Editions Artisan Devereaux Llc: 263 books

FRANZ BOAS (1858-1942) has long been considered the father of modern American anthropology. He introduced the relativistic, culture-centered principles and methods of investigation that continue to dominate the field today. By attempting to fuse anthropology with political and social activism, he...

“A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.” Fidel Castro was perhaps the most charismatic and controversial head of state in modern times. Castro took power on New Year’s Day in 1959 serenaded by the Western media for toppling dictator Fulgencio...

“A thoroughly refined and harmonious house, in short; such a house as could only belong to cultivated and enlightened people...” According to Susan Lever and Elizabeth Morrison, The Perversity of Human Nature by Ada Cambridge records a precise moment in Melbourne’s urban history before...

Could a computer be made to think? Alan Turing's groundbreaking 1950 paper, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” has become one of the most cited in philosophical literature. Turing was a founding father of artificial intelligence and of modern cognitive science, and was a leading early...

“We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?” In ‘Goblin Market’, Christina Rossetti, an important and oft-quoted literary master, experiments with language, form and imagery to create a beautiful and voluptuous...

SIEGFRIED SASSOON, CBE, MC (1886–1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, Sassoon is best remembered for his angry and compassionate poems of the First World War, which brought him public and critical acclaim. Avoiding the sentimentality...

Ms. Found In A Bottle is a small prototypical story by the master, whose extravagantly macabre tales have inspired such latter-day disciples as H.P. Lovecraft, and Stephen King. We follow an unnamed sailor at sea who finds himself in a series of traumatic circumstances. First, his vessel...

Nightmare Abbey concerns the unhappy love interests of one Scythrop Glowry, as those interests take shape at various times in the persons of Miss Marionetta O’Carroll and Miss Celinda Toobad. Do these characters represent deliberate portraits of Percy Bysshe Shelley, his first wife, Harriet,...

Ivan Turgenev gave his generation a literary legacy that dealt with the extraordinary moral complexities of his age. A novel of haunting beauty, Torrents of Spring is a fascinating account of one of Turgenev's favorite themes: man's inability to love without becoming a slave to the destructive...

Voltaire – A Sketch of His Life and Works is a compilation of some of Voltaire’s greatest themes, quotes and sketches. Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays and historical and scientific works....

“He gave the taste vogue, teaching the courtiers to smoke their pipes  with silver bowls, and supplying them with the leaf.” -Stebbing’s description of Raleigh introducing pipes and tobacco to England. William Stebbing crafts a deft portrait of one of the most notable figures...

Feel like someone’s watching? You’re probably right. Your anonymity is an illusion. The trend toward constant surveillance is disturbing. Supporters often argue, "If you're obeying the law, you have nothing to fear." But is that true? While many refuse to acknowledge...

The Mighty Magician, Pedro Calderon de la Barca’s Faustian story of religious conversion is his sublime musing on the human condition and one of the greatest works of the Spanish golden age. It looks forward to such modern dramatic themes as our ever-changing perceptions of reality and the...

Praise for this edition of the timeless classic, The Right To Privacy by Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren: Feel like someone’s watching? You’re probably right. Your anonymity is an illusion. The trend toward constant surveillance is disturbing. Supporters...