... a carefully crafted and important book... a first-class contribution to the literature on modern Europe." -American Historical Review ... valuable... the first historical work to attempt a `synthetic sketch' of the problems indicated in the title." -Journal of Polish Jewish Studies An illuminating study of the demographic, cultural, and ......
... a valuable book. It is an important link between the unknown of the Renaissance and the present." -The Triangle of Mu Phi Epsilon Straightforward practicality is the most outstanding characteristic of this book." -Continuo ... a fine and very welcome book that is likely to remain the high standard of lute continuo instruction for some time ......
... an imaginative and dispassionate re-examination of the significance of the Mongol Conquest and its aftermath for Russia's historical development." -Slavic Review On all counts Russia and the Golden Horde infuses the subject with fresh insights and interpretations." -History Combining rigorous analysis of the major scholarly findings with his ......
Eco wittily and enchantingly develops themes often touched on in his previous works, but he delves deeper into their complex nature... this collection can be read with pleasure by those unversed in semiotic theory." -Times Literary Supplement
This... is a brilliant work." -Choice [Sternberg] has written a very important book, both for his comprehensiveness and for the clearly-avowed faith stance from which he understands and interprets the strategies of the biblical narratives.... a superb overview... " -Theological Studies ... rated very highly indeed. It is a book to read and then ......
[A] surprisingly moving story." -The New Yorker Bogdanov's novels reveal a great deal about their fascinating author, about his time and, ironically, ours, and about the genre of utopia as well as his contribution to it." -Slavic Review Bogdanov's imaginative predictions for his utopia are both technological and social... Even more farsighted ......
... not merely interesting and novel, but also exceedingly provocative and heuristically fertile." -The Review of Metaphysics ... essential reading for anyone interesting in... the new reader-centered forms of criticism." -Library Journal In this erudite and imaginative book, Umberto Eco sets forth a dialectic between `open' and `closed' texts.
... the greatest contribution to [semiotics] since the pioneering work of C. S. Peirce and Charles Morris." -Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism ... draws on philosophy, linguistics, sociology, anthropology and aesthetics and refers to a wide range of scholarship... raises many fascinating questions." -Language in Society ... a major ......
This selection of Mayakovsky's work covers his entire career-from the earliest pre-revolutionary lyrics to a poem found in a notebook after his suicide. Splendid translations of the poems, with the Russian on a facing page, and a fresh, colloquial version of Mayakovsky's dramatic masterpiece, The Bedbug.
