2139 results for '"Kidwell, Claudia B.'

An indispensible collection of sources chronicling the relationship between medicine and religion from ancient to modern times.Gary B. Ferngren and Ekaterina N. Lomperis have gathered a rich...

Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this modern classic, the acclaimed author of The Shards explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other...

Based on John Gay's eighteenth century Beggar's Opera, The Threepenny Opera, first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, is a vicious satire on the bourgeois capitalist society...

Filled with princesses and witches, dybbuks and wonder-working rebbes, the two hundred tales that make up this delightful compendium were gathered during the 1920s and 1930s by ethnographers in the...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER •  Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding...

Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. This time in Australia.His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The timeless classic from the acclaimed author of American Psycho about the lost generation of 1980s Los Angeles who experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early...

In 1962, Maurice Wilkins, Francis Crick, and James Watson received the Nobel Prize, but it was Rosalind Franklin's data and photographs of DNA that led to their discovery. Brenda Maddox tells a...

A master of song poems which celebrate--and incarnate--the music of nature and history, love and mythology, religion and language, Basil Bunting (1900-1985) was a major figure in Modernist poetry,...

The masterpiece of travel writing that revolutionized the genre and made its author famous overnight An exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land,...

Morris the moose can't count gumdrops, so he decides to go to school. He is thrilled after a day in the classroom—he can finally count candy. Now he can buy gumdrops!

The first book about Lyle the crocodile! Experience the beloved classic and inspiration for the major motion picture. Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile splashes into the lives of the Primm family and straight...

Adventure and wonder abound as Calvin transforms ordinary life into extraordinary experiences, from treasure hunts to backyard experiments, snowball fights, and inquisitive conversation with Hobbes. ...

Calvin's inventions backfire hilariously in Scientific Progress Goes "Boink"--a popular collection full of duplicator mishaps, space-time adventures, and classic Calvin and Hobbes chaos. Calvin's...

Snowmen come alive--and it's not pretty. Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons is a laugh-out-loud Calvin and Hobbes collection packed with winter mayhem, deep thoughts, and the...

Socks is one happy cat....He lives with a nice young couple called Brickers who play with him, pet him, feed him treats, and always have a warm lap for him to sit in. Then a new baby joins the family...

The classic account of the lead-up to World War I, told with “a rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish” (The New York Times)—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns...

The first volume in the life of America's greatest First Lady, "a woman who changed the lives of millions" (Washington Post).Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. Three: 1938-1962, will be published in November...

Inspired by the work of Kurt Schwitters, which he saw in Paris in 1954, Arman began experimenting with printmaking during the 1950s, and prints and other works on paper have been an essential part of...