2385 results for '"MICHAELS,A"'

In the modern period of American constitutional law--the period since the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed racially segregated public schooling in Brown v. Board of Education (1954)--there has been a...

Distinguished Favorite, 2025 NYC Big Book Award: NonfictionHow an engineering crisis threatened a career, a building, and the lives of countless New YorkersThe Citicorp Center, a fifty-nine-story...

Witchcraft was at its height in Elizabethan London. Edward Jorden showed that hysteria and not demons lay behind the witch-craze. Edward Jorden's Briefe Discourse of a Disease Called the Suffocation...

Secret agents, gun runners, White Russians, adventurers, and con men--they all play a part in Michael Miller's strikingly original study of interwar France. Based on extensive research in security...

Astronomy is one of the oldest sciences, and one which has repeatedly led to fundamental changes in our view of the world. This book covers the history of our study of the cosmos from prehistory...

This program is read by the author.What Truth Sounds Like is a timely exploration of America's tortured racial politics that continues the conversation from Michael Eric Dyson's New York Times...

The life story of enigmatic North Korean leader Kim Il Sung, grandfather to Kim Jong Un. Kim Il Sung (1912-94) ruled his country, North Korea, for longer and shaped it more profoundly than almost...

"People have long looked to nature and the divine as paths to the good. In this panoramic meditation on the harmonious life, Michael Mayerfeld Bell traces how these two paths came to be seen as...

The path from Jesus to Christianity is not as straight as we might think -- as Dan Brown's sensational The Da Vinci Code hinted at. In herbest-selling books, scholar Elaine Pagels has explored some...

A Times Literary Supplement’s Book of the YearA New Statesman's Best Book of the YearA Bloomberg's Best Book of the YearA Guardian Best Book About Ideas of the YearThe world-renowned philosopher and...

The story of viruses and the story of humanity have been intertwined since the dawn of history. The first small cities formed not only the cradle of civilization, but the spawning ground for the...

This is the first comprehensive treatment of a problem of staggering proportions. There have always been homeless people but only in the twentieth century have refugees become an important part of...

Named one of 100 Leadership & Success Books to Read in a Lifetime by Amazon EditorsThe world’s most trusted guide for leaders in transitionTransitions are a critical time for leaders. In fact, most...

This volume describes that part of the rich literary production of ancient Judaism which was not contained in the Hebrew Bible nor in rabbinic literature. These writings originated in the Second...

IN HIS NEW BOOK, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Michael Kammen examines the cultural impact on the United States of its Constitution—its place in the public consciousness and its role as a...

This book unveils a potent new approach to one of the oldest debates in political economy--that over whether class conflict or group competition is more prevalent in politics. It goes further than...

A tight-knit, high-powered group of scientists and engineers spent eight years building a satellite designed, in effect, to read the genome of the universe. Launched in 2001, the Wilkinson Microwave...