2004 results for '"Peter A. Gourevitch'

Reformation England provides a clear and critical account of recent scholarly approaches, giving a reassessment of familiar debates and topics with introductions to newer historiographical concerns:...

Shows how police serve to assist ICE despite sanctuary laws insisting otherwiseIn the United States, local law enforcement agencies are legally and organizationally independent entities from federal...

"During the first, stable period of the Principate (roughly from 27 BC to AD 235), when the empire reached its maximum extent, Roman society and culture were radically transformed. But how was the...

This book explores ancient 'foundational' texts relating to property and their reception by later thinkers in their various contexts up to the early nineteenth century. The texts include Plato's...

A New York Times bestsellerWinner of the Barnes & Noble Children’s and YA Book AwardA young pickpocket gets recruited into an elite group of thieves in this “page-turning, edge-of-the-seat”...

"This book provides the reader with a new, challenging, and sophisticated critical analysis of the Song of Roland." —Choice"[Haidu's] close reading of the Song of Roland is interesting, informative,...

This classic biography was first published thirty years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, David Lebe (b. 1948) pushed the boundaries of photography, creating nuanced and visually complex images using innovative techniques. Often enhancing his prints with...

Integrates valid insights of both science and philosophy to examine the mysterious origin of ethics in human nature, arguing that biology alone cannot account for our behavior patterns or altruistic...

NATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHORCarnegie-Winning Author • Winner of the Barnes & Noble Discover PrizeFrom the bestselling, award-winning author of The Berry Pickers comes an unforgettable novel of family,...

Artist, diplomat, entrepreneur and impresario, Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) was one of the most dynamic personalities of the Baroque era. This book presents a fresh examination of the work of this...

Throughout Western history, there have been those who felt compelled to share a dissenting opinion on public matters, while still hoping to avoid the social, political, and even criminal consequences...

A major comic artist in Republican Rome, Plautus left a legacy of twenty extremely inventive comedies. Ostensibly Latin versions of Greek plays staged in Athens several generations earlier, they...

The life of Nikos Kazantzakis—the author of Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ—was as colorful and eventful as his fiction. And nowhere is his life revealed more fully or surprisingly...