10040 results for '"Wells, Stanley'

Examines Matisse's impact on modern art as well as examining his career, techniques, aesthetics, and stages of artistic development

Explores both the development of the science of evolution and the potentials of new technologies to change future evolution, as well as examining the implications of these developments

Biography and descriptive analysis are combined in this study of all the buildings of the firm of Greene and Greene as well as many individual works of the brothers

Part biography, part literary criticism, this lively and well written book examines America's first generation of female intellectuals.

Well illustrated guide to some 130 species which breed in the arctic: distribution, habitats, breeding behaviour, adaptations, migrations.

I have a Name is a vital engagement with life and an unflinching stare at death, concluding that love transcendent is a reality,Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award (1997)The wondrous subtlety...

Publication of the Bernard Shaw diaries is a major literary event. The 1885–1897 diaries, originally written in old-fashioned Pitman shorthand, detailed the day-to-day life of Bernard Shaw from his...

"An interesting book with an interesting concept. The articles are well-written and shed new light on old and neglected material". -- The Classical Outlook.

426-page guide to 50 Hollywood directors, starting with Orson Welles to Michael Ritchie in the years between 1941 and 1976

The myth of the Trickster—ambiguous creator and destroyer, cheater and cheated, subhuman and superhuman—is one of the earliest and most universal expressions of mankind. Nowhere does it survive in...

Following Clifford Geertz and other cultural anthropologists, the New Historicist critics have evolved a method for describing culture in action. Their "thick descriptions" seize upon an event or...

In recent years, scholarship on translation has moved well beyond the technicalities of converting one language into another and beyond conventional translation theory. With new technologies blurring...

The long 1950s, which extend back to the early postwar period and forward into the early 1960s, were a period of “containment culture” in America, as the media worked to reinforce traditional family...

Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy is one of science fiction’s most honored stories, with Red Mars winning the distinguished Nebula Award, and both Green Mars and Blue Mars honored with the Hugo...

Cancer Biology is an account of the basic cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in cancer cell behaviour as well as of the pathophysiology of cancer as a clinical disease.

The brainy book by the bestselling author of Fermat's Enigma�a must for anyone interested in numbers and mathematics, as well as for the millions of Simpsons fans worldwide.

In this broad-ranging exploration of the nature of comedy Professor Charney considers its popular roots as well as the major issues in comic theory.

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral comes a funny, chilling novel set in a small town in the 1940s Midwest, featuring a young woman whose moral goodness may destroy her."High,...

On a summer day in 1941 in Nazi-occupied Poland, half of the town of Jedwabne brutally murdered the other half: 1,600 men, women, and children-all but seven of the town's Jews. In this shocking and...

In recent years, scholarship on translation has moved well beyond the technicalities of converting one language into another and beyond conventional translation theory. With new technologies blurring...