This book is the indispensable guide to the history of architecture in Venice, encompassing the city's fascinating variety of buildings from ancient times to the present day.
In contrast to content-, theme-, or issue-based approaches to French film, this title stresses 'the cinema-tic-ally specific, the warp and fabric of the film itself, the stuff of which it is made'.
A classic novel from recent Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, now available to English-language readers in a superb new translation
Selections from the "Pandemic Files" published by The Yale Review, the preeminent journal of literature and ideas
Based on new archival information, this book upends two hundred years of scholarship on England’s Glorious Revolution to claim that it—not the French Revolution—was the first truly modern revolution
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Focusing on the human rights of children, the author an acclaimed analyst, political theorist and biographer argues that prejudice exists against children... Læs mere
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