3268 results for '"M. Elwenspoek'

There are plenty of guides out there for humans about training their dogs - as if humans have ever been the ones in charge. One dog has at last agreed to share the insights gained through years of...

The Naga peoples inhabit the southeastern foothills of the Himalayas between India and Burma. Living in virtual isolation from the outside world until about 150 years ago, they developed a highly...

Surprising readings of Chaucer and a fresh estimate of his contribution to early humanismMichaela Paasche Grudin believes that for Chaucer speech is the heart of culture and that his major work...

Why have countries increasingly restricted immigration even when they have opened their markets to foreign competition through trade or allowed their firms to move jobs overseas? In Trading Barriers,...

Spinoza rejects fundamental tenets of received morality, including the notions of Providence and free will. Yet he retrains rich theories of good and evil, virtue, perfection, and freedom. Building...

The Twentieth Century is one of a series which attempts to describe the social, political, religious and intellectual climate in which the visual arts developed in a particular period as well as the...

This thorough and reliable survey of American painting and sculpture from colonial times to the present day covers all the major artists and their works, outlines the social and cultural background...

This is less a textbook, more a clearly-written chronological narrative of Edward's life and reign. Sadler covers all the main issues, including Piers Gaveston, the Templars, the military and...

La civilisation de la Grce classique valorise la libert avec d'autant plus de force qu'elle repose en partie sur l'esclavage et qu'elle s'est construite en partie par opposition la Perse soumise au...

Peace and war. Global warming. Multinational corporations. Imperialism and nationalism. Such topics encompass many of the most profound political and moral problems we face within the context of...

In this icy, knife’s-edge story of a life that progresses backward through time, unfolding into one of the darkest episodes of the 20th century, Amis (“at his intriguing, heedful, and powerful best”...

Maurice Sendak's beloved Where the Wild Things Are, winner of the 1964 Caldecott Medal, is now available in a newly revised Spanish edition exclusive to Harper Arco Iris. Spanish speakers and...

Mo Willems, creator of the revolutionary, award-winning, best-selling Elephant & Piggie books, has another breakout beginning-reader series. An ensemble cast of Squirrels, Acorns, and pop-in guests...

This 125th Anniversary edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is expanded with updated notes and references and a selection of original documents—letters, advertisements, playbills—some never...

Mary Beard's by now famous blog A Don's Life has been running on the TLS website for nearly three years. In it she has made her name as a wickedly subversive commentator on the world in which we live...

Lucrèce entièrement annoté de la main de Montaigne! Les remarques et commentaires, la plupart en français, jusqu'aux traces de sa plume traînante dans les marges, indiquent les réactions de Montaigne...

Dreamlike and macabre, Mervyn Peake's extraordinary novel Titus Groan--first in the Gormenghast Trilogy--is one of the most astonishing and fantastic works in modern fiction. As the novel opens,...

"Dazzling . . . In this extremely creepy book, Hayder's third, the diabolically gifted British author spins a fascinating mystery from the legacy of Japanese atrocities during World War II...