From the caves at Lascaux to the European race tracks of Degas to the American West of Frederic Remington, the horse has never ceased to inspire the human imagination. Once omnipresent---on the battl
Collects works that represent different aspects of the Spanish-language literary tradition in the United States, including accounts by early explorers and writings by Hispanic Americans, immigrants, a
The second volume of Burton's masterful work, The Anatomy of Melancholy, this edition includes the text and textual apparatus for "The Second Partition." Burton furnishes the full spectrum of cures fo
Quantum Optics and Nanophotonics consists of the lecture notes of the Les Houches Summer School 101 held in August 2013. Some of the most eminent experts in this flourishing area of research have con
A thought-provoking anthology of Hispanic writing in the United States ranges from the age of Spanish exploration to the present day and incorporates works by Isabel Allende, Oscar Hijuelos, Reinaldo
Land degradation is increasingly considered as a global problem. The extent of degraded and degrading areas adversely impacts on large numbers of people and leads to significant social and economic co
This anthology presents the writings of Lydia Pasternak Slater (1902–1989), sister of Boris Pasternak. Lydia Pasternak Slater lived successively in Russia, Germany and England, and wrote in all three
In July and August 1944, the Allies launched a number of operations intended to break through the German front line. Operations Totalize and Tractable were intended to drive the Germans back to the so
A sample of 20 papers from a conference in Cergy-Pontoise, France, in June 1995. Economists and philosophers trade ideas on the role of freedom as a normative criterion for appraising alternative stat
In 1953, twenty-four-year old Nicolas Bouvier and his artist friend Thierry Vernet set out to make their way overland from their native Geneva to the Khyber Pass. They had a rattletrap Fiat and a litt
