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Machiavelli - From Radical to Reactionary by Robert Black
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
From a leading expert on the life and works of Niccolò Machiavelli, a superb overview of the pivotal Renaissance philosopher, writer, and historian. "Machiavellian" can signify duplicity and amorality in politics, but Machiavelli himself was far more complex than this cliché. A high-ranking Florentine g ...Show more
Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri; D. M. Black (Translator, Introduction by); Robert Harrison (Preface by)
Category: Classic Fiction
A new translation of Dante's Purgatorio that celebrates the human elements of the second part of The Divine Comedy. This is a bilingual edition with an illuminating introduction from the translator.Purgatorio, the middle section of Dante's great poem about losing, and subsequently finding, one's way in ...Show more
The Nicotine Chronicles by Lee Child (Editor); Cara Black (Contribution by); Chrsitopher Sorrentino (Contribution by); David L. Ulin (Contribution by); Jerry Stahl (Contribution by); Lauren Sanders (Contribution by); Peter Kimani (Contribution by); Robert Arellano (Contribution by); Joyce Carol Oates (Contribution by); Jonathan Ames (Contribution by); Eric Bogosian (Contribution by); Achy Obejas (Contribution by); Michael Imperioli (Contribution by); Hannah Tinti (Contribution by); Ariel Gore (Contribution by); Bernice L. McFadden (Contribution by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Akashic Drug Chronicles Ser.
"Sixteen tributes to America's guiltiest pleasure...Even confirmed anti-smokers will find something to savor."--Kirkus Reviews In recent years, nicotine has become as verboten as many hard drugs. The literary styles in this volume are as varied as the moral quandaries herein, and the authors have succe ...Show more
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