894 results for '"Christopher Clapham'

The classic New York Times bestseller, with a new introduction by E.J. Dionne Jr. When The Culture of Narcissism was first published in 1979, Christopher Lasch was hailed as a “biblical prophet”...

A stunningly intimate exploration of the writer and gay cultural icon and of his lifelong search for authenticity.The story of Christopher Isherwood’s life is one of pilgrimage: away from the...

Best known for The Berlin Stories—the inspiration for the Tony and Academy Award-winning musical Cabaret—Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986) was a major figure in twentieth-century fiction and the gay...

Cat learns about red, blue, and all the colors in between-and meets new friends along the way-in this adorable bilingual board book full of color vocabulary and feline fun! Cat meets a red ladybug...

Bremen, 1928. The Greek Islands, 1932. London, 1938. California, 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators all named Christopher Isherwood. Here are the postcards home from a spiritual...

Never have marriage and the family been more scathingly or hilariously savaged than in this brilliant black comedy. The marriage of Bette and Boo brings together two of the maddest families in...

Columbus, Christopher

Set in the aftermath of World War I, Christopher Isherwood's The Memorial is the witty, almost forensic portrayal of the dissolution of a tradition-bound English family. On the cusp of adulthood, the...

Change the way you cook with the definitive cookbook from James Beard Award-winner Christopher Kimball's hit Milk Street TV show--now updated to include every recipe from the 2019-2020 season...

How Puritanism made modern BritainIn order to understand the English Revolution and Civil War, it is essential to get a grasp on the nature of Puritanism. In this classic work of social history,...

From the bestselling author of The Sleepwalkers, a book about how the exercise of power is shaped by different concepts of timeThis groundbreaking book presents new perspectives on how the exercise...

When Columbus was born in the mid-fifteenth century, Europe was largely isolated from the rest of the Old World - Africa and Asia - and ignorant of the existence of the world of the Western...

The masterful account of Britain’s reshaping as a modern nationIn 1530 England was a backward economy. Yet by 1780 she possessed a global empire and was on the verge of becoming the world’s first...

Learn all about insects in Christopher Franceschelli’s Bugblock, a buzz-worthy addition to the bestselling Abrams Block Book series, featuring full-color art by David Partington, a member of Peski...

The WTO intellectual property and services agreements (TRIPs and GATS) form the global legal framework in which governments now regulate trade in knowledge. This second edition analyses the...

On 29 March 1991, shortly after the cessation of hostilities in the Gulf War, Jean Baudrillard published an article entitled "The Gulf War has not taken place", in which he argued that "the true...

Remarkable reinterpretation of Milton and his poetry by one of the most famous historians of the 17th CenturyIn this remarkable book Christopher Hill used the learning gathered in a lifetime's study...

Candid and revealing, the final volume of Christopher Isherwood's diaries brings together his thoughts on life, love, and death. Beginning in the period of his life when he wrote Kathleen and Frank,...

What can I know? What must I do? What may I hope? National Book Award–longlisted author Christopher Beha recounts his struggle with these questions while making an earnest appeal for readers to seek...

A classic study of popular resistance to the momentous changes of 17th century EnglandIn 17th Century England, the law was not an instrument of justice - it was an instrument of oppression. The...