933 results for '"Anna Missiou'

This "eye-opening and essential" book (Bill Gates) will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems--and explains how we can solve them. It's become common to tell kids that they're...

A landmark literary event, What Remains collects Arendt’s complete poetic oeuvre—never before published in English—into a single edition. The German-Jewish political philosopher Hannah Arendt...

Novels are often said to help us understand how others think—especially when those others are profoundly different from us. When interpreting a character's behavior, readers are believed to make use...

A Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Book Stunning artwork from the acclaimed illustrator of The Midnight Fair illuminates a sweet cautionary tale about a rabbit whose fabled soup-making gets away from him...

Reconceptualizes human-animal relationships and their political significance in ancient and modern societies. In Live Stock and Dead Things, Hannah Chazin combines zooarchaeology and anthropology...

#1 New York Times bestseller! From the author of the runaway bestseller Icebreaker, the third in the New York Times bestselling Maple Hills series follows fan-favorite Henry and a bookish fellow...

This book is an introduction to the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, written in a lively, personal style. Hannan emphasizes the peculiar inconsistencies and tensions in Schopenhauer's thought--he...

An examination of self-representation in US culture. Drawing on studies of the history of the book, Pierre Bourdieu's sociology, and ethnic and gender revisionism, it focuses on the processes of...

A study of the burgeoning field of psychohistory - from Freud, its primogenitor, to its present-day academic practitioners - this work argues that little, if any, psychohistory is good history. The...

A runaway bride dumps a duke and rewrites her own love story in this enchanting Victorian historical romance from the author of The Duke Undone.Pretty and pampered, Lavinia Yardley always dreamed of...

The author recounts how her experience of being stalked by her abusive husband led to a job with a National Park Service search-and-rescue team, and explores the logistics, ideology, and cultural...

This book deals with the integration of thousands of survivors of the Holocaust into Israeli society in the early years of the new State's existence. Among the issues discussed are: the ways in which...

The fullest account of Evelyn Waugh yet published, rejecting the stereotyped image of Waugh and revealing a more complex and serious artist behind the malicious clowning. Photographs.

Discover the hidden history of women—and the world—through this visual exploration of intimate objects and the surprising, sometimes shocking stories behind them.“I adored this book!”—Olivia...