5332 results for '"Jean J. Schensul'

Focusing on the Western philosophical tradition and the work of contemporary feminists, Jean Elshtain explores the general tendency to assert the primacy of the public world--the political sphere...

The classic story of literature’s most beloved elephant. After his mother is killed by a hunter, Babar avoids capture by escaping to the city, where he is befriended by the kindly Old Lady. Later,...

"It is awesome, perhaps the finest novel I have ever read in my life. It literally sent shivers through me, the sheer beauty of the language, the exquisite perversity of the imagination, the...

Harper Torchbooks/Harper & Row reprint, 1971. Softbound book condition: good. Covers good with price blacked out and slight warping of edges; binding sound; pages fine, unmarked. 153 pages; 10.5 oz...

La tératologie, au sens moderne du terme, est la science des monstres; à la Renaissance, il s’agissait plutôt de la discipline qui traite des prodiges. Jean Céard, historien de la culture de la...

Jean Ducat is the leading French authority on classical Sparta. Here is what is likely to be seen as his magnum opus. Ducat systematically collects, translates and evaluates the sources - famous and...

"Lee's way of subverting expectations leaves us questioning our own latent assumptions and desires about theatre, race, death and entertainment. She understands and exploits the unique strengths of...

Jean Strouse captures the dramas, mysteries, intrigues, and tragedies surrounding John Singer Sargent's portraits of the Wertheimer family.Jean Strouse’s Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the...

" Ce livre, écho amplifié et approfondi des six films réalisés par Jean Labib pour la télévision, rassemble les témoignages de cinquante-six des personnes les plus intimement liées – pour ou contre-...

L'antiquite grecque a connu aussi bien des ouvrages destines a la publication que des poemes de circonstance - une ode destinee a celebrer une victoire aux Jeux olympiques, une tragedie ou une...

La Seconde Guerre mondiale semble aujourd'hui bien connue. Et pourtant. Les idées reçues sur ce conflit d'airain abondent. Desservant la cause de la connaissance, elles montrent surtout que la...

"In this masterful work, Jean-Luc Marion shows how some of Descartes' most decisive points remain masked by the various "Cartesianisms" that historiography and convenient simplifications alike have...

“Sweetly funny.” —Entertainment Weekly New York Times bestselling author Lara Jean’s letter-writing days aren’t over in this surprise follow-up to the bestselling To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before...

A critical biography of Harlem Renaissance writer Jean Toomer and his lifelong struggle to transcend race, by an award-winning author The poet and novelist Jean Toomer (1894-1967) was among the...

La 4e de couv. indique : Le siège d'Alésia, Charles Martel à Poitiers, la mort de Jeanne d'Arc, la bataille de Marignan, la révocation de l'édit de Nantes, la prise de la Bastille, la bataille...

A landmark memoir that stands as a testament to survival, memory, dignity, and the stubborn beauty of insisting on one’s place in the world, named a 1989 New York Times Notable Book.Jean Said...

Jean-Paul Sartre's famous autobiography of his first ten years has been widely compared to Rousseau's Confessions. Written when he was fifty-nine years old, The Words is a masterpiece of...

Reuniting eight key Basquiat works that mark the graffiti artist’s transition to painterly autonomyThis catalog focuses on eight paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat made in the summer of 1982, when he...

La Seconde Guerre mondiale semble aujourd'hui bien connue. Et pourtant. Les idées reçues sur ce conflit d'airain abondent. Desservant la cause de la connaissance, elles montrent surtout que la...

Une descente aux enfers en forme de chemin de croix. À travers une Europe de la misère, de la haine et de la douleur, c'est l'hallucinante cavale, ironique et désespérée, d'un homme politique véreux,...