698 results for '"Greiner, Walter'

Originally published during the early part of the twentieth century, the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature were designed to provide concise introductions to a broad range of topics. They...

Dive into the history, culture, and heritage of the state of New York with Who HQ! Learn about everything from Broadway and the bustle of New York City to the natural beauty of Niagara Falls in this...

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is now generally recognized as one of the most influential thinkers of the last century. This Very Short Introduction explores his extraordinary life and thought. His...

The description for this book, The Crowning of the American Landscape: Eight Great Spaces and Their Buildings, will be forthcoming.

This text covers basic classical optics--geometrical and physical--at a level suitable for first or second year undergraduates. The introductory chapter discusses the properties of electromagnetic...

The first historical novel and an international bestsellerSir Walter Scott was one of the bestselling novelists of the nineteenth century and is credited with establishing the historical novel. His...

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Liberty and the News is Walter Lippman's classic account of how the press threatens democracy whenever it has an agenda other than the free flow of ideas. Arguing that there is a necessary connection...

In a lucid, brilliant work of nonfiction, Larry McMurtry has written a family portrait that also serves as a larger portrait of Texas itself, as it was and as it has become.Using an essay by the...

Though conditioned by the specific circumstances of eleventh-century Europe, the launching of the crusdaes presupposed a long historical evolution of the idea of Christian knighthood and holy war...