5017 results for '"Marker, Frederick J.'

On February 23, 1778, Frederick William Baron von Steuben reported to General George Washington at the Continental Army's bleak winder encampment at Valley Forge. Speaking virtually no English and at...

A classic by a renowned Dutch artist that offers a way to rediscover the world and experience Zen through seeing and drawing. Drawn and handwritten by the author. Seeing/Drawing is spiritual...

Poems deal with the past, mortality, war, Europe, spring, America, travel, identity, meaning, and language

"Vividly and with great skills he marshals the men, the mountebanks, the measures, and the events of ten years of American life and causes them to march before us in orderly panathenaic procession...

Del and Bud, two middle-aged brothers from Biloxi, Mississippi, have never quite grown up and regularly mess up each other's lives, as Bud chases after a glamorous life and Del chases Bud's wife,...

Intellectual Foundations of China (Studies in World Civilization)

A verse translation of the first great narrative poem in the English language that captures the feeling and tone of the original.

"An authoritative account of the semantic conception of theories by one of its chief developers. Suppe has always seen the semantic conception as providing a way of moving beyond empiricist ...

Delicate Markers is the first book-length study of Vladimir Nabokov's novel Invitation to a Beheading (1935-36), a masterpiece that has received a great deal of scholarly attention, second only to...

Author, abolitionist, political activist, and philosopher, Frederick Douglass was a pivotal figure in the decades of struggle leading up to the Civil War and the Reconstruction era. This inexpensive...