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Artemisia Born in the early 1600s when artists were the celebrities of the day, Artemisia was apprenticed to her father, the artist Orazio Gentileschi, at an early age. After Artemisia was raped by her father's partner, Agostino Tassi, at seventeen, the Gentileschi name was dragged through scandal for Artemisia refused, even when tortured, to deny that she had been raped. Indeed, she went farther: she dared to plead her case in court. Artemisia is the story of a powerful love/hate relationship between master and pupil, father and daughter, and a talent that overturned the prejudices of the day, her paintings winning the admiration of wealthy patrons, courtesans, kings, queens, and the Medicis. Lapierre brings Artemisia Gentileschi to vivid life as she tells the fascinating, emotional story of the first major female artist.
Loverboy Left with a small fortune by her parents and the cryptic advice, "it would do to find a passion," the narrator of this mesmerizing novel longs for a child. She conceives her son, Paul, through a loveless one-night stand, and when he's born she surrounds him with a magical world for two; filled with art, games, and bottomless devotion; and she calls him pet names, such as "Birdie" and "Loverboy." She loves him as a mother loves her only child, but soon life beyond their world begins to beckon the school-age Paul, threatening to change everything. With seductive lyricism and a vision worthy of Shirley Jackson and Flannery O'Connor, Victoria Redel reveals the whisper-thin lines between selfless and selfish motivation that exists in all devotion.
Fool on the Hill Fool on the Hill is a magical storytelling tour de force that since its original publication has become an underground classic. It is the story of S. T. George, a young writer-in-residence at Cornell University, who is looking for love and dragons to slay. Momentous forces and a cast of extraordinary characters gather around him; including dogs and cats who speak, Shakespearean sprites who dress in Armani, and two mysterious women. Soon George is caught up in an epic struggle of life and death, good and evil, magic and love. Fantastic as the epic quests of J. R. R. Tolkien and contemporary as any zany entertainment of Tom Robbins, Fool on the Hill is certain to be reread, laughed over, and remembered for a very long time.
Beethoven's Hair As Ludwig van Beethoven lay dying in 1827, a young musician named Ferdinand Hiller came to pay his respects to the great composer. In those days, it was customary to snip a lock of hair as a keepsake, and this Hiller did a day after Beethoven's death. By the time he was buried, Beethoven's head had been nearly shorn by the many people who similarly had wanted a lasting memento of the great man. Beethoven's Hair is an astonishing tale of one lock of hair and its amazing travels; from nineteenth-century Vienna to twenty-first-century America. This unique and fascinating book is a moving testament to the power of music, the lure of relics, the heroism of the Resistance movement, and the brilliance of molecular science.
Islam in the World There are over one billion Muslims in the world today, equaling more than a fifth of humanity. In this revised and long-awaited second edition, Malise Ruthven provides an essential summary of Islam, one of the world's great religions, in which the quest for spiritual fulfillment is inevitably bound up with political aspirations. Here, ruthven presents a full overview of the religion in its historical, geographic, and social settings, covering such fundamental topics as pilgrimages to Mecca, Muhammad and the Quran, the development of divine law, the mystic tradition, and various Islamic sects. The book also features a new concluding chapter that focuses on women in Islam, the challenges Islam faces in today's climate of globalization, and the key developments in Islamic political history since 1984; an especially fertile period that has seen, among other things, the Taliban movement in Afghanistan and the controversial publication of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses.
Servants of Nature: A History of Scientific Institutions, Enterprises, and Sensibilities Sevants of Nature explores the interaction between scientific practice and public life from antiquity to the present. The authors show how, in Asia, Europe, and the New World, scientific expression has been allied closely with changes in three distinct areas of society: the institutions that sustain science; the moral, religious, political, and philosophical sensibilities of scientists themselves; and the goal of the scientific enterprise. This survey ranges in time and space from Sumerian astronomy to the formulation of the theory of relativity, in New Jersey. It demonstrates how science has evolved in different societies, spawning innumerable organizations; universities, museums, observatories; for teaching, research, and popularization. |
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Dead Souls Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls, a comic masterpiece about a mysterious con man and his grotesque victims, is one of the major works of Russian literature. It was translated into English in 1942 by Bernard Guilbert Guerney; the translation was hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as "an extraordinarily fine piece of work" and is still considered the best translation of Dead Souls ever published. Long out of print, the Guerney translation of Dead Souls is now reissued. The text has been made more faithful to Gogol's original by removing passages that Guerney inserted from earlier drafts of Dead Souls. The text is accompanied by Susanne Fusso's introduction and by appendixes that present excerpts from Guerney's translations of other drafts of Gogol's work and letters Gogol wrote around the time of the writing and publication of Dead Souls.
An Introduction to the Psychotherapies This third edition is a continuation of a highly successful text for mental health professionals embarking on training in psychotherapy. Since its first publication in 1979, it has carved out a niche for itself and has proved very useful to the new trainee in the field. All the chapters have been thoroughly updated to take into account developments in the psychotherapies since the mid 1980s. However, the first chapter by Jerome Frank has achieved the status of a classic and remains untouched. Two new chapters have been added, a scholarly contribution on ethical aspects of psychotherapy by Professor Byram Karasu and an authoritative chapter on behavioral psychotherapy by Dr Lynne Drummond.
In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd Selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Ana Menendez's In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd has been hailed by critics the world over. From the Pushcart Prize-winning title story; a masterpiece of humor and heartbreak; unfolds a series of family snapshots that illuminate the landscape of an exiled community rich in heritage and memory and longing for the past. Ana Menendez charts the territory from Havana to Coral Gables with unforgettable passion and explores whether any of us is capable, or even truly desirous, of outrunning our origins.
Five Moral Pieces One theme runs through the various subjects in these five essays; the ethics involved with inhabiting this diverse and extraordinary world. Exploring the increasing interconnectedness of the world's communities, Eco argues that tolerance is today's ultimate value. Considering our connection to one another through the vast flow of goods, services, and information, he questions the usefulness of war. He also examines the media's contribution to our widespread disillusionment with politics. In the most personal of essays, he recalls experiencing liberation from fascism as a boy in Italy. And finally, in an open letter to an Italian cardinal, Eco reflects on a question underlying all the essays in the book: What does it mean to be moral or ethical when one doesn't believe in God?
Left Back: A Century of Battles Over School Reform For the past one hundred years, Americans have argued and worried about the quality of their schools. Some charged that students were not learning enough, while others complained that the schools were not furthering social progress. In Left Back, education historian Diane Ravitch describes this ongoing battle of ideas and explains why school reform has so often disappointed. She recounts grandiose efforts to use the schools' ability to provide a high-quality education for all children. By illuminating the history of education in the twentieth century, Left Back points the way to reviving American schools today.
Future Pasts: The Analytic Tradition in Twentieth-Century Philosophy Among contemporary philosophers there is a growing interest in recounting the history of philosophy in the twentieth century. Those who discuss what is more of less loosely called "analytic philosophy" are increasingly engaged in attempting to delineate the origins and significance of the analytic tradition. This collection of essays is meant to be a contribution to the growing historical consciousness of contemporary Anglo-American philosophy. More than that, however, the decision to bring together these particular essays stems from the editors' conception of present difficulties facing the historiography of recent philosophy. Both partisans and critics, such as Richard Rorty, of what is called "analytic philosophy" assume that it is definable by a small number of question, theories, principles, or concepts. This volume calls into doubt these often unquestioned, even unconscious, assumptions about the history of recent philosophy. |
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