Yale University Press. Spanning nearly 500 years of cultural and social history, this book examines the ways that literature and surveillance have developed together, as kindred modern practices. As ideas about personhood—what constitutes a self—have changed over time, so too have ideas about how to represent, shape, or invade the..... More
Hardcover. Vajra Wisdom presents the commentaries of two great nineteenth-century Nyingma masters that guide practitioners engaged in development stage practice through a series of straightforward instructions. The rarity of this kind of material in English makes it indispensable for practitioners and scholars alike. The goal of development stage..... More
Oxford University Press, 1979. More
University of Washington Press, 2011. Recognized in Japan as a connoisseur, collector, and proprietor of a famous folk art shop in Tokyo, Tawara Yusaku returned to painting late in life and had a single show in London before his death in 2004. Universe Is Flux is the first examination of..... More
To the Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf's famous modernist novel, which features the Ramsay's on a family trip to Skye. Written in a style that leaves conventionality behind, the work is a mosaic of thoughts, contemplation and perception. More
East West Center Press, 1966. More
Angela Merici (1474-1540), like other mystic women such as Catherine of Siena, was considered a "santa viva"--a living saint--by virtue of her mysticism, sacred knowledge, human qualities, and participation in civic life. However, Angela's originality and genius reside above all in the foundation of the Company of St. Ursula. It..... More
John Hopkins University Press. Spoken words come alive in written verse. In Sounding Imperial, James Mulholland offers a new assessment of the origins, evolution, and importance of poetic voice in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. By examining a series of literary experiments in which authors imitated oral voices..... More
Paris: D.A. Longuet, 1911. D. A. Longuet, Paris, 1911. Folio portfolio ca. 30cm x 40cm , bound in greenish gray cloth covered boards, portfolio in very good to near fine condition, 3 sets of cloth ties for the portfolio are all present. Contents are complete with 102 plates - most..... More
Paris: D.A. Longuet, 1909. Paris: D. A. Longuet, 1909. First Edition. Loose in portfolio. Folio portfolio ca. 30cm x 40cm , bound in greenish gray cloth covered boards, backstrip with some tears, covers with very light wear and soiling, 3 sets of cloth ties for the portfolio are in very..... More
This catalogue accompanies an exhibition of a new work by Sarah Sze (born 1969) at The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. Sze's immense and intricate site-specific works are akin to drawings in space, manipulating architectural spaces to profoundly affect the way they are viewed. This work was installed on..... More
The recent rediscovery of Rubens’s Massacre of the Innocents (bought by Lord Thomson for £50 million in 2002) offers an important opportunity to reassess the painter’s early career. Of Rubens’s works immediately following his return to Antwerp in 1608, it is the most assured, achieving a remarkable complexity both compositionally..... More
Granta Editions, 2011. From a New York Times–bestselling and National Book Critics Award–winning author comes a “small masterpiece” of fatherhood, childhood, and bottle-feeding (Publishers Weekly). In a novel Entertainment Weekly called “intensely funny and moving,” Nicholson Baker takes the reader on an intellectual odyssey over the course of the..... More
1996. Eranda Foundation. More
Japan: Shimbi Shoin, 1913. More
John Hopkins University Press. In her award-winning, critically acclaimed Women's Writing in Italy, 1400--1650, Virginia Cox chronicles the history of women writers in early modern Italy -- who they were, what they wrote, where they fit in society, and how their status changed during this period. In this book, Cox..... More
Claude McKay, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and Charles Chesnutt are among the stellar writers featured in this exceptional collection of short stories. More
