19 May 2009
The Intellectual Devotional Modern Culture: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Converse Confidently with the Culturati (Hardcover)
In the tradition of the instant bestsellers The Intellectual Devotional and The Intellectual Devotional: American History comes the third installment in this indispensable series. In The Intellectual Devotional: Modern Culture, the authors explo...
17 May 2009
Imagining the End: Visions of Apocalypse from the Ancient Middle East to Modern America (Hardcover)
Packed into all major monotheistic religions is a powerful theological punch: apocalypse. This provocative volume explores how apocalyptic visions have expressed themselves in different ways in Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Islam. The c...
15 May 2009
Grand Design: Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, 1930-1939 (History of the American Cinema , No 5) (Paperback)
Review
“A work of major importance for the serious study of American film.” — Dana Polan, Film Quarterly”Fascinating. . . . Grand Design gives the most convincing picture yet of how the Hollywood system operated...
14 May 2009
Latin American Writers at Work (Modern Library Paperbacks) (Paperback)
From Booklist
Borges, Neruda, Paz, Garcia Marquez, Fuentes, Vargas Llosa–immortals here descend from the firmament of Latin American literature to converse with merely human interviewers for the Paris Review. The writers’ voices...
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