1779 results for '"Shue, Henry'

An incantatory catalog of cultural artifacts either lost to time or never realized.• A boarder for two years following a national funeral, Mirabeau is removed from the Pantheon and transferred to the...

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Named a Most Anticipated book of 2024 by TIME ∙ The New York Times ∙ Goodreads ∙ Entertainment Weekly ∙ Today ∙ Paste ∙ SheReads ∙ BookPage ∙ Woman's World ∙...

Essai sur la mémoire contemporaine. Le terme de "mémoire" n'est plus seulement un mot galvaudé, c'est un mot usé. Il a fini par désigner sans distinction tout type de rapport entre passé et présent,...

In the last quarter of the fourteenth century, the complete Old and New Testaments were translated from Latin into English, first very literally, and then revised into a more fluent, less Latinate...

A must-read thriller at turns madcap and melancholy, about a down-on-their-luck duo of swindlers looting their way through the decaying remains of the USSR 1990s. Russia. The USSR has ceased to...

The reign of Emperor Yongle, or "Perpetual Happiness," was one of the most dramatic and significant in Chinese history. It began with civil war and a bloody coup, saw the construction of the...

Egypt has changed enormously in the last half century, and nowhere more so than in the villages of the Nile Valley. Electrification, radio, and television have brought the larger world into the...

“Many of the images are today iconic masterpieces. . . . One of the most influential art books of its time.” —The Big Issue In 1984 the groundbreaking Subway Art brought graffiti to the world,...

A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK ∙ AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ∙ Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her...

The authoritative edition of Henry IV, Part 2 from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.Henry IV, Part 2 is the only...

"A chewy, challenging work that draws its comedy from racial misunderstandings and from shrewd dissection of ways in which we are all, at times, blind."--Daniel D'Addario, Variety Part biography,...

EDGAR AWARD WINNER FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL OF THE YEAR"Holy City is an amazing piece of work. A Southern novel that examines the pathos and ethos of small-town life and the weight of both grief and...

EDGAR AWARD WINNER FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL OF THE YEAR"Holy City is an amazing piece of work. A Southern novel that examines the pathos and ethos of small-town life and the weight of both grief and...

An ecologist's investigation of the social lives of butterfliesThroughout his career, Henry Horn took a unique approach to the study of butterflies. This book brings together his findings with recent...

Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616. -- King Henry VI -- Concordances.

Henry and Mudge enroll in Jack Papp's Dog School, but Mudge is not a perfect student--he has other things on his mind. On the last day is the big test. Will Mudge pass and get a gold ribbon? "A fine...

Great migrations, natural disasters, explorations, foreign ideas, exceptional persons, or rapid advances in weapons technology all have the power to transform society. But the greatest catalyst of...

A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK ∙ AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ∙ Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her...

HENRY BURNEY A Political Biography By D. G. E. HALL. London, Oxford University Press, 1974. ISBN # 0197135838. Hardcover with dustjacket. 330 PAGES. Henry Burney played so important a part in the...

Kenya has been the object of much controversy among students of African politics. Some view it as one of the greatest "successes" of the post-independence period; others see it as an example of all...