6514 results for '"David L. Smith'

Who gets to say what counts as contemporary art? Artists, critics, curators, gallerists, auctioneers, collectors, or the public? Revealing how all of these groups have shaped today’s multifaceted...

Nietzsche and Heidegger saw in modernity a time endangered by nihilism. Starting out from this interpretation, David Levin links the nihilism raging today in Western society and culture to our...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Riveting, elegant, humorous—this "picaresque voyage through Patti Smith’s dreams and life, blending fiction and reality, conjured characters and actual ones” (The New York...

From the author of The Penguin State of the World Atlas, an essential tool for understanding the modern Middle EastThe Middle East is in a constant state of change, and understanding it has never...

A nature book unlike any other, Jordan Fisher Smith's startling account of fourteen years as a park ranger thoroughly dispels our idealized visions of life in the great outdoors. Instead of scout...

Earthshine is a book about a wife's illness and death from cancer and the aftermath of grief. It is, necessarily, painful. Yet David Young, is meditating on despair and the loss of love, has found...

No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight explores...

From zines you can fold in a minute to luxurious leather journals and sumptuous sketchbooks, How to Make Books will walk you through the easy basics of bookmaking. Whether you’re a writer, a...

This revised edition of John E. Smith s classic details the phenomenal growth in American philosophy in the years since the book first appeared. Through the addition of a new chapter and the...

A radiant new memoir from artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award winner Just Kids“God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper,” writes Patti Smith in this moving account...

"This is the book I've been waiting for my whole life." -Dan Hodgson, Area Pastor, Central Coast Vineyard Churches, Santa Barbara "I dare you to open this book and take a journey filled with border...

How writers after Adam Smith helped shape our thinking about economics and politicsFew issues are more central to our present predicaments than the relationship between economics and politics. In the...

This compelling survey introduces an exceptionally rich, fascinating and complex art. Edward Lucie-Smith discusses major subjects and issues: Magic Realism, Expressionism and other concepts shared...

An Amazon Best Book of 2015, A Kirkus Reviews' Best Book of 2015 "A brave book with beautiful sentences on every page."--New York Times "Piercing...a tour de force."--Los Angeles Times In 2000,...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction “with all the pace and excitement of a movie thriller”(The New...

The subject of enthusiastic and widespread reviews, David Lodge's fourteenth work of fiction displays the humor and shrewd observations that have made him a much-loved icon. Deaf Sentence tells the...

In The Business of Alchemy, Pamela Smith explores the relationships among alchemy, the court, and commerce in order to illuminate the cultural history of the Holy Roman Empire in the sixteenth and...

David Harvey tackles Marx's notebooks that have spawned wide-ranging and raging controversiesWhen leading scholar of Marx, Roman Rosdolsky, first encountered the virtually unknown text of Marx’s...

"From Saxon times to the present day, David Watkin directs the reader on a rich and enlightening journey that outlines the whole story of English architecture, focusing on buildings that can still be...

In this follow up to I Was Wrong: The Meanings of Apologies, Nick Smith expands his ambitious theories of categorical apologies to civil and criminal law. After rejecting court-ordered apologies as...