391 results for '"Geoffrey Holland'

Geoffrey G. O’Brien’s third collection opens with a set of lyric experiments whose music and mutable syntax explore the social relations concealed in material things. O’Brien’s poems measure the...

edited and designed by Monte BeauchampThis volume features Geoffrey Grahn's The Man Who Saved the World, which tells the tale of Vasily Arkhipov, the Russian sub brigade commander who did not follow...

The John McPhee Reader, first published in 1976, is comprised of selections from the author's first twelve books. In 1965, John McPhee published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are; a decade...

Among the distinguished scholars and critics who contribute their analyses to this volume, David Bromwich examines Elizabeth Bishop in terms of her "dream houses," Gary Smith discusses Gwendolyn...

Tom Stoppard's stimulating, funny play Night and Day is set in a fictional African country, Kambawe, which is ruled by a leader not unlike Idi Amin. The nation is faced with a Soviet-backed...

Containing over 600 entries on British economic writers and thinkers, this dictionary covers the period between John Duns Scotus in the 14th century to John Maynard Keynes and his followers in the...

""The dominant perspective of the thirteen essays collected in Image-Music-Text is semiology. Barthes extends the 'empire of signs' over film and photography, music criticism . . . and writing and...

In this vivid biography Geoffrey C. Ward brings back to life the most celebrated — and the most reviled — African American of his age.Jack Johnson battled his way out of obscurity and poverty in the...

Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. His debilitating malaise is drinking, an activity that has overshadowed his life. On the most fateful day of the consul's...

With his journeys through Hell and Purgatory complete, Dante is at last led by his beloved Beatrice to Paradise. Where his experiences in the Inferno and Purgatorio were arduous and harrowing, this...

This diverse and captivating anthology presents twenty-seven stories, essays, and poems by some of today's most prominent authors, including Raymond Carver, Annie Dillard, E. Annie Proulx, Peter...

In the sixteenth century, European rulers attempting toconsolidate their power realized that better knowledge oftheir lands would strengthen their control over them. By1550, the cartographer's art...

Now available - the Carnegie Medal winner comes to the U.S. When her grandfather dies, Tamar inherits a box containing a series of clues and coded messages. Out of the past, another Tamar emerges, a...

“The Freud-Jones view of Hamlet is very widely known and probably this century’s most distinctive contribution to Shakespearean criticism.” ―Norman N. Holland, Director, Center for the Psychological...

Dolittle is soon to be a major motion picture from Universal Pictures, starring Robert Downey Jr. and featuring the voice talents of Emma Thompson, Tom Holland, Selena Gomez, and John Cena!Doctor...

This major new contribution to our understanding of European political theory will challenge the perspectives in which political thought is understood. Framed as a general account of the period...

“Represents some of the very best work being done around the world today.” —News Photographer Every year since 1955 an international jury has convened in Holland under the auspices of the World Press...

"Represents some of the very best work being done around the world today." —News PhotographerEvery year since 1958 an international jury has convened in Holland under the auspices of the World Press...

The notorious and celebrated novel that established modern realism For this novel of French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, Flaubert invented a paradoxically original and wholly modern...

1. Introduction; C. Harline. I. The Work of Herbert Rowen. 2. Herbert Rowen and the Tradition of Early Modern History in the U.S.; T.K. Rabb. 3. Herbert Rowen and the Dutch Republic; E.H. Kossmann. 4...