518 results for '"Bayer, Francis'

In 1962, Maurice Wilkins, Francis Crick, and James Watson received the Nobel Prize, but it was Rosalind Franklin's data and photographs of DNA that led to their discovery. Brenda Maddox tells a...

A delightful novel about alien invasions, conspiracies, and the incredibly silly things people are willing to believe—some of which may actually be true—from the Nebula and Hugo award-winning author...

This beautifully illustrated book features works made by artist Sam Francis in the years 1953 to 1959, including the Basel Murals. Essays by art historians William C. Agee and Robert Pincus-Witten on...

The Salesian tradition is rooted in the witness of two extraordinary Catholic saints Francis de Sales and Jane de Chantal. Their influence lives on not only in the many religious orders based on...

50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION—WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY FRANCIS FORD COPPOLAMario Puzo’s classic saga of an American crime family that became a global phenomenon—nominated as one of America’s best-loved...

In this beautifully crafted, Rashomon-like novel, Maryse Conde has written a gripping story imbued with all the nuances and traditions of Caribbean culture. Francis Sancher--a handsome outsider,...

This is the first systematic presentation of eighteenth and nineteenth-century criticisms of Hume's History. Most of the fifty-four selections appear here for the first time since their original...

"A vast treasury of ideas, observations and innovation." - Francis Ford Coppola The triple-Oscar winner of the Godfather films, Apocalypse Now and The English Patient presents a masterclass on movies...

In this monograph about prolific Italian modernist artist Ezio Gribaudo Victoria Surliuga Associate Professor of Italian Studies conducts a book-length interview with the artist that highlights and...

A "thrilling biography of one of the 20th century's greatest minds" (David Eagleman): Francis Crick, codiscoverer of the structure of DNA, pioneering neuroscientist, and audacious genius What are...

Clark the Shark is a great read-aloud picture book, with fun rhythm and rhyme, from the ever-popular Bruce Hale and Guy Francis.Clark is a shark with zing, bang, and BOOM. Clark zooms into school,...

In recent years the left has transformed traditional approaches to literature and culture. Critical movements such as Cultural Materialism and New Historicism have succeeded to the point where they...

“[W]ith Ironweed, William Kennedy is making American literature.”—The Washington Post Book WorldFrancis Phelan has hit bottom. More than twenty years ago, the ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger,...

America's Book shows how the Bible decisively shaped American national history even as that history influenced the use of Scripture. It explores the rise of a strongly Protestant Bible civilization...

The New York Times Bestseller"[An] earth-shaking exposé of clerical corruption." - National Catholic ReporterIn the Closet of the Vatican exposes the rot at the heart of the Vatican and the Roman...

"This is criticism at its best." ―Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles TimesWriting in the tradition of Susan Sontag and Elaine Scarry, Maggie Nelson has emerged as one of our foremost cultural critics with...

A luminous debut novel—the story of a friendship between a young schoolgirl and an aging professor—that follows them over the years and gives us an intimate look at a Catholic community in a Bombay...

Ever since its first publication in 1992, the New York Times bestselling The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. "Profoundly realistic and important...supremely...

Thomas Hardy's literary masterpiece Far from the Madding Crowd is the story of free-spirited Bathsheba Everdene, whose bold independence attracts the attention of three suitors: the frugal shepherd...

In 1979 two events occurred that would shape the next twenty-five years. In America and Britain, an era of weary consensus was displaced by the arrival of a political marriage of fiery idealists:...