More than twelve decades after Billy the Kid's death in 1881, books, movies, and essays about this western outlaw are still popular. And they all go back to one source: The Auth...
From Publishers WeeklyThe tension between India's centuries-old spiritual traditions and contemporary religious militancy drives this memorable, melancholy family saga by two-time ...
Product Description"In the field of film aesthetics, it is the first important American work, still important--The Art of the Moving Picture is astonishing."--Stanley Kauffmann <.....
Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to
ReviewThe secrets revealed and the emotions exposed make this a compelling read. (Charlotte Observer ) Grief, friendship, marriage, love and uncertainty—it’s all here—portrayed...
SUMMARY: Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television...
Reclaim the pleasures and possibilities of great conversation with this sparkling guide from the witty pen of an Englishwoman wise to its art Every day we use cell p...
THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS is one of the great storybooks of the world and is a thousand or more years old. As early as the tenth century, a Persian collection of tales told of a ...