3247 results for '"Robert Cryer'

“A remarkable story of resilience, faith, and hope.” — School Library Journal (starred review)Inspired by a true account, here is the compelling story of a child who arrives in America on the slave...

Given the wealth of formal debate contained in this tragedy, Troilus and Cressida was probably written in 1602 for a performance at one of the Inns of the Court. Shakespeare's treatment of the...

Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality. Volume I: An Introduction. Translated from the French by Robert Hurley. First Vintage Books Edition. New York, Vintage Books, 1980. 11 x 18 cm. 168 pages...

Agee on film Vol. 2 is out of print.Bettmann archive photo is of James Agee, who died in 1955 at 45. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1958 for his novel ''A Death in the Family.''Excerpt of...

A modern classic of historical fiction written in the form of Claudius's autobiography.Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus lived from 10 B.C. to 54 A.D. Despised as a weakling and dismissed as...

Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor - American Library Association (ALA)Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards NomineeA graphic novel based on the life and death of Robert "Yummy" Sandifer, an...

Peru's self-proclaimed "revolution"--surprisingly extensive reforms initiated by the military government--has aroused great interest all over Latin America and the Third World. This book is the first...

A monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain, from the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore. In these pages, Robert Hughes scrolls through...

Can a bomb ever be "clean"? Are we relieved to be warned that there will be an "odor" when once we were told that something would "stink"? Or, to put it another way, when is a euphemism a mark of...

Renowned primatologist Robert Sapolsky offers a completely revised and updated edition of his most popular work, with nearly 90,000 copies in print Now in a third edition, Robert M. Sapolsky's...

GLOBAL PHENOMENON NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE NEW ROBERT LANGDON THRILLER FROM THE ICONIC AUTHOR OF THE DA VINCI CODE The world’s most celebrated thriller...

How much credit can be given to entrepreneurship for the unprecedented innovation and growth of free-enterprise economies? In this book, some of the world's leading economists tackle this difficult...

Masses In Latin America / Irving Louis Horowitz -- Development And Stagnation In Latin America / Celso Furtado -- Working-class Consciousness And Economic Development In Latin America / Alain...

From the Ignatz and Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Ben Passmore comes a whirlwind graphic history of Black life, taken by forceIt’s the summer of 2020, and downtown Philly is up in flames. “You’re...

It was home to Einstein in decline, the place where Kurt Göedel starved himself in paranoid delusion, and where J. Robert Oppenheimer rode out his political persecution in the Director's mansion. It...

An updated edition of the classic introduction to the history and beliefs of Unitarian Universalism—from a senior minister of the Unitarian Church   For those contemplating religious choices,...

Weigl and Hummer have assembled here the most representative writings on Dickey and his work. The essays assess Dickey's achievement, pinpoint his failures and successes, illuminate Dickey's...

This collection of essays from the Royal Institute of Philosophy shows the connections and interrelations between the analytic and hermeneutic strains in German philosophy since Kant, partly to...

Robert Coover's many acclaimed works of fiction have established him as a powerhouse among America's postmodernist writers. With Briar Rose, he casts his own unmistakable style on an ageless tale. A...

Samuel Beckett, the great minimalist master and winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature, produced some of his most widely praised work for the stage in the form of the short play. This complete...