician Thomas Babington Macaulay, Robert Sullivan offers a portrait of a Victor... Lees meer

John Keats

Bate

• Paperback | Engels
• The life of Keats provides a unique opportunity for the study of literary greatness and of what permits or encourages its development. Its interest is... Lees meer

One Another's Equals

Jeremy Waldron

• Hardcover | Engels
• An enduring theme of Western philosophy is that we are all one another's equals. Yet the principle of basic equality is woefully under-explored in mod... Lees meer

Cleopatra and Rome

Diana E E Kleiner

• Paperback | Engels
• With the full panorama of her life forever lost, Cleopatra touches us in a series of sensational images: floating through a perfumed mist down the Nil... Lees meer

A History of Modern Poetry, Volume II

Perkins

• Paperback | Engels
• There have been many books on early modernist poetry, not so many on its various sequels, and still fewer on the currents and cross-currents of poetry... Lees meer

The Jamestown Project

Karen Ordahl Kupperman

• Paperback | Engels
• Listen to a short interview with Karen Ordahl KuppermanHost: Chris Gondek Producer: Heron & Crane Captain John Smith's 1607 voyage to Jamestown was no... Lees meer