Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and Its Implications

Author

Mary Beard

Read the Bldg Blog interview with Mary Beard about the Wonders of the World series (Part I and Part II)

Oscar Wilde compared it to a white goddess, Evelyn Waugh to Stilton cheese. In observers from Lord Byron to Sigmund Freud to Virginia Woolf it met with astonishment, rapture, poetry, even tears--and,...

Author

Claude Lévi-Strauss

This collection of Levi-Strauss' essays, studies and polemic articles often has a manifesto-like tone. However, the chapters vary in style and substance. Some are more ethnographical, others (more numerous) are more theoretical and have a programmatic character. Although Levi-Strauss' analyses...

Author	Alessandro Manzoni
ISBN	8804562609

I promessi sposi è un romanzo storico di Alessandro Manzoni. Assieme alle Confessioni di un italiano di Ippolito Nievo è considerato il più importante della letteratura italiana prima dell'unità nazionale. Fu pubblicato in una prima versione nel 1827; rivisto in seguito dallo stesso autore,...

Author	Kagiji Kumanomata
ISBN	1974700194

A captured princess just wants a good night’s sleep!

Imprisoned in the castle of the Demon King, all that spoiled-sweet Princess Syalis dreams of is a good night’s sleep! Shhh...

While waiting to be rescued, Princess Syalis makes herself at home by commandeering a bathtub, befriending...

Author

Jason Aaron

DR. JANE FOSTER IS THE GODDESS OF THUNDER--AND IT'S KILLING HER.

Her enemies are many as Asgard descends further into chaos, and unrest threatens to spread throughout the Ten Realms. Yet she wages her greatest battle against a far more personal foe: the cancer killing her mortal form. When...