441 results for '"LAWRENCE"'

The Horned Man opens with a man losing his place in a book, then deepens into a dark and terrifying tale of a man losing his place in the world. As Lawrence Miller--an English expatriate and...

Early Stories by Tennessee Williams is an edited collection of thirty previously unpublished short stories written in the 1930s, when Tennessee Williams was living in the Midwest during a tumultuous...

In The Policing of Families, Jacques Donzelot, a student and colleague of Michel Foucault, offers an account of public intervention in the regulation of family affairs since the eighteenth century,...

Lawrence Anthony devoted his life to animal conservation, protecting the world's endangered species. Then he was asked to accept a herd of "rogue" wild elephants on his Thula Thula game reserve in...

In this profoundly original and far-reaching study, Robert M. Polhemus shows how novels have helped to make erotic love a matter of faith in modern life. Erotic faith, Polhemus argues, is an...

Daniel Woodrell's modern classic is an unforgettable tale of desperation and courage that inspired the award-winning film starring Jennifer Lawrence.Ree Dolly's father has skipped bail on charges...

Introduction: First And Last Romantics -- The Internalization Of Quest Romance -- Visionary Cinema Of Romantic Poetry -- Dialectic Of The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell -- Blake's Jerusalem: The Bard Of...

Building on recent transformative theories of influence, John Foster explores the many ways Nietzsche's intellectual and artistic example helped shape an interconnected series of major literary...

Your eyes will indeed be opened, and what you see in works of art will come newly alive when you have Robert Cumming, the former chairman of Christie's International Art Studies, as your guide.With...

The radically humanistic essays in Arc of Interference refigure our sense of the real, the ethical, and the political in the face of mounting social and planetary upheavals. Creatively assembled...

Considerably shorter than other casebooks, this accessible and engaging title focuses on the controversies over constitutional interpretation leading up to the United States Supreme Court's holdings...

"Quite simply one of the funniest satirical novels of the last century." —Nancy Pearl, NPR's Morning EditionThe deliriously entertaining Cold Comfort Farm is "very probably the funniest book ever...

In The Vintage Book of African American Poetry, editors Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton present the definitive collection of black verse in the United States--200 years of vision, struggle,...

Bestselling author and acclaimed physicist Lawrence Krauss offers a paradigm-shifting view of how everything that exists came to be in the first place.“Where did the universe come from? What was...

Michael Auping, one of America's foremost curators of contemporary art, explores process and technique through conversations he has had over the past four decades with the most significant artists...

The first book in the word-of-mouth phenomenon debut fantasy series about one man's dangerous journey through a labyrinthine world."One of my favorite books of all time" -- Mark LawrenceThe Tower of...

“A wise, generous and compact primer for life that could well become a touchstone, readers will return to this book, and probably find something new each time they do; deserves to be given often and...

Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a...

Many readers may know that such writers as F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence used their marriages for literary inspiration and material. In Russian literary marriages, these women...

Leading law professors weigh in on key issues in race and the law--collected in honor of one of the originators of critical race theory, Derrick Bell When Derrick Bell, one of the originators of...