A colorful history of Asbury Park, New Jersey, provides a chronicle of the evolution of the seaside resort town from its founding as a religious commune through 130 years of social, cultural, and musical development, offering tidbits of ...

In the first book on the subject, Mari Yoshihara looks into the reasons for this phenomenon, starting with her own experience of learning to play piano in Japan at the age of three.

His accomplishments ran from sonnets and love poems to the most famous sculptures, paintings, and buildings ever created. Michelangelo is frequently considered the Creator of the Renaissance.

An illustrated monthly magazine in the interest of better art, better work and a better more reasonable way of living.

In the Soviet world, their freedom was often denied, while in the West freedom came at a cost. This book describes the CIA influence on cultural life during the Cold War.

This easy, informative and entertaining volume spotlights the essentials so you can get to work quickly. Short, fully-illustrated chapters explore the Windows interface in detail, offering tips and tricks the manual doesn't.

" Romanticism, in the view Beiser opens to us, does not conform to the contemporary division of labor in our universities and colleges; it requires a multifaceted approach of just the sort outlined in this book.

History and its players come alive on every page, in the stories of the famous and the little-known, the heroes and tyrants, martyrs and saints, virgins and kings.