7125 results for '"John L. Thompson'

Rising from the Plains is John McPhee's third book on geology and geologists. Following Basin and Range and In Suspect Terrain, it continues to present a cross section of North America along the...

*NATIONAL BESTSELLER**SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD*A Globe and Mail Best Book of the YearA New York Times Editors’ Choice Pick“Banville sets up and then deftly demolishes the...

"John Ashbery appraises the lesser-known poets who shaped his own confounding, infinitely inventive work. In lectures on John Clare, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Raymond Roussel, John Wheelwright, Laura...

Learn about the incredible legacy of civil rights legend and Georgia congressman John Lewis in this inspiring addition to the #1 New York Times Best-Selling series.Starting in the 1960s, John Lewis...

In the 1970s, fashion became increasingly individualistic for both men and women. Off-the-peg clothes were mixed with fashions from the previous decade and with ethnic garment and accessories from...

With a range that spans the lyrical, heartfelt songs “Angel from Montgomery,” “Sam Stone,” and “Paradise” to the classic country music parody “You Never Even Called Me by My Name,” John Prine is a...

Raphael (The Wrightsman Lectures, Delivered Under the Auspices of the New York University Institute of Fine Arts) [Oct 01, 1979] Pope-Hennessy, John

An ambitious history of how medieval writers came to terms with paganism From the turn of the fifth century to the beginning of the eighteenth, Christian writers were fascinated and troubled by the...

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNOW UPDATED WITH A NEW CHAPTERIn his first and only official autobiography, music icon Elton John reveals the truth about his extraordinary life, from his...

This book offers the first English translation of the funerary speech for John Chyrsostom delivered by one of his former clergy in a city close to Constantinople in the autumn of 407 when news...

'The Study and Criticism of Italian Sculpture' brings together in one volume ten essays on aspects of fifteenth-century sculpture by the world-renowned authority on Renaissance art, Sir John...

John Middleton Murry (1889-1957) played an important part in the English literary scene. In these lectures delivered at Oxford over fifty years ago he attempted to define writing style.

Odd appearances don’t get in the way of adventure in a jubilant new edition of John Burningham’s very first picture book, back by popular demand.Mr. and Mrs. Plumpster are delighted when their six...

Based on John Dewey's lectures on esthetics, delivered as the first William James Lecturer at Harvard in 1932, Art as Experience has grown to be considered internationally as the most distinguished...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Soak up the sun—and the intrigue—with the first novel in John Grisham’s beloved Camino series. “A happy lark [that] provides the pleasure of a leisurely jaunt...

Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich, and Stephen M. Fallon   Derived from the Modern Library’s esteemed The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton, this new volume, extensively...

The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! Don't miss the sixth picture book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Food Group series that's ripe with humor from Jory John and Pete Oswald! The Sour...

The screenplays of award-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley have earned him a reputation as a gifted writer with a great range and imagination. His movies Moonstruck, Five Corners, and Joe...

Acknowledgments -- Note on Translations -- Introduction -- Deconstruction and the Inscription of Philosophy -- Infrastructures and Systematicity / Rodolphe Gasche -- Philosophy Has Its Reasons . . ...

A long-overdue biography of John Nash, a major British artist of the twentieth century, tracing his connections, affinities, and influences.Having created some of the most memorable paintings of the...