1665 results for '"Alan Ross Anderson'

A political history of the most famous desegregation crisis in AmericaThe desegregation crisis in Little Rock is a landmark of American history: on September 4, 1957, after the Supreme Court struck...

Based on two lectures given in 2014 by the author during the Tanner Lectures on Human Values delivered at Princeton University, followed by four commentaries by eminent scholars and the author's...

Walks in Nature's Empire guides you through some of the Empire State's loveliest and most ecologically important sites. Author Scott Edward Anderson, a poet and Conservancy development director, has...

"Unsparing and important.… An informative, clearheaded and sobering book."―Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Urban violence is often stereotyped as senseless, but in fact, it is highly regulated...

While great strides have been made in documenting discrimination against women in America, our awareness of discrimination is due in large part to the efforts of a feminist movement dominated by...

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTION • KIRKUS PRIZE WINNER • From the author of the...

Y tú, ¿qué es lo que deseas? Gillian Anderson recopila las fantasías sexuales más íntimas de mujeres de todo el mundo. ¿Qué deseamos cuando tenemos la libertad de ser nosotras mismas? «Quiero a...

Over the last few decades, character-based criticism has been seen as either naive or obsolete. But now questions of character are attracting renewed interest. Making the case for a broad-based...

With his characteristic style often recognizable from a single frame, Wes Anderson is one of the most iconic directors in American cinema. His acclaimed and inventive films, such as Rushmore, The...

From Boas to Black Power investigates how U.S. cultural anthropologists wrote about race, racism, and "America" in the 20th century as a window into the greater project of U.S. anti-racist liberalism...

New Yorker staff writer Jon Lee Anderson arrived in Afghanistan to report for the magazine ten days before U.S. bombers began pounding Al Qaeda and Taliban forces. His dispatches provide an...

In 2011, a series of anti-government uprisings shook the Middle East and North Africa in what would become known as the Arab Spring. Few could predict that these convulsions, initially hailed in the...

How many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages disappearing? The diversity of languages today is...

Now available in paper, The Architecture of Cognition is a classic work that remains relevant to theory and research in cognitive science. The new version of Anderson's theory of cognitive...

Combining analysis of Victorian literature and culture with forceful theoretical argument, The Powers of Distance examines the progressive potential of those forms of cultivated detachment associated...

Billy and Blaze head west again in another classic adventure from C. W. Anderson. This time, the loyal friends come face-to-face with a ferocious mountain lion. But fortunately, they're able to chase...

In the tradition of The Quiet Book, this book tells the story of a bird who likes being alone, but doesn’t want to be lonely.Only likes quiet time, and they definitely like being alone. All the other...

National Book Critics Circle Award WinnerNew York Times BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the YearA Boston Globe Best Book of 2016A...

A call for Black survival in the face of widespread crisis. The Nation on No Map examines state power, abolition, and ideological tensions within the struggle for Black liberation while centering the...

A "poignant meditation on surviving the darkest recesses of human nature . . . a lyrical love letter to how 'imaginative empathy' heals and harmonizes our relationship to ourselves, to each other, to...