"Photographs of Acadiana, known colloquially as Cajun country, taken 1973-74, when Cajun culture was on the brink of change."--

Based on the true story of Dr. J. Marion Sims, the “father of modern gynecology,” BEHIND THE SHEET remembers the forgotten women who made his achievement possible, and the pain they endured in the process.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Poetry. Bilingual Editon. Translated from the Italian by Luigi Bonaffini. THE BEDROOM La camera da letto] is Bertolucci's best-known work, so popular that the poet once read it to television viewers on a seven-hour program.

The book shows how Kurosawa attempted to symbolize on film a course of national development for post-war Japan, and it traces the ways that he tied his social visions to a dynamic system of visual and narrative forms.

An intrepid troupe of pageant players races across medieval Europe, struggling to outrun the Black Death.

This is the first book to anatomize the major silent players, reconstruct their careers, and give us a sense of what those films, those stars, and that Hollywood were all about.

Filled with illustrations, this is an enduring contribution to the history of transportation and the history of New York City.

The Bones of The Earth is a book about landmarks, but of the oldest kind—sticks and stones. For millennia this is all there was: sticks and stones, dirt and trees, animals and people, the sky by day and night.