5030 results for '"David Van Reybrouck'

An investigation into the evolution of the seven-day week and how our attachment to its rhythms influences how we live "[Henkin] scours American literature, diaries, periodicals, menus and other...

China's Threat To U.s. Global Hegemony Has Dominated International Policy Discussion For Years. But The Power Transition Debate-whether The Growing Power, China, Is Bound To Challenge And Overtake...

Western imperialism has always been shadowed by terrorism and insurgency.In this provocative history, David Tucker argues that “irregular warfare”—including terrorism, guerrilla warfare, and other...

The U.S. death penalty is a peculiar institution, and a uniquely American one. Despite its comprehensive abolition elsewhere in the Western world, capital punishment continues in dozens of American...

A close-up look at the contradictions and wonders of the modern zooOrangutans swing from Kevlar-lined fire hoses. Giraffes feast on celebratory birthday cakes topped with carrots instead of candles...

For over forty years, David Harvey has been one of the world's most trenchant and critical analysts of capitalist development. In The Enigma of Capital, he delivers an impassioned account of how...

Nominated, 2024 Edgar Allan Poe Award in the category of best critical/biographical, Mystery Writers of AmericaShortlisted, 2024 Agatha Awards - Best Mystery Nonfiction, Malice DomesticNarrative...

Midnight, Sunday, June 18, 1815. Britain holds its breath. Since Napoleon's escape from Elba in February, Europe has been jolted from eleven months of peace back into the frenzied panic of a war it...

The American military base on the island of Diego Garcia is one of the most strategically important and secretive U.S. military installations outside the United States. Located near the remote center...

Throughout what publisher Henry Luce dubbed the "American century," the United States has wrestled with two central questions. Should it pursue its security unilaterally or in cooperation with...

L'Union européenne est en crise. Une crise non seulement institutionnelle mais aussi et surtout identitaire dont on sent bien que la solution sera déterminante pour les prochaines années. On tente...

Dickens' great coming-of-age novel, now in a beautiful new clothbound edition This is the novel Dickens regarded as his "favourite child" and is considered his most autobiographical. As David...

In The Paradox of Representation David Lublin offers an unprecedented analysis of a vast range of rigorous, empirical evidence that exposes the central paradox of racial representation: Racial...

An original perspective on the father of the atomic bomb, shedding new light on Oppenheimer’s personality and psychologyBoth to his contemporaries and to posterity J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967)...

The twentieth century is usually seen as "the century of total war." But as the historian David Bell argues in this landmark work, the phenomenon acutally began much earlier, in the era of muskets,...

Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Top Shelf Book Cover Award 2017The Ten Commandments, or Decalogue, have long been a pillar of Western law and culture. In more recent times they have been...

A special edition of “the most remarkable book in the American canon”—Thoreau’s timeless ode to the beauty of a life lived simply and among nature (Bill McKibben) In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his...

What Thoreau can teach us about working—why we do it, what it does to us, and how we can make it more meaningfulHenry at Work invites readers to rethink how we work today by exploring an aspect of...

"A chewy, challenging work that draws its comedy from racial misunderstandings and from shrewd dissection of ways in which we are all, at times, blind."--Daniel D'Addario, Variety Part biography,...