Twenty full-color plates of the artist's works illuminate a collection of writings by Henri Matisse.
A synthesis of Henri Nouwen's integrated approach to spiritual formation which is both driven and tempered by his integral relationship with psychology, ministry, and theology.[...]
Highlights the tension-filled nature of our journey and shows us, via Nouwen's example, how we too can navigate our way through it in a transformative way.[...]
On the day after Christmas 1926, avant-garde poet Henri Michaux began a year-long journey to Ecuador as "a man who knows neither how to travel nor how to keep a journal". In the process, he created the first truly modern travel book, a work of pointed observation and sensual, even hallucinogenic, po[...]
Henri Matisse, one of the pioneering masters of twentieth-century art, was an extremely versatile and productive artist. Throughout his long career from the 1830s to his death in 1954, his art was nourished by a variety of movements: Neoclassicism, Realism, Impressionism, and Post-Impressionism. He [...]
A French poet and artist shares his observations on India and its people, the Himalayan railway, China, and Japan[...]
Katharine Hepburn is a star of the silver screen, fashion icon, and quintessential class act. This visually arresting volume offers an intimate view into the life of a Hollywood giant - from her early years in the studio system, through the famed Spencer Tracy period, to her later life as a grand da[...]
A facsimile edition (with new backmatter providing translation and a curatorial note) of a stunningly gorgeous book originally published in 1902 and reissued here in a partnership with Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. French artist Henri Riviere's Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower were inspire[...]
A leading French writer travels America in the footsteps of Alexis de Tocqueville to provide a fascinating glimpse of American politics, culture, and society and what it means to be an American from the perspective of a foreign observer, addressing such issues as the religion of baseball, immigratio[...]
The first English translation of Lefebvre's groundbreaking work on the urban experience.
Originally published in 1970, The Urban Revolution marked Henri Lefebvre's first sustained critique of urban society, a work in which he pioneered the use of semiotic, structuralist, and poststructura[...]
Shows how Lefebvre's theory of space developed out of direct engagement with architecture, urbanism, and urban sociology.[...]
"Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment" is the first publication in any language of the only book devoted to architecture by Henri Lefebvre. Written in 1973 but only recently discovered in a private archive, this work extends Lefebvre's influential theory of urban space to the question of architec[...]
Appearing here in English for the first time, Vladimir Jankelevitch's "Henri Bergson" is one of the two great commentaries written on Henri Bergson. Gilles Deleuze's "Bergsonism" renewed interest in the great French philosopher but failed to consider Bergson's experiential and religious perspectives[...]
Ruminates on the problems, and possible solutions, in today's Christian leadership, offering a rethinking of how to lead, one based more firmly on divine guidance[...]
This book focuses on a historical analysis of hte genesis of the idea of pure nature, which arose in reaction to the distorted Augustinianism of nominalist theologians at the end ot the Middle Ages.[...]
A presentation of the main themes of de Lubrac's monumental study where he demonstrates that all forms of scriptural exegesis are part of the ongoing reflective life of God and the process by which the human race learns to share its mystery.[...]
The spiritual life is not a life then and there, but a life here and now. It is a life in which the spirit of God is revealed in the ordinary encounters of everyday. In this book of meditations Henri Nouwen shows in a personal and insightful way that God is much closer to us than we usually realize.[...]