4313 results for '"Ian Clark'

Named a Best Cookbook of Spring 2025 by Eater, Los Angeles Times, and Epicurious "Between lush photos from Cheyenne Ellis, gorgeous descriptions from Andrews and recipes that make the most of local...

Are sex scandals simply trivial distractions from serious issues or can they help democratize politics? In 1820, George IV's "royal gambols" with his mistresses endangered the Old Oak of the...

“A daring romp through the solar system and a worthy successor to 2001.”—Carl Sagan Nine years after the disastrous Discovery mission to Jupiter in 2001, a joint U.S.-Soviet expedition sets out to...

The first account of the dissolution of the monasteries for fifty years—exploring its profound impact on the people of Tudor England“This is a book about people, though, not ideas, and as a detailed...

From the bestselling author of The Sleepwalkers, a book about how the exercise of power is shaped by different concepts of timeThis groundbreaking book presents new perspectives on how the exercise...

With a consuming enthusiasm for the paintings of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), art collector Sterling Clark assembled one of the greatest private collections of Renoir's work during the first...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved author of Dinner in an Instant breaks down the new French classics with 150 recipes that reflect a modern yet distinctly French sensibility.“Melissa Clark’s...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement brilliantly illuminates the collision of sexual longing, deep-seated fears, and romantic fantasy on a young couple’s...

The French have the reputation of being level headed, rational, and inclined to the use of litotes rather than dithyrambics, particularly in their area of specialization, the "classical" seventeenth...

The Paris of the 1860s and 1870s was supposedly a brand-new city, equipped with boulevards, cafés, parks, and suburban pleasure grounds--the birthplace of those habits of commerce and leisure that...

On June 11, 1963, in a dramatic gesture that caught the nation's attention, Governor George Wallace physically blocked the entrance to Foster Auditorium on the University of Alabama's campus. His...

A brilliant new theory of the mind that upends our understanding of how the brain interacts with the world“This thoroughly readable book will convince you that the brain and the world are partners in...

From an acclaimed military historian, the interlocking lives of three of the most important and consequential generals in World War II Born in the two decades prior to World War I, George Patton,...

A New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceA comprehensive, authoritative and readable history of the evolution of the ghost in the west, examining the behavior of the subject in its preferred...

When it first appeared in 1971, Larry Clark's groundbreaking book Tulsa sparked immediate controversy across the nation. Its graphic depictions of sex, violence, and drug abuse in the youth culture...

Tracing the transformation of early modern academics into modern researchers from the Renaissance to Romanticism, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University uses the history of the...

A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021Bestselling Scotiabank Giller Award-winning writer Ian Williams brings a fresh point of view and new insights to the urgent conversation on race and racism in these...

From an acclaimed military historian, the interlocking lives of three of the most important and consequential generals in World War II Born in the two decades prior to World War I, George Patton,...