2301 results for '"Richard Layard'

Looks at recent thematic, ironic, and historical interpretations of English sixteenth and seventeenth century drama

Was pre-Famine and Famine Ireland a violent society? The dominant view among a range of commentators at the time, and in the work of many historians since, is that violence was both prevalent and...

Awarded the Howard R. Marraro Prize by the American Historical Association"Always fascinating... The reader will get from Goldthwaite's book on the economics of architecture a more lively and more...

1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered purple cloth (top edge lightly spotted - otherwise Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 269 (no inscriptions).

This is a comprehensive textbook for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in physics or astrophysics, developing both the formalism and the physical ideas of special and general...

Few historical subjects are so emotion-laden as the Third Reich, and few have generated such general interest. The extermination of the Jews has, understandably, commanded considerable attention from...

Discover how to identify, where to find, and other details about more than 100 beetles that exist the world over. Did you know one in every four living things on our planet is identified as a...

"This book is the last of three exploring Homo faber's place in society. This book puts Homo faber in the city. The first part of this study looks at how urbanism-the professional practice of...

Winner of the Commonwealth Prize New York Times Book Review--Notable Fiction 2002 Entertainment Weekly--Best Fiction of 2002 Los Angeles Times Book Review--Best of the Best 2002 Washington Post...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • From one of the great comic innovators, the long-awaited fulfillment of a pioneering comic vision: the story of a corner of a room and of the events that have occurred in...

A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller We live in complicated, dangerous times. Present and future presidents need to know if North Korea's nascent nuclear capability is a genuine threat to the West,...

An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners. "I love Olly's work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times...

A devastating portrait of war in all its horror, brutality, and mindlessness, this extraordinary novel is written in beautifully cadenced prose. A combat medic in Vietnam faces the chaos of war, set...