Color edition

 

This is a guidebook for art students at the college level (BA, BFA, MFA, PhD). Compared to other books on critique, this book is more colorful, more engaging, and less formal.

Black and white edition

 

This is a guidebook for art students at the college level (BA, BFA, MFA, PhD). Compared to other books on critique, this book is more colorful, more engaging, and less formal.

The essays in this book examine art historical manifestations observed in Giorgio Vasari’s paintings and writings, including his impact in the emblematic tradition.

A richly detailed portrait not only of a man struggling to lead an ethical life but of the disturbed times in which he lived.

This book is an examination of the contemporary fascination with psychological life and the historical developments that fostered it.

This collection of essays addresses the renewed interest in the cultural resurgence of the vampire, evident across a broad range of literature, film, television, graphic novels, and games.

Tull’s career as a diplomat took her to Saigon in time for the Tet Offensive of 1968. In 1983, she oversaw the excavation to seek the remains of missing U.S. servicemen in Laos. Subsequently, she served as ambassador to Guyana and Brunei.

This is the story of a woman entering a consular career on her own after the death of her Foreign Service officer husband. She describes the consular world with humor, empathy, and anecdotes.

This book presents a history of the U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation (SFC) set in the context of the country’s last large-scale energy crisis, which hit in the 1970s.

This memoir is a fascinating reading for the general reader, while at the same time educational, describing the challenges facing a Foreign Service political officer concerned, during the Cold War, with relations with the Soviet Union and Africa.

The author spent his professional life between the Middle East and the U.S. as a professor of economics and an international economic advisor, interacting with many world leaders.

This book by a practitioner (not an academic, a government official, or a pundit) has been written for practitioners and offers fresh thinking on how to do international development work.

Set in Uganda of the sixties with bookends in India and New York, this doctor’s story tells of a turbulent political time when colonial Uganda graduated to self-rule.

This is the sequel to To Kill a Tsar. Another thrilling adventure of eccentric Inspector Vasiliev, who this time takes the readers to Kiev, a city gripped in the horror of the 1881 pogroms against the Jews.

The politcs and atmosphere of late imperial Russia are vividly portrayed with historical accuracy in this novel.

As Green as Paradise is a lyrical weave of a governor’s story, once a conquistador. It is a tale of loves lost and dreams unfulfilled, of characters condemned to forge ahead in a world at once old and new.

A volume of humorous verse, from epic poems on American and global history to the role of bunnies and kitties in high affairs.

This is a memoir about the “Black Greeks.” A long-time brother discusses history and traditions and why Greek life was so special on black campuses during the early days. They are still important today.