2003 results for '"Kivisto, Peter'

One of the leading ethical thinkers of the modern age, Peter Singer has repeatedly been embroiled in controversy. Protesters in Germany closed down his lectures, mistakenly thinking he was advocating...

Explores a wide range of perspectives on the economics of the image and images of the economyPublished to accompany an exhibition at Jeu de Paume Museum, Paris, from February - June 2020Preface by...

The life of Nikos Kazantzakis—the author of Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ—was as colorful and eventful as his fiction. And nowhere is his life revealed more fully or surprisingly...

Artist, diplomat, entrepreneur and impresario, Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) was one of the most dynamic personalities of the Baroque era. This book presents a fresh examination of the work of this...

Peter Brunette and David Wills extend the work of Jacques Derrida into a new realm--with rewarding consequences. Although Derrida has never addressed film theory directly in his writings, Brunette...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • An “urgently readable” (Newsweek) biography of the captivating tsar who changed Russian history—from the New York Times bestselling author of Nicholas and Alexandra, The...

Unequal Gains offers a radically new understanding of the economic evolution of the United States, providing a complete picture of the uneven progress of America from colonial times to today. While...

A book that rewrites the history of American prosperity and inequalityUnequal Gains offers a radically new understanding of the economic evolution of the United States, providing a complete picture...

A young cancer researcher ventures through the streets, slums, and subcultures of Francoist Madrid in this widely roving, linguistically inventive novel—a sort of Spanish Ulysses, but infused with...

What Became of Peter’s Dream? focuses on the Boyar Ball of 1903, illustrating with objects the jarring inconsistencies between the westernized society of the Romanovs and the old Russian customs that...

An important look at a groundbreaking forty-year study of Darwin's finchesRenowned evolutionary biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant have produced landmark studies of the Galápagos finches first made...

"How regulating the banks became a separate and strange category of government power. Banks are unlike most other businesses, and over centuries, regulating banks has become a category of government...

Peter Bauer, a pioneer of development economics, is an incisive thinker whose work continues to influence fields from political science to history to anthropology. As Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen...

Winner of the Outstanding Publication Award from the Ohio Academy of HistoryWinner of the Book Award from the Ohio Academy of HistoryNew York City's crowded streets and energetic people, its vast...

In this collection leading anthropologists provide a comprehensive yet highly nuanced view of what it means to be a Greek man or woman, married or unmarried, functioning within a complex society...

Retells in pictures how a pair of every manner of creature climbed on board Noah's ark and thereby survived the Flood

Recent victories for LGBT rights have gone faster than most people imagined possible. Yet the accompanying rise of gay 'normality' has been disconcerting for activists with radical sympathies. This...

First U.S. edition, an advance reading copy. A novel with three intertwined the story of Thomas Chatterton, the eighteenth-century forger, the story of George Meredith, who posed for the well-known...

Presents in novel ways the artist, numerous and major, from the early nineteenth century to the present who have taken New York as their subject in literature, poetry, theater, painting,...

In this classic volume, Matthiessen exquisitely combines both nature and travel writing to bring East Africa to vivid life. He skillfully portrays the daily lives of herdsmen and hunter-gatherers;...