5927 results for '"Robert C. Solomon'

    Focusing on Washington’s early years, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Robert Middlekauff penetrates his mystique, revealing his all-too-human fears, values, and passions. Rich...

"Reading Hideaway is like a mini vacation, as Roberts transports you from the sun-drenched mountains of Big Sur to the rolling hills of Ireland to the bustling streets of New York City." - Associated...

An NYRB Classics OriginalRobert Sheckley was an eccentric master of the American  short story, and his tales, whether set in dystopic city­scapes, ultramodern advertising agencies, or aboard...

Gives a wholly new and vital direction to the appreciation and study of Frost.

Robert Triptow stumbled across a real-life class photo of an anonymous 1937 public school under a pile of garbage and his imagination took off. Several years later, the result is the utterly...

In many histories of modern ethics, Kant is supposed to have ushered in an anti-realist or constructivist turn by holding that unless we ourselves 'author' or lay down moral norms and values for...

This collection of essays, which originally appeared as a book in 1962, is virtually the complete works of an editor of Commentary magazine who died, at age 37, in 1955. Long before the rise of...

The place of poetry in modern democracy is no place, according to conventional wisdom. The poet, we hear, is a casualty of mass entertainment and prosaic public culture, banished to the artistic...

What constitutes a political novel? In this sharply argued book Robert Boyers Demonstrates that the genre is very much alive and cites as evidence the works of writers such as Gunter Grass, V.S...

A CALDECOTT HONOR BOOK • This heartwarming classic beautifully conveys life’s everyday pleasures. As Sal brushes her teeth she noticed something strange. One of her teeth is loose! Her first loose...

A CALDECOTT HONOR BOOK • This heartwarming classic beautifully conveys life’s everyday pleasures. As Sal brushes her teeth she noticed something strange. One of her teeth is loose! Her first loose...

The definitive edition of one of the more extraordinary and influential books of our timeThis labyrinthine and extraordinary book, first published more than sixty years ago, was the outcome of Robert...

An Economist History Book of the Year“Elegant, entertaining and frequently surprising.” ―Miranda Seymour, New York Times Book ReviewThe Victorians are often credited with ushering in our current era,...

"Genuinely open-minded and inquiring. . . .it intelligently summarizes and shrewdly questions four central topics of Marxist thought—the dialectical approach to philosophy, the materialist...

A compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library "[A] fascinating new study."--Michael O'Donnell, Wall Street Journal In this engaging life of the...

A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy“Spare, elegant and poignant. . . . If there is a single contemporary book that should be...

“One of the great reporters of our time and probably the greatest biographer.” —The Sunday Times (London)From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon...

Robert Thurman expertly and lucidly surveys the basic teachings and varieties of Tibetan Buddhism. A concise summary of Buddhism's development across Asia, with particular emphasis on its evolution...