Launched in 2004, the Art/Shop/Eat pocket guides combine a great contemporary look with the thoroughness
of research expected from a Blue Guide publication, making them the perfect choice for the weekend or short-break tourist or business visitor.Selective high-quality coverage of ...
For students and writers alike, a brilliant guide to the craft of writing by the
National Book Award–winning author of Spartina.National Book Award winner John Casey is a masterful novelist who is also an inspiring and beloved teacher. In Beyond ...
Johnson uses an active treatment approach that draws upon all major schools of psychotherapeutic thought,
choosing techniques that serve specific purposes and outlining changes in behavioral, affective, and cognitive domains that are necessary for lasting characterological change. Focusing on character ...
“If you’ve ever fantasized walking and conversing with the great scientist on the subjects that
consumed him, and now wish to add the fullness of reality, read this book.” Edward O. Wilson, author of Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for LifeJames ...
The definitive life of O'Keeffe. Hilton Kramer, Los Angeles TimesGeorgia O'Keefe (1887?-1986) was one of
the most successful American artists of the twentieth century: her arresting paintings of enormous, intimately rendered flowers, desert landscapes, and stark white cow skulls are ...
The autobiography of one of the preeminent figures in twentieth-century physics.He studied with Niels Bohr,
taught Richard Feynman, and boned up on relativity with his friend and colleague Albert Einstein. John Archibald Wheeler's fascinating life brings us face to face ...
The first easy-to-navigate illustrated guidebook to the wonderful sculptures, murals, bas-reliefs, and mosaics of this
Art Deco showplace.From the depths of the Great Depression in 1929, John D. Rockefeller Jr. envisioned an unprecedented, modern, and luxurious building project. Given the ...
Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history.Bill GatesIn this artful, informative, and delightful (William
H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had ...