This book sets the practice of declamation in its historical context and discusses the declaimers' public performances and use of classical literature and history.

This volume gathers together for the first time essays on the intellectual and literary world of both the Greek and Latin Antonines.

In this book, Matthew Gabel probes the attitudes of the citizens of Europe toward the European Union.

Ten-year anniversary exhibition catalog for Dyke Action Machine (DAM!), the New York City-based public art duo founded by photographer, Sue Schaffner and painter, Carrie Moyer.

The definitive chronicle of the origins of French avant-garde literature and art, Roger Shattuck's classic portrays the cultural bohemia of turn-of-the-century Paris who carried the arts into a period of renewal and accomplishment and laid ...

Eminently readable, provocative, and entertaining, this book is certain to consolidate Banham's reputation among architects and students of contemporary culture.

Vitamania tells how and why vitamins have become so important to so many Americans.

In this entertaining, absorbing, and highly original work of cultural history, Colin Jones ranges from the history of art, literature, and culture to the history of science, medicine, and dentistry, to tell a unique and untold story about a ...