5462 results for '"Franck, Thomas M.'

By John W. Shirley. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 476-490.

How Donald Trump laid waste to American politics, culture, and social orderAfter Donald Trump’s rise to power, after the 2020 presidential election, after January 6, is American politics past the...

The fascinating, untold story of how the Chinese language overcame unparalleled challenges and revolutionized the world of computing.A standard QWERTY keyboard has a few dozen keys. How can Chinese—a...

Though they worked in very different disciplines, Max Weber and Thomas Mann were engaged from early in their careers in a remarkably similar enterprise converging on questions of personal identity...

Placing Eakins's photographic works in the context of the transitional era when photography evolved from commerce to art, an exploration of his photographs reveals that he broke new ground in...

Volume 2 of 3-volume set containing complete English text of all 13 books of the Elements plus critical analysis of each definition, postulate, and proposition. Covers textual and linguistic matters;...

A leading expert on the administrative state describes the past, present, and future of the immensely consequential―and equally controversial―legal doctrine that has come to define how Congress’s...

Why the news about the global decline of infectious diseases is not all good.Plagues and parasites have played a central role in world affairs, shaping the evolution of the modern state, the growth...

The Earth's human population is expected to pass eight billion by the year 2025, while rapid growth in the global economy will spur ever increasing demands for natural resources. The world will...

A sweeping history of our deep entanglement with technology.As lives offline and online merge even more, it’s easy to forget how we got here. Rise of the Machines reclaims the spectacular story of...

An unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to todayAmerica's most storied urban underdog, Brooklyn has...

The origins, controversial uses, and competing interpretations of Jefferson's famous remark—"wall of separation between church and state"No phrase in American letters has had a more profound...

The most comprehensive book of quotations by the most quotable Founding FatherMore than any other Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson made his reputation on the brilliance of his writing. John Adams...

“A standout . . . a balanced, informative, and highly intelligent guide to dealing with China.”—Fareed ZakariaMany see China as a rival superpower to the United States and imagine the country’s rise...

A major new translation of Thomas More's popular work of philosophical fiction In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation where thousands live in...

A beautifully illustrated, full-color guide to scrolls and their uses in medieval life.Scrolls have always been shrouded by a kind of aura, a quality of somehow standing outside of time. They hold...