5148 results for '"Richardson, James H.'

"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of...

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 is American punishment so cruel? While in continental Europe great efforts are made to guarantee that prisoners are treated humanely, in America sentences have gotten longer and rehabilitation...

Based on extensive inside sources, a revealing account of how the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations transformed both health care and politics in America For nearly a century, every...

Topics range from a history of Guatemala to recommendations for governments.

Translators Leonard Nathan and James Larson present seventy-five poems from Gunnar Ekelof's middle phase (1938-1959), a period that saw the production of his richest and most enduring poetry. ...

"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...

LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE 2025 "Big-hearted and hilarious, an ode to authenticity and a must-read in our current times." --Shelby Van Pelt, New York Times bestselling...

LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE 2025 "Writing a funny book is hard. Writing a convincing takedown of one of America's most popular prejudices is harder still. Writing a funny...

... Fourteen Essays Based On Papers Delivered At The Conference On Ranke And Historiography, Oct. 1986 At Syracuse University.--p. Xiii. Introduction / James M. Powell -- Mythistory In The Age Of...

This remarkable work features a comprehensive survey of the defining events of Renaissance warfare in the British Isles as described by the great Victorian military writer James Grant. The modern...

From New York Times bestselling author/illustrator team Kimberly and James Dean comes a new I Can Read story featuring everyone's favorite kitty, Pete the Kitty! Pete the Kitty is excited to build...

Each year Italy's beautiful countryside is spattered with numerous food festivals that showcase various delectable foods such as garlic, pasta, lentils, fruits, nuts, chocolates and more. Now Italian...

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...

An anthology that traces how Shakespeare has shaped American history and culture—featuring pieces by Founding Fathers, Orson Welles, and other noteworthy figures   “The history of Shakespeare in...

Cultures of Uneven and Combined Development represents an extraordinary contribution to our understanding of Leon Trotsky's concept of uneven and combined development. This groundbreaking collection...

How disasters—that have wrecked work sites throughout American history, in all parts of the nation and all sectors of the economy—have also inspired policy reform.Workplace disasters have wreaked...

It is a crowded, smoky room. Strongly rhythmic music plays, couples dance, dress is casual and revealing. Nearly everyone is drinking--beer or wine, gin or whiskey--and the distinct scent of...

The Swing Era was that magic moment in America when the popular music of the nation became virtually identical with the great new music of the period--jazz. The man most responsible for bringing this...

In 1978, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning historian James MacGregor Burns published Leadership, a seminal book dealing with how leaders interact with society and through their efforts...