Collected Plays of Edward Albee

Edward Albee

Overlook Hardcover

Totalitarian Art achieves nothing less than a thorough and serious comparative study of the official art of Stalin's Russia, Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy, Kim Jong-Il's North Korea, and Saddam Hussein's Iraq. In the Soviet Union, and later in Maoist China, theories of mass artistic appeal were used to promote the Revolution both at home and abroad. In Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy they asserted the putative grandeur of the epoch. All too often, art that served the Revolution or the new millennial society became total realism,A" and always it became a slave to the state and the cult of personality, and ultimately one more weapon in the arsenal of oppression. Igor Golomstock gives a detailed appraisal of the forms that define totalitarian art and illustrates his text with more than two hundred examples of its paintings, posters, sculpture and architecture, and includes a powerful comparative visual essay which demonstrates the eerie similarity of the official art of these very different regimes.

Totalitarian Art: In the Soviet Union, the Third Reich, Fascist Italy and ThePeople's Republicof China

Arts & Photography

Golomstock, Igor

History & Criticism

<p>Describes Columbus' first voyage of discovery as seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old ship's boy.</p>

I Sailed with Columbus

Martin, Susan

Children's Books

Terence Conran on Design

CONRAN, TERENCE

Architecture

The Unknown Soldier

Literature & Fiction

Seymour,Gerald

Contemporary

With the world's major religions now playing a key role in political affairs, it is time to examine how many and various are the beliefs people have.Within leading religions we now see the development of dissent and extremism leading to dangers for us all.  Against this background, we are all forced to examine what we each believe and how that fits with the emerging world picture.  Each individual - religious or not - has an outlook on matters such as why we are here, what life is for, whether there is a creative force behind it all, and what should guide our personal morality.  They may be writers such as Phillip Pullman; scholars such as Karen Armstrong; or filmmakers, such as David Puttnam.  But they each have a thoughtful and highly intelligent contribution to make to the growing debate about belief.  These conversations, selected from Joan Bakewell's BBC Radio series of the same name, constitute a broad and surprising insight into what thinking people think.

Belief

Religion & Spirituality

Bakewell, Joan

Religious Studies

The Secret Books of Paradys: The Book of the Damned, The Book of the Beast, The Book of the Dead, The Book of the Mad

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Lee/Tanith

Fantasy

The Arthashastra

The Arthashastra is an ancient Indian treatise on statecraft, economic policy and military strategy, written in Sanskrit. Likely to be the work of several authors over centuries, Kautilya, also identified as Vishnugupta and Chanakya, is traditionally credited as the author of the text. The latter was a scholar at Takshashila, the teacher and guardian of Emperor Chandragupta Maurya. However, scholars have questioned this identification. Composed, expanded and redacted between 2nd century BCE and 3rd century CE, the Arthashastra was influential until the 12th century, when it disappeared. It was rediscovered in 1904 by R. Shamasastry, who published it in 1909. The first English translation was published in 1915.

Kautilya

Classics

The Villa Golitsyn

Read, Piers Paul

The chokingly hilarious satire on prep school life, as chronicled in the dangerous diaries of one Nigel Molesworth Nigel Molesworth, the terror of fictional St. Custards prep school, pontificated hilariously and world-wearily on his skool dayz in four books first published in the 1950s: Down with Skool, How to be Top, Whizz for Atomms, and Back in the Jug Agane. Magnificently illustrated by Ronald Searle, the Molesworth tetralogy creates a picture of school life that may be unsurpassed in its utterly sublime hilarity and seriously bad spelling. Molesworth holds forth on such timeless topics as Christmas, The French, Journalism, Latin, and Gurls. In fact, he is a tireless and confident commentator on almost any topic. Sports: "It is a funy thing tho, your side always gets beaten whichever skool you are at. That is like life I suppose." Literature: "Poetry is sissy stuff that rhymes. Weedy people say la and fie and swoon when they see a bunch of daffodils." History: "History started badly and hav been getting steadily  worse." Hogwarts this isn't, although the name most certainly comes from The Hogwarts, a Latin play by Marcus Plautus Molesworthus. Rupert Grint of the Harry Potter movies recently played Molesworth in BBC Radio's Down with Skool. Wildly funny and full of sharp observations on life, Molesworth "contanes the full lowdown on skools, swots, snekes, cads, prigs, bulies, headmasters, foopball, weeds, and various other chizzes-in fact THE LOT."

Molesworth

Willians, Geoffrey

Humor & Satire

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