3828 results for '"Ian Thornton'

"This book seeks to trace through seminal essays by art critics Sally O'Reilly and David Lillington and artists John Stezaker and Ian Monroe. Divided into five themes, Collage is lavishly illustrated...

"Spinning at the Edges is, simply, a marvel."--Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Known World From the author of the acclaimed As Close to Us as Breathing, a captivating novel...

A magical story about a fisherman who learns that the most valuable things aren't what you're given, but the dreams, memories, and wishes you keep. As the sun rises over the ocean, an old fisherman...

An exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind. What should we do, or leave...

How can the poor and weak 'work' a political system to their advantage? Drawing mainly on interviews and surveys in rural China, Kevin O'Brien and Lianjiang Li show that popular action often hinges...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERINSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLERSelected for CBS News New York's Book Club with Mary CalviAs seen on Good Morning America, The View, Good Day New York and featured on...

Caravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), was a legend even in his own lifetime. Notorious bad boy of Italian painting, the artist was at once celebrated and...

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize A jaw-dropping exploration of everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems and the movement to fix them. Today’s “machine-learning” systems,...

"Spanish Catholicism in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries has attracted considerable scholarly attention over the years. The work of theologians, humanists, mystics, and saints has been one...

In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan’s history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known. In...

A classic twentieth-century work in the anthropology of CatholicismPerson and God in a Spanish Valley is a moving portrait of how individuals and communities in a remote, mountainous valley of...

Why has postwar Japanese abortion policy been relatively progressive, while contraception policy has been relatively conservative? The Japanese government legalized abortion in 1948 but did not...

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To study the medieval roots of the experience of apparitions, William Christian analyzes direct accounts of appearances of Mary and other saints in rural Spain from 1399 to 1523. Drawing on verbatim...

"An extraordinary book. Mohamed Amer Meziane's breathtaking analysis of the making of fossil states opens to a new genre of history writing where the very layers of earth's riches are at its center...

For the 75th anniversary, a new edition of The Human Use of Human Beings—the landmark book that delves into the relationship between humans and computers, and presciently anticipates many...

A collection of intensive discussions about the role of visual arts in public lifeThe past decade has seen American culture deeply divided by debates over social identity, public morality, communal...