113 results for 'ranch'

For more than a century, Ghost Ranch has attracted people of enormous energy and creativity to the high desert of northern New Mexico. Occupying twenty-two thousand acres of the Piedra Lumbre basin,...

Morgan Hunt, an ex-con, and eccentric lawyer Nathaniel Semmes join forces to defend the director of Sweetwater Ranch from unfounded charges of child abuse and uncover a tangled mess of murder, greed,...

What are the basic requirements for a home? Christine Hunter looks at how legal, cultural, and technological standards have developed, and examines current criteria for a "minimum standard" family...

This part handbook, part history, and part personal narrative will open readers' eyes to the oft-overlooked arm of government that has done more harm and more good than any other in recent years:...

This book tries to show that Berkeley, when he was preparing to write his early books, made a thorough study of the Recherche , that the Berkeleian philosophy still bears the specific impress of that...

Contemporary media seems incredibly unoriginal, as Hollywood produces an endless flood of remakes, sequels, reboots, and franchises. We watch as the same stories, characters, and images appear again...

Explores the philosophy of Nicolas Malebranche, the most important seventeenth century philosopher after Descartes and the influence of his philosophy in eighteenth century Britain.

In the bestselling tradition of The Nine and The Brethren, The Most Dangerous Branch takes us inside the secret world of the Supreme Court. David A. Kaplan, the former legal affairs editor of...

What the popularity of the Fast and Furious film franchise says about Hollywood blockbusters and media production Fast and Furious Franchising charts the transformation of Hollywood through the story...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A myth-busting glimpse into the inner workings of the Supreme Court, revealing what we get wrong about the Roberts Court, what the justices' clerks gossip about, and how...

The important political motivations behind why women finally won the right to voteIn the 1880s, women were barred from voting in all national-level elections, but by 1920 they were going to the polls...

A strikingly illustrated photographic identification guide to sea slugs in all their colourful varietyNudibranchs, or sea slugs, are a group of marine gastropod molluscs whose adults lack shells, an...

"A poet of genius."—Vladimir NabokovVia what Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine call "readings"—not translations—of fragments of Marina Tsvetaeva's poems and prose, Tsvetaeva's lyrical genius is made...

The DRAGON MASTERS series is "How to Train Your Dragon" meets the DRAGON SLAYERS' ACADEMY!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly...

DRAGON MASTERS has it all--dragons, Dragon Stones, a wizard, and even some magic!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent...

After the royal family of the Kingdom of Bracken is captured by an evil fairy queen, Drake and Bo turn to the Ruby Dragon for help in the latest action-packed installment of this New York Times...