2422 results for '"Yves Klein, L'

A collection of August Kleinzahler’s best poems, divided—like his life—between New Jersey and San FranciscoWhen August Kleinzahler won the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prize for his collection The Strange...

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Police are popularly understood as the "thin blue line" that "serves and protects" us from violence and crime in the pursuit of justice. In Policing a Class Society, Sidney L. Harring provides an...

In a career-spanning selection of poems, August Kleinzahler captures the essence of the West's greatest music.In A History of Western Music, August Kleinzahler’s rhythmic, wry, kinetic style captures...

Abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, war, genetic engineering and fetal experimentation, environmental and animal rights--these topics inspire some of today's most heated public controversies...

As America continues down its path of polarization, a celebrated journalist tells us the deep story of the red-state/blue-state divideIn the wake of Trump's presidency, Republican-led states have...

More than fifty years after his death, Albert Einstein's vital engagement with the world continues to inspire others, spurring conversations, projects, and research, in the sciences as well as the...

A comprehensive study of the lives of Roman women as revealed in Roman art. It concentrates on the evidence provided by portraits, reliefs, wall-paintings, architecture and decorative arts. The...

One of the most important collections of medieval ivory carvings and small sculpture, available to the public for the first time.This volume, the second catalog of the Wyvern Collection, celebrates...

Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award* “An emotionally raw thriller…a haunting account of captivity and the power of relationships.” -- Publishers Weekly, starred reviewThe captivating, disturbing,...

This book is the most systematic, comprehensive and philosophically sophisticated discussion of police ethics yet published. It offers an in-depth analysis of the ethical values that police, as...

A beautifully illustrated edition for new and lifelong fans of P. L. Travers's Mary Poppins from Lauren Child, creator of Charlie and Lola! Experience the fantastical adventures of the magical nanny...

Based on author Bonnie L. Hewlett's ten years of field experience in the Central African Republic, Listen, Here Is a Story: Ethnographic Life Narratives from Aka and Ngandu Women of the Congo Basin...

"Among the important books in the history of American legal philosophy. It includes insights into the relations between morality and law, and advances a theory of law of great practical relevance. . ...

Music played an essential part in raising the city of Venice and in founding the empire on which its fortunes would depend. This book focuses on a set of musical projects - played out in liturgy and...

In this history of the "other Sixties," Gregory L. Schneider traces the influence of Young Americans for Freedom, a conservative political group that locked horns with the New Left and spawned many...

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, political parties in the U.S. enjoyed their heyday of mass loyalties and wielded unprecedented power over government affairs. These boldly argued essays describe...

French foreign policy in the 1960's seemed unique because it was dominated by the anachronistic ideals of Charles de Gaulle. Edward L. Morse argues that in fact the foreign policies of all highly...