6662 results for '"Dean L. May'

"Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around the globe, people are faced with a spiraling succession of crises, from the COVID-19 pandemic and...

William Dean Howells' richly humorous characterization of a self-made millionaire in Boston society provides a paradigm of American culture in the Gilded Age. After establishing a fortune in the...

Why life’s shortness—more than anything else—is what makes it meaningfulDeath might seem to render pointless all our attempts to create a meaningful life. Doesn’t meaning require transcending death...

The parliaments of Elizabeth I have traditionally been viewed as areas of conflict between a conservative Queen on the one hand and an organized Puritan opposition on the other. Historians have...

Set against a glamorous Italian backdrop, here is William Dean Howell's classic comedy of errors, a pitch-perfect story of romantic confusions that surprises and delights. "A midlife crisis has...

"Secret agent Meow is on the case! When there is a mystery, no task is too big or too small for Pete the Cat, also known as Agent Meow. That's where the case of the lonely squirrel comes in. Pete the...

"When Bob tells Pete the Cat a spooky, creepy, scary story about a monster, Pete is a little scared. The monster seems to be everywhere he looks! What will help Pete overcome his fear?"--

"Matt Dean Pettit, chef, co-owner and founder of Rock Lobster restaurants and Matty's Seafood Brands, is back with a new book to delight your taste buds. The Great Shellfish Cookbook takes any level...

The ten brilliant women who are the focus of Sharp came from different backgrounds and had vastly divergent political and artistic opinions. But they all made a significant contribution to the...

Fossils allow us to picture the forms of life that inhabited the earth eons ago. But we long to know more: how did these animals actually behave? We are fascinated by the daily lives of our fellow...

In this hip twist on the classic fairy tale, cool cat Pete makes himself at home in a house he happens upon in the forest, but when its owners come home, comedic chaos ensues!

This “ambitious [and] delightful” (The New York Times) work of literary nonfiction interweaves the science and history of the powerful refrigerant (and dangerous greenhouse gas) Freon with a haunting...

One of FORBES Best Graphic Novels of 2019 On BCCB 2019 Blue Ribbons ListOne of NPR's Best Books of 2019Booklist 2019 Editors' ChoiceOne of Bitch Media’s Best Queer YA Novels of 2019Author Mariko...

A master of the thriller turns his talent for riveting suspense to the world of business. In this bold novel, John D. MacDonald exposes the backstabbing and betrayals, sordid deeds and savage...

Fourth edition, revised. Well-illustrated. Includes descriptions of 216 books from Donne's library. Covers rubbed. xii, 400 pages. cloth.. small 4to..

A revealing look at the common causes of failures in randomized control experiments during field reseach--and how to avoid them All across the social sciences, from development economics to political...

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year An inside view of Chinese academia and what it reveals about China's political system On January 1, 2017, Daniel Bell was appointed dean of the School of...

The Princess in Black may know how to handle all kinds of monsters, but a kitten set on destruction? Me-OW! Duchess Wigtower had heard that pets are fun, but all her kitten has gotten her is nine...

Originally published as Volume 2 of The Tao of Painting, this is the first English translation of the famous Chinese handbook, the "Chieh Tzu Yüan Hua Chuan" (original, 1679-1701). Mai-mai Sze has...