460 results for '"Heller, Agnes'

Pore over the letters of Eve Babitz—queen of the witty, gossipy, and thoroughly engrossing missive. Joan Didion, Joseph Heller, Annie Leibovitz, Paul Ruscha, Anne Rice, Steve Martin, and many others...

Born a humble girl in what is now Albania, Agnes Bojaxhiu lived a charitable life. She pledged herself to a religious order at the age of 18 and chose the name Sister Teresa, after the patron saint...

Magnetism is a strange force, mysteriously attracting one object to another apparently through empty space. It has been claimed as a great healer, with magnetic therapies being proposed over the...

Wagner is one of the most controversial of composers, and much that has been written about him--including his autobiography--is misleading. Barry Millington draws on the best previous scholarship and...

An incisive and absorbing biography of the legendary emperor who bridged ancient and modern Europe and singlehandedly altered the course of Western history. Charlemagne was an extraordinary figure:...

Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern...

A SPIN, Electric Literature, Book Riot, and The Catholic Post Best Poetry Collection of 2022Finalist for the RSL Ondaatje Prize & Forward Prize for Best First CollectionA Lit Hub Most Anticipated...

Texte écrit en anglais entre 1977 et 1979. La traduction française de l'auteur est parue en 1980. « Le livre est là sur ma table, avec sa couverture blanche et le bleu du titre : Compagnie, et j'ai...

The Caribbean was Europe's first colony, its landscapes transformed to produce tropical staples and its decimated aboriginal populace replaced with African slaves. As European power has waned in the...

The changing faces of Ireland—social, political, and cultural—documented by some of the greatest Magnum photographers of the modern era.From Ireland’s first attempts to forge a modern identity in the...

An Economist Best Book of 2007, Jonathan CarrÕs The Wagner Clan proves, with the sweeping scope of a Wagnerian opera, that the history of Europe and that of the infamous composerÕs family are...

An exploration of the lives and works of Verdi and Wagner as well as their respective legacies to the present day, written by a noted cultural critic. This is the first book to compare these two...

This book is about the way medical students and doctors think when they are trying to make a diagnosis. It is also about the effects that medical education and clinical experience have on that...

On Christmas morning in the year 800, Pope Leo III placed the crown of imperial Rome on the brow of a Germanic king named Karl—a gesture that enabled the man later hailed as Charlemagne to claim his...

The most important study of Charlemagne in a generation, this biography by distinguished medievalist Alessandro Barbero illuminates both the man and the world in which he lived. Charles the...

During the Last Ice Age, Europe was a cold, dry place teeming with mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, reindeer, bison, cave bears, cave hyenas, and cave lions. It was also the home of people physically...