783 results for '"Levin, Carole'

Willie Doherty: False Memory is a mid-career retrospective. From his early black-and-white photographs to his Cibachromes, slide installation and video work, this is the most comprehensive book yet...

From an acclaimed historian, a mesmerizing account of how medieval European Christians envisioned the paradoxical nature of holy objectsBetween the twelfth and the sixteenth centuries, European...

How literature of the British imperial world contended with the social and environmental consequences of industrial miningThe 1830s to the 1930s saw the rise of large-scale industrial mining in the...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction. A major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of Britain's civilizing mission in Kenya.As part of the...

"One might argue that nothing is sacred in Caroline Knox's work, but it would be truer to its spirit to say that everything is sacred here--and all are welcome."--Rebecca Frank, Boston Review...

A Beginner's Guide to Chinese Brush Painting teaches this ancient art form in an easy-to-understand way--no prior experience necessary! As one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the...

Maeve’s strangely astute tarot readings make her the talk of the school, until a classmate draws a chilling and unfamiliar card—and then disappears.After Maeve finds a pack of tarot cards while...

From a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that probes the country's pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were...

My Big Wimmelbooks are hours of seek-and-find, hands-on learning and fun for kids ages 2 to 5―and now, they’re small enough to carry around everywhere!In these board books, every page is bursting...

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 first edition of Caroline Whitbeck's Ethics in Engineering Practice and Research focused on the difficult ethical problems engineers encounter in their practice and in research. In many ways,...

The relationships between Roman emperors and their objects of desire, male and female, are well attested. The salacious nature of this evidence means that it is often omitted from mainstream...

What does becoming American have to do with becoming religious? Many immigrants become more religious after coming to the United States. Taiwanese are no different. Like many Asian immigrants to the...

Drawing on twenty-five years of first-hand research in Cuba, this book examines the relationship between socialism and democracy, in classical Marxist theory and in the practice of the Cuban...

Why a monumental diary by an aunt and niece who published poetry together as “Michael Field”—and who were partners and lovers for decades—is one of the great unknown works of late-Victorian and early...

A new history of the concept of fetal life in the human sciencesAt a time when the becoming of a human being in a woman’s body has, once again, become a fraught issue—from abortion debates and...

“Immersive and compelling . . . The Mesmerist will linger long after you turn the last page.” –NPRBefore hypnotism, there was Mesmerism. In 1894 Minneapolis, spiritualism of every stripe is all the...