3308 results for '"Weimann, Robert'

"Le présent ouvrage est un travail original, de première main, fruit d'une recherche de plusieurs années et qui comble un trou de notre historiographie : l'analyse des milieux ruraux dans la crise...

The Illustrated History of the World is a lavishly illustrated edition of J. M. Roberts's bestselling History of the World. Now completely revised and updated, each volume of this comprehensive...

Although we seldom think of it, our lives are played out in a world of numbers. Such common activities as throwing baseballs, skipping rope, growing flowers, playing football, measuring savings...

The definitive single-volume compendium of all things PrincetonThe New Princeton Companion is the ultimate reference book on Princeton University’s history and traditions, personalities and key...

America has a long tradition of middle-class radicalism, albeit one that intellectual orthodoxy has tended to obscure. The Radical Middle Class seeks to uncover the democratic, populist, and even...

A sweeping new account of ancient Greek culture and its remarkable diversityCovering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman...

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...

J.M. Roberts's renowned History of the World is widely considered the finest available one volume survey of the major events, developments, and personalities of the known past, offering generations...

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...

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...

Evangeline Hussey has made a home for herself on Nantucket, though she knows she is still an outsider to the island's small, close-knit community, one that by 1849 has started to feel the decline of...

Product Description In the ten years after President Clinton made good on his promise to "end welfare as we know it" by signing the reform act of 1996, the number of families on welfare dropped...

Why architecture matters—and how to make it matter moreFit is a book about architecture and society that seeks to fundamentally change how architects and the public think about the task of design...

Winner of the Tomlinson Book PrizeA Times Literary Supplement Best Book of 2016An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War I―conflicts that...

The instant New York Times bestseller“Excellent . . . Outstanding for its breadth of research, the liveliness of the writing, and the depth of humanity it conveys.” –Wall Street JournalOne of our...

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...

Your building has the potential to change the world. Existing buildings consume approximately 40 percent of the energy and emit nearly half of the carbon dioxide in the US each year. In recognition...