3418 results for '"Robert Cryer'

The follow-up to the internationally bestselling sensation The Lost Words, The Lost Spells is a beautiful collection of poems and illustrations that evokes the magic of the everyday natural world...

Themistius was a philosopher, a prominent Constantinopolitan senator, and an adviser to Roman emperors during the fourth century A.D. In this first translation of Themistius's private orations to be...

How American respectability has been built by maligning those who don't make the gradeHow did Americans come to think of themselves as respectable members of the middle class? Was it just by earning...

Seven hundred years ago, executioners led a Welsh rebel named William Cragh to a wintry hill to be hanged. They placed a noose around his neck, dropped him from the gallows, and later pronounced him...

A comprehensive biographical survey from ancient Chinese courtiers to pioneers of gay liberation in the twenty-first century, from the unknowable relationships of the distant past to the frankest...

Very Good in a Very Good minus slipcase. One of 2,500 copies. Quarto, 10 ⅛” h × 8 ⅜” w, with all 10 silk-screen prints of a bold number series by Indiana present. Brown paper...

Robert Powell argues persuasively and elegantly for the usefulness of formal models in studying international conflict and for the necessity of greater dialogue between modeling and empirical...

In Seeing Things, Robert Hudson assesses a common way of arguing about observation reports called "robustness reasoning." Robustness reasoning claims that an observation report is more likely to be...

Moving beyond a chronological survey of events to an analysis of the rivalries of groups, ideas, and interests that have shaped American diplomacy, Robert Schulzinger explains how and why policy is...

In the year 2000--and beyond--what will the church be like? What challenges will it face? Will the church be able to provide a strong sense of community? Will it be an ethical force in the lives of...

An exploration of the ethics of practical engineering through analyses of eighteen rich case studies The Ethical Engineer explores ethical issues that arise in engineering practice, from technology...

Based on more than three decades of observation, Robert Jervis concludes in this provocative book that the very foundations of many social science theories--especially those in political science--are...

An exploration of the ethics of practical engineering through analyses of eighteen rich case studies The Ethical Engineer explores ethical issues that arise in engineering practice, from technology...

Spinoza's theoretical philosophy is one of the most radical attempts to construct a pure ontology with a single infinite substance. This book, which presents Spinoza's main ideas in dictionary form,...

From the bestselling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, comes an urgent analysis of how the "rigged" systems of American politics and power operate, how this status quo came to be, and...

Did you know-- --that a New Jerseyan was the first president of the United States? --that New Jersey was the site of the first organized college football game? --that New Jersey was the location of...

Financial disasters--and stories of the greedy bankers who precipitated them--seem to underscore the idea that self-interest will always trump concerns for the greater good. Indeed, this idea is...

Shortlisted for the 2024 American Library in Paris Book Award A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A groundbreaking account of the coming of the French Revolution from a historian of...

Learn how to better appreciate music in this guide--from one of the most trusted names in continuing education--that will unlock the knowledge you need to understand "the most abstract and sublime of...

“Jordan has come to dominate the world Tolkien began to reveal.” —The New York Times on The Wheel of Time® seriesExplore never-before-seen insights into the Wheel of Time, including:- A brand-new,...