4384 results for '"Ian Jakes'

A powerful new theory of human nature suggests that our secret to success as a species is our unique friendliness“Brilliant, eye-opening, and absolutely inspiring—and a riveting read. Hare and Woods...

Parliament and Literature in Late Medieval England investigates the relationship between the development of parliament and the practice of English poetry in the later fourteenth and early fifteenth...

Eight years ago, Christian Wiman, a well-known poet and the editor of Poetry magazine, wrote a now-famous essay about having faith in the face of death. My Bright Abyss, composed in the difficult...

The Nagas of the Northeast hills of India were radically different in culture and beliefs from the Hindu peoples of the plains and are represented here through color photographs of their textiles,...

How GDP came to rule our lives—and why it needs to changeWhy did the size of the U.S. economy increase by 3 percent on one day in mid-2013—or Ghana's balloon by 60 percent overnight in 2010? Why did...

The essential field guide to the wildlife of New ZealandWildlife of New Zealand is the leading field guide to the distinctive flora and fauna of this amazing country. Fully revised and expanded, this...

Winner of the Duff Cooper PrizeWinner of the Elizabeth Longford PrizeA New Yorker, Financial Times, Spectator, Times, and Telegraph Book of the YearIn this definitive biography of the mythic general...

Expanded 50th anniversary edition of the City Lights classic, featuring fifteen new poems. Simultaneously released with Diane di Prima's Spring and Autumn Annals on the one-year anniversary of her...

The first biography of a preeminent postwar architect who championed the cause of freedom through architecture and transformed Black history and modernism J. Max Bond Jr. (1935–2009) was a civil...

Why do we use eighty-year-old metrics to understand today’s economy? The ways that statisticians and governments measure the economy were developed in the 1940s, when the urgent economic problems...

A marriage is between two people.And their millions of followers.������������������������������ 'Gripping and razor-sharp, this is twisted tradwife lit at its most addictive' Heat Madison March is...

A beloved schoolteacher chronicles the meteoric rise of his most dazzling student in this ambitious, big-hearted story of learning and legacy. Mr. Keating is an extraordinary teacher: brilliant,...

"Before prehistoric humans began to cultivate grain, they had three main methods of acquiring food: hunting, gathering, and fishing. Hunting and gathering are no longer economically important, having...

"The state of the world makes it difficult to look on the bright side. If there is a bright side perhaps it is that we have come to see the virtues of previously taboo emotions such as anger,...

Henri Lefebvre’s was the major theorist of space and of the urban. This is the definitive book on Lefebvre.Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2023This book presents an encompassing,...

Why you should worry less about AI and more about what makes us humanWe are at a crossroads in history. If we hope to share our planet successfully with one another and the AI systems we are...

A deeply researched account of how battles over civil rights in the 1960s shaped today’s partisan culture wars. In the late twentieth century, gay rights, immigration, gun control, and abortion...