2007 results for '"Kivisto, Peter'

Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, BlindsightTwo months since the stars fell...Two months of silence, while a world...

Emphasizing the Romantic heritage and modernist legacy of Karl Marx's writings, Peter Osborne presents Marx's thought as a developing investigation into what it means, concretely, for humans to be...

"A landmark work on perhaps the essential question of our time."--David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth As a journalist on the climate security beat, Peter Schwartzstein has been...

One of the most famous battles in history, the WWI Gallipoli campaign began as a bold move by the British to capture Constantinople, but this definitive new history explains that from the initial...

Evolutionary biology has witnessed breathtaking advances in recent years. Some of its most exciting insights have come from the crossover of disciplines as varied as paleontology, molecular biology,...

"A compelling history of the national conflicts that resulted from efforts to produce the first definitive American dictionary of English. ... [English professor] Peter Martin recounts the patriotic...

From one of our leading experts on disinformation, this inventive biography of the rogue WWII propagandist Sefton Delmer confronts hard questions about the nature of information war: what if you...

A Sunday Times (London), Best Book of 2018 "A thoughtful, entertaining, and occasionally profound critical study of the texts that entertain, move and, sometimes, shape us." --The Spectator (London)...

From the author of The Hidden Life of Trees: The Illustrated Edition A visually stunning journey into the rich inner lives of animals. In his New York Times bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter...

The epic story of human evolution, from our primate beginnings more than five million years ago to the agricultural era Over the course of five million years, our primate ancestors evolved from a...

"A landmark work on perhaps the essential question of our time."--David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth As a journalist on the climate security beat, Peter Schwartzstein has been...

A groundbreaking text on the history of the use of patents in architecture.Although patents existed in Renaissance Italy and even in Confucian thought, it was not until the middle third of the...

One of the foremost financial writers of his generation, Peter Bernstein has the unique ability to synthesize intellectual history and economics with the theory and practice of investment management...

Today's copyright wars can seem unprecedented. Sparked by the digital revolution that has made copyright—and its violation—a part of everyday life, fights over intellectual property have pitted...

A Forest of Time is the first introduction for undergraduates and graduates, Western and Indian history buffs, and general readers to the notion that American Indian societies had vital interests in...

"People who saw the first moving pictures at the end of the nineteenth century were delighted by a new art that communicated without words - yet they were also alarmed to be witnessing events in a...

The period between 1500 and 1700 marked a major transition in the historical development of English towns. With the Reformation, many of the characteristic, traditional features of towns were...

The incredible story of Ernst Hanfstaengl, the only person to have worked directly for both Hitler and Franklin Roosevelt, who funded Mein Kampf and helped create the monster of Nazism before later...

Grand imperial cities, calm desert oases, Mediterranean beaches, and ancient history: experience an incredible crossroads of culture with Moon Morocco. Inside you'll find: - Flexible itineraries for...

Umfang und Inhalt: "Unlike World War I, when the horrors of battle were largely confined to the front, World War II reached into the lives of ordinary people in an unprecedented way. Entire countries...