A study of the innovative pop artist Andy Warhol by his close friend and confidant, David Bourdon. Prepared during the artist's lifetime and with his co-operation, it is described as an intimate look at the man behind the silkscreened image .

Discovers hidden spots in rural Italy - Brescia, Lombardy's second city and a great starting point for a visit to the lakes - Ancona, gateway to the Apennine mountains - Pescara, Abruzzo's finest resort town, with its stretches of sandy beach - Visits unmissable cities for a song - takes a weekend break to hit the town in Rome - goes to Florence, to see the treasures of the Uffizi - tries out ...

Novelist and cultural critic James Carroll maps the 2000 year course of the church's battle against Judaism and faces the crisis of faith it has sparked in his own life as a Catholic.

Second edition.

Showing how the Jews changed the history of the human race, this book reveals the critical change that made Western civilisation possible. Full of stories, insights, and humour, it is an exploration of the origins of some of our oldest and closely held beliefs.

Recounts the lives, deeds and misdeeds of the 265 Popes from St Peter to Pope Benedict XVI. The dichotomy between the dignity of the holy office and the human passions and pleasures of some of the individuals who have occupied it characterizes the narrative throughout.

Covers events from the beginning of world history to the eve of the French Revolution. This book offers a wide-ranging, chronological summary of the main cultural, scientific, religious and political events of the period. It is accompanied by detailed maps that clarify complex historical situations.

The story of the eventful and controversial life of Margery Kempe wife, mother, businesswoman, pilgrim and visionary is the earliest surviving autobiography in English. Here Kempe (c.1373 c.1440) recounts in vivid, unembarrassed detail the madness that followed the birth of the first of her fourteen children, the failure of her brewery business, her dramatic call to the spiritual life, her ...

Gustav Klimt's art is thoroughly fin de siecle. It expresses the apocalyptic atmosphere of Vienna's upper middle-class society - a society devoted to the cultivation of aesthetic awareness and the cult of pleasure. This title also discusses the Secession movement and Klimt's role within this important group of artists.

The tenth anniversary edition of the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English genius. With a new Foreword by the celebrated astronaut Neil Armstrong.

This collection comprises the works of John Keats, one of the greatest English poets and contemporary of Byron and Shelley. The collection includes Endymion , Lamia , Isabella and Hyperion .

Narrated by Quentin Compson, the suicide in The Sound and the Fury , this is the tale of Thomas Sutpen, a poor White who dreams of founding a dynasty. His refusal to accept his wife's Negro blood initiates a bloody train of events to create a vision of doom of the American South.

A collection of the pivotal ideas from the great minds of Western civilization. From Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from Copernicus to Freud, their concepts are described simply but without simplifying them.

Anita Shreve's eighth novel is a contemporary novel of love and forgiveness - and a life not lived.

As Melquiades excites Buendia's father with new inventions and tales of adventure, neither can know the significance of the indecipherable manuscript that the gypsy passes into their hands. The tribulations of the Buendia household push memories of the manuscript aside. Few remember its existence and one will discover the message that it holds.

Pechorin is certainly a dangerous man - Byronic in his wasted gifts, his cynicism, his predatory and flamboyant energy for any kind of action that will stave off boredom. In five linked episodes, Mikhail Lermontov builds up the portrait of a man caught in and expressing the sickness of his times.