158 results for '"Stephan Schmidheiny'

One of Japan's best-loved children's stories brought to life by the extraordinary imagery of an early nineteenth-century handscroll.The amazing adventures of Momotaro, a boy found inside a peach and...

A thriller examining violence, through its subversion, and a singular love storyNot yet thirty, Bathory has assembled a peculiar résumé: model, sex worker, linguist, Latin scholar, and assassin. The...

Just when the clamor over "traditional" marriage couldn’t get any louder, along comes this groundbreaking book to ask, "What tradition?" In Marriage, a History, historian and marriage expert...

Will anyone take on Jake Semple? Jake Semple is notorious. Rumor has it he burned down his old school and got kicked out of every school in his home state. Only one place will take him now, and...

This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its horrors. Stephanie E. Smallwood offers a penetrating look at the process of...

Slow cooker fans love their devices because they are easy to use and allow home cooks to buy affordable cuts of meat that become fall-off-the-bone tender. The challenge is finding well-tested...

For more than one hundred years, people have been captivated by the disastrous sinking of the Titanic that claimed over 1,500 lives. Now young readers can find out why the great ship went down and...

Winner of the PEN Oakland–Josephine Miles Award“A stunning portrayal of a tragedy endured and survived by women.”―David W. Blight, author of Frederick Douglass“Readers expecting hoop-skirted ladies...

For her second Rizzoli book, well-known interior designer, consummate hostess, and world traveler Stephanie Stokes presents inspiring tables set with irresistible items accumulated on her far-flung...

Since 2013, the Middle East has experienced a double trend of chaos and civil war, on the one hand, and the return of authoritarianism, on the other. That convergence has eclipsed the political...

"A mother is, next to God, all powerful," The Public Ledger asserted in 1850. Looking at complex representations of maternity in sentimental fiction, in texts treating the problem of slavery, and in...

How local contexts help us understand why White voters in America’s heartland are shifting to the rightOver the past several decades, predominantly White, postindustrial cities in America’s...

Introducing Womanist Theology demonstrates how theology by women of color is firmly rooted in their varied life experiences. By participating fully in the construction of theology instead of simply...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn a compelling, richly researched novel that draws from thousands of letters and original sources, bestselling authors Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie tell the...

Calling all graphic novel fans! Get ready for sidekick training (and friendship drama!) with Katie the Catsitter in book 3 of the purr-fectly irresistible, bestselling middle-grade graphic novel...

Katie the Catsitter is back, and this time she’ll need to put all of her sidekick skills to the test in the bestselling graphic novel series about friendship, superheroes, and cats—lots of cats!...

WINNER OF THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD - NOMINATED FOR CANADA READS - A NEW YORK TIMES NEW & NOTEWORTHY BOOK - A NOW MAGAZINE BEST BOOK TO READ FOR SUMMER 2019 - As heard on CBC's The Sunday...

Classical stories about women who wield power, from the Amazons to Dido to CleopatraA Penguin ClassicThere is no other anthology that brings together similar stories of ancient women in power. These...