A spectacular act of close reading and looking by a great writer
In "La Folie Baudelaire," Roberto Calasso--one of the most original and acclaimed writers on literature, art, culture, and mythology--turns his attention to the poets and writers of Paris in the nineteenth century who created what [...]

The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, palaces, and villas, often covering vast ceilings like those at the Wurzburg Residenz in Germany and the Royal Palace in Madrid with frescoes that are among the glories of Western art. The [...]

This book covers the main topics of welfare economics general equilibrium models of exchange and production, Pareto optimality, un certainty, externalities and public goods and some of the major topics of social choice theory compensation criteria, fairness, voting. Arrow's Theorem, and the theory o[...]

Includes the language of the Internet, e-mail and mobile phones. This work is suitable for students learning on their own or in class. Its step-by-step approach to spoken and written Latin American Spanish assumes no prior knowledge of the language.[...]

In this book, the projects, buildings and theories of Koolhaas, as well as the other members of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, are examined in chronological and thematic sequence, beginning with the period of Koolhaas' education at the Architectural Association School of Architecture of L[...]

In Exercises for Rebel Artists, Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Roberto Sifuentes use their extensive teaching and performance experience with La Pocha Nostra to help students and practitioners to create 'border art'. Designed to take readers right into the heart of radical performance, the authors use a s[...]

Islam has long been a part of the West in terms of religion, culture, politics and society. Discussing this interaction from al-Andalus to the present, this Handbook explores the influence Islam has had, and continues to exert; particularly its impact on host societies, culture and politics. Highlig[...]

Analyzing observed or measured data is an important step in applied sciences. This book provides not only definitions and short descriptions, but also offers an overview of the different topics. It gives 1700 entries in alphabetical order grouped into 20 topics and each topic is organized in a hiera[...]

"Don Quixote, a lanky scarecrow of a man with his withered face and lantern jaw, dons his rusty armour and mounts his ramshackle steed, Rozinante. With lance couched he still rides through our lives, followed by his potbellied squire Sancho Panza." With these words, Walter Starkie launches the intro[...]