Literatura obcojęzyczna The University of Chicago Press

This text explores three of Bernini's baroque chapels to show how Bernini achieved his effects. Careri examines the ways in which the artist...

Niccolo Machiavelli's Art of War is one of the world's great classics of military and political theory. Praised by the finest military minds...

Steinberg argues in this work that the artists regarded the deliberate exposure of Christ's genitalia as an affirmation of kinship with...

"Bejeweled creatures--squid, comb jellies, octopuses, and tube worms--leap off the black pages in such a luminescent rainbow that you can't...

Religion, Mark C. Taylor argues in "After God", is more complicated than either its defenders or critics think and, indeed, is much more...

In the 1630s, the Netherlands was gripped by tulipmania: a speculative fever unprecedented in scale and, as popular history would have it,...

Ask anyone to picture a bird or a fish and a series of clear images will immediately come to mind. Ask the same person to picture plankton...

On July 9, 1975, artist Bas Jan Ader set sail from Chatham, Massachusetts, for Palmouth, England, on the second leg of a three-part piece...

Famed in story as "the great leviathans" sperm whales are truly creatures of extremes. Giants among all whales, they also have the largest...

This first real biography reveals the deliberate artist behind the image of the secretive nanny and claims a space for Maier as one of the...

From Michael Pollan to locavores, from Whole Foods to farmers' markets nationwide, cooks and foodies today are paying more attention than...

Monkey see, monkey do--or does he$1170 Can the behavior of non-human primates--their sociality, their intelligence, their communication--really...

Today only about a thousand giant pandas survive in the wild. Dependent on a shrinking supply of bamboo on the one hand and threatened by...

Zookeepers are responsible for the care and welfare of animals in zoos and aquariums and also serve as public ambassadors for the animals....

Humanity is aby many measures the biggest success story in the animal kingdom; but what are the costs of this triumph? Over its three million...

From 1840 until 1940, freak shows aby the hundreds crisscrossed the United States, from the smallest towns to the largest cities, exhibiting...

The Mesopotamians invented writing and with it a new way of looking at the world. In this collection of essays, the French scholar Jean...

A translation of Fernand Braudel's "Ecrits sur l'histoire", published in 1969. The main themes of the work are: the importance of a "rapprochement"...

One of the most popular and widely read books of the Middle Ages, "Physiologus" contains allegories of beasts, stones, and trees both real...

Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, its legacy and the accompanying Russian-American tension continues to loom large. Russia's...

The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created...

This novel portrays the experiences of ordinary soldiers fighting World War II. Using the points of view of a perceptive young Nazi, a jaded...

Long recognized as one of the most important 18th-century works on the aesthetics of the visual arts, Johann Gottfried Herder's "Plastik"...

Presents the English translation of "Protogaea", a central text in natural philosophy and an account of terrestrial history.

In Smart Casual, Alison Pearlman investigates what she identifies as the increasing informality in the design of contemporary American restaurants....

The tiny, lungless Thorius salamander from southern Mexico, thinner than a match and smaller than a quarter. The lushly white-coated Saki,...

With the recent landing of the Mars rover Curiosity, it seems safe to assume that the idea of being curious is alive and well in modern...

If offered the chance--by cloak, spell, or superpower--to be invisible, who wouldn't want to give it a try$565 We are drawn to the idea...

This monument of rabbinical exegesis written at the end of the twelfth century has exerted an immense and continuing influednce upon Jewish...

Did you know that European royalty once used cheetahs to hunt deer, or that caracals can capture birds by leaping six and a half feet straight...

This book focuses on six brilliant women who are often seen as particularly tough-minded: Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan...

Though largely out of the public eye for more than a century, Gustave Caillebotte (1848 - 94) has come to be recognized as one of the most...

The human history of depicting birds dates to as many as 40,000 years ago, when Paleolithic artists took to cave walls to capture winged...

What is the place of materiality-the expression or condition of physical substance-in our visual age of rapidly changing materials and media?...

Ghost Image is made up of sixty-three short essays - meditations, memories, fantasies, and stories bordering on prose poems - and not a...

In A Social History of Modern Art, a sweeping multivolume social history of Western art from the French Revolution to World War I, Albert...

One of the twentieth century's greatest composers, Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) virtually stopped writing music during the last thirty years...

Assembled here for the first time in one volume are forty classic papers that have laid the foundations of modern ecology. Whether aby posing...

Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the last of the great universal artistic...

Portraits of Elderly Animals from Farm Sanctuaries There's nothing quite like a relationship with an aged pet--a dog or cat who has been...

The Roman army was the greatest fighting machine in the ancient world. More than that, it was the single largest organization in Western...

At once feared and revered, sharks have captivated people since our earliest human encounters. Children and adults alike stand awed before...

The livre d' artiste, or "artist's book," is among the most prized in rare book collections. Henri Matisse was one of the greatest artists...

How well do we really know dogs$956 People may enjoy thinking about them as "man's best friend," but what actually drives the things they...

In presenting stories of men's intimacies with men during the 19th century--in a world before the words "gay" and "straight" referred to...