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The Return of Jazz
Berghahn Books 2009; US$ 90.00Jazz has had a peculiar and fascinating history in Germany. The influential but controversial German writer, broadcaster, and record producer, Joachim-Ernst Berendt (1922?2000), author of the world?s best-selling jazz book, labored to legitimize jazz in West Germany after its ideological renunciation during the Nazi era. German musicians began, in... more...
Beyond Preservation
Temple University Press 2010; US$ 30.95Across the United States, historic preservation has become a catalyst for urban regeneration. Entrepreneurs, urban pioneers, and veteran city dwellers have refurbished thousands of dilapidated properties and put them to productive use as shops, restaurants, nightclubs, museums, and private residences. As a result, inner-cities, once disparaged as... more...
The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud
Random House Publishing Group 2006; US$ 7.50The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud is the explosive international bestseller that mixes fact and fiction to tell the riveting story of one of the world?s most controversial relics?the Holy Shroud of Turin?and the desperate race to save it from those who will stop at nothing to possess its legendary power.... A fire at the Turin cathedral and the... more...
Auctor Ludens
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1986; US$ 113.00This is a book about play practice rather than play theory. Of course, practice presupposes theory, but here the editors choose to keep general theoretical assumptions under cover rather then force them into explicitness. The contributors to this volume were given free rein to discuss whatsoever aspect of literary play caught their fancy. The absence... more...
An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2003; US$ 11.50Fifty years after the arrival of Columbus, at the height of Spain?s conquest of the West Indies, Spanish bishop and colonist Bartolomé de Las Casas dedicated his Brevísima Relación de la Destruición de las Indias to Philip II of Spain. An impassioned plea on behalf of the native peoples of the West Indies, the Brevísima Relación catalogues in horrific... more...
Arthritis
Dorling Kindersley Ltd 2006; Not AvailableExpert advice based on up-to-the-minute research, from specialists in arthritis care Everything you need to know about arthritis to improve your health, ease pain, and live life to the full is covered in this updated new edition. Learn about every type of arthritis, from juvenile to rheumatoid and osteoarthritis arthritis. Discover the causes,... more...
The Color of Summer
Penguin Group US 2001; US$ 24.00Critics worldwide have praised Reinaldo Arenas's writing. His extraordinary memoir, Before Night Falls , was named one of the fourteen "Best Books of 1993" by the editors of The New York Times Book Review and has now been made into a major motion picture. The Color of Summer , Arenas's finest comic achievement, is also the fulfillment of his life's... more...
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