7622 results for '"Sapir, J. David'

In Blessed Rage for Order, David Tracy examines the cultural context in which theological pluralism emerged. Analyzing orthodox, liberal, neo-orthodox, and radical models of theology, Tracy...

David Sedaris, the "champion storyteller," (Los Angeles Times) returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso Back when restaurant menus were still printed on...

Winner of the 2012 Award for Concept Analysis from the International Political Science AssociationHow do transitional democracies deal with officials who have been tainted by complicity with prior...

"McKee's gentle humor and love of irony are in full force in this celebration of individuality and laughter." —Publishers WeeklyElmer the elephant is bright-colored patchwork all over. No wonder the...

Science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life’s history, with powerful implications for human health and even...

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WINNER OF THE 1987 JWB NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FOR HISTORYIn this radical reinterpretation of Jewish history, David Biale tackles the myth of Jewish political passivity between the fall of an...

"Widely regarded today as one of the best works on the subject," (The Irish Times), David Beresford's seminal Ten Men Dead, a definitive chronicle of the 1981 IRA prison hunger strike and an...

An exploration of one of England’s great ancient monuments: the 360-foot-long chalk White Horse at Uffington.The White Horse at Uffington is an icon of the English landscape—a prehistoric, nearly...

“If John Berger’s Ways of Seeing is a classic of art criticism, looking at the ‘what’ of art, then David Salle’s How to See is the artist’s reply, a brilliant series of reflections on how artists...

From Mad Men to MAGA: how nostalgia came to be and why we are so eager to indulge it. From movies to politics, social media posts to the targeted ads between them, nostalgia is one of the most potent...

"Intellectually salacious...Deep in its gut, Mamet's gripping play argues everything in America is still about race." -Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune "Tasty dialogue, spiky confrontations and more than...

"Meticulously researched and unapologetically romantic, How the Hippies Saved Physics makes the history of science fun again." —Science In the 1970s, an eccentric group of physicists in Berkeley,...

Part of the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of David Bowie, the starman who dazzled audiences with his music. As a child, young David had a head full of...

Dylan Jones’s engrossing, magisterial biography of David Bowie is unlike any Bowie story ever written. Drawn from over 180 interviews with friends, rivals, lovers, and collaborators, some of whom...

Shedding new light on the institutionalization of literature as a kind of secular scripture in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, David G. Riede explores the ways in which major...

In his propulsive novel, New York Times Notable author David Vann traces the roots of mental illness in one man's life as he attempts to anchor himself to the places and people that once shaped his...

In Reason and Evidence in Husserl's Phenomenology David Michael Kleinberg-Levin examines Husserl’s concept of necessary, a priori, and absolutely certain indubitable evidence, which he terms...

"The arch-genius…has some radical ideas about the supremacy of the human mind…[Gelernter] is a computer virtuoso who happens to find human consciousness even more entrancing than the most amazing...

A monumental exploration of soccer and society in our time—by its preeminent historian.The Age of Football proves that whether you call it football or soccer, you can’t make sense of the modern world...