3155 results for '"Goodpaster, Kenneth E.'

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERUSA TODAY BESTSELLER NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLERTHE WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLERIn the vein of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Life After Life, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is...

"National Book Award-winning author and historian Martin E. Marty's "A Nation of Behavers is a characteristically perceptive new map of American religion. . . . Marty's years of astute observation of...

Athenian power and prosperity in the fourth century B.C. was based largely on commerce. The complex litigation arising from commercial activities was heard in special maritime courts, dikai...

A thousand years before Isaac Asimov set down his Three Laws of Robotics, real and imagined automata appeared in European courts, liturgies, and literary texts. Medieval robots took such forms as...

"A virtuosic, witty, charming translation of the greatest epic ever written about mice, with wonderful illustrations by Grant Silverstein. Stallings’ elegant rhyming couplets are the perfect...

This gorgeous edition of We Fell Apart will feature stunning sprayed edges, unique printed endpapers, and an exclusive foil-stamped case!#1 New York Times bestselling author E. Lockhart returns to...

Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for 40 creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences from times past. Set deep in the Pinelands and...

The weird—and weirdly delightful—adventures of fiction’s first occult detective.Flaxman Low, literature’s first professional, full-time “occult detective,” i.e., an intrepid investigator who deploys...

An accessible and authoritative biography of Walter Benjamin that guides the reader through the complexity of his intellectual legacy and the turbulence of his time Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERUSA TODAY BESTSELLER NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLERTHE WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLERRecommended by Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple, NPR, Slate, and Oprah Magazine #1 Library Reads...

"Readers of Theodor Adorno often have understood him as a "totalizing negativist." If it truly is the case that Adorno saw modern society as a realm of complete falsehood, however, his own social...

Florencia E. Mallon examines the development of capitalism in Peru's central highlands, depicting its impact on peasant village economy and society. She shows that the region's peasantry divided into...

No one has hitherto had the breadth of imagination and intellectual boldness to describe and analyse government throughout recorded history and throughout the world. This unique study of government...

E. M. Forster's meticulously observed drama of class warfare exploring the conflict inherent within English society—the inspiration for the award-winning two-part play The Inheritance, now on...

Once upon a time: the forgotten female fabulists whose heroines flipped the fairy tale script. People often associate fairy tales with Disney films and with the male authors from whom Disney often...

'It is in every way worthy of what one great woman should have written of another.' Patrick Brontë Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great...

Un grupo de cuatro amigos, los Mentirosos, cuya amistad se vuelve destructiva.Una rebelión. Un accidente. Un secreto.Mentiras y más mentiras.Una isla privada. Una ilustre y conocida familia de Nueva...

A landmark book of popular science that gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years—with charts and line drawings throughout.“Fascinating.... A readable...

100 Years of Collecting in The Story of Sotherby Parke Bernet. By Thomas E. Norton. " Great fortunes were amased in newly industrialized America in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. With...