785 results for '"Burnham, Scott'

“Pure and lovely…to read Zelda’s letters is to fall in love with her.” —The Washington Post Edited by renowned Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Barks, with an introduction by Scott and Zelda...

Many know of Scott Nearing in the context of his retreat from the urban environment to the simpler world of homesteading, subsistence farming, and vegetarianism, so movingly portrayed in the book...

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly was the first to spend an entire year in space! Discover his awe-inspiring journey in this fascinating picture book memoir (the perfect companion to his adult book...

Arguably Scott's finest novel, and the last of his major Scottish novels, Redgauntlet centers around a third, fictitious, Jacobite rebellion set in the summer of 1765. The novel's hero, young Darsie...

The New York Times film critic shows why we need criticism now more than everFew could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A.O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism...

How gender inequality is built into the conception of modern secular nation-statesJoan Wallach Scott’s acclaimed writings have been foundational for the field of gender history. With Sex and...

About the AuthorAbout the Editors:Product descriptionBook by

In The Fantasy of Feminist History, Joan Wallach Scott argues that feminist perspectives on history are enriched by psychoanalytic concepts, particularly fantasy. Tracing the evolution of her...

At this stalled and disillusioned juncture in postcolonial history—when many anticolonial utopias have withered into a morass of exhaustion, corruption, and authoritarianism—David Scott argues the...

This landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a foundational demonstration of the uses of gender as a conceptual tool for cultural and historical analysis. Joan Wallach Scott offers a...

"Scott's brilliantly perceptive account of the underpinnings of American governmental authority should be made required reading. The book vividly depicts the political forces that have pushed this...

France today is in the throes of a crisis about whether to represent social differences within its political system and, if so, how. It is a crisis defined by the rhetoric of a universalism that...

James C. Scott reframes rivers as alive and dynamic, revealing the consequences of treating them as resources for our profit A New Yorker Best Book of the Year "Informative, enjoyable, and...

James C. Scott reframes rivers as alive and dynamic, revealing the consequences of treating them as resources for our profit "Informative, enjoyable, and provocative. . . . Scott's [prose] is dry,...

An Economist Best History Book 2017“History as it should be written.”—Barry Cunliffe, Guardian“Scott hits the nail squarely on the head by exposing the staggering price our ancestors paid for...

The century-old conflict between Israel and Palestine is one of the most bitter struggles in history, with profound consequences around the globe. In this accessible history, Michael Scott-Baumann...

Winner of the 2019 Stone Book Award, Museum of African American HistoryA remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary eraThe Common Wind is a gripping and...

The “shocking” (The Wall Street Journal), must-read story of Charlie Chaplin’s years of exile from the United States during the postwar Red Scare, and how it ruined his film career, from bestselling...

The “shocking” (The Wall Street Journal), must-read story of Charlie Chaplin’s years of exile from the United States during the postwar Red Scare, and how it ruined his film career, from bestselling...

From award-winning chef and Food Network personality Scott Conant, Peace, Love, and Pasta is a cookbook of restaurant-quality Italian meals that you can make easily in your home kitchen.“Behind his...