4590 results for '"Gerdts, William H.'

An essential, inspiring collection of quotations about creativity, social justice, and more from musician, producer, artist, and designer Pharrell WilliamsRising to global fame with his hit single...

Since his first poetry collection, Lies, C. K. Williams has nurtured an incomparable reputation—as a deeply moral poet, a writer of profound emotion, and a teller of compelling stories. In Writers...

Considered one of the most prominent actors of the Victorian era, William Morris (1843-1896) was a poet, artist, designer, and editor, and did not hesitate to express his socialist political views,...

William Blake is one of England’s most fascinating writers; he was not only a groundbreaking poet, but also a painter, engraver, radical, and mystic. Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by...

"The writing in this book is lyrical . . . a beautiful book that you will love.” -Good Morning America's #1 Favorite Book of the Year"I am utterly obsessed with Niall Williams." -Ann Patchett, New...

This book analyzes the features unique to Roman poetry composed in the period 240-8 B.C., demonstrating how these features are to be recognized and used as the basis for interpreting individual poems...

A scholarly edition of Sir William Davenant's Gondibert. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

A renowned political theorist offers a road map to the dark forces that threaten democracy "Politics is different now because something awful has been unleashed. William A. Galston defines this...

Standing at the crossroads of psychology and religion, this catalyzing work applied the scientific method to a field abounding in abstract theory. William James believed that individual religious...

Among the "best American short stories of the past two decades" (The Atlantic Monthly) from one of our most acclaimed writers. In short stories "so vibrant and alive they have heartbeats, the prose...

Few works in world literature have inspired so vast an audience, in nations with radically different languages and cultures, as the Mahabharata, written some 2,000 years ago and probably the longest...

Now a major motion picture starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Gabe Polsky.In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher’s...

South African artist William Kentridge, one of the leading artists of our time, offers a personal insight into his work, his childhood, and his artistic techniques, and the studio spaces he has...

With this book, Jacques Barzun pays what he describes as an "intellectual debt" to William James—psychologist, philosopher, and, for Barzun, guide and mentor. Commenting on James's life, thought, and...

In this book, William Kelleher Storey shows that guns and discussions about guns during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries were fundamentally important to the establishment of racial discrimination...

A Casebook Edition containing the full text of LORD OF THE FLIES, plus notes and critical essaysThe material in this casebook edition of one of the most widely read novels of our time includes not...

A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US.In 1958 in Accra, Ghana, the Hands Off Africa conference brought...

Robert Williams attempts to write Indians back into Indian law by developing a greater appreciation for the contributions of American Indian legal visions and demonstrating how ancient treaty visions...

A study of the early life of William Wordsworth.