3736 results for '"Michael Cook'

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

By L. V. Grinsell, C. E. Blunt And Michael Dolley. --

One of the first two volumes in Harper's Eminent Lives series, Korda brings his acclaimed storytelling talents to the life of Ulysses S. Grant – a man who managed to end the Civil War on a note of...

One historian’s journey to find the end of the Civil War—and, along the way, to expand our understanding of the nature of war itself and how societies struggle to draw the line between war and...

An engaging and illuminating exploration of grief—and why, despite its intense pain, it can also help us growExperiencing grief at the death of a person we love or who matters to us—as universal as...

A “terrific, if chilling, account” (The Guardian) of how the Supreme Court’s new conservative supermajority is overturning decades of law and leading the country in a dangerous political direction.In...

1. Evaluations, Projections, And Quasi-realism / Simon Blackburn -- 2. The Compleat Projectivist / Bob Hale -- 3. An Alleged Difficulty Concerning Moral Properties / James C. Klagge -- 4. Critical...

An exploration of how the widespread circulation of pictures reshaped a nineteenth-century US culture that was accustomed to printed and spoken words When and how did pictures start to permeate...

An engaging account of how Shaftesbury revolutionized Western philosophy At the turn of the eighteenth century, Anthony Ashley Cooper, the third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671–1713), developed the first...

A fascinating exploration of the urbanism at the heart of Utopian thinkingThe vision of Utopia obsessed the nineteenth-century mind, shaping art, literature, and especially town planning. In City of...

How professionalization and scholarly “rigor” made social scientists increasingly irrelevant to US national security policyTo mobilize America’s intellectual resources to meet the security challenges...

An incisive account of the foreign policy beliefs of American Jews from the nineteenth century to the presentHow do American Jews envision their role in the world? Are they tribal―a people whose...

From tariff wars to torn-up trade agreements, Michael Beeman explores America's recent and dramatic turn away from support for freer, rules-based trade to instead go its own new way. Focusing on...

Most Americans believe that the Second World War ended because the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan forced it to surrender. Five Days in August boldly presents a different interpretation: that the...

“‘The Intimate City’ is a joyful miscellany of people seeing things in the urban landscape, the streets alive with remembrances and ideas even when those streets are relatively empty of people...

When Michael Holroyd's multivolume life of Bernard Shaw was published, it was hailed as a masterpiece, and William Golding predicted that it would take its place "among the great biographies." Now...

In the tradition of Schulz and Peanuts, an epic and revelatory biography of Krazy Kat creator George Herriman that explores the turbulent time and place from which he emerged—and the deep secret he...

“Perhaps never before has there been a book better timed or more urgent.” —Washington PostOne of President Obama's 2025 Summer ReadsAs seen on CBS Mornings, CNN Anderson Cooper, ABC News Live, MSNBC...