316 results for '"Catherine Moury'

Born in 1925, Maria Tallchief spent part of her childhood on an Osage reservation in Oklahoma. With the support of her family and world-renowned choreographer George Balanchine, she rose to the top...

Through a re-examination of literature and events, this book demonstrates how embodiment and disembodiment shaped the imagination of the nation and of citizenship throughout American political...

A lively, comprehensive account of the struggle for women's rights at a vital time in our national history.The American women who worked for our country's indepence in 1776 hoped the new Republic...

From a celebrated classicist and author of The Darkening Age (“[a] ballista-bolt of a book”—New York Times Book Review), a biography of the many, diverse variations of Jesus who thrived in early...

Today's oil and gas are at record prices, whilst global energy demand is increasing from population and economic development pressures. Climate change, resulting in large part from the burning of...

This unique book challenges the traditional distinction between eros, the love found in Greek thought, and agape, the love characteristic of Christianity. Focusing on a number of classic texts,...

Raconte l'histoire d'une jeune fille, douée, comme sa maman, en danse, mais qui porte des lunettes, ce qui compter pour un désavantage quand on danse.

He wants to remember. She needs to forget. . . . Memento meets Sharp Objects in a gripping psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Something in the Water and The...

Kinship ties-the close relationships found within the family-have been a central focus of evolutionary biological analyses of social behavior ever since biologist William Hamilton extended the...

Drawing on the extensive collections of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, as well as from sources across America and Europe, the author documents the...