The Arts

Since the mid-eighties, more audiences have been watching Hollywood movies at home than at movie theaters, yet little is known about just how viewers experience film outside of the multiplex.

Stenciled on many of the deactivated facilities at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the evocative phrase "e;abandoned in place"e; indicates the structures that have been deserted.

A neuroscientist's bold proposal for tackling one of the greatest challenges of our timebrain and mental illnessesBrain research has been accelerating rapidly in recent decades, but the translation of our many discoveries into treatments and cures for brain disorders has not happened as many expected.

Just Beyond Listening asks how we might think about encounters with sound that complicate standard accounts of aurality.

This title was originally published in 1970.

This title was originally published in 1981.

Queer musicians have long mined beauty from the darkest of seams - and today's artists are taking that treasure and using it to make magic.

This title was originally published in 1956.

This richly illustrated work provides a new and deeper perspective on the interaction of visual representation and classical culture from the fifth century B.

Just Beyond Listening asks how we might think about encounters with sound that complicate standard accounts of aurality.

This title was originally published in 1992.

This book describes some of the world's most spectacular flowering trees, shrubs, vines, and ground covers and gives instructions for growing them.

Both politically and aesthetically, the contemporary German and Austrian film landscape is a far cry from the early days of the medium, when critics like Siegfried Kracauer produced foundational works of film theory amid the tumult of the early twentieth century.

In the mid-twentieth century Eddie's Inferno Cocktail Lounge, Bunny Bread, Paris Shoe Shop, and many other businesses throughout New Mexico and the Southwest displayed eye-catching roadside signs created by the Zeon Corporation.

This in-depth look at Hollywood director King Vidor's complex career follows Vidor from his first attempts to rival Hollywood in his home state of Texas through his fifty-year-long struggle with the "e;classic"e; Hollywood studio system.

This title was originally published in 1970.

This book describes some of the world's most spectacular flowering trees, shrubs, vines, and ground covers and gives instructions for growing them.

This book, first published in Finnish in 1985 under the title Aalto, is a critical introduction to Finnish architect Alvar Aalto (1898-1976), written by one of Aalto's Finnish architectural contemporaries, Kirmo Mikkola (1934-1986).

This title was originally published in 1992.

This in-depth look at Hollywood director King Vidor's complex career follows Vidor from his first attempts to rival Hollywood in his home state of Texas through his fifty-year-long struggle with the "e;classic"e; Hollywood studio system.

In an epilogue provided for his incomparable study of Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998), Donald Richie reflects on Kurosawa's life work of thirty feature films and describes his last, unfinished project, a film set in the Edo period to be called The Ocean Was Watching.

The eight lectures that comprise this edition were first delivered by John Davidson Beazley in 1949.

This title was originally published in 1957.

This title was originally published in 1967.

Rarely visited by outsiders, the ranchers of the Sierra de la Giganta in Baja California Sur live much as their ancestors have for the past two centuries.

Grab your pencil and your sonic screwdriver the official Doctor Who puzzle book is here!

Film noir is by definition dark, but not, this book argues, desperate.

This edited volume addresses the circulation of works of art, images, and ideas between the Iberian and Italian world and the subsequent responses this motion generated.

This title was originally published in 1976.

This title was originally published in 1951.

This title was originally published in 1968.

This title was originally published in 1967.

Revisits Australian rock band silverchair's globally successful debut album Frogstomp (1995) and asserts that the band is not an imitation of American grunge nor an emblem of Gen X angst.

El tatuaje es mucho más que inyectar tinta bajo la piel.

This title was originally published in 1951.

Fanfare for a City invites us to listen to the sounds of Paris during the Second Empire (18521870), a regime that oversaw dramatic social change in the French capital.

This title was originally published in 1989.

This title was originally published in 1989.