2451 results for '"Lowy, Michael'

"An examination of how Western visions of endless future growth have contributed to the global environmental crisis. For centuries, the West has produced stories about the future in which humans use...

Recipes for vintage mixers made modern with zesty herbs and spices from the original shrubs aficionado. Michael Dietsch took the mixology community by storm with Shrubs, the definitive guide to...

"Light-hearted and rambunctious . . . a fairytale with a difference" — Guardian Best Children's Books of 2023The Ogre Who Wasnt is a fresh and funny story of a little princess who hates the stuffy...

"[In] preliterate societies, even those as late as ancient Greece and Anglo-Saxon England, the poet is the ideologue, historian, theologian, philosopher, TV, newspaper, Internet, and megamultiplex...

In their earliest encounters with Asia, Europeans almost uniformly characterized the people of China and Japan as white. This was a means of describing their wealth and sophistication, their...

An enchanting tale of the search for forgotten treasures at one of the greatest flea markets on earth.Across America and around the world, people wander through flea markets to search for lost...

A kaleidoscopic journey tracing the methods and means of visual communication from cave paintings of the earliest humans to the first image of a black hole in deep space From the cave dweller...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly, the Lincoln Lawyer is back with a case against an AI company whose product may have been responsible for the murder of a young girl. ...

A bold, timely history by a leading Black farmer illuminating the massive contributions to US agriculture made by African expertise and innovationAt the heart of Africulture is an aspect of history...

A revelatory account of how the family behind Hobby Lobby rose to political prominence and used their influence--and fortune--to push a radical religious agenda Hobby Lobby is a...

How the history of a word sheds new light on capitalism and modern politics What exactly is capitalism? How has the meaning of capitalism changed over time? And what’s at stake in our understanding...

An inside look at the early days of Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, as told by the public servants it targeted and one of America’s best storytellers. Blockers. It wasn’t a compliment...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Superb. Hiltzik makes a compelling case that California is the heartbeat of our nation.”—Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of Silent Spring Revolution From...

From an expert in pulmonary medicine, the story of our extraordinary lungs, the organ that both explains our origins and holds the keys to our future as a species We take an average of 7.5 million...

Michael Bennett is a Super Bowl Champion, a three-time Pro Bowl defensive end, a fearless activist, a feminist, an organizer, and a change maker. He's also one of the most humorous athletes on the...

Between 334 and 324 B.C. the Macedonian army, led by Alexander the Great, marched relentlessly across Asia. An event of bravery and cruelty, endurance and greed, Alexander's expedition was a turning...

Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world and overturned assumptions that large-scale conventional war was inconceivable in the twenty-first century. On the other side of the...

"Few anthologies for this age group include such a fine selection of works, introduce the poets so vividly, or provide such a rich collection of haunting illustrations." — BooklistPoetry provides the...

An incisive account of modern Spain, from the death of Franco to the Catalan referendum and beyond "Comprehensive and engaging."--Gideon Rachman, Financial Times Spain's transition to democracy...

A history of wars through the ages and across the world, and the irrational calculations that so often lie behind them Benjamin Franklin once said, "There never was a good war or a bad peace." But...