10015 results for '"E. L. Doctorow (Text by)'

McNamara, Peter L.

Mossner's Life of David Hume remains the standard biography of this great thinker and writer. First published in 1954, and updated in 1980, this excellent life story is now reissued in paperback, in...

Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire compresses thirteen turbulent centuries into an epic narrative shot through with insight, irony and incisive character analysis. Sceptical about...

A partire dal Cinquecento, le profonde rispondenze tra letteratura e scienza elaborano un nuovo modo di scrivere. Il testo viene così strutturato dal punto di vista del lavoro della lingua e della...

A powerful chronicle of Colombia’s descent into decades of civil war through the lens of an intimate, multi-generational tale of upheaval and betrayal.When presumed president-elect Jorge Eliécer...

A fascinating and original view of the turbulent 1790s, The Romantics is the last work of the acclaimed historian E. P. Thompson. Combining his incomparable knowledge of English history with an...

Welcome to the island of Asunción, home to the most powerful witches--and Pacheco, their biggest fan. In this beautifully illustrated graphic novel, debut creator Juan E. Zambrano will take readers...

This collection provides an in depth look at the real cases defining the field of medical ethics. A popular text among teachers and students alike, the book contains much more detail than most other...

There is today a crisis in psychiatry. Even the former director of the National Institute of Mental Health has said: “Whatever we’ve been doing for five decades, it ain’t working.” The field of...

"In this philosophy classic, which was first published in 1951, E. R. Dodds takes on the traditional view of Greek culture as a triumph of rationalism. Using the analytical tools of modern...

"Serendipity": inventato nel 1754 da Horace Walpole, il termine, che sta a indicare quel misto di sagacia e fortuna con il quale si giunge a compiere inintenzionalmente scoperte felici, viene...

Nouvelle édition à laquelle on a ajouté "quelques voyages (...) et révél[é] certains savoirs d'habitude gardés secrets par les amateurs de guitare (cf. p. 8). L'étonnante et riche histoire de la...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The addictive prequel to the TikTok phenomenon We Were Liars: the story of another summer, another generation, and the secrets that will haunt them for decades to come...

Book by Santner, Eric L.

Book by Kagan, Richard L.

Goldberg, Norman L.

The weird—and weirdly delightful—adventures of fiction’s first occult detective.Flaxman Low, literature’s first professional, full-time “occult detective,” i.e., an intrepid investigator who deploys...

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym is an archetypal American story of escape from home and family which traces a young man's rite of passage through a series of terrible brushes with death during a...

Book by Mack, Burton L.

Book by Gordon, Ida L.