2295 results for '"Bahry, Donna L.'

Americans have never been more religious than they are now, at the dawn of the twenty-first century. By all reports, attendance rates at traditional places of worship are high and rising; the influx...

Americans have never been more religious than they are now, at the dawn of the twenty-first century. By all reports, attendance rates at traditional places of worship are high and rising; the influx...

With an afterword by E. L. Doctorow—the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of one man’s pursuit of intellectual freedom in the face of ignorance and corruption, from the author of BabbitArrowsmith, the...

This new edition of C. L. R. James's classic Beyond a Boundary celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of one of the greatest books on sport and culture ever written.Named one of the Top 50 Sports Books...

"Né des curiosités de l'adolescence, nourri des révoltes et des expériences de l'homme, ordonné par la puissance magique du poète, L'Enchanteur pourrissant n'est pas une composition laborieuse...

English summary: This collection of nineteen articles examines the specificity and coherence of Xenophons representation of Socrates. Of Socratess students, Plato and Xenophon are the only ones to...

In this delightful memoir, Bhante Walpola Piyananda, a Buddhist monk from Sri Lanka, shares his often amusing, often poignant experiences of life in America. Whether he's reasoning with a group of...

An intimate culinary portrait of Los Angeles today—a city now recognized among food lovers for its booming, vibrant, international restaurant landscape—with 100 recipes from its restaurants, juice...

This book studies the interplay between the geometry and topology of locally symmetric spaces, and the arithmetic aspects of the special values of L-functions.The authors study the cohomology of...

In every era of communications technology - whether print, radio, television, or Internet - some form of government censorship follows to regulate the medium and its messages. Today we are seeing the...

The third novel in The L.A. Quartet. L.A. Confidential is one of the most beloved and influential crime novels ever written.“Nobody in this generation matches the breadth and depth of James Ellroy’s...

For centuries, Russian imperialism has shaped the fate of its neighbours, from the tsarist conquests to Soviet domination and today's relentless aggression. This book exposes the Kremlin's enduring...

A short, spellbinding novel about a WWI veteran finding a way to re-enter—and fully embrace—normal life while spending the summer in an idyllic English village.  In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic...

Book Description Sur l'eau, roman sur l'amitié et le bonheur, frappe par l'élégance de son écriture. Les pages que Van den Brink consacre à la beauté fascinante de l'eau, de même que ses...

Streptococcal Infections: Clinical Aspects, Microbiology, and Molecular Pathogenesis offers an in-depth examination of the spectrum of hemolytic streptococcal infections and their complications...

A groundbreaking contribution to number theory that unifies classical and modern resultsThis book develops a new theory of p-adic modular forms on modular curves, extending Katz's classical theory to...

Most scientists now agree that some sixty-five million years ago, an immense comet slammed into the Yucatan, detonating a blast twenty million times more powerful than the largest hydrogen bomb,...

Chronicles the history of emancipation through the cradle-to-grave experiences of a remarkable generation of black northerners The Rising Generation chronicles the long history of emancipation in...

The essays collected in Persecution and the Art of Writing all deal with one problem—the relation between philosophy and politics. Here, Strauss sets forth the thesis that many philosophers,...