4021 results for '"Ian Morris'

One of our most eminent historians reminds us of the commanding role party politics has played in America’s enduring struggle against economic inequality.“There are two keys to unlocking the secrets...

In recent years, the flow of Christian theology has been channeled in diverse streams represented by such trends and movements as black theology, liberation theology, feminist theology, and womanist...

How Brazil’s long history of racism and authoritarian politics has led to the country’s present crises and epidemic of violence Brazil has long nurtured a cherished national myth, one of a tolerant,...

Basil L. Gildersleeve (1831-1924) was an American classicist who spent much of his career at Johns Hopkins University. This is his influential 1895 edition of Pindar's Olympian and Pythian Odes, a...

Indian Christian thinkers have responded both negatively and positively to the diverse schools of Indian philosophy. This book aims to make the negative one fade away.

362 pages including Index. Publisher: New York Academy of Sciences, 1981. Trade Paperback.

Here are the passenger steamers, steam tugs, cargo steamers, steam coasters and paddle passenger steamers of years long past as captured in these fascinating old photograph showing in many cases what...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement follows an ordinary man through a Saturday whose high promise gradually turns nightmarish in this “dazzling [and]...

Displaying the best of Hungarian folk art from the seventeenth century to the present, this illustrated history examines the complex society of the Hungarian nation to explore the sociological and...

For all who yearn to travel to the home of the sagas, a beautifully illustrated companion to the terrain of Iceland—from puffins to ponies, glaciers and volcanoes to legendary trolls. Described by...

At once chilling and beguiling, the seven stories in this collection engage and implicate us in the most fearful ways imaginable. McEwan, the bestselling author of Atonement and one of literature's...

Text: English, German (translation)

The polarizing literary debut by Scottish author Ian Banks, The Wasp Factory is the bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath.Meet Frank Cauldhame...

The long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy Jackson's sixteenth birthday unfolds as he leads an army of young demigods to stop Kronos in his advance on New York City, while the Olympians struggle to...