108 results for '"Albritton, Dallas'

Questo libro presenta un'indagine complessiva sul significato e sulle espressioni di culto dedicate ai Lari, divinità gemelle che dall'età arcaica rivestirono un ruolo rilevante nel sistema religioso...

Andare oltre i canoni stabiliti, alla costante ricerca di una nuova libertà espressiva. È il mondo creativo di Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011), una delle figure più influenti del movimento artistico...

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War—a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on...

New York Times bestselling authors Mike Schur and Joe Posnanski travel the world in a hilarious and heartwarming celebration of fans and the things they love: baseball, basketball, chess, darts,...

Jim Harrison is one of this country's most beloved writers, a muscular, brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom. For more than twenty years, he has also been writing some of the best essays...

“First-rate research collaborates with first-rate imagination. . . . Superb.”—The Boston GlobeParis, 1940. The civilized, upper-class life of film producer Jean Casson is derailed by the German...

The rising population known as "nones" for its members' lack of religious affiliation is changing American society, politics, and culture. Many nones believe in God and even visit places of worship,...

"She bridged the gap between screen and real life. At 5:35pm on September 3rd, 1988, Dallas weatherman Ray "Can You Say Sunshine" Davino makes passing reference to Public Access Afterworld during a...

Estate 1943 a Mileto e nei paesi limitrofi della Calabria: un mondo sottosopra osservato e raccontato attraverso gli occhi e la mente di un piccolo orfano, presenza topica all'alba di ogni mutamento...

Il volume si apre con un saggio visuale, una sorta di introduzione per immagini sui temi e sulla presenza dell'imperatore nella storia attraverso testimonianze dall'antichità al XX secolo, seguita da...

Bewildering features of modern physics, such as relativistic space-time structure and the peculiarities of so-called quantum statistics, challenge traditional ways of conceiving of objects in space...

Flapper is a dazzling look at the women who heralded a radical change in American culture and launched the first truly modern decade.The New Woman of the 1920s puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her...

Era convinzione profonda e ben fondata di Sciascia che fra i caratteri peculiari della sua terra vi fosse una certa «refrattarietà dei siciliani alla religione cristiana», paradossalmente confermata...

WINNER OF THE CAMPIELLO PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 TRANSLATED BOOK AWARDS A 2019 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (Washington Post ・Kirkus Reviews・Dallas Morning News) A pitch-perfect rendering in English by...

Between spring and winter 1909, Picasso executed more than sixty portraits of his companion, Fernande Olivier. These works--produced in a variety of formats and mediums--exhibit a range of artistic...

From the opening sentences of his first book on architecture, Home, Witold Rybczynski seduced readers into a new appreciation of the spaces they live in. He also introduced us to "an unerringly lucid...

The first comprehensive account in English of Renaissance Spain's preeminent sculptor Alonso Berruguete (c. 1488-1561) revolutionized the arts of Renaissance Spain with a dramatic style of sculpture...

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this “thorough biography of ... America’s first Renaissance...

I think that all architecture comes from what went before. And how carefully one hews to precedent or how many liberties one takes, in my view, is part of a larger set of judgments as to what is, or...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • Timely, riveting, and unforgettable, The Other Americans is at once a family saga, a murder...