Twelve Caesars

Twelve CaesarsAuthor: Mary Beard ISBN: 9780691222363 Publisher: Princeton University Press Year first published: 01 Oct 2021 Pages: 392 Format: Hardback What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book against a background of today's 'sculpture wars' Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than two millennia portraits of the rich, powerful, and famous in the

looking particularly at nationalism

subtle changes in behaviorFeatures true personal and corporate challenges all Americans are facingReminds readers of simple

But who would want her dead

Pulp Fiction) as the mysterious “fixer” called Lenny Cohen who kicks into action whenever the boss of a group of con artists needs to keep his employees in line

plainspoken elegy for her time spent with Jack Kerouac

Garden spaces with special meaning-including a special plot of soil for planting your dreams

when probabilistic and exhaustive methods were rejected and statistics was refashioned into an ethnographic enterprise

re found along the shallows of beaches and have been recorded living at depths of more than 800 feet

and perception-bending supernatural horror

the Soviet Union's pioneering youth subculture from the late 1940s to the early 1960s

My Friend the Spy

ISBN: 9780719086809