2391 results for '"Ali Mirsepassi'

Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories, particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme--With Love and Squalor, will not be...

‘Children and adults of various ages, races, and physical abilities tour a public aquarium to look at many of the world’s marine creatures. The language is almost lyrical…[and] the story is alive...

Big-time college sports embodies the ideals of amateurism and provides an important complement to university education. Or so its apologists would have us believe. As Andrew Zimbalist shows in this...

'Philosophy is written in this great book which is continually open before our eyes - I mean the universe...' Galileo's astronomical discoveries changed the way we look at the world, and our place in...

At the end of February 1917 the tsarist government of Russia collapsed in a whirlwind of demonstrations by the workers and soldiers of Petrograd. Ziva Galili tells how the moderate socialists, or...

Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents Kwame Mbalia's epic fantasy, a middle grade American Gods set in a richly-imagined world populated with African American folk heroes and West African gods...

Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories, particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme--With Love and Squalor, will not be...

"The wisdom of cultures that live harmoniously with nature spoken through the heart and mind of a true gnostic intermediary." --Ram Dass In this "masterwork of an authentic spirit person," Buddhist...

Winner of the 2009 Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association2009 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleExplores the transnational movements of Mexican migrants, including their...

A fun and fascinating look at great scientific paradoxes.Throughout history, scientists have come up with theories and ideas that just don't seem to make sense. These we call paradoxes. The paradoxes...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • One woman's searing account of losing her entire family in a tsunami. “The most exceptional book about grief I’ve ever read......

The first full-scale biography of John Hay since 1934: From secretary to Abraham Lincoln to secretary of state for Theodore Roosevelt, Hay was an essential American figure for more than half a...

Charming Billy is the winner of the 1998 National Book Award for Fiction.Alice McDermott's striking novel, Charming Billy, is a study of the lies that bind and the weight of familial love, of the way...