3181 results for '"K. H. Becker'

Widely acclaimed as a publishing milestone, The Torture Papers (Cambridge, 2005) constitutes the definitive book of public record detailing the Bush Administration's policies on torture and political...

What can texts - both written and oral - tell us about the societies that produce them? How are texts constituted in different cultures, and how do they shape societies and individuals? How can we...

Memory is one of the few psychological concepts with a truly ancient lineage. Presenting a history of the interrelated changes in memory tasks, memory technology and ideas about memory from antiquity...

Ancient Greece is famous as the civilization which "gave" the world democracy. Democracy has in modern times become the rallying cry of liberation from supposed totalitarianism and dictatorship. It...

When does international law give a group the right to choose its sovereignty? In an original perspective on this familiar question, Knop analyzes the ways that many of the groups that the right of...

Acclaimed Irish crime writer Ken Bruen has won numerous awards for his hard-charging, dark thrillers, which have been translated into ten languages. In Headstone, an elderly priest is nearly beaten...

How do we resolve conflicts when fundamental sources of knowledge and belief―such as science and theology―are involved? In God’s Two Books, Kenneth Howell offers a historical analysis of how...

Eloise has been delighting readers for more than sixty years—though she’s still not a day over six!Eloise is a very special little girl who lives at The Plaza Hotel in New York City. She may not be...

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is unquestionably America's most celebrated architect. Even today, almost forty years after his death, he continues to tower over the architectural landscape. In fact,...

“It chimes eerily with the times we are living through now.” ―Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Book ReviewHendrik Hofgen is a man obsessed with becoming a famous actor. When the Nazis come to...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A wild and willful young woman finds herself at the center of a tale of spirits, ancient evils, and the mysterious winter-king Frost—in the lyrical first novel of the...

The award-winning crime novelist Ken Bruen is as joyously unapologetic in his writing as he is wickedly poetic. In Green Hell, Bruen's dark angel of a protagonist, Jack Taylor, has hit rock bottom:...

"A wrenching conclusion to a tough-hearted trilogy . . . Exuberant, cruel, surprising, a triumphant evocation of a period and a people filled with both courage and ugliness."--The New York Times Book...

A slow-motion drive-by view of a collapsing universe meant to sit in the palm of your hand.How fast can you go in a buggy drawn by the flap of a butterfly’s wings? How do you measure the speed of...

Edited By Robert H. Ferrell. The 2d Of A 3 Volume Documentary History Of American Diplomacy From Its Beginning In 1775 To The Present Day. Bibliography: P. [303]-306.

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the DayHere is the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling...