31 results for 'salut'

Tuchman turns to America with a fresh new view of the events that led from the first foreign salute to the American Nationhood in 1776 to the last campaign of the Revolution five years later--the...

A strikingly original investigation of the origins and dissemination of the world's most infamous greeting Sometimes the smallest detail reveals the most about a culture. In Heil Hitler: The History...

A partire dal Cinquecento, le profonde rispondenze tra letteratura e scienza elaborano un nuovo modo di scrivere. Il testo viene così strutturato dal punto di vista del lavoro della lingua e della...

A salute to the early pioneer dancers, this book presents a panorama of dance in Australia from 1835 to 1949. The book traces a range of performers, from the exotic European dancers, freaks, frauds,...

Puddle, puddle, puddle, MUD! Our favorite bald baby celebrates a new season with an adorable friend. Squish! Squoosh! Squash! It's raining, but that's OK, because rain means that spring is here!...

In the uprisings of the Arab world, Alain Badiou discerns echoes of the European revolutions of 1848. In both cases, the object was to overthrow despotic regimes maintained by the great...

Good Night New Jersey highlights the Atlantic Ocean and sandy beaches, fishing boats, rafting the Delaware Water Gap, blueberry farms in the Pine Barrens, Lucy the Elephant, Asbury Park, Adventure...

A gorgeous collection from one of the world's legendary photographers- capturing human hands in all their vitality. At the end of a session, photographer Eve Arnold always took a parting shot of the...

"Timely, monumental. . . . Yet another piercing examination of American culture by the writer this reviewer considers our country's greatest living novelist. . . . It is brilliant. How blessed we are...

"Timely, monumental. . . . Yet another piercing examination of American culture by the writer this reviewer considers our country's greatest living novelist. . . . It is brilliant. How blessed we are...

Man Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson brings his singular brilliance to this modern re-imagining of one of Shakespeare’s most unforgettable characters: ShylockWinter, a cemetery, Shylock. In this...

It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would...

*Longlisted for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize!"A hint of Lynch, a touch of Ferrante, the cruel absurdity of Antonin Artaud, the fierce candour of Anaïs Nin, the stylish languor of a Lana...

"The fascinating story of how Hippocrates and the Oath (which is unlikely to have been written by the great Coan doctor himself) became Christianized is the theme of this wise and humane book.....

Ukraine's overlooked modernist buildings are under threat from development, decommunization and war. Photographer Dmytro Soloviov has crossed Ukraine documenting them to form the most comprehensive...

The line that separated Eastern Christendom from Western on the medieval map is similar to the "iron curtain" of recent times. Linguistic barriers, political divisions, and liturgical differences...

Accusateur (féroce) non seulement de Louis XVI mais encore des Girondins, de Danton et des hébertistes, représentant (impitoyable) de la Convention aux armées du Rhin et du Nord, membre (inflexible)...

Quoi de plus stimulant qu'un essai qui tente de remettre en cause des préjugés ? Tel est le projet de cet ouvrage collectif de chercheurs français et internationaux : battre en brèche le mythe de...

L'Église a peiné à avoir des Pères, quand il lui a suffi d'une seconde d'Annonciation pour avoir une Mère : six siècles de paternité, et à peine commencée que déjà partagée entre Orient et Occident !...

Winner of the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Young ReadersA Newbery Honor BookA Caldecott Honor BookA Coretta Scott King Author Honor BookA Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor BookAn Ezra Jack Keats New...