457 results for '"DOUGLAS,A"'

A compilation of the best essays written by the father of transcendentalism, with selections from Emerson’s lectures on history, art, politics, and moreIn the words of Harold Bloom, “Emerson's prose...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira KnightleyIt is only a slight exaggeration to say that...

As the Cold War era becomes history, we are entering an age when international conflict is increasingly based on racial, ethnic, national, and religious clashes--the most intractable sources of...

This book has grown from notes used by the authors to instruct fast transform classes. One class was sponsored by the Training Department of Rockwell International, and another was sponsored by the...

As development and subsequent habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wildlife populations. But there is an important and simple step toward reversing this alarming trend:...

The historical-structural method employed here rejects analyses that are excessively voluntaristic or deterministic. The authors show that while the state was able to mitigate certain adverse...

This extensively revised and updated edition of Fundamentals of Surgical Practice is a key surgical textbook for the intercollegiate MRCS examination. Mirroring the entire new syllabus, it offers...

A unique and definitive reader on our "national passion"--buying stuff--and its consequences for American society. We are citizens, owners and workers, believers and heathens, but today more than...

"A gripping and vital portrait of wolf repopulation. It is impossible not to root for Diane, or for the wolves."--ERICA BERRY, AUTHOR OF WOLFISH "This is a book about a courageous woman. Often...

This collection from Africa, Oceania, and pre-Columbian America features masks, vessels, and jewelry worked in precious stones and metals

An instant New York Times bestseller. Over 1 million copies sold!Two spiritual giants. Five days. One timeless question. Nobel Peace Prize Laureates His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop...

Revolutionary War officer, co-author of the Federalist Papers, our first Treasury Secretary, Thomas Jefferson’s nemesis, and victim of a fatal duel with Aaron Burr: Alexander Hamilton has been the...