4178 results for '"Ian Jakes'

Why institutional neutrality is nothing but an illusion. Can a university ever truly be neutral in today's social and political climate? Pushing against the tide of universities increasingly...

A risky undercover reporting trip along Russia's great mother-river, the Volga, reveals the tortuous history and frightening current fantasies of a nation. Since the invasion of Ukraine and ban on...

William A. Christian, Sr. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

Serge Diaghilev was the Russian impresario who is often said to have invented the modern art form of ballet. Commissioning such legendary names as Nijinsky, Fokine, Stravinsky, and Picasso, this...

The riveting true story of a legendary Spanish galleon that sunk off the coast of Colombia with over $1 billion in gold and silver—and one man’s obsessive quest to find it—from the New York Times...

BCALA 2023 Nonfiction Award WinnerHistory of Education Society's Outstanding Book Award 2022 SemifinalistNamed one of the top 25 books all students should read by Tuskegee UniversityThe untold story...

A groundbreaking new take on the American justice system from one of its unknown “mercy workers,” offering a powerful new vision of responsibility, punishment, and repair.“We need the work that is...

The message of this provocative book - that black theology must incorporate an indigenous and radical social analysis methodology in order to be relevant to the life of the black church and the black...

A beloved schoolteacher chronicles the meteoric rise of his most dazzling student in this ambitious, big-hearted work of literary fiction, perfect for fans of Nathan Hill, Susan Choi, and Tess Gunty...

"The working homeless. In a country where hard work and determination are supposed to lead to success, there is something scandalous about this phrase. But skyrocketing rents, low wages, and a lack...

A powerful chronicle of Colombia’s descent into decades of civil war through the lens of an intimate, multi-generational tale of upheaval and betrayal.When presumed president-elect Jorge Eliécer...

Written over the course of four decades, François-René de Chateaubriand’s epic autobiography has drawn the admiration of Baudelaire, Flaubert, Proust, Barthes, and Sebald. Here, in the first books of...

An almost overwhelming influence from the 1940s onwards, Parker's brilliance has rarely if ever, been surpassed since his death in 1955. He came into prominence with the bands of Jay McShann, Earl...

From an award-winning historian, the definitive history of classical Greece and the rivalry of its two greatest cities No period has more profoundly influenced the Western world than classical...