Wed 7/8 @ 6:30PMMorven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street
The authors discuss and sign copies of A Founding Mother: A Novel of Abigail Adams at this annual gathering featuring refreshments, give
Bolesław Prus is often compared to Chekhov, and Prus's masterpiece might be described as an intimate epic, a beautifully detailed, utterly absorbing exploration of life in late-nineteenth-century...
Poised between the end of the Cold War and the start of a new millennium, international relations theory finds itself at a major intellectual crossroads. Globalizing phenomena, emerging non-state...
This collection of diaries written by young people during the Holocaust reflects a vast and diverse range of experiences - some of the writers were refugees, others were hiding or passing as...
"Fongoli chimpanzees are unique for many reasons. Their female hunters are the only apes that regularly hunt with tools (tiny bush babies with wooden spears). Unlike most other chimps, these apes...
A thematic discussion of twentieth-century clothing design views fashions in light of art, social change, chemical and technological advances, and the growth of the fashion industry
The present international system, composed for the most part of sovereign, territorial states, is often viewed as the inevitable outcome of historical development. Hendrik Spruyt argues that there...
A major reimagining of how evolutionary forces work, revealing how mating preferences—what Darwin termed "the taste for the beautiful"—create the extraordinary range of ornament in the animal world...
A cross-disciplinary examination of democratization, as seen in different attempts at it across the globe. Democracy is not in steady state and democratizations are open-ended processes; they depend...
An impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry’s accessibility to all readers, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew ZapruderIn Why Poetry, award-winning poet...
An unflinching study of death, Kevin Prufer’s The Fears invites us to consider what it means to matter.Editor, publisher, and poet Kevin Prufer presents his ninth poetry collection,The Fears, an...
Brave New Words is the winner of a 2008 Hugo Award for excellence in the field of science fiction and fantasy.The first historical dictionary devoted to science fiction, Brave New Words:The Oxford...
The word of Wyatt Prunty has been acclaimed by critics and poets alike. In this latest book of poems, Prunty finds beauty and violence, mystery and humor, in a variety of private and public worlds.
A riveting exploration of how the Fatimid dynasty carefully orchestrated an architectural program that proclaimed their legitimacyThis groundbreaking study investigates the early architecture of the...
Pruden begins by describing the administration's policy-making structure and the principal players' views on the UN. She then examines the early months of the Eisenhower presidency, investigating the...
Combining extensive field research from West Africa to the Horn with findings culled from American and European museum archives, Labelle Prussin and the book's other contributors - including Peter A...
A raucous roller-coaster history of the WNBA, from celebrated start-up to lean years, and on to the recent boom, from a passionate sports journalist
The history of the WNBA is an epic one, and in The...