78 results for 'mcclure meredith'

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and...

The final book of poems from a Beat Generation legend, Mule Kick Blues finds McClure restlessly innovating until the end. "Intelligent, affable and flecked with unconventional typography--as in...

Surpassed as the world’s most vigorous capitalist manufacturer by Japan and Germany, the US now seems bound for the same rocky shores as those on which Britannia foundered at the end of the...

In ancient Athens, where freedom of speech derived from the power of male citizenship, women's voices were seldom heard in public. Female speech was more often represented in theatrical productions...

This book provides a lucid survey of the major viewpoints in social psychology concerning people's self-awareness (or lack of it), their explanations of their own actions, and their cognitive...

Poems Are Hard to Read gathers together a half-century of prose pieces written by William Meredith. The work includes essays on poetry and poets, reviews, occasional addresses, memoirs, and a Paris...

George McClure offers here a far-reaching analysis of the role of consolation in Italian Renaissance culture, showing how the humanists' interest in despair, and their effort to open up this realm in...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Learn to cook, host, and eat like a private chef with 100 recipes from Meredith Hayden of Wishbone Kitchen.Inspired by years working as a chef in New York City and the...

Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. But then prospectors...

“An invaluable guide for the feast in the East.” —Hank Shaw, author of the James Beard Award–winning website Hunter Angler Gardener Cook The Northeast offers a veritable feast for foragers, and with...

The definitive story of African nations after they emerged from colonialism -- from Mugabe's doomed kleptocracy to Mandela's inspiring defeat of apartheid.The Fate of Africa has been hailed by...

Africa does not give up its secrets easily. Buried there lie answers about the origins of humankind. And yet, though vital clues still remain hidden, scientists have over the last century transformed...

A sweeping history the fortune seekers, adventurers, despots, and thieves who have ruthlessly endeavored to extract gold, diamonds, and other treasures from Africa and its people.Africa has been...

How working-class socialist women changed the course of American history, with a foreword by labor journalist Sarah Jaffe.In this landmark study, Meredith Tax charts the actions of women in...

A study of the fraught, often inequitable public spaces of New York City. There are no perfect public spaces. Public space is constantly changing, shifting, never quite fixed. It is formed by laws,...

Meredith Russo's award-winning, big-hearted novel If I Was Your Girl is about being seen for who you really are, with a love story you can't help but root for!Amanda Hardy is the new girl in school...

Two plays dramatize the conflict of American myths in a confrontation between Billy the Kid and Jean Harlow, and retell the story of Orestes and Elektra

The remarkable story of the cartographic masterpiece—the Venetian mappa mundi—that revolutionized how we see the world.In 1459 a Venetian monk named Fra Mauro completed an astonishing map of the...

"In 1459 a Venetian monk named Fra Mauro completed an astonishing map of the world. Seven feet in diameter, Fra Mauro's mappamundi is the oldest and most complete Medieval map to survive into...