2670 results for '"Melvin L. Oliver'

A classic treatment of game theory from the acclaimed Annals of Mathematics Studies seriesPrinceton University Press is proud to have published the Annals of Mathematics Studies since 1940. One of...

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Welcome friends and family back around your table with Jamie Oliver’s brand-new cookbook, Together – a joyous celebration of incredible food to share.Being with our loved...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it...

From the award-winning creative team of Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston comes an enchanting and imaginative picture book certain to delight word lovers of any age. Dictionary wishes she could tell a...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*Includes an interview with James Hollis* “Provocative and appealing . . . Well worth your extremely limited time.” —Barbara Spindel, The Wall Street...

A unique new guide to the chaos of the natural world and the mathematics of fractals for anyone who has ever wanted to understand the patterns in leaves or the creation of snowflakes.2,000 years ago...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “wonderful memoir” (Los Angeles Times) about a brilliantly unconventional physician and writer, a man who has illuminated the many ways that the brain makes us human. •...

From the bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, a collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks's passionate engagement with the most compelling ideas of human endeavor:...

Air fryers save you time and money. Now discover just how delicious air frying can really be, with Jamie . . .Whether you’re new to air frying or an expert, Jamie Oliver’s here to help you take your...

Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us...

Hatred of Sex links Jacques Rancière’s political philosophy of the constitutive disorder of democracy with Jean Laplanche’s identification of a fundamental perturbation at the heart of human...

The definitive collection of great writings on music from ancient Greece through the twentieth century. Forty-five years after the appearance of the first edition, Oliver Strunk's monumental...

“Illuminate[s] the complexities of the human brain and the mysteries of the human mind.” —The New York TimesTo many people, hallucinations imply madness, but in fact they are a common part of the...

Islamic philosophy is a unique and fascinating form of thought, and particular interest lies in its classical (Greek-influenced) period, when many of the ideas of Greek philosophy were used to...

'An inspired and original tale ... Jeoffry is the greatest cat in the English language' Hilary Mantel 'Simply unforgettable ... one of the most beautiful and haunting books of recent times'...

Paradise Once is a sweeping historical novel that brings to life the resiliency of the indigenous Taíno people of the Caribbean, whose culture was virtually destroyed within two generations of their...

"In this final volume, Oliver Sacks examines the many passions of his own life, as a doctor engaged with the central questions of human existence, and as a polymath conversant in all the sciences...

In a tiny farm on the edge of the miserable village of East Grasby, Isabella Nagg is trying to get on with her tiny, miserable existence. Dividing her time between tolerating her feckless husband,...

How neoliberalism is causing a crisis in GermanyUpward social mobility represented a core promise of life under the “old” West German welfare state, in which millions of skilled workers upgraded...

A National BestsellerAddressing the fundamental questions about how to live, Meditations for Mortals offers a powerful new way to take action on what counts: a guiding philosophy of life Oliver...