1643 results for '"Willem van Schendel'

Celebrated prison reformer Miriam Van Waters made history for her sensational battle to retain the superintendency of the Massachusetts Reformatory for Women in 1949. Maternal Justice provides a...

You've heard Alex Van Halen's side of the story--now read Eddie Van Halen's own words in this groundbreaking oral history, composed of more than fifty hours of interviews with Eddie himself as well...

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 23-Aug. 20, 1995.By Timothy B. Husband ; with an introductory essay by Ilja M. Veldman ; and contributions by Ellen Konowitz and...

The exhibition marks the first time these two masters of postwar abstraction will be shown side-by-side. Eight works by Willem de Kooning dating from 1975-1983, will be presented alongside eleven...

In the aftermath of the partisan victory that gave the Communists control of Yugoslavia in 1944, Djilas became one of Tito's closest aides. A decade later, he was expelled from the Central Committee...

A classic work of social anthropology by one of the preeminent scholars in the field, E. E. Evans-Pritchard. This book describes the life of the Nuer as herdsmen, fishermen, and gardeners.

Lieven Saerens ; Traduit Par Serge Govaert. French Translation Of : Vreemdelingen In Een Wereldstad : Een Geschiedenis Van Antwerpen En Zijn Joodse Bevolking (1880-1944). Includes Bibliographical...

Marit Weisenberg's The Insomniacs is “a deeply beautiful story of yearning, heartache, trauma, and love” (Jennifer Niven, #1 New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places) about two...

An old genre is given a new look, as portraits and self-portraits of Marcel Duchamp invent and cover up as much as they reveal and portray.One of the most influential artists of the twentieth...

Kommandant van Heerden, the chief of police of Piemburg, terrorizes true Englishmen and even truer Zulus in his search for a perfect South Africa, while Luitenant Verkramp and Dr. von Blimenstein try...

Long before the Hamptons became famous for its posh parties, paparazzi, and glitterati, it was a sleepy backwater of fishing villages and potato farms, literary luminaries and local eccentrics. As...

Robert Lehman, one of the foremost art collectors of his generation, embraced traditional and modern masters. This work catalogues 130 nineteenth- and 20th-century paintings that are part of the...

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Explore the work of a founding father of the mechanical philosophy of nature, Isaac Beeckman (1588–1637).The contribution of the Dutch craftsman and scholar Isaac Beeckman to early modern scientific...

Unsilent Revolution is the story of the impact television news has had on politics, current events and the print media. Looking at major events over the past four decades, this work is an episodic...

A contemporary adventure based on Maya mythology from Rick Riordan Presents!Zane has always enjoyed exploring the dormant volcano near his home in New Mexico, even though hiking it is challenging...

Winner of the Ezra Jack Keats Award and the Margaret Wise Brown PrizeSELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY THE BOSTON GLOBE, KIRKUS REVIEWS, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, AND BOOKPAGE“Empathetic, poetic, and a joy...

By the 1930s most mainline Protestant traditions promulgated the key tenets of liberalism, especially an embrace of modern intellectual theory along with theological and religious pluralism. In...