On January 3, 1882, Oscar Wilde, a twenty-seven-year-old genius at least by his own reckoning arrived in New York. The Dublin-born Oxford man had made such a spectacle of himself in London with his eccentric fashion sense, acerbic wit, and extravagant passion for art and home design that Gilbert & S[...]
On an otherwise ordinary Sunday morning in 1964, millions of Roman Catholics around the world experienced history. For the first time in centuries, they attended masses that were conducted mostly in their native tongues. This occasion marked only the first of many profound changes to emanate from th[...]
A self-contained, graduate-level textbook that develops from scratch classical results as well as advances of the past decade.[...]