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The most extraordinary visual survey of human passion ever put between covers, Love and Desire is the long-awaited sequel to William A. Ewing's acclaimed photography collection The Body. Here, the highly regarded art critic and curator surveys 150 years of photographic history, exploring how the camera has been used to express the elusive ideas, thoughts, and sentiments related to the most turbulent of human emotions. These photographs capture the group adulation of a public icon and the showgirl's seduction of her audience, a man proudly posing with his two wives as well as the innocent sensuality of a child clutching his mother's breast. Here are images by many of the great names in photography, including Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, Nan Goldin, Helmut Newton, Sally Mann, Brassai, and Julia Margaret Cameron. Famous and obscure, beautiful and provocative, intelligent and challenging, their images explore the diversity and complexity of human yearning. A compendium that will resonate with the curious, the impassioned, and the connoisseur, Love and Desire offers an extraordinary odyssey through the secrets of the heart.
Writings on an Ethical Life offers a comprehensive collection of Singer's best and most provocative writing, as chosen by Singer himself. Among the controversial subjects addressed are the moral status of animals, environmental accountability, abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, and the ultimate choice of living an ethical life.
"In this companion to his vivid portrait of the lives of the Kennedy women, he sees the whole tapestry of the Kennedy men with their magnificent obsessions, and at the start of a new century he reproduces the Kennedy family saga with a mix of compassion, accuracy, intelligence, and great human insight; unputdownable!" Nigel Hamilton, author of JFK: Reckless Youth
Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams This is the life of Abigail Adams, wife of patriot John Adams, who became the most influential woman in evolutionary America. Rich with excerpts from her personal letters, Dearest Friend captures the public and private sides of this fascinating woman, who was both an advocate of slave emancipation and a burgeoning feminist.
This definitive edition of Szymborska's poetry in English includes the 100 poems in View with a Grain of Sand as well as sixty-four newly translated poems and her 1996 Nobel Prize acceptance speech.
In 1951, Jacques Barzun, W. H. Auden, and Lionel Trilling joined together to form the editorial board of the Readers' Subscription Book Club. Now, a half century later, A Company of Readers tells the story of this extraordinary partnership and presents for the first time a selection of essays from the publications of the Readers' Subscription Book Club and its successor, the Mid-Century Book Society. |
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Western societies have endured increasing levels of crime, massive changes in fertility and family structure, decreasing levels of trust, and the triumph of individualism over community. Just as the Industrial Revolution brought about momentous changes in society's moral values, a similar Great Disruption in our own time has caused profound changes in our social structure
Following up his 1996 The Emotional Brain, the world-renowned brain expert presents a groundbreaking work that tells a more profound story: how the little spaces between the neurons--the brain's synapses--are the channels through which we think, feel, imagine, act, and remember.
Bodanis writes the "biography" of one of the greatest scientific discoveries in history, and through his skill as a writer and teacher, he turns a seemingly impenetrable theory into a dramatic and accessible human achievement. |
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Love and Desire
Writings on an Ethical Life
The Kennedy Men
Poems, New And Collected 1957-1997
A Company of Readers: Uncollected Writings of W.H. Auden, Jacques Barzun, and ...
The Great Disruption
Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are
E=mc2: a Biography of the World's Most Famous EquationFor questions about these titles, contact remainders@harvardsquarebookstore.com.
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