How and why James K. Polk, the eleventh President of the United States, responded to the challenges of his times and thereby increased the authority and importance of the Presidential role for future incumbents.
Acknowledging his debts to numerous post-Hegelian philosophers or psychologists and modern critics, Robert Greer Cohn offers a lucid and swift-paced account of an original view of literature that bears particular kinship to the artistic visions of Joyce, Mallarmé, and Proust.
The oldest and most influential book ever written on architecture, this volume describes the classic principles of symmetry, harmony, and proportion as well as the ancients' methods, materials, and aesthetics. Authoritative translation.
Hawthorne was an American painter who founded the Cape Cod School of Art. This work, collected from notes taken by his actual students, offers hundreds of direct lessons, ideas, suggestions, and more.
