3846 results for '"W. A. Strange'

World history and human ecological development are viewed in relation to the concept of parasitism, looking at the organisms that compete with man for food as well as the human groups who seize or...

Text: English, German (translation)

Part of a detailed compendium of late-Roman learning in each of the seven liberal arts, set within an amusing mythological-allegorical tale of courtship and marriage among the pagan gods. The text...

“An unblinkered look at our imperial past . . . a perceptive work by one of our most perceptive historians.”—Studs TerkelA work of remarkable prescience, Empire As A Way of Life is influential...

Examines Japanese thought through the traditions of Shinto, Buddhism, Confucianism, liberalism, nationalism, and socialism from earliest times to the present

Book by Jake Ryan, Charles Sackrey

Discover the Classic Coming-of-Age Memoir that Captures the Palestinian Experience for Members of every Generation since the 1948 Nakba"Unusually honest, beautifully written." — New York Times Book...

From The New York Times best-selling author of Paris to the Moon and beloved New Yorker writer, a memoir that captures the romance of New York City in the 1980s. When Adam Gopnik and his...

In March 1983, Arthur and Cynthia Koestler both committed suicide. Arthur Koestler was suffered from two increasingly painful and debilitating illnesses but Cynthia was 22 years younger and in...

»Er gefällt mir außerordentlich gut und wir fanden uns recht viel zu sagen« schrieb Gershom Scholem 1938 an Walter Benjamin. Mit »Er« ist Theodor W. Adorno gemeint, den Scholem kurz zuvor in New York...

The masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Albert Camus, now in a striking American English translation, The Stranger remains vital for its unsettling insights into the impossibility of moral certainty in...

The Strangers Book explores how various nineteenth-century African American writers radically reframed the terms of humanism by redefining what it meant to be a stranger. Rejecting the idea that...

A fresh examination of the development of homosexual culture during the nineteenth century in Europe and America describes the lives of gay men and women, how they discovered their sexuality, how...

After Jeri Laber earned a Master's degree in Russian studies at Columbia University, she became a part-time writer and editor and a full-time wife and mother. Then one day in 1973 she read an article...

"In his quiet cosmic wonderment, Baxter is the equal of John Updike and Anne Tyler at their largest and best."―GQ Without question Charles Baxter, whose ravishing novel The Feast of Love was a...

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR from NPR • Set in Jaffa in between 1947 and 1951, this “fable-like historical novel of young love ... darkly humorous and touching” (Oprah Daily) is based on a true story...