Clear, carefully crafted stories of three women, whose relatively ordinary lives and minds Stein invests with extraordinary interest.
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New York is the ultimate symbol of the United States boundless energy and creativity. Despite the city's forthright exuberance, many of its most intriguing places are off the beaten track, behind unmarked doors, in small neighbourhood enclaves. This new edition of "StyleCity New York" takes visitors[...]

In the first book to analyze shifts in lesbian identity, consciousness, and culture from the 1970s to the 1990s, Arlene Stein contributes an important chapter to the study of the women's movement and offers a revealing portrait of the exchange between a radical generation of feminists and its succes[...]

At a time when women could not vote and very few were involved in the world outside the home, Annie Montague Alexander (1867-1950) was an intrepid explorer, amateur naturalist, skilled markswoman, philanthropist, farmer, and founder and patron of two natural history museums at the University of Cali[...]

One of the most influential collections of music ever published, "Style and Idea" includes Schoenberg's writings about himself and his music as well as studies of many other composers and reflections on art and society. An interpretive essay by Joseph Auner, Chair and Professor of Music at Tufts Uni[...]

Gertrude Stein is justly famous for her modernist writings and her patronage of vanguard painters (most notably Matisse and Picasso) in Paris before the First World War. "Seeing Gertrude Stein," the companion book to an exhibition of the same name, illuminates less familiar aspects of her life. Wand[...]

The Vijayanagara rajas ruled a substantial part of the southern peninsula of India for over three hundred years, beginning in the mid-fourteenth century, and during this epoch the region was transformed from its medieval past towards a modern colonial future. Concentrating on the later sixteenth- an[...]

This is a short and succinct summary of the unique position of Roman law in European culture by one of the world’s leading legal historians. Peter Stein’s masterly study assesses the impact of Roman law in the ancient world, and its continued unifying influence throughout medieval and mode[...]

This history provides an original, succinct but sustained narrative of the development of Indian society, culture and polity from 7000 BC to the present. It throws new light on past and currently vexing questions, and relates contemporary India, with its promise and its problems, to a rich and varie[...]

Stein's most famous work; one of the richest and most irreverent biographies ever written.



"Largely to amuse herself, [ Gertrude Stein ] wrote The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in 1932...using as a sounding board her companion Miss Toklas, who had been w[...]

This book contains an exposition of some of the main developments of the last twenty years in the following areas of harmonic analysis: singular integral and pseudo-differential operators, the theory of Hardy spaces, L\sup\ estimates involving oscillatory integrals and Fourier integral operators, re[...]