Aristóteles compone, junto a Hegel y a Tomás de Aquino, la triada de los más relevantes pensadores de la historia de la humanidad. Miles de personas se inspiran en las reflexiones de estos tres intelectuales, pero con frecuencia se subraya la dificultad para acceder de forma comprensible a sus aportaciones. Por primera vez en la historia, alguien ha entrevistado a quien fuera el coach de Alejandro Magno. Entrevista a Aristóteles lleva al lector...

George Orwell was a prolific author, and his two masterpieces, Animal Farm, and Nineteen Eighty-Four, are regularly invoked to explain the political complexities of a world he may be said to have foreseen. Taylor draws on new sources to show how the way we look at Orwell and his canon has changed over the course of the last two decades. The result is a comprehensive re-evaluation of Orwell's career, status, and relevance to the world of today-- as...

"On February 25, 1963, Columbia Records released The Barbra Streisand Album. The first song was "Cry Me a River," and with that a star was born. Barbra Joan Streisand had a zany personality backed by a talent that Stephen Sondheim once described as "one of the two or three best voices in the world of singing songs," adding "It's not just her voice but her intensity, her passion and control." Harold Arlen, another of her favorite composers, commented,...

"Charlie Patton (1891-1934) was born in central Mississippi. By 1908, he had begun his performing career, initially at small house parties, then at barrelhouses and other settings that could accommodate a hundred people or more. Until his death in 1934, Patton was a top draw for the numerous African Americans then living and working in the Delta. In 1929 and 1930, he recorded several hits for Paramount Records, on the basis of which he was sought...

"Through the lens of Sammy Davis Jr.'s six-decade career in show business-from vaudeville to Vegas to Broadway, Hollywood, and network TV-Dancing Down the Barricades examines the workings of race in American culture. The title phrase holds two contradictory meanings regarding Davis's cultural politics: did he dance the barricades down, as he liked to think, or did he simply dance down them, as his more radical critics would have it? Sammy Davis Jr....

Easton's new volume in this publisher's "Music Matters" series explores the life of the often ridiculed and misunderstood country-music icon Tammy Wynette (1942–98). This biography examines her decades-long career, which included 20 number-one hits. Much has been reported about her five marriages, a decades-long addiction to painkillers, and the physical abusers in her life. Easton explores Wynette's rise to country-music stardom, the mocking of...

"Containing works by the well-known Basho, Shiki, Buson and Issa as well as many other haiku poets whose works are rarely found in English translations -- including the female poets Chiyo-ni and Hisajo, and the novelist Natsume Soseki -- this enchanting collection is the perfect introduction to Japanese Haiku." -- "This comprehensive introduction to Japan's best-loved haiku poets is the perfect book for anyone wanting to learn about haiku. Compiled...

"The Architecture of William Nichols is the first comprehensive biography and monograph of a significant yet over-looked architect in the American South. William Nichols designed three major university campuses--the University of North Carolina, the University of Alabama, and the University of Mississippi. He also designed the first state capitols of North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi. Nichols's architecture profoundly influenced the built landscape...

"Alabama native James Still is one of the most critically acclaimed writers of Appalachian literature. This compilation of scholarly essays exploring Still's literary work is the first book-length collection of its kind and features contributions from leading scholars and writers, including Wendell Berry, Fred Chappell, Jim Wayne Miller, Jeff Daniel Marion, Diane Fisher, Dean Cadle, Hal Crowther"--Provided by publisher.