2117 results for '"Jarstad, Anna K.'

Ancient Greece is famous as the civilization which "gave" the world democracy. Democracy has in modern times become the rallying cry of liberation from supposed totalitarianism and dictatorship. It...

When does international law give a group the right to choose its sovereignty? In an original perspective on this familiar question, Knop analyzes the ways that many of the groups that the right of...

Acclaimed Irish crime writer Ken Bruen has won numerous awards for his hard-charging, dark thrillers, which have been translated into ten languages. In Headstone, an elderly priest is nearly beaten...

How do we resolve conflicts when fundamental sources of knowledge and belief―such as science and theology―are involved? In God’s Two Books, Kenneth Howell offers a historical analysis of how...

An ordinary German soldier’s letters home from Poland and Russia during World War IIReluctant Accomplice is a volume of the wartime letters of Dr. Konrad Jarausch, a German high-school teacher of...

Eloise has been delighting readers for more than sixty years—though she’s still not a day over six!Eloise is a very special little girl who lives at The Plaza Hotel in New York City. She may not be...

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is unquestionably America's most celebrated architect. Even today, almost forty years after his death, he continues to tower over the architectural landscape. In fact,...

“It chimes eerily with the times we are living through now.” ―Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Book ReviewHendrik Hofgen is a man obsessed with becoming a famous actor. When the Nazis come to...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A wild and willful young woman finds herself at the center of a tale of spirits, ancient evils, and the mysterious winter-king Frost—in the lyrical first novel of the...

The award-winning crime novelist Ken Bruen is as joyously unapologetic in his writing as he is wickedly poetic. In Green Hell, Bruen's dark angel of a protagonist, Jack Taylor, has hit rock bottom:...

"A wrenching conclusion to a tough-hearted trilogy . . . Exuberant, cruel, surprising, a triumphant evocation of a period and a people filled with both courage and ugliness."--The New York Times Book...

The powerful, visionary, Booker Award–winning novel about the complicated relationships between three outcasts of mixed European and Maori heritage“This book is just amazingly, wondrously great.”...

This vital precursor to Capital contains invaluable descriptions of Marx's wider-ranging philosophy, providing a unique insight into his beliefs and hopes for the foundation of a communist state...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this “brilliantly lucid, splendidly readable book” (The Sunday Times), one of Britain’s foremost commentators on religion explores how people have perceived and...

CONTENTS: Preface. Table of Chinese Dynasties. Maps of Dynasties. Introduction, Growth and Domestication. Maturity and Acceptance. Decline. Conclusion. Glossary. Chinese Names and Titles...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The New York Times bestselling author of A History of God delivers the gripping, inspirational story about her own search for God.  “A story about becoming human, being...

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER • "A riveting account of one of history’s most essential and paradoxical figures.”—Christopher Nolan#1 NEW YORK TIMES...