This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1998.
This enhanced eBook of the #1 worldwide bestseller includes exclusive behind-the-scenes video of Dan Brown's Inferno research trips throughout Italy, and a fascinating twenty-five minute video of his book launch presentation in New York ...
Poet, essayist and performer Eileen Myles' chronicle transmits an energy and vividness that will not soon leave its readers.
As civil war spreads throughout the galaxy, the Solo/Skywalker clan confronts its own challenges, as Jacen Solo, now a full Sith Lord, seizes control of the Galactic Alliance and Luke Skywalker must decide whether or not to support Jacen or ...
In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces--Dante's "Inferno"--as he battles a chilling adversary and ...
This definitive edition of Dante's masterpiece — translated by the great American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — features stunning engravings by Gustave Doré, an eminent 19th-century illustrator of classics.
Dante's immortal poem enters English in the clearest, most accurate, most readable translation in decades, accompanied by a commentary of unsurpassed scholarship.The Inferno, the opening section of Dante Alighieri's epic...
Draws on interviews with veterans and new primary sources to present a narrative account of the pivotal World War II campaign, chronicling the three-month effort to gain control of Guadalcanal as a battle that taught the U.S. Navy and ...
He describes the encounter with his contemporary Venedico Caccianemico before turning his attention to Jason, the fabled adventurer. Despite Jason's long list of exploits, Dante devotes more lines to the meeting ...
An invaluable source of pleasure to those English readers who wish to read this great medieval classic with true understanding, Sinclair's three-volume prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy provides both the original Italian text and ...
In desperation, her husband admits her to a nearby psychiatric hospital, where she begins the hard work of rebuilding her identity.