Select American colleges and universites decorate their architecture with grotesque sculpture. Armed with a camera, a sense of irony as well as determination bordering on obsessive, photographer and author Mathew M. Duman has traveled to ten such campuses in search of their most compelling ornamentation. Not to be satisfied with merely having amassed a caché of many engaging photographs, Mathew has also undertaken the challenge of categorizing and...

Russian literature famously probes the depths of the human soul, and in this series of 36 insightful lectures prepared by a frequently honored teacher legendary among educators in both the United States and Russia - you probe just as deeply into the extraordinary legacy that is Russian Literature itself. Professor Weil introduces you to masterpieces such as Tolstoy's War and Peace, Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, Gogol's...