3205 results for '"Charles F. Westoff'

A novel of Southern life in a stirring tale of racial confrontation in a reconstructionist Southern town. With a memorable cast of characters, including the imperious newspaperman Major Carteret, and...

After introducing the theory and historical background of the avant-garde, this book examines the major figures and movements from Rimbaud, Apollinaire, and Italian Futurism, through Dada and...

In 1896 the U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson upheld "equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races" on all passenger railways within the state of Louisiana. In this...

Set in Hollywood in 1951 - during the McCarthy era of blacklisting "red" artists. A nice all-American musical comedy star betrays her Commie co-workers.

First edition, 445 pp., Hardcover, faint age-toning to page edges else very good in a lightly worn and price-clipped dust jacket. *Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees...

This is a study of marriage litigation in the archiepiscopal court of York (1300-1500) and the episcopal courts of Ely (1374-1381), Paris (1384-1387), Cambrai (1438-1453), and Brussels (1448-1459)...

Writing with equal insight about New York City, Hollywood, and the small-town Pennsylvania world where he grew up, John O’Hara cultivated an unsentimental and often unsparing realism, aiming, he...

A treasure trove of illuminating and entertaining quotations from the legendary naturalistHere is Charles Darwin in his own words—the naturalist, traveler, scientific thinker, and controversial...

Nautilus Award Winner Matthew Fox is the passionate prophet--and pied piper--of creation-centered spirituality. A radical priest, visionary theologian, and ecumenical mystic, he has been called "the...

From high-society balls and fashion shoots to portraits of artists and scenes from urban life in France, this handsome volume—which features an open spine binding so that it lays flat to show off the...

From the Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning historian, the colorful, dramatic story of Charles Darwin's journey on HMS Beagle that inspired the evolutionary theories in his path-breaking books On...

This richly evocative novel-in-letters tells the story of two Persian noblemen who have left their country—the modern Iran—to journey to Europe in search in wisdom. As they travel, they write home to...

The second volume is packed with intriguing developments, as Schulz continues to create his tender and comic universe. It begins with Peanuts' third full year and a cast of eight: Charlie Brown,...