Presents the history of the major religions and discusses their fundamental concepts with excerpts from their sacred writings

Product Description: 'Prostitution, gambling, fencing, contract murder, loan sharking, political corruption and crime of every sort were the daily trade in Philadelphia's Tenderloin, the oldest part of town. The Kevitch family ruled this stew for a half a century, from Prohibition to the rise of the Atlantic City...read more

Product Description: Including poems, sequences, and a prose memoir, this collection looks at the 20th century and its aftermath through the shattered lens of John Ruskin’s famous book and the work of certain modern painters. With steady, truth-telling poems, this compilation is not only inspired by the poet’s collaborations with artists, but also charts his remarkable journey from the backstreets of Philadelphia to Cambridge and Yale...read more

Product Description: A vivid and unsentimental examination of brutality and the scars it leaves, this collection by London’s Dan Burt is a memoir in poetry and prose of his harsh, formative, working-class world. Both elegiac and philosophical, the poems highlight the poet’s skill with traditional forms and match the scale of his concerns with a substantial formal architecture and an answerable narrative...read more

Product Description: Reflecting the experiences of a rich and varied life, this collection of poems challenges traditional notions of form and combines intensely personal and multicultural themes. The elegies are political and unsentimental, and the historical poems imitate a painful Jewish childhood...read more

Step-by-step photographs and text teach watercolorists how to paint using pigment puddles and a simplified palette, with exercises that demonstrate focal points, high chroma colors, values, shapes, texture, and composition