1034 results for '"Sarmiento, Jorge Louis'

In a century of revolutions, final emancipations, and eschatological dreams, the shadowy figure of Louis-Auguste Blanqui--the perpetual insurgent--composed Eternity by the Stars in 1871, imprisoned...

"This is a book of stories," writes Henry Louis Gates, "and all might be described as 'narratives of ascent.'" As some remarkable men talk about their lives, many perspectives on race and gender...

Reading Jorge Luis Borges is an experience akin to having the top of one's head removed for repairs. First comes the unfamiliar breeze tickling your cerebral cortex; then disorientation, even mild...

Louis Braille certainly wasn't your average teenager. Blind from the age of four, he was only fifteen when in 1824 he invented a reading system that converted printed words into columns of raised...

Louis IV represents the apogee of French royal power and the Ancien Regime. Having restored the nation's finances and rebuilt the army, he embarked on a series of wars of conquest which made France...

In his first novel since Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières creates a world, populates it with characters as real as our best friends, and launches it into the maelstrom of twentieth-century...

The first publication of seminal early writing by Louis Althusser. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Louis Althusser enjoyed virtually unrivalled status as the foremost living Marxist philosopher...

The Creative Society is the first history to look at modern America through the eyes of its emerging ranks of professional experts, including lawyers, scientists, doctors, administrators, business...

An intimate portrait of the first president of the 20th centuryThe American century opened with the election of that quintessentially American adventurer, Theodore Roosevelt. Louis Auchincloss's warm...

Jörg Immendorff ist einer der berühmtesten deutschen Künstler der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Dieses Buch ist dem Schaffen von Immendorff gewidmet - von einem Rebellen, einem Künstler, der...

2022 IACP Award NomineeLonglisted for the André Simon Food and Drink Book Awards 2020Celebrating the universal joy of chicken soup.This is a celebration of one of the most widely interpreted, and...

A major new monograph on the American photographer Louis Stettner (1922-2016), published to accompany the largest retrospective on his work to date. Brooklyn-born Louis Stettner (1922-2016) created...

A classic work of Marxist analysis, available unabridged for the first timeOriginally published in 1965, Reading Capital is a landmark of French thought and radical theory, reconstructing Western...

The Creative Society is the first history to look at modern America through the eyes of its emerging ranks of professional experts, including lawyers, scientists, doctors, administrators, business...

Executive functioning (EF) can be defined as a person's ability to successfully navigate their physical, intellectual, and social worlds. Interest in EF is expanding within psychotherapy, but like...

In this singularly powerful novel, bestselling author Louis Bayard brings Oscar Wilde's wife Constance and two sons out from the shadows of history and creates a vivid and poignant story of secrets,...

Writings on History brings together a selection of texts by Louis Althusser dating from 1963 to 1986, including essays, a lecture, notes to his collaborators, and the transcript of an informal 1963...

The incomparable Borges delivered these seven lectures in Buenos Aires in 1977; attendees were treated to Borges' erudition on the following topics: Dante's The Divine Comedy, Nightmares, Thousand...

The life and work of one of the most admired American Impressionists are fully detailed in the first major monograph on the artist.William Glackens was one of the most influential American painters...