856 results for '"Moore, Joan'

This volume describes the roles that metals play throughout biology. Metals are involved in most aspects of the chemistry of life, including respiration, numerous steps of metabolism, photosynthesis,...

An instant New York Times bestseller! NATIONAL BESTSELLER Something is deeply rotten at the Supreme Court. How did we get here and what can we do about it? Crooked Media podcast host Leah Litman...

Much has been written about place and Civil War memory, but how do we personally remember and commemorate this part of our collective past? How do battlefields and other historic places help us...

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NEWSWEEK/THE DAILY BEAST, THE NEW REPUBLIC, THE PROGRESSIVEThe definitive history of the reformers, radicals, and idealists who fought for a different America, from...

National BestsellerMoored in a coastal fishing town so far north that the highways only run south, the unnamed narrator of The Seas is a misfit. She’s often the subject of cruel local gossip. Her...

A traveler to the world’s remote corners muses on human relationships and the nature of travelTrust is inherent in travel. We ask strangers for directions or for a ride. We live among people whose...

This new edition of the visionary social history of Los Angeles is “as central to the L.A. canon as anything that . . . Joan Didion wrote in the seventies” (New Yorker)No metropolis has been more...

The gripping courtroom drama of a Brooklyn-born Englishman who became the voice of Nazi Germany, by "one of the most brilliant and erudite journalists of the century" (The New York Times). In 1945,...

"The American century" / Henry R. Luce -- Making the world safe for democracy in the American century / Tony Smith -- "Empire by invitation" in the American century / Geir Lundestad -- America and...

Female prisoners of conscience and activists speak out against torture in Iranian prisonsFourteen women testify to the shocking human rights abuses in Iranian prisonsWINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE...

The award-winning author of Fasting Girls explores what teenage girls have lost in this new world of freedom and consumerism—a world in which the body is their primary project."Fascinating .....

The explosive development of the practice and technology of printed art has been a fundamental characteristic of the art of the 1960s and 1970s. Never in the past have so many artists devoted so much...

"Not Too Late brings strong climate voices from around the world to address the political, scientific, social, and emotional dimensions of the most urgent issue human beings have ever faced...

"The latest thriller from Edgar and Barry Award finalist Mike Lawson starring his beloved "troubleshooter" Joe DeMarco. Joe DeMarco likes to call himself a troubleshooter. It sounds better than...

The ten brilliant women who are the focus of Sharp came from different backgrounds and had vastly divergent political and artistic opinions. But they all made a significant contribution to the...

In his debut novel, rock legend Pete Townshend explores the anxiety of modern life and madness in a story that stretches across two generations of a London family, their lovers, collaborators, and...

Since the first edition of Princeton University: The Campus Guide in 1999, the investment of more than two billion dollars of capital in more than forty-eight projects has dramatically altered the...

A goldmine of treasures grant access into this twentieth century modernist poet's extraordinary work. Includes unpublished essays, drama, and poetry that enhances Zukofsky's stature within the...

Thirteen-year-old Agostino is spending the summer at a Tuscan seaside resort with his beautiful widowed mother. When she takes up with a cocksure new companion, Agostino, feeling ignored and unloved,...

An enchanting tale of the search for forgotten treasures at one of the greatest flea markets on earth.Across America and around the world, people wander through flea markets to search for lost...