10085 results for '"American Law Institute Staff'

In this dazzling and critically acclaimed debut collection, Mary Yukari Waters provides a rare glimpse into the heart and humanity of a society in the midst of immense change. These graceful,...

The sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, and graphic novels and their hold on the American imagination. Comics have conquered America. From our multiplexes, where Marvel and DC movies reign...

An unprecedented examination of the history of American modern art through the work of its most influential forerunnerMany American artists throughout the 20th century designated Pablo Picasso as the...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for PoetryHer most acclaimed volume of poetry, American Primitive contains fifty visionary poems about nature, the humanity in love, and the wilderness of America, both...

When Alec Wilder's American Popular Song first appeared, it was almost universally hailed--from The New York Times to The New Yorker to Down Beat--as the definitive account of the classic era of...

A meticulously researched history on the development of American mathematics in the three decades following World War IAs the Roaring Twenties lurched into the Great Depression, to be followed by the...

In the early twentieth century, an exuberant brand of gifted men and women moved to New York City, not to get rich but to participate in a cultural revolution. For them, the city's immigrant...

The Yearbook of European Law is the leading English Language annual in European Law, and as such is a very important part of the literature of European Law. The Yearbook has quickly established a...

Beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, "one of the great fictional heroines" (Parade), investigates the mysterious murder of an American war correspondent in London during the Blitz in a page-turning tale of...

A groundbreaking history of fengshui’s roles in public life and law during China’s last imperial dynastyToday the term fengshui, which literally means “wind and water,” is recognized around the world...

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies—an engaging firsthand portrait of American Judaism todayAmerican Judaism has been buffeted by massive social upheavals in recent...

Portrays fourteen of the leading American popular and jazz singers. In most chapters Balliett lets the singer tell his or her own story, and then he adds perceptive comments linking them to other...

From bestselling progressive talk show host Thom Hartmann comes an urgent autopsy of American democracy, showing how plutocrats, political cowardice, and systemic rot built the perfect runway for...

When Johnny Cash signed to Rick Rubin's record label in 1993, he was already in the wax museum of memory, a fondly regarded but totally marginalized legend, unheard on the radio and unseen on the...

It has become impossible to imagine our culture without advertising. But how and why did advertising become a determiner of our self-image? Advertising the American Dream looks carefully at the two...

From Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a glimpse of her journey to the Court and an account of her approach to the ConstitutionSince her confirmation hearing, Americans have peppered Justice...

Readers have long cherished the work of comic masters such as Will Eisner, Jules Feiffer, and Art Spiegelman, all of whom happen to be Jewish. Few, however, are probably aware that the Jewish role in...

The epic wisdom contained in a lost library helps the author turn his life aroundJohn Kaag is a dispirited young philosopher at sea in his marriage and his career when he stumbles upon West Wind, a...

This volume presents the work of 20 architectural practices from every corner of the USA. It investigates the regional, theoretical and political strands relating to American culture and climate, and...

Athenian Homicide Law In the Age of The (Reprint edition of Manchester University Press)