3691 results for '"Baker, G. P.'

An indispensable guide for anyone who has anything to do with the care of trees, both the homeowner with tree problems and the professional. This edition has been largely rewritten and completely...

After decades covering war and disaster, bestselling author and acclaimed satirist P. J. O'Rourke takes on his scariest subjects yet--business, investment, finance, and the political chicanery behind...

This collection of essays by G. Edward White provides, in one place, discussion of a number of the substantive issues of current interest in American legal history and jurisprudence. Ranging through...

Investigating the origins of theatre in archaic RomeTheatre was an integral part of Roman civic, religious and political life for nearly a thousand years, but our understanding of it is skewed by the...

A first-ever documentary history of antisemitism in the United States, spanning five centuries In a 1790 letter to Rhode Island Jewish leader Moses Seixas, President George Washington responded to...

Featuring a wealth of illustrations, a fungi-filled tour of the importance of mushrooms, from the enchanted forests of folklore to their role in sustaining life on earth. Mushrooms hold a peculiar...

Published to stellar praise, The World Has Changed boasts revelatory conversations between Walker and other literary and cultural icons--including Howard Zinn, Pema Chödrön, Claudia Tate, Margo...

A new and incisive exploration of female slavery and reproduction in ancient Rome One of ancient Rome's most significant legacies is a legal framework for hereditary slavery. Under the Roman...

A biography of the famous eighteenth-century Quaker whose abolitionist fervor and spiritual practice made him a model for generations of Americans John Woolman (1720–72) was perhaps the most...

Watch Craig Bauer discuss the Zodiac Killer's cipher on HISTORY's miniseries The Hunt for the Zodiac Killer In 1953, a man was found dead from cyanide poisoning near the Philadelphia airport with a...

New York Times best-selling author P. J. O'Rourke lobbed one-liners on the battlefields of the Gulf War, traded quips with communist rebels in the jungles of the Philippines, and went undercover at...

International Affairs, 1815-1849 -- The Restoration And July Monarchy In France, 1814-1848 -- The Restoration Period In Germany, 1815-1848 -- The Revolutions Of 1848: France -- The Revolutions Of...

Meetings with Remarkable Men, G. I. Gurdjieff’s autobiographical account of his youth and early travels, has become something of a legend since it was first published in 1963. A compulsive “read” in...

Disputing systems are products of the societies in which they operate—they originate and mutate in response to disputes that are particular to specific social, cultural, and political contexts...

The rhetoric of identity in Isocrates offers a sustained interpretation of the Isocratean corpus, showing that rhetoric is a language which the author uses to create a political identity for himself...

"The non-fiction of J. G. Ballard: statements, essays, articles, commentaries, lists, reviews, tributes, and more"-- Provided by publisher.

In The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection, W. G. Runciman presents an original and wide-ranging account of the fundamental process by which human cultures and societies come to be of the...

More than one hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination, and its reverberations can still be felt throughout...

New York Times BestsellerIf life were a house, then every room holds a story. What do we do when a room we’re in is no longer a room where we belong?What do you do when you start to feel a shift and...

In A Feminist, Queer Adventure Line, Ashley P. Jones explores how digital games can facilitate acts of political play and initiate change in the empirical world. Online harassment campaigns such as...