2145 results for '"Georg Knepler'

Alex George, a.k.a. Lily P Crumbs, brings her joyful, over-the-top baking style straight to your kitchen. Known for her viral quest to test every chocolate chip cookie recipe she could find, George...

A revelatory account of how words and actions combined to destroy Britain's colonial rule and secure Washington's American victory The American Revolution was not only fought on bloody battlefields,...

As a participant and observer, Pulitzer Prize-winning and National Book Award-winning author George F. Kennan has left an indelible mark on more than six decades of this century. In this new volume...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful,...

Woven from dreamlike and echoing images, After Image travels between life and death, between a living body and its absence. A house, an orchard, "a shudder of blossoms." A fountain, a bed, a sudden...

Georges Duby, one of this century's great medieval historians, has brought to life with exceptional brilliance and imagination William Marshal, adviser to the Plantagenets, knight extraordinaire, the...

In this picture book classic that belongs on every reader's shelf, two lovable hippos impart funny lessons on the true meaning of friendship. Like all best friends, George and Martha do everything...

A beautiful graphic adaptation of George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel. "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." In 1945, George Orwell, called...

Why melancholia is a vital form of social critique and a catalyst for political renewalMelancholia is wrongly condemned as a condition of withdrawal and despair that alienates its sufferer from...

Dans ce récit si simple et si uni qu'il convient d'en souligner l'originalité profonde, Georges Perec tente, le premier avec cette rigueur, de mettre au service d'une entreprise romanesque les...

In this engaging first memoir, George A. Kiraz tells the story of a young Palestinian boy growing up in Bethlehem, fascinated with understanding his Syriac roots even as he drew steadily nearer to...

An introduction for English-language readers to Georges Bataille's postwar philosophical and critical writings. In the aftermath of World War II, French thinker and writer Georges Bataille forged a...

How do presidents lead? If presidential power is the power to persuade, why is there a lack of evidence of presidential persuasion? George Edwards, one of the leading scholars of the American...

“Elegant and iconoclastic . . . refreshing . . . persuasive.”—NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWHere is the first biography to offer a complete picture of the life of George C. Marshall, chief of staff of...

Explore how the universe began—and thwart evil along the way—in this cosmic adventure from Stephen and Lucy Hawking that includes a graphic novel.George has problems. He has twin baby sisters at home...

A National Review Top Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Century One of Orwell s very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War. The New Yorker In 1936, originally...

Acclaimed National Book Award-winning author George Packer diagnoses America’s descent into a failed state, and envisions a path toward overcoming our injustices, paralyses, and divides.Democracy...

Longtemps, nous avons cru que le progrès de la morale allait de pair avec le développement de la culture. Le nazisme, montre George Steiner a pulvérisé cette illusion : Buchenwald n'est situé qu'à...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This inspiring meditation on kindness from the author of Lincoln in the Bardo is based on his popular commencement address.Three months after George Saunders gave a...

By the age of thirty, the young woman who was born Aurore Dupin in 1804 in a Paris garret had become the internationally renowned George Sand. In English, her novels were outselling even Victor Hugo...