318 results for 'popula maxim'

Idiocy is all around us, whether it's the uncle spouting conspiracy theories, the colleagues who repeat your point but louder, or the commuters who still don't know how to use an escalator. But what...

An NPR “Best Book of the Year” “Eerily atmospheric, keep-you-up-late suspenseful.” ―Alexis Burling, San Francisco Chronicle In this haunting novel about the end of the frontier dream, a man tries...

This highly illustrated book takes young readers behind the scenes to discover exactly how an airport works. Airports reveals the busy and complex world of an international airport to discover...

A classic secular history of the prophet Muhammad that vividly recreates the fascinating time in which Islam was born.Maxime Rodinson, both a maverick Marxist and a distinguished professor at the...

A new collection of short fiction and nonfiction by a Russian master of bittersweet humor, dramatic irony, and poignant insights into contemporary life.The town of Tarusa lies 101 kilometers outside...

The Popular Arts -- Movies -- Television And Radio -- Popular Music -- Popular Print. Edited By William M. Hammel. Includes Bibliographical References.

How Kahlo collected, celebrated and depicted Mexican folk arts in both her painting and her personaThe visionary and supremely self-fashioning artist Frida Kahlo (1907–54) drew inspiration throughout...

Pierre Miquel évoque un Tour de France à travers cette France qui sortait du Front populaire pour entrer, deux ans plus tard, dans la seconde guerre mondiale. Cette année-là, couraient Gino Bartali,...

Why, in both democratic and authoritarian governments, do the politically and economically weak sometimes take to the streets and not to the ballot boxes? Why do angry workers at times support...

Robin Clifton. Includes Bibliographies And Index.

This popular one-volume analysis of the evolution of American criminal justice places contemporary issues of crime and justice in historical perspective. Walker identifies the major periods in the...