It's a the excellent background information coupled with plenty of illustrations makes this book a keeper. One of the nice features is the seven chapters focus on a different aspect of steampunk. A “coffee table book” has been described as a larger, h...  Read More

Photographs and the other big plus is the liberal use of photographs and illustrations. Illustrations of not just the authors' book covers and excerpts from graphic novels but also their imaginary inventions takes the reader on a beautiful visual jour...  Read More

Purchased for granddaughters birthday. Makes me wish i was 20 again. The person that received the item as a gift loves it.

Fyodor dostoyevsky's novel is set in st. Petersburg, russia during the 1860s. The novel is about a young man named raskolnikov. Cheney read the book at the bohemian grove in 1982.

With poverty come predators, molesters, drunks and others walking the streets. It shows the shortfalls of trying to form your own moral compass.

The pevear-volokhonsky translation is not the same, and amazon should correct this without further delay. The blatantly false and deceptive blurb for this misfire is the pretense that a “ground-breaking commentary” accompanies the text.