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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A comprehensive look at the life and work of one of the 20th century's most influential architects
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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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An illustrated and in-depth exploration of four of Rosas's early works, Fase, Rosas danst Rosas, Elena's Aria, and Bartok, through sketches, notes, and photographs
A revelatory look at how the mature work of Caspar David Friedrich engaged with concurrent developments in natural science and philosophy.
"Ben Hecht's critically acclaimed autobiographical memoir, first published in 1954, offers incomparably pungent evocations of Chicago in the 1910s and 1920s, Hollywood in the 1930s, and New York during the Second World War and after"--