Ernst Lubitsch: Laughter in Paradise (Eyman Scott)(Paperback)

Ernst Lubitsch: Laughter in Paradise (Eyman Scott)(Paperback)

'Highly recommended' (Library Journal): The only full-length biography of legendary film director Ernst Lubitsch, the director of such Hollywood classics as Trouble in Paradise, Ninotchka, and The Shop Around the Corner. In this groundbreaking biography of Ernst Lubitsch, undeniably one of the most

Wendy's Revenge (Scott Walter)(Paperback)

This critique of the art world will have you crying with laughter In Wendy's Revenge, Scott's titular heroine returns with a fresh set of awkward misadventures and messy nights out. When the book opens, aspiring artist Wendy has decided to move to the west coast to clear her head. She plans on

No Laughter Here (Williams-Garcia Rita)(Paperback)

In this groundbreaking novel, Coretta Scott King Award winner Rita Williams-Garcia uses her vividly realistic voice to highlight an often taboo practice that affects millions of girls around the world every year, and to explore a perspective not often depicted in YA fiction.Even though they were

The Hundred Headless Woman (Ernst Max)(Paperback)

Originally published in Paris in 1929, this collage novel by avant-gardist Max Ernst constitutes a seminal 20th-century work of art. The artist's striking combinations of engravings from Victorian-era books and magazines, accompanied by enigmatic captions, offer a universe of mystery replete with

Sensation: Adventures in Sex, Love & Laughter (Losada Isabel)(Paperback)

Hard Laughter (Lamott Anne)(Paperback)

Anne Lamott's poignant first novel Hard Laughter, reissued in an attractive new edition. Writer (and sometime housecleaner) Jennifer is twenty-three when her beloved father, Wallace, is diagnosed with a brain tumor. This catastrophic discovery sets off Anne Lamott's unexpectedly sweet and funny

Ernst Haas (Haas Ernst)(Paperback)

The classic Photofile series brings together the best work of the world's greatest photographers in an attractive format and at a reasonable price. Handsome and collectible, each book contains a selection of the photographer's most important and representative images in duotone or color, plus an

Art Forms in Nature: The Prints of Ernst Haeckel (Breidbach Olaf)(Paperback)

The geometric shapes and natural forms, captured with exceptional precision in Ernst Haeckel's prints, still influence artists and designers to this day. This volume highlights the research and findings of this natural scientist. Powerful modern microscopes have confirmed the accuracy of Haeckel's

Art Forms in Nature: 22 Pull-Out Posters (Haeckel Ernst)(Paperback)

Perfect for display or close observation, the posters in this elegantly produced collection of Ernst Haeckel's exquisite illustrations of natural forms demonstrate his exceptional artistry. Biologist, physician, philosopher, and artist, Ernst Haeckel was also a prescient observer of the natural

Short Stories in German: New Penguin Parallel Text (Zillekens Ernst)(Paperback)

This Side of Paradise (Fitzgerald F. Scott)(Paperback / softback)

A critical account of its own era, introducing many themes which would be developed in later works, Fitzgerald's first novel was an instant critical and commercial success, propelling him into the limelight as a literary

Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, & Modern (Breisach Ernst)(Paperback)

In this pioneering work, Ernst Breisach presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture. Neither a handbook nor an encyclopedia, this up-to-date third edition narrates and interprets the development of historiography from its

Romantic Comedy in Hollywood: From Lubitsch to Sturges (Harvey James)(Paperback)

In 1934 four movies--It Happened One Night, Twentieth Century, The Thin Man, and The Gay Divorcee--ushered in the golden age of the Hollywood romantic ('screwball') comedy. Slangy, playful, and 'powerfully, glamorously in love with love,' the films that followed were unique in their combination of

Art Forms in Nature (Haeckel Ernst)(Paperback)

Ernst Heinrich Haeckel (1834-1919) was renowned as one of the foremost early exponents of Darwinism. His work was credited with having caused the acceptance of Darwinism in Europe, and his popular studies ― preaching the continuity of all life, organic and inorganic, from prehistoric time to the

The Philosophy of the Enlightenment: Updated Edition (Cassirer Ernst)(Paperback)

In this classic work of intellectual history, Ernst Cassirer provides both a cogent synthesis and a penetrating analysis of one of history's greatest intellectual epochs: the Enlightenment. Arguing that there was a common foundation beneath the diverse strands of thought of this period, he shows

The Humor of Jesus: Sources of Laughter in the Bible (Palmer Earl F.)(Paperback)

Structure of Science - Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation (Nagel Ernst)(Paperback / softback)

What Happens in Paradise - Book 2 in NYT-bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's sizzling Paradise series (Hilderbrand Elin)(Paperback / softback)

Dialogues in Paradise (Janssen Ronald R.)(Paperback)

The thirteen stories of Dialogues in Paradise are eloquent in a way the West associates with both the modern and the ancient: the dark oracles of Aeschylus and Sophocles, the paranoid mystery of Kafka, the moving stream of Woolf. The work of Can Xue (a pseudonym of Changsa writer Deng Xiao-hua)

Artificial Paradises (Baudelaire Charles P.)(Paperback)

At the time of its release in 1860, Charles Baudelaire's 'Artificial Paradises (Les Paradis Artificiels)' met with immediate praise. One of the most important French symbolists, Baudelaire led a debauched, violent, and ultimately tragic life, dying an opium addict in 1867. This book, a response to

This Side of Paradise (Scott Fitzgerald F.)(Paperback / softback)

Amory Blaine, intent on rebelling against his staid, Midwestern upbringing, longs to acquire the patina of Eastern sophistication. In his quest for sexual and intellectual enlightenment, he progresses through a series of relationships, until he is cast out into the real

Jewel In The Crown (Scott Paul)(Paperback / softback)

Laughter in the Dark (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback)

'Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster.' Thus begins Vladimir Nabokov's Laughter in the Dark; this, the author

Paradise Lost - A Poem in Twelve Books (Milton John)(Paperback / softback)