141 results for '"Stephan Schmidheiny'

An award-winning author's powerful exploration of the remarkable women driving transformative change in America's food system It's well known that our industrialized food system has abandoned...

Looks at the reconstructed exhibit of degenerate art censored by the Nazis in 1937

She took on titans, battled generals, and changed the world as we know it…New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray returns with a captivating and dramatic novel about an American heroine...

WINNER OF THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD - NOMINATED FOR CANADA READS - A NEW YORK TIMES NEW & NOTEWORTHY BOOK - A NOW MAGAZINE BEST BOOK TO READ FOR SUMMER 2019 - As heard on CBC's The Sunday...

Classical stories about women who wield power, from the Amazons to Dido to CleopatraA Penguin ClassicThere is no other anthology that brings together similar stories of ancient women in power. These...

The Art Essentials Series continues with a vivid introduction to the ever-evolving story of abstract art told through the work of more than seventy-five groundbreaking artists.While it is considered...

Authored by a team of North American university professors who specialize in the subject, Britain since 1688: A Nation in the World has been specifically written for students in the United States, or...

For fans of Lisa Halliday and Susan Choi, The Anniversary is a simmering page-turner about an ascendant writer, the unresolved death of her husband, and what it takes to emerge on her own Novelist J...

In 1874, eighteen-year-old American artist John Singer Sargent went to Paris to become a painter. Ten years later, he would become an art-world sensation when he sparked controversy with his...

4 STARRED REVIEWS! • Join adorable hedgehog Bean in the first picture book of a new series full of tiny stories about big everyday adventures that will warm quills — and tickle funny bones!Meet Bean,...

This is the first in-depth study of the rayograph (or camera-less photograph) pioneered by Man Ray (1890–1976) in 1920s Paris, between the Dada and Surrealist movements. The transformative, magical...

In these powerfully rendered, prizewinning stories, working-class African Americans across the South strive for meaning and search for direction in lives shaped by forces beyond their controlThe ten...

A punky, raw novel of millenial disaffection, trauma and 1960s cinemaMargot is the child of renowned musicians and the product of a particularly punky upbringing. Burnt-out from the burden of...

One of Japan's best-loved children's stories brought to life by the extraordinary imagery of an early nineteenth-century handscroll.The amazing adventures of Momotaro, a boy found inside a peach and...

A thriller examining violence, through its subversion, and a singular love storyNot yet thirty, Bathory has assembled a peculiar résumé: model, sex worker, linguist, Latin scholar, and assassin. The...

"This book belongs on every animal lover's shelf—and it's a particularly great gift for young people who are on fire to save animals but are unsure where to start. Hooray!!" —Sy Montgomery, author of...

Calling all fans of unicorns, dragons, sea monsters, and other mythical creatures! Fly and slither through 100 marvelous magical facts in this new reader, perfect for fluent readers.Packed with...

Five leading thinkers on the concept of ‘rights’ in an era of rightlessnessSixty years ago, the political theorist Hannah Arendt, an exiled Jew deprived of her German citizenship, observed that...