7193 results for '"Richard J. Walter'

“We may not relight the fires that used to burn in our villages, but we can carry the embers from those fires in our hearts and learn to light new fires in a new world.”Ojibwe tradition calls for...

A practical guide to the art of theorizing in the social sciencesIn the social sciences today, students are taught theory by reading and analyzing the works of Karl Marx, Max Weber, and other...

* First comprehensive monograph on the artist's work* Spans four decades and includes all major paintings, sculpture and drawings"Everyone should own a Beezy Bailey" - David Bowie. Beezy Bailey...

One of our most brilliant evolutionary biologists, Richard Lewontin has also been a leading critic of those-scientists and non-scientists alike-who would misuse the science to which he has...

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls • Three men in their late sixties—old friends from college, each with a secret—come together on Martha’s Vineyard in this...

How a visionary, never-realized architectural project, devised by one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, shaped architectural culture in Europe between the world wars.After achieving...

- The Rawlinson collection of seal matrices in the University of Oxford is the most important early collection of European seal matrices to survive - This book contains previously unpublished data...

It is 1942. Germany controls almost the entire resources of continental Europe and is poised to move into the Middle East. Japan has wiped out the western colonial presence in East Asia in a couple...

John Stuart Mill is one of the few indisputably classic authors in the history of political thought. On Liberty, first published in 1851, has become celebrated as the most powerful defense of the...

The evolution of a Frank Gehry building, from planning and design and architect-client interaction to construction; with color illustrations throughout.This stunning, lavishly illustrated book...

"Richard Rorty (1931-2007) was among the most influential intellectuals of the latter half of the twentieth century, a thinker whose pragmatist philosophy ranged effortlessly across literature,...

A wake-up call for a national crisis in parenting—and a deeply helpful book for those who want to see their own behaviors as parents with the greatest possible clarity.Harvard psychologist Richard...

Prescient essays about the state of our politics from the philosopher who predicted that a populist demagogue would become president of the United StatesRichard Rorty, one of the most influential...

An exquisite, genre-defying new book from the Booker Prize–winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a reckoning with the author’s life and family, and the role of fiction in our times "A...

A revelatory new take on the long-held belief that America has dominated world culture America's global cultural impact is largely seen as one-sided, with critics claiming that it has undermined...

Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling Empire Falls—also named the year’s best novel by Time—Richard Russo now focuses, in his first book of short fiction, on a fresh and fascinating range...

Spurred by the Gold Rush of 1859, settlers of diverse backgrounds and nationalities trekked to Colorado and began building towns. Existing accounts of their struggles and those of townbuilders...

"Painting as a Way of Life offers a fresh look at a brief yet transformative moment in French art. At the beginning of this period, France's painting industry was still underdeveloped compared to...

This first book in the Nation/OR Books co-publishing project argues our reactionary Supreme Court is no aberration, but the endpoint of a long history of demands for a democratic, accountable...

Did the Gulf War defend moral principle or Western oil interests? Is violent pornography an act of free speech or an act of violence against women? In Casuistry and Modern Ethics, Richard B. Miller...