3554 results for '"Alan R. Palmer'

Over fifteen years and many expeditions, Fritz Trupp and Robert Schmid have documented the customs and cultures of the forgotten tribes of Asia, from the Bedouins of southern Arabia to the nomadic...

When Shakespeare gave up tragedy around 1607 and turned to the new form we call romance or tragicomedy, he created a distinctive poetic idiom that often bewildered audiences and readers. The plays of...

Describing chemical and physical transformations of matter at the molecular level, this book comprehensively considers fundamental theory and experimental techniques. It also covers such new topics...

In William Faulkner, Richard Godden traces how the novelist's late fiction echoes the economic and racial traumas of the South's delayed modernization in the mid-twentieth century. As the New Deal...

This book tells the story of how the notoriously protectionist American copyright law impacted transatlantic modernism by encouraging the piracy of works published abroad. From its inception in 1790,...

In 1976, critic Paul Nelson spent several weeks interviewing legendary detective writer Ross Macdonald, who elevated the form to a new literary level. “We talked about everything imaginable,”...

A path-blazing lesson on how to reconcile lofty human rights ambitions with political and cultural realities.The idea of universal rights—rights shared by all citizens, regardless of nationality,...

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