Even the best ideas have little value if they are not explained clearly, concisely, and convincingly to others. Scientists, engineers, health care professionals, and technology specialists become leaders in their fields not just by way of discovery,...

Law-related words and phrases abound in our everyday language, often without our being aware of their origins or their particular legal significance: boilerplate, jailbait, pound of flesh, rainmaker, and the third degree. This insightful and entertai...

This catalogue accompanies the major exhibition "Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan at the National Gallery" (London: 9 November 2011 – 5 February 2012) Click to see Official Exhibition page on the National Gallery website Leonardo d...

Buildings inhabit and symbolize time, giving form to history and making public space an index of the past. Photographs are made of time; they are literally projections of past states of their subjects. This visually striking meditation on architectur...

When it was completed in 1911, the Goldman & Salatsch Building in Vienna, commonly known as the Looshaus, incited controversy for its austerity and plainness. It represented a stark rejection of the contemporary preference for ornamentation, though i...

The traditional theory of urban finance argues against local redistribution of wealth on the assumption that such action is likely to chase away the relatively wealthy, leaving only the impoverished behind. Nevertheless, Clayton Gillette observes, lo...

In this major assessment of leading climate-change skeptic Bjorn Lomborg, Howard Friel meticulously deconstructs the Danish statistician's claim that global warming is 'no catastrophe' by exposing the systematic misrepresentations and partial account...

"Learn to Read Greek" is a text and workbook for students beginning the study of Ancient Greek. It is the companion volume to the authors' "Learn to Read Latin", published in 2004. Like its "Latin" predecessor, it has a grammar-based approach and is...

"Learn to Read Greek" is a text and workbook for students beginning the study of Ancient Greek. It is the companion volume to the authors' "Learn to Read Latin", published in 2004. Like its Latin predecessor, it has a grammar-based approach and is in...

"Learn to Read Greek" is a text and workbook for students beginning the study of Ancient Greek. It is the companion volume to the authors' "Learn to Read Latin", published in 2004. Like its "Latin" predecessor, it has a grammar-based approach and is...