An introspective fill-in-the-blank that helps readers reflect on their past, evaluate the present, and dream for the future."My Life Map" helps people at any stage of life create a visual road map of both their past and their future in major life areas such as family, work, play, friends, and educat[...]

With television programmers like "Big Brother", to magazines like "Heat" and "Closer" feeding the public's obsession with celebrity, "The Celebrity Culture Reader" is a perfectly timed collection of writings for this rapidly growing field of study. Through a combination of classic pieces and contemp[...]

Aesthetic experience was problematic for Enlightenment authors. Arguing against the commonly held view that aesthetics in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was defined by the professionalization of criticism and the disinterested contemplation and evaluation of the work of art in isolati[...]

Of the twelve books David Foster Wallace published both during his lifetime and posthumously, only three were novels. Nevertheless, Wallace always thought of himself primarily as a novelist. From his college years at Amherst, when he wrote his first novel as part of a creative honors thesis, to his [...]

Wallpaper* City Guides present a tightly edited, discreetly packaged list of the best a location has to offer the design conscious traveller. Here is a precise, informative, insider's checklist of all you need to know about the world's most intoxicating cities. Whether you are staying for 48 hours o[...]

Ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively, Stone Age Economics includes six studies that reflect the author's ideas on revising traditional views of hunter-gatherer and so-called primitive societies, revealing them to be the original affluent society. When it[...]

When Western scholars write about non-Western societies, do they inevitably perpetuate the myths of European imperialism? Can they ever articulate the meanings and logics of non-Western peoples? Who has the right to speak for whom? Questions such as these are debated in this text. Marshall Sahlins a[...]

A highly readable and practical guide for anyone treating or caring for someone with an alcohol problem.[...]

Considered the most original thinker in the Italian philosophical tradition, Giambattista Vico has been the object of much scholarly attention but little consensus. In this new interpretation, David L. Marshall examines the entirety of Vico's oeuvre and situates him in the political context of early[...]