65 results for '"DIXON,A"'

One spring day in 1683, a notary's clerk in Delft entered the home of the late Magdalena Pieters van Ruijven and stumbled on one of the wonders of the seventeenth-century world: twenty paintings by...

Actors will adore this collection of early 18th century Restoration monologues that unabashedly gives voice to the bawdy sexual and social mores of that time period. Kiss and Tell is a volume of...

This book provides key essays on the most recent interpretations of the German Reformation movement.

Nine short stories include the title work, in which a young baseball player looks for a break in the cornfields of small-town Iowa and instead discovers something disquieting about his roommates...

Now an original series starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine!Created with the cooperation of the Jordan estate, adapted by well-known comics writer Chuck Dixon and illustrated by the talented Chase...

What is social science? What are the pitfalls and the tricks of the trade? This book provides answers to these and many other questions asked by those who seek to develop their research skills. Using...

The Caribbean was Europe's first colony, its landscapes transformed to produce tropical staples and its decimated aboriginal populace replaced with African slaves. As European power has waned in the...

R.E.M.'s debut album, released in 1983, was so far removed from the prevailing trends of American popular music that it still sounds miraculous and out of time today. J. Niimi tells the story of the...

In the spring of 1889, Brooklyn's premier newspaper, the Daily Eagle, printed a series of articles that detailed a history of midnight hearses and botched operations performed by a scalpel-eager...

A boy sneaks into an old church to confront a mad ghost in this adventure by the author of The House with a Clock in Its WallsIt’s the 1950s when Johnny Dixon’s mother dies, his father goes to fight...

This third and final volume in the Black Artists in America series features work from the transitional moment of the late 1970s to the dawn of the twenty-first century In the 1980s and 1990s,...

A hilarious satire about college life and high class manners, this is a classic of postwar English literature.Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky...

A clever young man and an eccentric professor search for a missing fortune, in this spooky adventure full of “marvelous surprises” (Publishers Weekly)H. Bagwell Glomus built an empire out of cereal...

From the Collection of The Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation. Exhibition catalogue featuring works by James Dixon, Mark Gertler, Roger Hilton, Ivon Hitchens, Leon Kossoff, Peter Lanyon, William...

Ever since its publication in 1941, The Mind of the South has been recognized as a path-breaking work of scholarship and as a literary achievement of enormous eloquence and insight in its own right...