2991 results for '"Goodpaster, Kenneth E.'

2018 Outstanding Academic Title, given by Choice MagazineA comprehensive examination of developmental inequality among children Developmental equality–whether every child has an equal opportunity to...

The Perfect Fit shows us how globalization works through the many people and places involved in making women’s shoes.We know a lot about how clothing and shoes are made cheaply, but very little about...

Arte In Romagna Al Tempo Di Caterina Sforza / Elena Bosi -- Composizioni Poetiche Di Antonio Pistoia Dedicate A Caterina Sforza / Valentina Olivastri -- L'arte Dei Semplici / Anna Maria Guccini --...

Despite an abundance of violence occurring in political contexts, no liberal political theorist since Thomas Hobbes has talked directly and coherently about death. John E. Seery does. He contends...

Performance artist and scholar E. Patrick Johnson’s provocative study examines how blackness is appropriated and performed—toward widely divergent ends—both within and outside African American...

Finalist, 2020 Latino Book Awards, Best Academic Themed BookThe surprising effects of American TV on global viewers As a dominant cultural export, American television is often the first exposure to...

A compelling, authoritative history of how women shaped the Reformations and transformed religious life across the globeThe Reformations, both Protestant and Catholic, have long been told as stories...

E. M. Halliday has written a graceful, relaxed, and very personal memoir of his association with the poet John Berryman during the decade 1933-43, when the two men were in their twenties. Based on...

Hilltops surrounded by farmland in southern Wisconsin turn out to be the eroded remnants of an ancient archipelago. An island in the Yellow Sea where Korean tourists flock is the peak of a flooded...

Collection of the personal letters of the journalist E. L. Godkin, (1831–1902).Born in Ireland in 1831, journalist E. L. Godkin is most famous as the first editor of the Nation. The letters, most...

Critical philosophy has always challenged the division between theory and practice. At its best, it aims to turn contemplation into emancipation, seeking to transform society in pursuit of equality,...

When most people picture the US-Mexico border, they think of walls, fences, concrete, and wire. But in this first history of how the environment influenced physical boundary-making between the two...

The late Marion E. Blake, sometime Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and Research Associate, Carnegie Institution of Washington, published two notable volumes on Roman construction in Italy from...

Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett was one of the most profoundly original writers of the 20th century. He gave expression to the anguish and isolation of the individual consciousness with a purity...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Of all the books about the ground war in the Pacific, [this] is the closest to a masterpiece.”—The New York Review of Books“Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with...

The international bestseller: an introduction to the theory of relativity by the eminent physicists Brian Cox and Jeff ForshawWhat does E=mc2 actually mean? Dr. Brian Cox and Professor Jeff Forshaw...

The religious and political winds are changing. Tens of millions of religious Americans are reclaiming faith from those who would abuse it for narrow, partisan, and ideological purposes. And more and...

"The story of Reconstruction is often told from the perspective of the politicians, generals, and journalists whose accounts claim an outsized place in collective memory. But this pivotal era looked...

In this "well-researched guide," two of the world's most respected scientists reveal the forces behind the dangerous anti-science movement--and offer "powerful ideas about how to fight back" (Bill...

A screenwriter, novelist, labor leader, Hollywood insider, and feminist, Mary C. McCall Jr. was one of the film industry’s most powerful figures in the 1940s and early 1950s. She was elected the...