3814 results for '"Liddel, Peter P.'

An English midshipman on The Sentinel, commissioned by Britian's Royal Navy to track down and free Africans imprisoned on slave ships, finds his fate and survival inextricably linked to that of an...

The Girl from Andros was the first play of the brilliant but short-lived Roman comic playwright Terence and shows him as already a master dramatist. It is based on two plays (both now lost) by the...

"Shakespeare wrote ten plays on medieval English eight on the later Plantagenets, one on the early Plantagenets, and one on the Tudors. Theater goers and students of Shakespeare who appreaciate the...

Richard Wilbur; William Stafford; James Wright; Louis Simpson; Robert Penn Warren.

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Timothy Dunphy finds it difficult to relate to his harsh, working-class father or his upper-class schoolmates at a Connecticut prep school

In diesem Band geht es um die besondere Bedeutung, die den Bilderhandschriften in der volkssprachigen Literatur des Mittelalters fur die Herausbildung der Konzepte von Autor und Autorschaft zukommt...

On September 9, 1985, one thousand mainly Mexican women workers in Watsonville, California, the "frozen food capital of the world," were forced out on strike in response to an attempt by Watsonville...

This visually immersive work of graphic nonfiction dives into a world where ants, cicadas, bees, and butterflies visit a library exhibition that displays their stories and humanity's connection to...

Text: English, German (translation)

Revolution remains a key concept in the social sciences. After the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution, a debate still rages over its causes and meaning. At the same time as, in Eastern...

Text: German

Examines the cultural factors which have influenced the musical careers and styles of such individuals as Jerry Lee Lewis, Muddy Waters, and Johnny Shines

Cities of Tomorrow is a critical history of planning in theory and practice in the twentieth century, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Trenchant,...

For the first printing only! This hardcover features vibrant sprayed edges while the special edition supply lasts.A New York Times bestseller A young pickpocket gets recruited into an elite group of...

Ever since he was in kindergarten, Leo has had a hard time making friends. He always has so much going on in his head, and his words come out so slowly that the other kids just run off to play...

A biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, discussing his early genius, and tracing his development as a composer.

In 1966, Peter Handke disturbed the world of German letters with the publication of his first novel and with his attacks on the complacency of German-language writers and their audiences. Since then,...