1805 results for '"Simon, Denis Fred'

Poems deal with the past, mortality, war, Europe, spring, America, travel, identity, meaning, and language

The idea of security—from ancient Greece to the War on TerrorIn The Security Principle, French philosopher Frédéric Gros takes a historical approach to the concept of security, looking at its...

"Vividly and with great skills he marshals the men, the mountebanks, the measures, and the events of ten years of American life and causes them to march before us in orderly panathenaic procession...

While riding on a bus in New York City, the author looks back on his life and examines the Jewish culture

Jewish Images in the Comics showcases more than 150 comic strips, comic books and graphic novels from all over the world, stretching over the last five centuries and featuring Jewish characters and...

From the salon to the boudoir: the world of Casanova as seen through the art of his eraIn 18th-century Europe, while the old order reveled in the luxurious excesses of the Rococo style and the...

For nearly sixty years, Wheelock's Latin has remained the opitmus liber of beginning Latin textbooks. When Professor Frederic M. Wheelock's Latin first appeared in 1956, the reviews extolled its...

Starting with the premise that Europe was made by its imperial projects as much as colonial encounters were shaped by events and conflicts in Europe, the contributors to Tensions of Empire...

Intellectual Foundations of China (Studies in World Civilization)

Frederick L. Ware provides a classification and criticism of methodological perspectives in the academic study, interpretation, and construction of black theology in the U.S. from 1969 to the...

Death Talk is about the healing power of conversation. It gives numerous examples of children and their families being released from the grip of sadness, isolation, and fear by talking about their...

Sixty-one of the best songs of the rock era, all chosen from Rolling Stone(R) magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time." The book covers 61 classic songs spanning 1954 to the late 1960s all arranged...

Through his development of quantitative experimental methods, the chemist Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794) implemented a principle that many regard as the cornerstone of modern science: in every...