1362 results for '"Wise, Susan'

A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authorsA Penguin ClassicIn his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,”...

Passionate readers both, Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain courted through books, spelling out their expectations through literary references as they corresponded during their frequent separations...

Historical perspectives on social, political, economic and cultural evolutional experiences from pre-Columbian period to modernity emphasizing population paradigms, lifestyles and female roles,...

This Second Edition of Tennyson's In Memoriam represents a significant revision of its predecessor, taking into account major changes in the study of Tennyson's works in recent years. The editor has...

Polygamy, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, punishing women for being raped, differential access for men and women to health care and education, unequal rights of ownership, assembly, and...

By 2025, Latin America's population of observant Christians will be the largest in the world. Nonetheless, studies examining the exponential growth of global Christianity tend to overlook this...

A new, revolutionary history of photography from a stellar team of writers and thinkers that challenges all existing narratives by focusing on the complex collaborations between photographer and...

The composition of the painting follows a large elliptical spiral of garden flowers and wild flowers. The earliest bloomer, the snowdrop, appears at the center, and spring and summer blossoms...

Learning medical professionalism is a challenging, evolving, and life-long endeavor. Professionalism in Medicine: A Case-Based Guide for Medical Students helps begin this process by engaging students...

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This extravagantly illustrated catalogue--published in association with a major exhibition--evokes the romantic fascination with Italy that glimmers in the work of John Singer Sargent. Sargent,...

This book on the Abstract Expressionist painter Hassel Smith illustrates all periods of the artist's many-faceted career.Considered by critics as a "West Coast underground legend," Hassel Smith was...

Long the standard source for quantitative indicators of American history, a new edition of Historical Statistics of the United States is something that reference librarians, historians, and social...

Ethnoarchaeology in Action is the first and only comprehensive study of ethnoarchaeology, the ethnographic study of living cultures from archaeological perspectives, and is designed for senior...

Space and nature have long been the concerns of human geography, bound up with a strong sense of the importance of place. Understanding how society changes entails understanding the geography of...

A revelatory look at an underexplored chapter of American art, which took place not on American soil but in FranceIn the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American artists flocked to...

Inspired by the ideas of the Prague School, the theory of functional sentence perspective (FSP) is concerned with the distribution of information as determined by all meaningful elements, from...