10015 results for '"E. L. Doctorow (Text by)'

Momentous changes in the relation between women and the state have advanced women's status around the globe. Women were barred from public affairs a century ago, yet almost every state now recognizes...

Although the political and military aspects of great-power diplomacy in Eastern Europe during the interwar period have been studied extensively, the economic aspects have been relatively neglected...

A forceful argument against America's vicious circle of growing inequality by the Nobel Prize–winning economist.The top 1 percent of Americans control some 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. But as...

The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you're not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Americans have celebrated it as "majestic" and "noble," yet savaged the living bird behind their...

A fierce and galvanizing reminder that resistance is everywhere in the fight for abortion and reproductive justice in the United States.Fighting Mad is a book about what "reproductive justice" means...

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,Tristrant und Isalde' - eine tragische Liebesgeschichte, die in einer Prosaversion im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert eine vergleichsweise breite Rezeption im Buchdruck erfuhr. Die Überlieferung der...

A major reexamination of the novelist Vladimir Nabokov as "literary gamesman," this book systematically shows that behind his ironic manipulation of narrative and his puzzle-like treatment of detail...

This accessible introduction to the study of Chinese religion presents religious expression as a manifestation of Chinese culture. Like other books in Wadsworth's Religious Life in History Series,...

Once upon a time: the forgotten female fabulists whose heroines flipped the fairy tale script. People often associate fairy tales with Disney films and with the male authors from whom Disney often...

"Readers of Theodor Adorno often have understood him as a "totalizing negativist." If it truly is the case that Adorno saw modern society as a realm of complete falsehood, however, his own social...

A splendid ironic portrayal of literary Paris and of a young writer’s struggles by one of Spain’s most eminent authors. This brilliantly ironic novel about literature and writing, in Vila-Matas’s...

Un grupo de cuatro amigos, los Mentirosos, cuya amistad se vuelve destructiva.Una rebelión. Un accidente. Un secreto.Mentiras y más mentiras.Una isla privada. Una ilustre y conocida familia de Nueva...

Tomcat Murr is a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer's error causes his story to be accidentally mixed and spliced with a book about the composer...

From Nobel Prize–winning physicist P. J. E. Peebles, the story of cosmology from Einstein to todayModern cosmology began a century ago with Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity and his...

A concise account of how revolutions made modern China and helped shape the modern worldChina’s emergence as a twenty-first-century global economic, cultural, and political power is often presented...

The Marlin's Fiery Eye and Other Tales from the Extraordinary World of Marine Fishes dives into the mystery and wonder of the daily lives of saltwater fishes. Joe E. Meisel introduces readers to the...

Readers will be delighted to discover the many wonders of the Garden State, from her famous sons and daughters (inventor Thomas Edison and the Revolutionary War heroine Molly Pitcher) to her...