5174 results for '"William A. Christian'

Best known for the wild, phantasmagoric satire of works like Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs reveals another, gentler side in The Cat Inside. Originally published as a limited-edition volume, this...

William of Ockham, the most prestigious philosopher of the fourteenth century, was a late Scholastic thinker who is regarded as the founder of Nominalism -- the school of thought that denies that...

Spanning two thousand years of stirring religious, cultural and political events, this authoritative volume provides the most accessible history of Christianity ever published for the general reader...

Robert Williams attempts to write Indians back into Indian law by developing a greater appreciation for the contributions of American Indian legal visions and demonstrating how ancient treaty visions...

No one has drawn animals with as much warmth, humor, and realism as Garth Williams, who illustrated the beloved classics Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, and the Little House on the Prairie series. ...

This clear and comprehensive anthology, culled from the vast corpus of Christian mystical literature by the renowned theologian and historian Bernard McGinn, presents nearly one hundred selections,...

A study of the early life of William Wordsworth.

Critical texts and interviews that explore the drawings, animations, and theatrical work of the South African artist William Kentridge.Since the 1970s, the South African artist William Kentridge has...

"Williams is a master . . . She gives us a reason to follow her example: refusing to look away from the degradation, in hopes of preserving the wild places we have left."--Outside Magazine From the...

Introduced by James Rebanks, The Lake Poets is a beautiful anthology which showcases some of the best writing from ‘The Lake Poets’ and celebrates the isolated beauty of the English Lakes. ‘The Lake...

Hans Christian Andersen: The Life of a Storyteller

"Feldmeier explores connections and divergences between Buddhist and Christian spirituality by utilizing Christian figures like Meister Eckhart and St. John of the Cross to reflect upon Buddhist...

Ovid’s Metamorphoses has entranced audiences for two thousand years, from Rome under Augustus to humanities classrooms today. Borrowing liberally from Greek and Roman mythology, the poem tells...

Named as a 2020 Book of the Year by The Times Literary Supplement Survival Is a Style, Christian Wiman’s first collection of new poems in six years, may be his best book yet. His many readers will...

One of the funniest, cruelest, and most savagely revealing books about American life ever written, The Magic Christian has been called Terry Southern's masterpiece. Guy Grand is an eccentric...

Around the world, consciousness of the threat to our environment is growing. The majority of solutions on offer, from using efficient light bulbs to biking to work, focus on individual lifestyle...

'The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest': thus George Borrow (1803-81) subtitled his great autobiographical work Lavengro; and his epithet may stand, though, as David Williams's biography of this...

By explaining how to sire multicolored horses, produce nuts without shells, and create an egg the size of a human head, Giambattista Della Porta's Natural Magic (1559) conveys a fascination with...

NOTE: This loose-leaf, three-hole punched version of the textbook gives students the flexibility to take only what they need to class and add their own notes -- all at an affordable price. For...

A new volume in Photofile, an accessible and affordable photography seriesPhotographer William Klein was born in New York City in 1928. After enlisting in the army he was stationed in Germany and...