1041 results for '"Joseph Rothschild'

A wide-ranging, insightful history of culture in West Germany—from literature, film, and music to theater and the visual artsAfter World War II a mood of despair and impotence pervaded the arts in...

From an eminent surgeon and historian comes the “by turns fascinating and ghastly” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice) story of surgery’s development—from the Stone Age to the present...

Joseph Conrad, W. Somerset Maugham, and Anthony Burgess have shaped our perceptions of Malaysia. In Tash Aw, we now have an authentic Malaysian voice that remaps this literary landscape.The Harmony...

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for AutobiographyA National Book Award FinalistA New York Times Notable BookA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the CenturyFrom the age of four,...

Self-made impresario, controversial producer, contentious champion of human rights and the First Amendment, founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival, and unquestionably the most dynamic force in...

Casting Robert Louis Stevenson as his protagonist, Alberto Manguel, author of the international bestseller A History of Reading, spins an intoxicating murder mystery in the South Pacific that echoes...

National BestsellerTo this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric prose that have made him one of the premier...

Now updated with a new epilogue--an essential read for anyone interested in Shadow WorkCheating... lying ... jealousy ... blaming ... greed ... shame… These forbidden feelings and behaviors erupt...

Based on papers delivered at the 1976 meeting of the American Ethnological Society, American Indian Intellectuals of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries offers biographical sketches of major...

A new edition of a classic work of history, revealing the anti-homosexual purges of midcentury Washington.In The Lavender Scare, David K. Johnson tells the frightening story of how, during the Cold...

Aristotle's Earliest 'course Of Lectures On Rhetoric'. Aristotle's First Literary Effort : The Gryllus, A Lost Dialogue On The Nature Of Rhetoric / Anton-hermann Chroust -- The Definition Of Rhetoric...

Joseph Fouche, chief of Robespierre's personal police, is a cold-blooded revolutionary whose loyalty to the regime has come into question: he is unwittingly falling in love with Nenette, a former...

An entire generation of Russian writers have been living in exile from their homeland. Although today's glasnost has special meaning for many of these banished writers, it does not dissolve their...

A penetrating study of ordinary people resisting the Nazi occupation—and, true to its title, a dark comedy of wartime manners—Comedy in a Minor Key tells the story of Wim and Marie, a Dutch couple...

The definitive biography of the most dangerous demagogue in American history, based on exclusive access to his papers and recently unsealed transcripts of his closed-door Congressional hearings In...

This handsome book examines the remarkable new addition to the Art Institute of Chicago, designed by Renzo Piano and scheduled to open in May 2009. This expansion to the Art Institute of Chicago,...

Vivid and racy, a deep-dive into tabloids from their sixteenth-century beginnings to the National Inquirer and beyond. The Newsmongers unfolds the seedy history of tabloid journalism, from the first...

Time and Narrative builds on Paul Ricoeur's earlier analysis, in The Rule of Metaphor, of semantic innovation at the level of the sentence. Ricoeur here examines the creation of meaning at the...

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is among the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural consequences of the past half-century. In this book, originally published in 2003, she...

From best-selling authors Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins comes the 21st century's definitive book on world hunger. Driven by the question, "Why hunger despite an abundance of food?" Lappé and...