4298 results for '"P. D. Townsend'

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Goodreads Choice Awards Semifinalist!B&N Editor's Pick - Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2017 From bestselling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed novelist...

Silver Medal in the Social Change and Social Justice Category, 2024 Nautilus Book Awards Winner, 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Women working in the sciences face obstacles at virtually...

Justus D. Doenecke's monumental study covers diplomatic, military, and ideological aspects of U.S. involvement as a full-scale participant in World War I. The entry of America into the "war to end...

A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy“Spare, elegant and poignant. . . . If there is a single contemporary book that should be...

Instance ontology, or particularism--the doctrine that asserts the individuality of properties and relations--has been a persistent topic in Western philosophy, discussed in works by Plato and...

This groundbreaking catalogue is the first of its kind to examine the exquisite Chinese brown- and black-glazed wares (including those commonly known as "Temmoku"), tracing their evolution and...

From the Nobel Prize–winning physicist, a personal meditation on the quest for objective reality in natural scienceA century ago, thoughtful people questioned how reality could agree with physical...

"Deeply reported and compellingly told, Kenneth Vogel's Devils' Advocates shines a light into the underground world of foreign cash, Washington lobbyists, and the selling of American policy to...

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize“Discerning and significant.” —Poetry Foundation“A sharp memoir in verse.” —LitHubThis powerful and timely collection of autobiographical poems from Yale...

The instant New York Times bestseller! *This stunning edition features sprayed edges. While supplies last!* Mega bestselling and award-winning author Tiffany D. Jackson (The Weight of Blood; White...

C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important...

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, an invaluable guide to the development and exercise of leadership from Abraham Lincoln, Theodore...

In our television age, we may believe that politics has become more immediate, even more personal. After all, the drama of debates, Congressional hearings, and summit meetings unfolds before us as we...

This is a study of a crucial and controversial topic in metaphysics and the philosophy of science: the status of the laws of nature. D. M. Armstrong works out clearly and in comprehensive detail a...

A master of the thriller turns his talent for riveting suspense to the world of business. In this bold novel, John D. MacDonald exposes the backstabbing and betrayals, sordid deeds and savage...

A first-ever documentary history of antisemitism in the United States, spanning five centuries In a 1790 letter to Rhode Island Jewish leader Moses Seixas, President George Washington responded to...

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and NPR“We come to see in FDR the magisterial, central figure in the greatest and richest political tapestry of our nation’s entire history”...

Athens' democracy developed during the sixth and fifth centuries and continued into the fourth; Athens' defeat by Macedon in 322 began a series of alternations between democracy and oligarchy. The...

D. Nurkse’s deeply satisfying new collection is a haunted love letter to the far corners of his hometown, Brooklyn, New York, and a meditation on the selves that were left behind in those indelible...

The actual practice of the Romans with regard to property and investment must be distinguished from the formal rules of the emperors and the moralistic generalizations of the ancient writers. With...