2912 results for '"WILLIAMS,A"'

Hardcover, no dust jacket. Very good. Previous owner's name on ffep.

"The nature of William Blake's genius and of his art is most completely expressed in his Illuminated Books. In order to give full and free expression to his vision Blake invented a method of printing...

Why was Louis XIV successful in pacifying the same aristocrats who had been troublesome for Richelieu and Mazarin? What role did absolutism play in reinforcing or changing the traditional social...

William Dembski, Michael Ruse, and other prominent philosophers provide here a comprehensive balanced overview of the debate concerning biological origins--a controversial dialectic since Darwin...

By explaining how to sire multicolored horses, produce nuts without shells, and create an egg the size of a human head, Giambattista Della Porta's Natural Magic (1559) conveys a fascination with...

This ethnographic study looks at teenagers trapped in poverty--how some succeed in the struggle to get out and others finally give up trying. It is an outgrowth of interviews with some 900 teens in...

This selection of documents attempts to give an idea of eighteenth-century institutions as they are seen by historians. Much of the British constitution notoriously exists only in the minds of men,...

An essential handbook for students and professionals on writing eloquently, accurately, and originally about contemporary artHow to Write About Contemporary Art is the definitive guide to writing...

Lusciously illustrated and produced, here is the work of one of the major image-makers of the postwar era in fashion and advertisingWilliam Helburn was the go-to photographer for many of the top...

"This British artist constructs meticulous works that pay homage to the utopian visions of modernist architects" Elle Deco "The minute precision is extraordinary: each iron railing, brick and leaf is...

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...

For the first time, a collected edition of the major works of John Williams, including the acclaimed novel Stoner.John Williams’s three major works have come to be recognized as modern American...

"By the time a baby is born, its brain has nearly 100 billion intricately shaped neurons wired together to comprise a small, soft-matter supercomputer. How is this incredibly complicated organ built...

The little-known history of how the Sahara was transformed from a green and fertile land into the largest hot desert in the worldThe Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, equal in size to...

In what ways do men think about and express themselves as procreative beings? Under what circumstances do they develop paternal identities? What is their involvement with partners during the...

Amedea Lezze is a Venetian woman whose life is seemingly perfect. She is troubled, however, by a desire to escape the stifling rigidity of her life, and embarks on an affair with a young French...