3535 results for '"James Hamilton-Paterson'

The first complete picture of the African American experience in the Vietnam WarThe racial tensions that have long plagued American society exist to a much lesser extent in the military where the...

Now featuring a new Afterword by the author, this handy paperback edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom is without question the definitive one-volume history of the Civil War...

An exploration of the causes and patterns of avian vagrancyAvian vagrancy—the appearance of birds outside of their expected habitat—is a phenomenon that has fascinated natural historians for...

Making Mary Poppins reveals the extraordinary true story behind the creation of one of the most beloved films of all time--and the two little-known songwriters who helped make it possible. Long...

Traces historical constructions of adolescence and considers coming of age in the late 20th centuryYoung adults in the modern era face a completely differently set of challenges from previous...

Why the paradigm of the world-class university is an implausible dream for most institutions of higher educationUniversities have become major actors on the global stage. Yet, as they strive to be...

"In the Last Plantation, James Jones uses the plantation metaphor to investigate how Congress operates as a racialized governing institution, a state body organized through racism that imposes the...

Why the paradigm of the world-class university is an implausible dream for most institutions of higher educationUniversities have become major actors on the global stage. Yet, as they strive to be...

A breathtaking account of how the surrounding cosmos impacts life on EarthDid you know that as you read these words showers of high-speed particles from exploding stars are raining down on you? As...

An indie musician reeling from tragedy and a public breakdown reconnects with her father on a weeklong cruise in “a pitch-perfect story about the ways we recover love in the strangest places”...

James Casebere (born 1953) emerged in the Pictures Generation as an artist-photographer complicating the status of the photographic image alongside Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince. His earliest...

In Lies Across America, James W. Loewen continues his mission, begun in his American Book Award-winning and bestselling Lies My Teacher Told Me, of overturning the myths and misinformation, Lies...

James Joyce's coming-of-age story, a tour de force of style and techniqueThe first, shortest, and most approachable of James Joyce’s novels, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays the...

A spirited defense of the anarchist approach to lifeJames Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to date, the acclaimed social scientist...

This analysis of the intellectual life of German universities in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries demonstrates that humanist-scholastic relations were not the titanic struggles depicted in...

WINNER OF THE 2020/2021 ALCUIN SOCIETY BOOK DESIGN AWARD FOR POETRYWINNER OF THE ROBERT KROETSCH CITY OF EDMONTON BOOK PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2023 STEPHAN G. STEPHANSSON AWARD FOR POETRYWINNER OF THE...

The instant New York Times bestseller • A New York Times Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by The Economist • Nominated for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year...

From the acclaimed Pacific War historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist, the harrowing story of America’s bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the dramatic struggle to end World War II. At 9:15 a.m. on...

A new paradigm that integrates human and nonhuman communication and culture Are language and culture uniquely human, justifying an exceptionalism that sets people apart from the rest of nature? New...