This watershed work records Claude Lévi-Strauss’s search for “a human society reduced to its most basic expression.” From the Amazon basin through the ...
Continue Reading →Alain Robbe-Grillet, one of the leaders of the new French literary movement of the sixties, has long been regarded as the outstanding writer ...
Continue Reading →This book examines the application of drawing in the design process of classical architecture, exploring how the tools and techniques of drawing developed ...
Continue Reading →In Homo Ludens, the classic evaluation of play that has become a “must-read” for those in game design, Dutch philosopher Johan Huizinga defines ...
Continue Reading →Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief ...
Continue Reading →Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, a Roman architect and engineer flourishing in the first century B.C., was the author of the oldest and most influential ...
Continue Reading →This book presents for the first time in English an array of essays on design by the seminal media critic and philosopher Vilém ...
Continue Reading →Capital in the Twenty-First Century is a 2013 book by French economist Thomas Piketty. It focuses on wealth and income inequality in Europe ...
Continue Reading →The first translation of the volumes in Michel Serres’ classic ‘Humanism’ tetralogy, this ambitious philosophical narrative explores what it means to be human. ...
Continue Reading →In this revelatory volume, Roberto Calasso, whom The Paris Review has called “a literary institution,” explores the ancient texts known as the Vedas. ...
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