By: Boast, Will
Paperback | $16.00 | 9781609380427
Real musicians don't sign autographs, date models, or fly in private jets. They spend their lives in practice rooms and basement clubs or toiling in the obscurity of coffee-shop gigs, casino jobs, and the European festival circuit. The ten linked stories in Power Ballads are devoted to this...
By: Boast, Will
Paperback | $15.95 | 9781631490439
For Will Boast, what looked like the end turned out to be a new beginning. After losing his mother and only brother, twenty-four-year-old Boast finds himself absolutely alone when his father dies of alcoholism. Numbly settling the matters of his father's estate, Boast stumbles upon documents...
By: Brittenham, Claudia Lozoff; Ca
Hardcover | $70.00 | 9780292760899
Presenting the first comprehensive art historical study of some magnificent Mesoamerican murals, this book demonstrates how generations of ancient Mexican artists, patrons, and audiences created a powerful statement of communal identity that still captures the imagination.
Honorable...
By: Miller, Mary
Hardcover | $75.00 | 9780292744363
Located within the deep tropical rainforest of Chiapas, Mexico, the Maya site of Bonampak is home to the most complete and magnificent mural program of the ancient Americas. In three rooms, a pageant of rulership opens up, scene by scene, like pages of an ancient Maya book. Painted c. AD 800,...
By: Houston, Stephen
Hardcover | $60.00 | 9780292719002
Color is an integral part of human experience, so common as to be overlooked or treated as unimportant. Yet color is both unavoidable and varied. Each culture classifies, understands, and uses it in different and often surprising ways, posing particular challenges to those who study color from...
By: Brown, Adrienne
Hardcover | $42.95 | 9781421423838
How did writers and artists view the intersection of architecture and race in the modernist era?
Winner of the MSA First Book Prize of the Modernist Studies Association
With the development of the first skyscrapers in the 1880s, urban built environments could expand...
By: Baker, Nancy Kovaleff & Christ
Paperback | $57.00 | 9780521035095
The writings of Sulzer and Koch represent a significant confluence of philosophical and musical thought from the German Enlightenment. Koch creatively adapted many of Sulzer's abstract philosophical ideas to concrete questions of musical pedagogy, showing how they could be usefully applied to the...
By: Cohen, Rachel
Paperback | $18.00 | 9780812971293
Each chapter of this inventive consideration of American culture evokes an actual meeting between American writers and artists, from Henry James and Mathew Brady, to Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant, to Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore, to Norman Mailer and Robert Lowell. The accumulation of...
By: Collins, Steven
Paperback | $68.99 | 9780521397261
This book explains the Buddhist doctrine of annattá (not-self), which denies the existence of any self, soul, or enduring essence in man. The author relates this doctrine to its cultural and historical context, particularly to its Brahman background. He shows how the Theravada Buddhist tradition...
By: Collins, Steven
Paperback | $104.99 | 9780521578424
This book presents a new answer to the question: what is nirvana? Part One distinguishes between systematic and narrative thought in the Pali texts of Theravada Buddhism, looking at the place of nirvana in both. Part Two explores other Buddhist utopias and relates Buddhist utopianism to studies of...
By: Collins, Steven
Paperback | $35.00 | 9789749511138
This book is intended for modern students, inside or outside the classroom, as a work of reference rather than a "teach yourself" textbook. It presents an introductory sketch of Pali using both European and South Asian grammatical categories. In English-language works, Pali is usually presented...
By: Collins, Steven
Paperback | $30.99 | 9780521708340
The idea of nirvana (Pali nibbāna) is alluring but elusive for non-specialists and specialists alike. Offering his own interpretation of key texts, Steven Collins explains the idea in a new, accessible way - as a concept, as an image (metaphor), and as an element in the process of narrating both...
By: Collins, Steven
Paperback | $30.00 | 9780231160391
The Vessantara Jataka tells the story of Prince Vessantara, who attained the Perfection of Generosity by giving away his fortune, his children, and his wife. Vessantara was the penultimate rebirth as a human of the future Gotama Buddha, and his extreme charity has been represented and reinterpreted...
By: Desan, Philippe
Hardcover | $39.95 | 9780691167879
A definitive biography of the great French essayist and thinker
One of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before. But did he do it, as he suggests...
By: Desan, Philippe (EDT)
Hardcover | $150.00 | 9780190215330
In 1580, Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) published a book unique by its title and its content: Essays"R. A literary genre was born. At first sight, the Essays resemble a patchwork of personal reflections, but they engage with questions that animate the human mind, and tend toward a single...
By: Dewoskin, Rachel
Paperback | $10.99 | 9780142424551
A powerful story about blindness from an award-winning author.
When Emma Sasha Silver loses her eyesight in a nightmare accident, she must relearn everything from walking across the street to recognizing her own sisters to imagining colors. One of seven children, Emma used to be the invisible...
By: DeWoskin, Rachel
Paperback | $20.00 | 9781250002532
Judy Lohden is your above-average sixteen-year-old, with a voice that can shake an auditorium. She should be the star of Darcy Arts Academy, so why is she hiding in a seedy motel room? Perhaps it has something to do with a devastating scandal---and the fact that Judy is three feet nine inches...
By: DeWoskin, Rachel
Paperback | $23.95 | 9780393328592
Determined to broaden her cultural horizons and live a "fiery" life, twenty-one-year-old Rachel DeWoskin hops on a plane to Beijing to work for an American PR firm based in the busy capital. Before she knows it, she is not just exploring Chinese culture but also creating it as the sexy, aggressive...
By: Faraone, Christopher A. (EDT);
Hardcover | $125.00 | 9780199664108
The Getty Hexameters looks in detail at a series of forty-four magical verses inscribed on a recently discovered lead tablet from Sicily in the fifth century BC, which is now in the Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
Divided into two sections, the volume consists of a general introduction to...
By: Faraone, Christopher A
Hardcover | $99.00 | 9780199236985
In this study of poetic form in early Greek elegy, Christopher A. Faraone argues against the prevailing assumption that it was a genre of stichic poetry derived from or dependent on epic verse. Faraone emphasizes the fact that early elegiac poets composed their songs to the tune of an aulos...
