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Views of Nature

While the influence of Alexander von Humboldt (1769 1859) looms large over the natural sciences, his legacy reaches far beyond the field notebooks of naturalists. Von Humboldt's 1799 1804 research exp...

New York in Quotations

'Make your mark in New York and you are a made man' wrote Mark Twain, encapsulating both the naked ambition of its citizens and the opportunities up for grabs in the Big Apple. Others take a more cyni...

Rock Paper Scissors

Selected Letters, Volume 1

Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive the cultural and moral excellence of ancient Greece and Rome. Th...

Sommer. Jetzt!

Der Sommer ist einfach die schönste Jahreszeit!Das findet auch Bestsellerautorin Dora Heldt. Wären da nur nicht diese zahlreichen lästigen Kleinigkeiten: die blöde Flugangst, die fehlende Bikinifigur,...

There Is Simply Too Much To Think About

"Bellow's nonfiction has the same strengths as his stories and novels: a dynamic responsiveness to character, place, and time (or era) . . . And you wonder—what other highbrow writer, or indeed lowbro...

Robert Schumann – The Life and Work of a Romantic Composer

Robert Schumann (1810-56) is one of the most important and representative composers of the Romantic era. Born in Zwickau, Germany, Schumann began piano instruction at age seven and immediately develop...

Kuhn's 'Structure of Scientific Revolutions' at Fifty

Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was a watershed event when it was published in 1962, upending the previous understanding of science as a slow, logical accumulation of facts an...

Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo

In the 1930s and '40s, the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo toured the United States and the world, introducing many to ballet as an art form, while spreading the enduring image of the ballerina as an em...

The Cult of the Saints

In this groundbreaking work, Peter Brown explores how the worship of saints and their corporeal remains became central to religious life in Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. During th...