Just as Serge Rachmaninoff ranked among the greatest pianists of the 20th century, his compositions for Piano and Orchestra won him an important position among modern composers.

The major works that made his reputation include the first three Piano concertos, reprinted here in a single volume[...]

This generous compilation of Rachmaninoff's piano music reflects the "best of the best" -- selected shorter works that have been most often performed and most frequently recorded by such great keyboard artists as Horowitz, Richter, Gilels, Cliburn, and Rachmaninoff himself. Offered here for the firs[...]

Situated in the heart of Paris, the Musee d'Orsay boasts the greatest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art in the world, a collection unparalleled in its diversity and quality. Since its spectacular opening in 1986 in a renovated train station, the museum has welcomed more than 50 [...]

Reciprocity is the basis of social relations. It permits a peaceful and free society in which people and rights are respected. The essence of families and communities, it also enables the working of markets and organisations, while correcting their main failures. Reciprocity is also a basis of polit[...]

This is a historical biography of Hannibal, the military leader of Carthage responsible for waging a dramatic onslaught against Rome during the Punic Wars, and one of the most fascinating figures of ancient history. It is told from a pro-Hannibal, rather than pro-Roman, perspective.[...]

This important volume publishes in full for the first time two sets of highly elaborate Neo-Assyrian bronze gate decorations from the site of Balawat (ancient Imgur-Enlil) in northern Iraq. One set, discovered by Hormuzd Rassam on a British Museum expedition in 1878, is now on permanent display in L[...]

This provocative new book argues that the rise of the West to world domination has brought widespread social, cultural and material destruction in its wake.[...]

Serge Moscovici introduced the concept of social representations into contemporary social psychology. This book brings together some of his classic statements of the theory of social representations as well as elaborations of the distinctive features of this perspective in social psychology.[...]

* For the first time, English-speaking readers will have access to one of the most influential books published in the discipline in the past 30 years. * Psychoanalysis, Its Image and Its Public is in many ways the founding text of the theory of social representations and is, as such, a modern class[...]

Most of us who live in the North and the West consume far too much - too much meat, too much fat, too much sugar, too much salt. We are more likely to put on too much weight than to go hungry. We live in a society that is heading for a crash. We are aware of what is happening and yet we refuse to ta[...]

In this important new book the renowned historian Serge Gruzinski returns to two episodes in the sixteenth century which mark a decisive stage in global history and show how China and Mexico experienced the expansion of Europe.[...]