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Renaissance Themes
These essays present a view of English literature and drama in a context of humane literary studies: a critical ambience harking back to the Renaissance. Arun Kumar Das…
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Robert Frost
Robert Frost is by far the most celebrated major American poet of the twentieth century. In part, this is because his poetry seems, on the surface, to be so accessible,…
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Rolling on the River
“There are few places where the game [of politics] is played with more intensity than in Chicago,” notes Steve Neal, who has covered that city’s politics since 1979.The longtime political…
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Sculpture
The remodeling of the theater at ancient Corinth in the 2nd century A.D. included lavish decorations, the chief of which were three dramatic friezes. In publishing them this book presents…
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Sculpture
At the time of its creation in the Hadrianic period, the Corinth Theater presented the most elaborate form of Roman theater architecture to date; a three-storied columnar facade made of…
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Sculpture II
A catalogue of the sculpture discovered during excavations by the University of California at Los Angeles in the sanctuary of Poseidon at Isthmia. The sculpture ranges in date from ca….
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Serving Twa Maisters
This collection contains five classic works translated into Scots from the heart of post-war Scottish tradition: Let Wives Tak Tent by Robert Kemp from Molière (1948); The Burdies by Douglas Young…
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Spaces 7
This book features a selection of the work of 16 firms representative of the quality with which architectural design is nowadays crafted. There are multiple and diverse examples: on one…
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Spaces III
People interested in architecture evolution will find in this book an opportunity to verify the advances and transformations that have occurred in this area, based on a compromise between form…
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Spaces IV
Commercial design has gone well beyond trend and fashion. The examples included in this 4th volume of the Spaces, Offices, Restaurants, Commercial Spaces series are very important in that aspect….
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Spaces VI
It is particularly pleasing for the editors to present the commercial designs of some of today’s most distinguished Mexican architects. In a sense we also owe thanks to their customers…
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Sterling Biographies®: Benjamin Franklin
What do libraries, streetlights, and fire stations have in common? What about bifocal lenses and the odometer? Sayings like “haste makes waste?” Benjamin Franklin was a man of many talents:…