“A chemical and cultural history of distilling that is concise and readable. Distilled offers intriguing viewpoints on tasting that are sure to form new perceptions for even the most seasoned professional.”
—Frank Caiafa, author of The Waldorf Astoria Bar Book
The first comprehensive, posthumous monograph and retrospective on Bernd and Hilla Becher, best known for their photographs of industrial structures in Europe and North America
“A powerful combination of history and personal memoir . . . A richly contextual, skillfully woven historical study.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Looking at their conflicted attitudes to imagination, dreams, and melancholy, Hackett examines how Elizabethans perceived the mind, soul, and self, and how their ideas compare with our own.
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Learn MoreEp. 89 – A Conversation about Anne Truitt’s Yield: The Journal of an Artist
Listen as we talk with Anne Truitt’s daughter, Alexandra Truitt, about preparing the fourth and final volume of her late mother’s journals for publication. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher |…
Read MoreRoses, Routine, and Typhoon Weather: Excerpt from Yield
In this excerpt from Yield: The Journal of an Artist, the late Anne Truitt‘s final volume of published journals spanning Winter 2001 to Spring 2002, the sculptor muses about love,…
Read MoreAncient Lives unfolds the stories of thinkers, writers, kings, queens, conquerors, and politicians from all parts of the ancient world. Readers will come to know these figures in fully human dimensions, complete with foibles and flaws, and will see that the issues they faced—political conflicts, constraints based in gender or race, tensions between the private and public self—have changed very little over the course of millennia.
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