10021 results for '"Edited by Paul Streeten'

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"Every harried interviewer knows the danger of throwing out vague questions to a potential employee. You get canned answers in response -- and the result can be a disastrous hiring decision. Now...

Brings together architecture, fiction, film, and visual art to reconnect the imaginary city with the real, proposing a future for humanity that is firmly grounded in the present and the diverse...

Examines theories about the creation of the universe, argues that matter and energy have the ability to self-organize, and suggests that the universe is developing along a predestined plan

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Spatial patterns of movement are fundamental to the ecology of animal populations, influencing their social organization, mating systems, demography, and the spatial distribution of prey and...

French poet Paul Verlaine, a major representative of the Symbolist Movement during the latter half of the nineteenth century, was one of the most gifted and prolific poets of his time. Norman...

Few events in European history generated more historical, artistic, and literary responses than the conquest of Jerusalem by the armies of the First Crusade in 1099. This epic military and religious...

India, 1943: In a regimental hill station, the ladies of Pankot struggle to preserve the genteel façade of British society amid the debris of a vanishing empire and World War II. A retired...

In this intense and brilliant book Bowles focuses on Morocco, condensing expreience, emotion, and the whole history of a people into a series of short, insightful vignettes. He distills for us the...

This compact book--which appeared earlier in the multivolume series A History of Private Life--is a history of the Roman Empire in pagan times. It is an interpretation setting forth in detail the...

“Stimulating, encyclopedic, and often downright funny, this is a book worth remembering.” —Stephen O'Shea, Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada)“A lively, full-to-bursting history of the turbulent tenth...

“Masterful...An indispensable warning for our own time.”—Samuel Moyn“Magisterial...Covers this dark history with insight and skill...A major intervention into our understanding of 20th-century Europe...

Three memoirs examine the world of French politics in the sixties, explore the cross-currents of sexual obsession, and reflect on the author's experiences with cancer