A collection of writings on a conceptual and installation artist who has been called "one of the most important artists of the decade."Gabriel Orozco's work is sometimes considered uncategorizable; but his sculpture, photography, drawing, collage, and installations are unified by their devotion to t[...]

Current textbooks in formal semantics are all versions of, or introductions to, the same paradigm in semantic theory: Montague Grammar. Knowledge of Meaning is based on different assumptions and a different history. It provides the only introduction to truth- theoretic semantics for natural language[...]

This book tells the story of Subotai the Valiant, one of the greatest generals in military history, surely the equal of Hannibal and Scipio in tactical brilliance and ranking right along with both Alexander and Caesar as a strategist. Subotai commanded armies whose size, scale, and scope of operatio[...]

Despite his untimely death in 1667 at the age of thirty-seven, Gabriel Metsu left a substantial oeuvre of history paintings, portraits, still lifes, and a large number of exquisite genre scenes. These charming depictions of kitchen maids, elegant young ladies, hunters, drinkers, and amorous couples [...]

In this exhaustive and enlightening biography--nearly two decades in the making--Gerald Martin dexterously traces the life and times of one of the twentieth century's greatest literary titans, Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Martin chronicles the particulars of an extraordinary life, from[...]

Estos relatos tempranos de Gabriel Garcia Marquez fueron escritos y publicados entre 1947 y 1955, aunque, como libro," Ojos de perro azul" no apareceria hasta 1974, cuando el escritor ya habia publicado otros dos libros de relatos y cuatro novelas, de las que la ultima, "Cien anos de soledad," le pr[...]