3798 results for '"Correia, David'

Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the...

Inside "Paradise Lost" opens up new readings and ways of reading Milton's epic poem by mapping out the intricacies of its narrative and symbolic designs and by revealing and exploring the deeply...

How European settlers learned of the vast North American continent was often through the accounts of men who individually or in groups trekked into the wilderness. Their chief motivation was...

Why democracies believe they can survive any crisis—and why that belief is so dangerousWhy do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest...

From longtime New York Times and Vanity Fair writer David Margolick comes the first definitive biography of Sid Caesar: founding father of television comedy and icon to generations of Americans.By...

"Chilling and convincing, Antidemocratic is a must-read." --Heather Cox Richardson, author of Democracy Awakening "David Daley has been at the absolute forefront of educating us about the theft of...

Embrace the magic of tarot and perfectly match the cards with mixed drinks in this beautifully illustrated bar book.“Don’t take advice from tequila, that’s the tarot’s job.” Tarot & Tequila is a...

“Ours is an ill-mannered society that wears those bad manners as a badge not just of its moral rectitude but of its millenarian ethical ambitions. At the same time, in no society in recent memory...

Why has Anglo-American culture for so long regarded "theory" with intense suspicion? In this important contribution to the history of critical theory, David Simpson argues that a nationalist myth...

The transformation of German Jewry from 1780 to 1840 exemplified a twofold revolution: on one level, the end of the feudal status of Jews as an autonomous community forced them to face a protracted...

A history of the Panthay Rebellion against the Chinese imperial courtThe Panthay Rebellion of 1856–1873 held the armies of the Qing dynasty at bay for nearly two decades. This account by David Atwill...

Although ecologists have long considered morphology and life history to be important determinants of the distribution, abundance, and dynamics of plants in nature, this book contains the first theory...

An astute, beautifully illustrated examination of the recently restored touchstone of modern artJackson Pollock’s major early work Mural (1943) was commissioned by Peggy Guggenheim for the entrance...

A renowned movie critic on film's treatment of one of mankind's darkest behaviors: murder "[Thomson's] analysis of death in Hitchcock movies is gorgeous. His restlessness is palpable. There is...

The central argument of Chromophobia is that a chromophobic impulse - a fear of corruption or contamination through color - lurks within much Western cultural and intellectual thought. This is...

What is the proper subject matter for political theory? Uncertainty about the most appropriate way of answering these questions provides the key rationales for this volume: to provide a comprehensive...

How a simple equation reshaped mathematicsLeonhard Euler’s polyhedron formula describes the structure of many objects—from soccer balls and gemstones to Buckminster Fuller’s buildings and giant...

A personal and historical exploration of the Bears Ears country and the fight to save a national monument.The Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah, created by President Obama in 2016 and...

Ranging from Homer to Picasso, and from the Iranian Revolution to The Wizard of Oz, this spirited and radiant book awakens us anew to the role of color in our livesOur lives are saturated by color...

Behind the scenes at the legendary Warner Brothers film studio, where four immigrant brothers transformed themselves into the moguls and masters of American fantasy Warner Bros charts the rise of...