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The first comprehensive study of Knoll's innovative textile designs and the company's role within the history of interior design

"Each photograph is like a diary entry of my life." -Patti Smith

Surveys centuries of folklore about vampires. This book offers an explanation for the origins of the vampire legends, from the tale of a sixteenth-century shoemaker from Breslau whose ghost terrorized everyone in the city, to the testimony of a doctor who presided over the exhumation and dissection of a graveyard full of Serbian vampires.

A biography that offers a fresh account of Robert Schumann's life. It confronts the traditional perception of the doom-laden Romantic, forced by depression into a life of helpless, poignant sadness. It frees Schumann from one hundred and fifty years of myth-making and unjustified psychological speculation.

Set at the beginning of the nineteenth century, when idleness was still looked upon by Russia's serf-owning rural gentry as a plausible and worthy goal, Ivan Goncharov's "Oblomov" follows the travails of an unlikely hero, a young aristocrat incapable of making a decision. This title presents the translation the novel.

A text-and-DVD package that can be used to improve the conversational skills of second- to third-semester beginner Arabic students. It helps learners as they start to express themselves in the Arabic language, guiding them through linguistic functions such as introductions, describing people and places, and discussing typical daily activities.

Offers a portrayal of the friendship between two icons of twentieth-century poetry, Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky. This book highlights the parallel lives of the poets as exiles living in America and Nobel Prize laureates in literature.

Few, if any, early modern European cities boasted a population as racially, ethnically and religiously diverse as Renaissance Venice, from German merchants living in the Fondaco dei Tedeschi to the Jewish inhabitants of the Ghetto. This book focuses on the wealthy elite of that immigrant population.

The genre of Rajput painting flourished between the 16th and 19th centuries in the kingdoms that ruled what is now the Indian state of Rajasthan (place of rajas). This title surveys the overall tradition of Indian Rajput painting, while developing new methods to ask unprecedented questions about meaning.

Teaches basic conversational and literary skills in Mandarin. This title builds language ability while stimulating learners' curiosity about the linguistic structures of the language as well as the geography, history, and culture of China.

A definitive version of "Sinners", accompanied by the tools necessary to study and teach this famous American sermon. With an introduction aimed at students and teachers and commentary that draws on fifty years of team editorial experience of Yale's Works of Jonathan Edwards, it provides both context and interpretation.

Philip de Laszlo (1869-1937) was the pre-eminent portrait artist working in Britain between 1907 and 1937. He painted nearly 3,000 portraits, including those of kings and queens, four American presidents and members of the European nobility. This title gives an account of both his life and his work.

The print repertoire of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England has been neglected historically. This book provides an iconographic survey of the single-sheet prints produced in Britain during the early modern era and reveals significant discoveries from this visual storehouse.

Presents a controversial view of the origins of fascism, locating them in the eighteenth century with the advent of the Anti-Enlightenment, a far earlier date than most historians. This book contends that J G Herder, Edmund Burke, and Joseph de Maistre can be connected to the origins of the Anti-Enlightenment.

Did Britain's permissive society start with swinging London? This title challenges the sexual myth of the 1960s, arguing that its roots lay further back in the city's dramatic cultures of austerity and affluence that marked the post-war years. It focuses on sex and urban culture through a series of historical narratives.

Traces the rise and consolidation of singers and their art in the Christian West. This book is suitable for historians, musicologists, performing musicians and the general reader keen to explore the beginnings of Western musical art.

An analysis of the earliest extant documents of Christianity - the letters of Paul - to describe the tensions and texture of life of the first urban Christians. This edition features an introduction examining the evolution of New Testament scholarship over the last two decades of the 20th century.

Evaluating modern democratic practices, this text explains how the voice of the people has struggled to make itself heard in the past. It views changing concepts and practices of democracy, with examples that range from ancient Sparta to America's founders to the first Gallup polls.

Tells the story of the life and musical work of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). Drawing on Sibelius' own correspondence and diaries, contemporary reviews, and the remarks of family and friends, this book presents an account of the events of the musician's life.

The authors of this text critically review the psychoanalytic literature on human development and provide an original developmental theory, one that examines psychosexual development in the context of other simultaneously evolving systems - emotional, behavioural, cognitive and social.

Presents the painful division within Israeli society between Ashkenazi Jews, whose families come from Eastern Europe, and Sephardic or Mizrahi Jews, who come from the Arab countries of the Middle East. This title explores the history of this relationship, tracing it back to the first days of the new state of Israel.

Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893) is known predominantly for his close association, from 1848, with the "Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood" and for his masterpiece, "The Last of England" (1852-5). This catalogue provides coverage of various Madox Brown's work.

All those beguiled by the work of William Blake recognise the importance of the Bible for his poetic genius, whether as an object of criticism, or an inspiration. This book attempts to locate Blake within the broad spectrum of Christian biblical interpretation, orthodox, heterodox, and radical.

Understanding Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898) is crucial to reading the history of art of the late nineteenth century and the development of modernism. Often associated with classicizing imagery, he was an artist of great range. This book introduces many of his works, assesses his contribution, and restores him to the pantheon of modern masters.

This text traces the history of pesticide law and science and arrives at the conclusion that we have failed to protect ourselves, and especially our children, from pesticide contamination of food, soil, water and air. It suggests that more fundamental reforms are needed to contain the health risks.

Published to accompany MASS MoCA's installation of Lewitt's wall drawings, this book celebrates the artist and his illustrious 50-year career.

Alexander the Great is probably the most famous ruler of antiquity, and his spectacular conquests are recounted often in books and films. But what of his father, Philip II, who united Macedonia, created the best army in the world at the time, and conquered and annexed Greece? This biography explores the details of Philip's life and legacy.

In 1960 Eva Hesse (1936-1970) created an unusual group of oil paintings. Contrary to scholarship, which suggests that these works represent a form of self-deprecation, this book seeks to consider these 'spectre' paintings as manifestations of a private, haunted interiority in the context of the artist's burgeoning maturity.