Not only the final outcome but the process of creative endeavor has long attracted attention in various artistic disciplines, but only recently has the potential of such research been seriously explored. The most rigorous basis for the study of artistic creativity comes not from anecdotal or autobio[...]

Presents a comprehensive overview of Europe from the background of the French Revolution to the origins of the First World War. Illustrated with maps, contemporary cartoons and portraits, this title presents an analysis of this turbulent and formative period of European History.[...]

The Intelligent Portfolio draws upon the extensive insights of Financial Engines-a leading provider of investment advisory and management services founded by Nobel Prize-winning economist William F. Sharpe-to reveal the time-tested institutional investing techniques that you can use to help improve[...]

The main period covered by the book is that of the Industrial Revolution, the years between 1750 and 1850, when the major developments and technical advances occurred that are today the concern of industrial archaeologists. Where relevant, however, the early history of particular industries, and fur[...]

Fred Halsted's L.A. Plays Itself (1972) was gay porn's first masterpiece: a sexually explicit, autobiographical, experimental film whose New York screening left even Salvador Dali repeatedly muttering "new information for me." Halsted, a self-taught filmmaker, shot the film over a period of three ye[...]