This comprehensive guide covers the historically rich and nuanced territory of Central Leinster, from the western borderlands of the medieval English Pale to the wild expanse of the Bog of Allen and further west to Clonmacnoise, cradle of early monas...

"Warner Bros" charts the rise of an unpromising film studio from its shaky beginnings in the early twentieth century through its ascent to the pinnacle of Hollywood influence and popularity. The Warner Brothers – Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack – arrive...

Volume 2 of this exceptional catalogue raisonn project compiles the unique works on paper that Edward Ruscha (b. 1937) made between 1977 and 1997, the artist's midcareer period, during which he achieved international renown. More than 1,000 works are...

An arresting new study of the life, times, and achievement of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Taylor's endeavor is not to explain the life by the novel or the novel by the life but to show how different events, different...

Does acting matter? David Thomson, one of our most respected and insightful writers on movies and theater, answers this question with intelligence and wit. In this fresh and thought-provoking essay, Thomson tackles this most elusive of subjects, exam...

An arresting new study of the life, times, and achievement of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Taylor's endeavor is not to explain the life by the novel or the novel by the life but to show how different events, different...

This highly anticipated book – the first in a series of three – comprehensively chronicles the first two decades of Ed Ruscha's work on paper, which comprises the largest component of his production of original works. Over 1,000 works on paper are do...

<p>In this surprising and highly unconventional work, Harvard law professor Mark Tushnet poses a seemingly simple question that yields a thoroughly unexpected answer. The Constitution matters, he argues, not because it structures our government but b...

Nikolaus Pevsner described Berkshire as "half home county, half West Country". This revised and comprehensive guide follows its historic boundaries, including the large area transferred to Oxfordshire in the 1970s. The variety of architecture is, in...