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Visuality for Architects
What is more important in architectural works—their form, shape, and colour, or the meanings and symbolism that can be associated with them? Can aesthetic judgments of architecture …
Quantitative Methods in the Humanities
This timely and lucid guide is intended for students and scholars working on all historical periods and topics in the humanities and social sciences-especially for those who do not …
System of Transcendental Idealism
System of Transcendental Idealism is probably Schelling's most important philosophical work. A central text in the history of German idealism, its original German publication in …
Trauma and Survival in Contemporary Fiction
In an exploration of how contemporary fiction narratives represnet trauma - that response to events so overwhelmingly intense that normal responses become impaired - Laurie Vickroy …
Three Rings
Winner of the 2020 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, France's best foreign book of the year.In this genre-defying book, best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores …
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander is one of the most important landscape architects of the twentieth century, yet despite her lasting influence, few outside the field know her name. Her …
The Science of Fly-Fishing
The foundations of fly-fishing history, literature, and mechanics are firmly anchored in the disciplines of science, yet until now there has been no comprehensive work that …
Hope Without Optimism
In his latest book, Terry Eagleton, one of the most celebrated intellects of our time, considers the least regarded of the virtues. His compelling meditation on hope begins with a …
Willful Submission
Victorian England: a Jesuit priest writes of wrestling with God at night, limbs entangled; an Anglican sister begs Jesus, her divine lover, to end her aching anticipation of their …
Masters of Tonewood
The wood used by master craftsmen to create many of the world’s legendary stringed instruments—violins and cellos, mandolins and guitars—comes from seven near-mythic European …
War Diaries
In recent decades, the development of advanced weaponry systems and the instant flow of information have redefined the notion of urban warfare as a local phenomenon with global …
Leopold Sedar Senghor
Leopold Sedar Senghor was not only president of the Republic of Senegal from 1960 to 1981, he is also one of Africa's most famous poets. A co-founder of the Negritude cultural …