1556 results for '"Carnoy, Martin'

The full and definitive biography of Frederick Law Olmsted, influential abolitionist, ardent social reformer and conservationist, and the visionary designer of Central ParkFrederick Law Olmsted is...

From the award-winning biographer and historian, a brilliant dual biography of two of the most fascinating twentieth-century political activists Hailed as "remarkable" and "a must read" by Choice, A...

Joy hums from this exquisite picture book celebration of the richness of the African heritage behind braids, locs, cornrows, and all manner of crowning glory, from ancient times to present...

Two hundred photobooks across five decades―a raucous, one-of-a-kind tour through Parr's monumental history with the medium.Published with PhotoBook Museum, Cologne.As a photographer, publisher,...

The story of an odd couple-a British military historian and the Tawny Owl with whom he lived for fifteen yearsMartin Windrow was a war historian with little experience with pets when he adopted an...

The socially constructed phenomenon of whiteness: how it was created, how it changes, and how it protects and privileges people who are perceived as white.This volume in the MIT Press Essential...

“A masterpiece, a major work of modern art history.” —Wall Street Journal “Absorbing and lavishly illustrated.” —New Yorker “If you are interested in modern British art, the book is unputdownable. If...

Tracking an underground language and the outcasts who depended on it for their survival.Centuries ago in middle Europe, a coded language appeared, scrawled in graffiti and spoken only by people who...

In the Anthropocene, the fact that human activity is deeply enmeshed with the existence and actions of all kinds of other beings is inescapable. As a result, the planetary ecological crisis has...

A capacious history of decolonization from the decline of empires to the era of globalizationEmpires, until recently, were everywhere. They shaped borders, stirred conflicts, and set the terms of...

What good are the arts? Why should we care about the past? For millennia, humanity has sought to understand and transmit to future generations not just the "know-how" of life, but the "know-why"--the...

The 10th anniversary edition, now with a new preface by the author"A wonderfully smart, lively, and culturally astute survey." - The New York Times Book Review"Grand entertainment...fascinating for...

The world of Kafka is a world of failure: as a son (The Judgment and Metamorphosis are classic examples of the communication gap between parent and child), as a family man (the proverbial unhappy...

Published to great acclaim in hardcover, Martin Duberman's Howard Zinn was described by Michael Kammen in the Los Angeles Review of Books as "biography at its best, written by a master of the craft...

Many low-income countries and development organizations are calling for greater liberalization of labor immigration policies in high-income countries. At the same time, human rights organizations and...

Winner of the 2021 National Book Award for PoetryFrom the winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize come masterfully crafted narratives of protest, grief and love.Martín Espada is a poet who "stirs in us...

The family dinner, the client luncheon, the holiday spread--the idea of people coming together for a meal seems the most natural thing in the world. But that is certainly not the case for most other...

Social Structures is a book that examines how structural forms spontaneously arise from social relationships. Offering major insights into the building blocks of social life, it identifies which...

"Sumptuously illustrated, this radiant volume encapsulates what it truly means to be a visual artist." --Booklist David Hockney's exuberant work is highly praised and widely celebrated--he is...

"National Book Award-winning author and historian Martin E. Marty's "A Nation of Behavers is a characteristically perceptive new map of American religion. . . . Marty's years of astute observation of...