4814 results for '"Eliot, T. S.'

A New York Times bestseller from the author of The Good Good Pig, this “fascinating...informative” (The Daily Beast) book dives into the intelligence, behavior, and emotional world of the octopus—one...

The sentimental novels of the early national period were considered a danger to society and were criticized for the corrupting influence they had on the minds of their mostly young and female...

Now the subject of an Emmy Award–winning film the New York Times calls "spellbinding"How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish...

In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the landmark book Freakonomics comes this curated collection from the most readable economics blog in the universe. It’s the perfect solution for the...

"Sarah Kaufman offers an old-fashioned cure for a modern-day ailment. The remedy for our culture of coarseness is grace…This is an elegant, compelling, and, yes, graceful book." ―Daniel H. Pink,...

This wonderful Render Me My African American Women Writers from Slavery to the Present is a joy to read. This welcome volume concisely covers its subject. From Lucy Terrys earliest recorded rhyme in...

Pulitzer Prize–winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists—Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon—whose fraught,...

The rise of the Nazis in 1933 caused an unprecedented forced migration of hundreds of artists within and, in many cases, ultimately away from Europe. Exiles and Emigres, published in conjunction with...

Presents a unique approach to HIV prevention at the intersection of sociological and public health researchAlthough the first AIDS cases were attributed to men having sex with men, over 70% of HIV...

“A house of wonders itself. . . . Wonderland inspires grins and well-what-d'ya-knows” —The New York Times Book Review From the New York Times–bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Extra Life, a...

***Winner of the Eileen Basker Prize and the Wellcome Medal for Anthropology as Applied to Medical Problems.*** On the Game is an ethnographic account of prostitutes and prostitution. Sophie Day has...

« Armée d'un magnétophone et d'un stylo, Svetlana Alexievitch, avec une acuité, une attention et une fidélité uniques, s'acharne à garder vivante la mémoire de cette tragédie qu'a été l'URSS, à...

A New York Times bestselling series A USA TODAY bestselling series A California Young Reader Medal–winning series Sophie and her friends face battles unlike anything they’ve seen before in this...

No other Marxist text has come close to achieving the fame and influence of The Communist Manifesto. Translated into over 100 languages, this clarion call to the workers of the world radically shaped...

This entertaining and sharply written guide--for both beginners breaking into comedy and professionals seeking to improve their sets and advance their careers--examines the work of great comedians...

Soul of the Israelites refers to the teachings transmitted by the Prophet Moses to the Israelites from their God, YHWH. Central to the argument of Soul of the Israelites is the solution to the two...

WINNER OF THE 2007 DONALD HALL PRIZE IN POETRYSelected by Bob HicokBurn and Dodge is part serious/part serious play and opens with a frank and occasionally antic exploration of contemporary vices,...

Originally published in 1984, this dystopian trilogy--"a pioneering feminist experiment"--is a testament to the power of language and women's collective action (Literary Hub). In 2205, the 19th...

One of the ground-breaking books of second-wave feminism. Author Susanne Pharr poses the idea that homophobia is a construct used by the dominant system in our society.

The Bodies of Others explores the politics of gender in motion. From drag ballerinas to faux queens, and from butoh divas to the club mothers of modern dance, the book delves into four decades of...