562 results for '"Brisson, Luc'

The Radical Twenties breaks with standard accounts of the period. Drawing on the work of DH Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Ivor Gurney, Patrick Hamilton and others, John Lucas...

The first truly global history of work, an upbeat assessment from the age of the hunter-gatherer to the present day "Beginning in the hunting-and-gathering past, this long view of work shows how...

Focusing on the invisible sway and pull of grief, as seen through a lens of mental health experiences that inform the narrative voice, Rearview Funhouse is a collection of poems that seeks to put the...

With a powerful introduction by Ross Gay and a moving afterword by Sidney Clifton, this special anniversary edition ofThe Book of Light offers new meditations and insights on one of the most beloved...

Wrapped in blankets and looking at the stars, a young Navajo girl listened long ago to stories that would guide her for the rest of her life. "Such summer evenings were filled with quiet voices, dogs...

In 2014, Dr. Lucy Hone, the trailblazer in the field of Resilient Grieving, was faced with her own inescapable sorrow after her twelve-year-old daughter was killed in a car accident. By...

A unique bibliography of literary works that survive from Greek antiquity, this Canon is a register of all the information stored in the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, a vast computerized database of...

Luciana Castellina is one of Italy’s most prominent left intellectuals and a cofounder of the newspaper il manifesto. In this coming-of agememoir, based on her diaries, she recounts her political...

As the last great Athenian red-figure vase painters, the Meidias Painter and his followers were known for their depiction of elegant women gracefully assembled. Combining stylistic and thematic...

Wolfgang Schluchter, ist Professor fur Soziologie an der Universitat Heidelberg (emeritiert); derzeit Direktor des Marsilius-Kollegs der Universitat Heidelberg.

Gay bars have operated as the most visible institutions of the LGBTQ+ community in the United States for the better part of a century, from before gay liberation until after their assumed...

Friendship, worries, and newfound courage all play a part in this underwater tale of a tiny mermaid heroine. "I'll always be here; there's no need to fear. All will be well when a pond mermaid's...

The original French edition of this book, published in 1967, was widely acclaimed as the best introduction to Chinese Communism ever published. A fresh, bold interpretative survey, it focuses on the...

From the author of Gothic, a marvelously illustrated cultural history of graves and graveyards, from the earliest known burial sites to today’s green burialsWhy, how, and where do we inter our dead?...

Anthology of Greek and Latin texts from Homer to the 5th cent. A.D. dedicated to what was "secret" in the Greco-Roman world.

Eine anspruchsvolle und vor allem literarisch fundierte Biografie Caesars. (GE) Sowohl die Persönlichkeit als auch das politische Amtsverständnis Caesars faszinierten in der Geschichte immer wieder...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz tells the stories of four Jewish girls during the Holocaust, strangers whose lives were...