Everyone who has ever had a nightmare has wondered what it meant and why he had it.
"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are," said Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, French lawyer, politician, magistrate, and literary man of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The Journal of Madame Giovanni is crowded with high adventure and bizarre description; it has subtle tension and the tangy, imaginative quality which only Dumas could give to straight narration.
With an introduction written especially for the American edition by the author, this is undoubtedly one of the most important works to reach us from abroad.
The story of painting, sculpture, architecture, and music as well as all the so-called minor arts from the days of the cavemen until the present time.
Here is on volume is the entire scope of primitive sociology--a treasury of fascinating tribal lore and a masterpiece of scientific exposition.
An eminent historian tells the story of how we came to obsess over the origins of humanity—and how, for three centuries, ideas of prehistory have been used to justify devastating violence against others