1454 results for '"Villard, Marc-Andrè'

As the United States marks its semiquincentennial in 2026, renowned historian Marc Stein looks back at the politics of another landmark celebration during a time of striking similarities and...

An all-encompassing and fun reference from an award-winning scientist and dog loverDr. Marc Bekoff is an expert at turning cutting-edge science into practical, reader-friendly information. The...

A seminal exploration of animal emotion, sentience, and cognition, revised and expanded to incorporate a surge of new scienceWhen award-winning scientist Marc Bekoff penned the first edition of this...

Marc Perelman pulls no punches in this succinct and searing broadside, assailing the ‘recent form of barbarism’ that is the global sporting event. Forget the Olympics and consider, under Perelman’s...

In Curating Deviance, Marc Francis scavenges film history for signs of vibrant, wayward life in the film programming of US art house and repertory cinemas between 1968 and 1989. Francis examines how...

Pour expliquer Pétain, Marc Ferro commencera en 1940, lorsque Paul Reynaud fait appel à lui dans l'espoir de conjurer la catastrophe. Puis son récit suivra apparemment l'itinéraire d'une chronique,...

NEW AND EXPANDED EDITION, NOW WITH 58 SONGS Following his 2016 smash hit Anatomy of a Song, acclaimed music journalist Marc Myers collects fifty-five new oral histories of iconic songs from his...

“This picture book has all the earmarks of a classic. Simont gets it all right.” —The Horn Book (starred review)Caldecott Medalist Marc Simont's heartwarming tale of a stray dog is told with tender...

Explore bridges around the world—and how they unite us—in this gorgeously illustrated nonfiction picture bookBridges can be high or low, long or short, straight or curvy. Some are designed to blend...

For readers of Late Migrations and H is for HawkA stunning meditation on gardening and the wisdom of plants, " that rare book that will appeal to nonfiction readers everywhere. . . Candid, tender,...

The true story of Daniel Defoe and the dirty tricks which helped bring Scotland into union with England In 1706, Edinburgh was on the brink of a popular uprising. Men and women took to the streets...

In this brilliant study, Marc Robinson explores more than two hundred years of plays, styles, and stagings of American theater. Mapping the changing cultural landscape from the late eighteenth...

Why Jazz Happened is the first comprehensive social history of jazz. It provides an intimate and compelling look at the many forces that shaped this most American of art forms and the many influences...

A New York Review Books OriginalDuring the eighteenth century, from the death of Louis XIV until the Revolution, French culture set the standard for all of Europe. In Sweden, Austria, Italy, Spain,...

A provocative, critical take on the traditional narrative of US history—and a call to reimagine America's past According to textbooks, the media, and politicians of all stripes, the story of the...

People still think of the Cold War as a simple two-sided conflict, a kind of gigantic arm wrestle on a global scale," writes Marc Trachtenberg, "but this view fails to grasp the essence of what was...

The cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle changed music history. Make your own tapes! Trade them with friends! Tape over the ones you don't...

The remarkable properties of the numbers one through nineIn Single Digits, Marc Chamberland takes readers on a fascinating exploration of small numbers, from one to nine, looking at their history,...

Marc Aurèle, dernier volet d'une gigantesque Histoire des origines du christianisme, révèle l'étonnante modernité de Renan. A travers une étude érudite et brillante de la Rome ancienne, il révèle que...

Franz Marc (1880-1916) was one of the most important members of the Blue Rider group of painters, together with other outstanding artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Gabriele Münter, August Macke,...