5590 results for '"Thomas, Christopher R.'

Desde su exilio en Estados Unidos, en donde donde era considerado una gran celebridad, y através de las emisoras de radio de la BBC, Thomas Mann no dejó de dununciar los crímenes nazis al pueblo...

Prophesies of Godlessness explores the surprisingly similar expectations of religious and moral change voiced by major American thinkers from the time of the Puritans to today. These predictions of...

From the bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization, a fascinating look at how medieval thinkers created the origins of modern intellectual movements.After the long period of decline...

In this day of mindless distraction, we're desperate for reasons to put down our phones and reconnect with our spiritual selves. In time for the 50th anniversary of Thomas Merton's death in 1968,...

On February 15, 1898, the USS Maine exploded in Havana Harbor. The sinking of the Maine was just the provocation Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt was looking for. Along with his...

Scholars are becoming increasingly aware that, despite its written literature, ancient Greece was in many aspects an oral society. In the first major attempt to study the implications of this...

This book traces the Wagner Group's violent ascent and descent, exposing how a shadow army built an empire until it turned on its masters.

An inventive translation of a great historical epic, and the oldest surviving literary work in the Mongolian language, recounting the turbulent life and times of Genghis Khan and his Dothraki-like,...

Examines the influence of Paris life on such writers as Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Chester Himes, and John Ashbery