454 results for '"Kelly A. Parker'

Now available as a stand-alone edition, the famous humorist’s second collection of poetry ranges from lighthearted self-deprecation to gleefully acid-tongued satire and dark comedy.One of the Jazz...

"One boy leaps from a bridge into a river, and the ripples from his fall ring out to encompass a nation. All that remains unspoken in the reportage--the sorrow and compassion and anger--is given...

How the political beliefs of Tea Party supporters are connected to far-right social movementsAre Tea Party supporters merely a group of conservative citizens concerned about government spending? Or...

A nuanced take on how carceral expansions are changing labor and social life. In Carceral Citizens, anthropologist Caroline M. Parker offers an ethnographic portrait of therapeutic communities in...

The last surviving witness to the lynching of Emmett Till tells his story, with poignant recollections of Emmett as a boy, critical insights into the recent investigation, and powerful lessons for...

The crossover literary sensation...now in paperback! Through the lens of Kelly Link's vivid imagination, nothing is what it seems, and everything deserves a second look. From the multiple award-...

1. The Centumviri -- 2. The Jurisdiction Of Recuperatores -- 3. The Statistics Of Roman Litigation -- 4. 'loss Of Face' As A Factor Inhibiting Litigation -- 5. The Unus Index. J. M. Kelly. Includes...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!An ode to triangles, the shape that makes our lives possible   Trigonometry is perhaps the most essential concept humans have ever devised. The simple yet...

An intimate cookbook exploring 200 years of British royal food, studded with anecdotes, delectable tidbits, and nuggets of history, featuring 100 accessible recipes from award-winning food writer Tom...

Edited By Eugene Kelly. Papers Presented At A Conference On Socrates, Sponsored By The Long Island Philosophical Society, Held At The New York Institute Of Technology, Oct. 29, 1983. Co-published By...

Magical Negro is an archive of black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads, idioms, and customs. These American poems...

Drawing on vital new evidence, a top historian dramatically reinterprets the life and reign of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, ruler of the world's first transatlantic empire "Masterly."--William...

An extensive, accessible guide to the most groundbreaking and influential art from 1989 to the presentThe years since the collapse of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 have seen the rise of a new...

A magisterial account of one of the worst disasters to strike humankind--the Great Irish Potato Famine--conveyed as lyrical narrative history from the acclaimed author of The Great MortalityIn this...

From the bestselling author of The Things We Cannot Say and The Warsaw Orphan, Kelly Rimmer--for fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz! A "MOST ANTICIPATED TITLE" by ...

Funny and poignant, Newbery Medalist and New York Times bestseller Erin Entrada Kelly’s national bestseller You Go First is an exploration of family, bullying, word games, art, and the...

Challenging the long-held view that Johnson's criticism of Shakespeare is of historical interest only, having been assimilated and superseded by later work, this study argues that Johnson's...

As this complete collection of her short stories demonstrates, Dorothy Parker’s talents extended far beyond brash one-liners and clever rhymes. Her stories not only bring to life the urban milieu...

An exciting new critical voice explores what it is that makes great art great through an illuminating analysis of the world’s artistic masterpieces.From a carved mammoth tusk (ca. 40,000 BCE) to...

An exciting new critical voice explores what it is that makes great art great through an illuminating analysis of the world’s artistic masterpieces.From a carved mammoth tusk (ca. 40,000 BCE) to...