2929 results for '"Rob Poole'

"Robison's minimalism is more like a slap in the face: it's short, it stings, and you wonder who in tarnation did that to you." ―The New York TimesEnter Eve. Based in New Orleans, she's a location...

A bracing assessment of U.S. foreign policy and world disorder over the past two decades from the bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography and The Coming Anarchy“[Kaplan] has emerged not only...

As a backyard naturalist and river enthusiast, Henry David Thoreau was keenly aware of the many ways in which humans had altered the waterways and meadows of his beloved Concord River Valley. A land...

Forty years in the making, this long-awaited reinterpretation of Hegel’s The Phenomenology of Spirit is a landmark contribution to philosophy by one of the world’s best-known and most influential...

A critical examination of economics's past and future, and how it needs to change, by one of the most eminent political economists of our time The dominant view in economics is that money and...

"What do we mean when we say that people practice religion? How do scholars who seek to understand the realities of religious practice and its diverse manifestations do what they do? What conceptual...

A groundbreaking and surprising look at contemporary censorship in ChinaAs authoritarian governments around the world develop sophisticated technologies for controlling information, many observers...

From the internationally best-selling author of Fatherland and the Cicero Trilogy--a chilling and dark new thriller unlike anything Robert Harris has done before.1468. A young priest, Christopher...

How American respectability has been built by maligning those who don't make the gradeHow did Americans come to think of themselves as respectable members of the middle class? Was it just by earning...

From the bestselling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, comes an urgent analysis of how the "rigged" systems of American politics and power operate, how this status quo came to be, and...

Jean Starobinski interroge trois figures exemplaires de la folie. Remontant à des documents capitaux, il met en évidence ce qui nous fascine et nous terrorise dans l'aliénation. L'enjeu n'est pas...

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JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEE • A stylish, transporting pasta master class from New York City’s premier pasta chef, with recipes for 40 handmade pasta shapes and 100 Italian American, regional Italian,...

Get ready for hours of immersive paper-folding fun with this ultimate origami guide! Robert J. Lang, an origami master, presents 37 stunning and easy-to-follow models in this incredibly...

Physical description; 192 pages, viii pages of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm. Notes; Exhibition at the Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, from April 1986 of drawings housed in the Royal Library at...

In this original and compelling survey, Robert Foster combines solid scholarship with a passion for the church's witness to trace one of the most persistent themes throughout Christian Scripture, the...

Best Book of the YearNPR • The Washington Post • Boston Globe• TIME • USA Today • Entertainment Weekly • Real Simple • Parade • Buzzfeed • Electric Literature • LitHub • BookRiot • PopSugar • Goop •...

This book is a sweeping indictment of the legal profession in the realm of constitutional interpretation. The adversarial, advocacy-based American legal system is well suited to American justice, in...

Roberto Calasso, "a literary institution of one" (The Paris Review), tells the story of the eternal life of Utnapishtim, the savior of man, in the eleventh part of his great literary project.A long...

The first comprehensive history of the Catholic Church’s notorious Index, with resonance for ongoing debates over banned books, censorship, and free speech.For more than four hundred years, the...