2148 results for '"Kendig, Lane H.'

Explores the character of early Christianity, with details on religious life, secular daily life, and the condition of paganism at the time of its defeat

Examines the biblical book of Hebrews focusing on chapters nine through thirteen. In each phrase of every verse, analyzes Judaic thought and language, and points out shifts of syntax and vocabulary...

Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his People of Paradox (1973), and the Francis Parkman Prize for A Machine That Would Go of Itself (1987), Michael Kammen is widely regarded as one of our most...

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A gripping account of the troubled, scandalous, but ultimately triumphant life of the author of Herland, one of the best-known women writers of the turn of the century.

The March of the Ten Thousand is one of the most famous military adventures in the ancient world. Its fearless army of Greek mercenaries marched through western Asia (modern Turkey and Iraq) in...

The troubled past of the Black Dog's manager returns to haunt him in the intriguing new Cotswold village mystery featuring pub owner Alex Duggins. Although he has always kept his past carefully...

“A book you won’t be able to put down. A Bangladeshi immigrant in London is torn between the kind, tedious older husband with whom she has an arranged marriage (and children) and the fiery political...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See, “one of those special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plot” (The New York Times Book Review), a moving novel about tradition, tea...

This classic in film theory, presents a systematic study of the techniques of the film medium and of their potential uses for creating formal structures in individual films such as Dovzhenko's Earth,...

Plato's The Republic is widely acknowledged as the cornerstone of Western philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, it is an inquiry into the...

Hard cover, (no dust jacket), in very good condition for age. From the collection of Susan Reynolds, a medieval historian, academic and tutor at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Boards are gently scuffed...

In this handsome book, the Dallas Museum of Art celebrates three remarkable private collections of contemporary art that were donated in 2005, presenting them in context with masterworks already...

W. H. Auden called opera the "last refuge of the High Style," and considered it the one art in which the grand manner survived the ironic levelings of modernity. He began writing libretti soon after...