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Tender Is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald began composing Tender Is the Night in the summer of 1925, but he struggled with the novel and reworked it intensively over the next nine years. A study of the …
Common Objects of the Microscope
The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West
The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West examines the relationship between epinician and the heroizing narratives about athletes, or "hero-athlete narratives, " that circulated …
The Decline of the West
In the second and more controversial, albeit optimistic, volume of The Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler deals with the world-historical perspectives of his comparative cultural …
Kew Gardens: Marianne North: Flowers of the Flame-Tree and Yellow and Black Twiner, West Australia (Foiled Journal)
A FLAME TREE NOTEBOOK. Beautiful and luxurious the journals combine high-quality production with magnificent art. Perfect as a gift, and an essential personal choice for writers, …
How the West Became Antisemitic
An examination of how the Jews—real and imagined—so challenged the Christian majority in medieval Europe that it became a society that was religiously and culturally antisemitic in …
Through the Wire
This is a rare partnership between two geniuses at the top of their crafts -- Kanye West, who was named "e;the smartest man in hip-hop"e; by Time magazine, and Bill …
Lakota Performers in Europe Volume 3
From April to November 1935 in Belgium, fifteen Lakotas enacted their culture on a world stage. Wearing beaded moccasins and eagle-feather headdresses, they set up tepees, danced, …
Women and Religion in the West
What is the relationship between women and secularization? In the West, women are abandoning traditional religion. Yet they continue to make up the majority of religious adherents. …
Journey to the West
The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West
Bringing together Custer, Sherman, Grant, and other fascinating military and political figures, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Geronimo, …
How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History
An award-winning Cambridge history professor "makes a forceful argument and tells a story with great verve" (The Wall Street Journal)--that the West is, and always has been, truly …