Product Description: Pierre thought he knew his Uncle Charles well. He had worked with him on a daily basis for fifteen years, assisting the austere art historian in his studies. Yet after Charles' death, Pierre finds a diary in which his uncle confessed to a secret, heartbreaking love affair...read more

Product Description: With her first novel, Sophie Jabeas presents a fable on women's fragile self-image and the old chestnut of 'being nice' to please men."

Product Description: For the majority of us, masturbation is the most widespread sexual practice, and for the majority of males, it is the first sexual experience of their lives. However, it remains the most unmovable taboo in Western morality.This book shows how this came about historically and how modern psychology has compounded the problem...read more

Product Description: In this collaborative volume, the writer and artist Paul Buck works with the late Kathy Acker. Using as source the raw materials of their correspondence from the early 80s, a period when Acker was writing Great Expectations and trying to leave America for London, Buck confronts issues of appropriation, sampling, and plagiarism, relevant then and now...read more

Product Description: The year is 1920, and Luis Agua, an authorised representative of an electricity company, arrives in Vila Natal, an inhospitable village in Portugal. His objective is to convince the inhabitants of the benefits of artificial light...read more

Product Description: A new and innovative series offering in-depth cultural, historical and literary guides to the great cities of the world. More than ordinary guidebooks, they introduce the visitor or armchair traveller to each city's unique present-day identity and its links with the past...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Buck, Paul

Product Description: Book by Buck, Paul

Product Description: Um einem tieferen Verständnis wie auch der Schlüsselrolle der «Meistersinger» gerecht zu werden, kann Beschreibung nicht genügen. Das Buch fordert tätige Mitarbeit. Sie besteht darin, dass ständiges Vergleichen des Buchtextes mit dem Werktext, dem Notentext (Klavierauszug, evtl...read more

Product Description: Perhaps the most exciting aspect of the Harvard University Library today is that in this largest university library in the world primary emphasis is placed upon a regard for the individual which extends alike to staff, faculty, students, and general users...read more