4759 results for '"Leon Edel (Editor)'

During the early years of the Communist International, from 1919 through 1922, its course was recorded in reports and resolutions shaped above all by its central founding leader, V.I. Lenin, as well...

This installment of the distinguished RUCSH series focuses on two Peripatetic philosophers of the fourth and third centuries BCE: namely, Chamaeleon and Praxiphanes, both of whom were associated...

Donna Leon’s bestselling mystery novels set in Venice have won a multitude of fans for their insider’s portrayal of La Serenissima. From family meals to coffee bars, and from vaporetti rides to the...

Surgery theory, the basis for the classification theory of manifolds, is now about forty years old. The sixtieth birthday (on December 14, 1996) of C.T.C. Wall, a leading member of the subject's...

413p paperback, very good fresh copy without annotations

"Commissario Guido Brunetti's fourteenth case may be his best yet." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) On a cold Venetian night shortly before Christmas, a street vendor is killed in a scuffle in...

Donna Leon has amassed devoted fans around the world for her atmospheric and intelligent Commissario Guido Brunetti mysteries. A Sea of Troubles, the tenth book in the series, offers a rare glimpse...

Donna Leon’s critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling Commissario Guido Brunetti series has attracted readers the world over with the beauty of its setting, the humanity of its characters,...

Donna Leon's bestselling series featuring the principled, warmhearted Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti has won her countless fans, critical acclaim, and international renown as one of the world's...

From two of the world's leading intelligence and espionage historians comes the definitive--and most unsettling--account of the assassination of Leon Trotsky. Exiled from the Soviet Union and...

This lavish exhibition catalog brings to life Antioch, the magnificent city known for its Hellenic culture and luxurious way of life, once ranking with Rome, Alexandria, and Constantinople as one of...

A visual celebration of André Leon Talley’s life that centers his personal style as a lens on his contributions to fashion history.This lavish volume reflects on the life of André Leon Talley and his...

“Passionate summary of the inhuman treatment of the Jewish people in Europe, of the exodus in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to Palestine, and of the triumphant founding of the new Israel...

Maria Grazia Battestini was a nasty old woman. No one is upset when she is murdered. Battestini's maid, a Romanian woman is missing and the prime suspect. The police found her at the central station...

Treatment with drugs is fundamental to modern therapy of psychiatric disorders. In order to effectively utilize drug treatment, physicians and psychiatrists must have a sound understanding of the...

Tim Davenport and David Walters have extracted the essential core of Debs's life work, illustrating his intellectual journey from conservative editor of the magazine of a racially segregated railway...

In Death and Judgment, the fourth novel in Donna Leon's best selling Commissario Guido Brunetti series, a truck crashes and spills its dangerous cargo on a treacherous road in the Italian Dolomite...

These thirteen original essays bring the concept of social class to the analysis of contemporary African politics. Each study considers different aspects of a single theme: the "authoritative...

In Donna Leon's ninth novel featuring her celebrated protagonist, Commissario Guido Brunetti finds himself caught up in a typically Venetian problem: red tape over renovations. Visited by a young...

The memorable characters and Venetian drama that have long captivated Donna Leon's many readers are on full display in The Temptation of Forgiveness, the twenty-seventh novel in the bestselling...