"The Snow Queen and Other Winter Tales" collects 100 fairy and folk tales from around the world that share the winter theme of Hans Christian Andersen's classic story, "The Snow Queen." In addition to tales by Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, Charles Di...

Typically provocative, at once comic and tragic, Pirandello's "Naked" uncovers the machinery of guilt, deceit, and betrayal underlying the motives of five people. The heroine is a young governess, Ersilia Drei, who has been reduced to despair by a se...

Ever since the appearance of the first lofts in Manhattan back in the fifties, the concept has changed and adapted to the latest trends in contemporary architecture and the needs of present-day life. The transformation of old factories and warehouses...

Sappho loved the glamour of the Lydian ladies, with their stylish apparel and cosmetics. The soldier Alcaeus could not help admiring a Babylonian shield. The anonymous Corinthian miniaturist vase painters were apparently enchanted by the colours, sha...

Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divi...

Creating iPhone Apps with Cocoa Touch: The Mini Missing Manual walks you through developing your first iPhone App and introduces you to your programming environments and tools: Cocoa Touch, Interface Builder, Xcode, and the Objective-C programming la...