4148 results for '"Joseph H. Smith'

About the Author Joseph Carroll is the author of Wallace Stevens' Supreme Fiction (1987), Evolution and Literary Theory (1995), Literary Darwinism (2004), and Reading Human Nature (2011). He is...

The third in a series of beautiful pocket gift books compiling renowned mythologist Joseph Campbell's short reflections on the world-altering force of love, perfect for carrying everywhere, bedside...

"Myths, according to Freud's view, are of the psychological order of dream. Myths, so to say, are public dreams; dreams are private myths. ""There is no one quite like Joseph Campbell. He knows the...

Joseph Campbell brought mythology to a mass audience. His bestselling books, including The Power of Myth and The Hero with a Thousand Faces, are the rare blockbusters that are also scholarly classics...

With a distinctive voice, Sheri Joseph's remarkably assured debut explores the interior lives of two Georgia families soon to be linked by a marriage, and though it tackles dark themes -- the menace...

The Nobel Prize–winning economist and best-selling author explains why saving Europe may mean abandoning the euro.When Nobel Prize–winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz posed this question in the...

From award-winning journalist Joseph Lee, a sweeping, personal exploration of Indigenous identity and the challenges facing Indigenous people around the world.Before Martha’s Vineyard became one of...

Joseph Campbell's collected writings on dance and art, edited and introduced by Nancy Allison, CMA, the founder of Jean Erdman Dance, and including Campbell's unpublished manuscript "Mythology and...

Taking his title from the wounded cry of the once great Max Bialystock in The Producers -- "Look at me now! Look at me now! I’m wearing a cardboard belt!” -- the charming essayist Joseph Epstein...

"Janine Joseph writes with an open and easy intimacy. The language here is at once disruptive and familiar, political and sensual, and tinged by the melancholy of loss and the discomforting radiance...

In this brief, intense, gemlike book, equal parts extended autobiographical essay and prose poem, Joseph Brodsky turns his eye to the seductive and enigmatic city of Venice. A mosaic of forty-eight...

Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in Marx's Capital inspired, in particular, by the crisis of 2008-9 and the period of slow growth that has followed. Marx was capitalism's greatest...

A New York Times Notable BookNominated for the Man Booker PrizeIn this extraordinary, both comic and philosophically profound novel, the acclaimed author of Netherland uncovers the hidden contours of...

Long a source for quotations, fragments, and factoids, the Noctes Atticae of Aulus Gellius offers hundreds of brief but vivid glimpses of Roman intellectual life. In this book Joseph Howley...

A cultural and social history of art collecting, art history, and the art marketIn The Rare Art Traditions, Joseph Alsop offers a wide-ranging cultural and social history of art collecting, art...

A collection of personal essays from America’s most revered essay writer, Joseph Epstein.America’s greatest living essayist writes about life and aging and being all too nicely out of it. In these...

An important investigation of the sociocultural fallout of America's work on the atomic bombIn The Nuclear Borderlands, Joseph Masco offers an in-depth look at the long-term consequences of the...

A thoroughly updated edition of a beloved classic that has guided generations of researchers in conducting effective and meaningful research. With more than a million copies sold since its first...

From popular author-illustrator Joseph Kuefler comes the perfect bedtime book for fans of big trucks. The ideal next book for readers of Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site and Steam Train, Dream...

In this book Hayward Alker presents his principal methodological "rediscoveries" of the past twenty years. He provides a rich set of "humanistic" alternatives to the conventional scientific...