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From Sappho to Shakespeare to Cole Porter - a marvellous and wide-ranging collection of classic gay and lesbian love poetry. The poets represented here include Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Gert...more
Cambridge Social Science takes learners on an exciting journey into history, geography and other areas of the curriculum. The full-colour Activity Book includes activities to consolidate and...more
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"I should say that one of the inducements to making these inquiries into personal identification has been to discover independent features suitable for hereditary investigation." -Sir Fran...more
"a publisher is a business man . . . a professional man also. He can do his best service only for those authors who inspire his loyalty, who enable him to make his publishing house permanen...more
Machiavelli composed The Prince as a practical guide for ruling (though some scholars argue that the book was intended as a satire and essentially a guide on how not to rule). This goal is e...more
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Build your confidence in your Spanish skills with practice, practice, practice From present tense regular verbs to double object pronouns, this comprehensive guide and workbook covers all t...more
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An exceptional work on the Messianic passages as found in Isaiah. Freshness, simplicity and profound insight characterize this work....more
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The Alexander Lectures for 1949-50. In his Preface, Professor Brown says, "Isolating a single element or group of elements in the novel, and considering it in unreal separation from all the...more
Now regarded as a classic, this study of Mozart’s piano concertos provides a clear approach, supported by numerous musical illustrations and biographical notes, to each work....more
Understanding how communication works in society is a crucial part of social psychology; this groundbreaking work by Ruesch and Bateson explains themes vital to understanding the subject.Eac...more
Plato's dialogue Phaedo portrays Socrates in prison awaiting execution and discussing with his friends the fate of the soul after death. In this edition, consisting of introduction, text and...more
Editors Mario Pei and Frank Gaynor bring together essential terms and concepts in the extensive Dictionary of Linguistics. With a carefully crafted headword list and plenty of cross-referenc...more
Originally published in 1921, this classic is still regarded as one of the clearest, most comprehensive descriptions of language for the general reader. Index....more
A systematic and objective history of jazz, which chronicles its evolution from its African and West Indian origins to its emergence in various stages, forms, and styles as a major contribut...more
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More than 11,500 entries, first English-Russian, then Russian-English, containing exact idiomatic translations for over 30,000 phrases and sentences. Also includes 15,000-word grammatical in...more
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Thorough mastery of forms, basic syntax, and simple vocabulary are primary objectives of Henle Latin First Year that enable students to handle simple readings and translations. Henle ...more
Henle Third Year Latin is an introduction to the finest in Roman oratory emphasizes Cicero’s cogency of arguments and develops appreciation of his style. Separated into four parts, the third...more
Building on the third year readings of Cicero, Henle Fourth Year Latin uses Cicero and Virgil as stepping stones to an interpretation of Christian humanism. Separated into four parts, this f...more
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Introduced by Francis Fergusson, the Poetics, written in the fourth century B.C., is still an essential study of the art of drama, indeed the most fundamental one we have. It has been used b...more
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The sixteen short stories in this anthology demonstrate the scope of the modern Italian narrative between 1930 and 1960. To this end, the collection contains writings by both established wri...more
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A discussion of the importance of language in contemporary society....more
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This is probably the most delightful, useful, and comprehensive elementary book available for learning spoken and written German, with or without a teacher. Working on the principles that a ...more
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Contains three parts: an examination of the grammar, examples of some surviving poetic texts, and a section on vocabulary....more
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This work is a guide to filing catalogue cards using the basic order of alphabetical, word-by-word filing....more
Birth, maturity, marriage and death: These are the four cornerstones of human life, the great occasions. *Over 650 memorable selections to commemorate the milestones of life. *Poetry and pro...more
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