149 results for '"Ilias Bantekas'

"Has the sweep and pang of a novel that keeps you up reading till dawn, then lives in your dreams." —TimeBeginning amid the decadent glamour of China in the 1930s and ending in the 1980s in Hong...

Amid controversies surrounding the team mascot and brand of the Washington Redskins in the National Football League and the use of mascots by K-12 schools, Americans demonstrate an expanding...

When Neil Armstrong first set foot in the lunar dust, the Earth held its breath. That one small step forever changed our view of what was possible, sparking a dramatic expansion of humankind's cosmic...

Hannah Arendt und Theodor W. Adorno verband eine gegenseitige Abneigung, die auch zu einer gegenseitigen Ablehnung ihrer Schriften führte. Arendts Animosität erstreckte sich bald auch auf andere...

A sweeping and absorbing biography of Brazil, from the sixteenth century to the presentFor many Americans, Brazil is a land of contradictions: vast natural resources and entrenched corruption;...

A pioneering exploration of the defining traits and contradictions of our relationship to the future through the lens of discountingForest fires, droughts, and rising sea levels beg a nagging...

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This first full-length study of the Rumanian case provides a critical analysis of the different and often conflicting Allied interests--requently unrelated to Rumania itself--which brought about...

A masterwork about backcountry life by one of Brazil's most celebrated novelists.Paulo Honório is a sometime field hand who has kicked and clawed and schemed his way to prosperity, becoming master of...

Elliot wakes up one morning to the most terrible smell. But what could it be? Find out in this gentle introduction to hygiene that’s stinkin’ adorable!One morning, Elliot wakes up and smells...

Scholars commonly take the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1789, written during the French Revolution, as the starting point for the modern conception of human rights. According to...

If Edgar Allan Poe wrote for children! Fox and Mole find a spooky story spilling into their lives in this autumnal tale for older picture-book readers. Fox and Mole live alone on a headland, in two...

An eye-opening examination of how power--not technology--will define life with AI. AI is inescapable, from its mundane uses online to its increasingly consequential decision-making in courtrooms,...

July Fourth, "The Star-Spangled Banner," Memorial Day, and the pledge of allegiance are typically thought of as timeless and consensual representations of a national, American culture. In fact, as...

Remains-Tomorrow: Themes in Contemporary Latin American Abstraction offers a thought-provoking perspective on the dynamic field of contemporary abstraction in Latin America. It proposes abstraction...

A humorous and playful story, both poignant and inspiring, about a man who loses his prized hair, and how tomake space for newness and growth.A San Francisco Chronicle Best Children's Books to Gift...