Edith Grossman, celebrated for her brilliant translation of Don Quixote, offers a dazzling new version of another Cervantes classic
Featuring extended analyses of the author's most cherished poets - Shakespeare, Whitman, and Crane - as well as inspired appreciations of Emerson,... Læs mere
This biography of Edward the Confessor, first published in 1970, aims to rescue the image of the King from what the author sees as myth and bogus scholarship. Disentangling fact... Læs mere
Winner of the 1991 Elaine and David Spitz Book Prize for the best book on liberal and/or democratic theory, this book discusses what democracy is and why it is important. It examines basic assumptions of democratic theory and tests them against the questions raised by critics.
Offering science-based information about treatments, this book provides an understanding of ADD/ADHD. It also includes examples of the daily life challenges it presents for children, adolescents, and adults.
“I am trying to find out why a subject does look so marvelous, and trying to make that sensation manifest on a flat surface.”—Euan Uglow
The first major study of one of the most important architects of the postwar era
A biography that offers a fresh portrait of Anne Boleyn, one of England's most captivating queens. Through a wide-ranging forensic examination of sixteenth-century sources,... Læs mere
Features Stalin's leadership from the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 to his death in 1953. This book challenges a long list of standard... Læs mere