629 results for '"Esty, Joshua'

An illustrated guide to the fantastic world of Japanese myths: retelling the stories and exploring how Japanese mythology has changed over time, as new gods, heroes, and spirits have entered the...

Flapper is a dazzling look at the women who heralded a radical change in American culture and launched the first truly modern decade.The New Woman of the 1920s puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her...

Gamma-ray bursts are the brightest--and, until recently, among the least understood--cosmic events in the universe. Discovered by chance during the cold war, these evanescent high-energy explosions...

Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize“This trenchant work of literary criticism examines the complex ways...African American authors have written about animals. In Bennett’s analysis,...

A guide for parents whose adult children have cut off contact that reveals the hidden logic of estrangement, explores its cultural causes, and offers practical advice for parents trying to...

The Final Volume of the Groundbreaking Trilogy on Agent-Based ModelingIn this pioneering synthesis, Joshua Epstein introduces a new theoretical entity: Agent_Zero. This software individual, or...

"This updated collection is as timely now as it was back then: few students of political theory are sufficiently conversant with the rich medieval tradition of reflection on such problems as 'reason...

"In this book, classicist Joshua Billings considers classical Greek drama as intellectual history. Developing an innovative approach to dramatic form as a mode of philosophical thought, Billings...

Why do some leaders and segments of the public display remarkable persistence in confrontations in international politics, while others cut and run? The answer given by policymakers, pundits, and...

The weird and wonderful stories of the ancestors of today’s comic-book and cinematic superheroes.Superhumans—humans who’ve evolved into creatures stronger, smarter, and more gifted than we have any...

"A compelling biography of one of our nation's greatest journalists. Outstanding." --Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University"Well-reported and -researched...

Despite her famous pseudonym, “Jane Roe,” no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947–2017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1969 opened a great fracture in American life. Journalist Joshua Prager...

A brief, cutting-edge introduction to the brightest cosmic phenomena known to science Gamma-ray bursts are the brightest--and, until recently, among the least understood--cosmic events in the...

Named one of Amazon’s Best Books of the YearNamed one of Amazon’s Holiday Gift PicksJames Beard Award Finalist “[An] essential guide to cooking by ingredient. . . . Destined to become a go-to guide...

"In The Ledger and the Chain, prize-winning historian Joshua D. Rothman tells the disturbing story of the Franklin and Armfield company and the men who built it into the largest and most powerful...

The riveting account of how asymptomatic transmission drove COVID-19's global spread and catalyzed interventions to control it.Why was COVID-19 so difficult to contain and so devastating to people...

WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE • NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • “Unforgettable . . . a book about Putin’s Russia that is unlike any other.”—Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of PainFrom a Moscow...

From Joshua Angrist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, and Jörn-Steffen Pischke, an irreverent guide to the essentials of econometricsThe core methods in today's econometric toolkit are linear...

A beloved classic returns: S. J. Perelman's own selection of the very best of his hilarious stories and sketchesPulitzer Prize–winning author Joshua Cohen (The Netanyahus) reintroduces America's...