Product Description: German Jews faced harsh dilemmas in their responses to Nazi persecution, partly a result of Nazi cruelty and brutality but also a result of an understanding of their history and rightful place in Germany. This volume addresses the impact of the anti-Jewish policies of Hitler's regime on Jewish family life, Jewish women, and the existence of Jewish organizations and institutions and considers some of the Jewish responses to Nazi anti-Semitism and persecution...read more

Product Description: Containing individual masterpieces by Botticelli, da Vinci, Michelangelo and Titian, the extensive collection of Italian drawings at the Fitzwilliam Museum ranges from the work of Pisanello in the early fifteenth century to Sandro Chia in the twentieth...read more

Product Description: Howard Hodgkin (b. 1932) is among the most important artists working in Britain today. Nominally abstract, his paintings are, in his words, “representational pictures of emotional situations.” Sumptuously illustrated, this book presents a selection of Hodgkin’s paintings from the last fifteen years and provides a critical coda to the most recent retrospective publications on this artist’s work...read more

Product Description: Book by Tielsch, Ilse, Scrase, David

Product Description: The first detailed treatment of a talented poet and novelist whose works have been unjustly neglected for three decades. Lehmann's personal development is examined in detail, and Scrase has made extensive use of personal interviews, diaries, and contemporary photographs.

Product Description: The aphorisms of Phia Rilke (1851-1931). mother of Rainer Maria Rilke, reflect in many ways the mores and social concerns of the turn of the century, treating such intriguing subjects as sin and redemption, aristocratic (mis)behavior, pain and suffering, love and marriage, women, emancipation, communication, experience, and life's wisdom...read more

Product Description: This Handbook illustrates a selection of drawings of flowers from the collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum. The book is arranged chronologically and ranges from the fifteenth century to the present day. Beginning with illustrations from the borders and backgrounds of illuminated manuscripts, the selection traces the form through attempts at accurate delineation of form during the Renaissance to the more scientific approach of the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Scrase, David A.

Product Description: The first detailed treatment of a talented poet and novelist whose works have been unjustly neglected for three decades. Lehmann's personal development is examined in detail, and Scrase has made extensive use of personal interviews, diaries, and contemporary photographs.