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In immortalizing a selection of notable Cornellians from a bit more than the first 100 years of the university, the authors arrive at a portrait of Cornell itself, "a world-class institution with an egalitarian soul" where undergraduates are guided to exceed their own goals and change the world, too.

Staff at Doctors Without Borders Survey the world's bloodiest wars, emphasizing difficulties posed when humanitarian aid overlaps with foreign policy.

Skin, Steven Connor argues, has never been more visible. "The Book of Skin explores the multiple functions of the skin in the cultures of the West. In this vividly illustrated book, Connor draws on evidence from a variety of sources including literary and other forms of public and private writing, especially medical texts, as well as painting, photography, and film, folklore and popular song. Because of its newfound visibility, skin has never ...

In this touching and beautifully written book, Courtine-Denamy traces her family's exile after their expulsion in 1492 at the time of Spanish unification. Their journey leads her to the exotic ports of Salonika, Constantinople' Bayonne, and Varna, to the cosmopolitan centers of Vienna and Paris, to America and Israel, and to Auschwitz. As she notes, while place and time separate us from those we love or never knew, something continues to link ...

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Jacques Ninio, an international authority on visual perception, here explores the fascinating world of illusions. His book features a stunning array of illustrations, including many images seldom seen in books on the topic. The art ranges from classical illusions inspired by rainbows, mirages, and other oddities of nature, to figures from seventeenth-century physics texts that Ninio himself unearthed, to spectacular new illustrations in which ...

Here is a practical, comprehensive guide to winemaking, wines, and wine appreciation, written by an expert uniquely qualified by many years of experience in the field. Looking at winemaking as a craft as well as an art, Philip Jackisch augments a wealth of information and theory with many detailed examples. 'It is now possible for anyone with access to grapes or other ingredients of decent quality to make consistently palatable or even excelle...

A photographic portrait of American diplomacy around the world with 500 color photographs of American embassies, chanceries, and ambassadors' residences.

Takes us into the heart of the Viennese musical world in the years of its most brilliant accomplishment in this illustrated collection of all the known letters that Gustav Mahler wrote his wife, Alma Maria Schindler.

Follows a remarkable French woman of letters (and lover of Dominique Aury, author of the "Story of O) who was deeply involved in the traumatic upheavals of her time including the French resistance to Nazi occupation and the Spanish Civil War.

An essential step in Thoreau's recovery of a 'natural life' is to reawaken and expand his awareness of the present moment, not only in the sense of knowing more of the world around him, but of entering into it fully. Admitting in Walden that 'I did not read books the first summer, I hoed beans, ' he also confesses to moments in which he neglected both of these conflicting duties. . . . In periods of reverie, Thoreau gave himself over to his se...