752 results for '"Levin, Carole'

Part cultural history, part literary criticism, and part memoir, A Body Made of Glass is a definitive biography of hypochondria.Caroline Crampton’s life was upended at the age of seventeen, when she...

Pruden begins by describing the administration's policy-making structure and the principal players' views on the UN. She then examines the early months of the Eisenhower presidency, investigating the...

Salt lakes are some of the world's most extraordinary ecosystems, but nearly all of them--from the Great Salt Lake to the Aral Sea--are drying up, a harbinger of dust storms, rising sea levels, and...

An Edgar Award finalist for True Crime • A National Bestseller • A Washington Post Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Forbes, NPR, Vulture, Chicago Tribune, The Los...

In this book, Carolyn A. MacDonald provides a comprehensive introduction to the physics of a wide range of x-ray applications, optics, and analysis tools. Theory is applied to practical...

This alternative guidebook for one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations explores all five boroughs to reveal a people’s New York City.   The sites and stories of A People’s Guide to New...

Selected by Maggie Smith for the 2023 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, this debut collection of poems explores the aftermath of history’s most powerful forces: devotion, disaster, and us.Rooted in the...

How literature of the British imperial world contended with the social and environmental consequences of industrial miningThe 1830s to the 1930s saw the rise of large-scale industrial mining in the...

"This fresh, thrilling take on Anastasia establishes that O'Neil is a debut author to watch." —Buzzfeed From debut author Carolyn Tara O'Neil comes a thrilling alternate history set during the...

An examination of the early-twentieth-century art movement and of its achievements and influence is supplemented by a wide selection of its artwork and excerpts from its various manifestos

Why Piranesi’s greatest works weren’t his famous prints but rather the books for which he made themA draftsman, printmaker, architect, and archaeologist, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–78) is best...

Originally published from 1932 to 1943, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books are classics of children’s literature, beloved by millions. But readers who last enjoyed them as children may be...

Gathers lithographs, etchings, drypoint, and woodcuts by Gauguin and other Breton artists, and discusses how the prints were made