2326 results for '"Simson, D.'

In this collection of provocative essays, historians and literary theorists assess the influence of Michel Foucault, particularly his History of Sexuality, on the study of classics. Foucault's famous...

The American health care industry has undergone such dizzying transformations since the 1960s that many patients have lost confidence in a system they find too impersonal and ineffectual. Is their...

What are our reasons for acting? Morality purports to give us these reasons, and so do norms of prudence and the laws of society. The theory of practical reason assesses the authority of these...

All central banks manage the supply of money and credit in their countries, increasing and decreasing them as needed to provide what economies need to keep growing. The way central banks typically...

Athenian Homicide Law In the Age of The (Reprint edition of Manchester University Press)

From This American Life alum David Rakoff comes a hilarious collection that single-handedly raises self-deprecation to an art form. Whether impersonating Sigmund Freud in a department store window...

Lors d'une déambulation à travers le Louvre à la recherche de Jeanne, David observe les autres visiteurs, leurs réactions face aux oeuvres, leur façon de s'approprier le musée...

Track Albert Einstein’s life in Berlin with this unique guide.Lured by a top academic position sponsored by the Prussian Academy of Sciences, Albert Einstein moved from Zurich to Berlin in 1914 and...

This volume contains the histories of the hundreds of Ramsbury and Selkley and of the borough of Marlborough. The area is mostly on the Marlborough Downs in the north-east quarter of Wiltshire. The...

KANGAROO PAWS: POEMS WRITTEN IN AUSTRALIA deals vividly and dramatically with Australian culture and with many historical figures. Themes include ecological matters, the Aborigines, the history of...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING RACHEL WEISZ AND SAM CLAFLIN!"From the first page...the reader is back in the moody, brooding atmosphere of Rebecca."--The New York TimesFrom Daphne du Maurier,...

Early Years -- Law: Path To Public Service -- Return To The Law -- Wartime Service -- Undersecretary Of State: 1945-1947 -- Acheson And The Crisis In The Eastern Mediterranean -- The Greek Crisis And...

Visionary filmmaker, musician, and actor David Lynch’s bestselling reflection on meditation and creativity—featuring interviews with Paul McCartney and Ringo StarrDavid Lynch’s Catching the Big Fish...

Contemporary ecumenism is a revival of a Reformation ideal. The Colloquy of Poissy was the last great expression expression of that ideal. At the colloquy, held in 1561 on the eve of the French...