2972 results for '"Weiler, Joseph H.'

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...

Volume two of one of the greatest literary biographies of our timeJoseph Frank’s award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the Russian novelist in any...

A global history of antifascism from its inception to our own times. Its inspiration, and subject of critique, though, is a work of fascist history, Robert O. Paxton's classic essay The Five Stages...

Nostromo, published in 1904, is one of Conrad's finest works. Nostromo - though one hundred years old - says as much about today's Latin America as any of the finest recent accounts of that region's...

A global history of antifascism from its inception to our own times. Its inspiration, and subject of critique, though, is a work of fascist history, Robert O. Paxton's classic essay The Five Stages...

The fascinating history of how the antifascist movement of the 1930s created "the left" as we know it today In the middle years of the Great Depression, the antifascist movement became a...

A "captivating and compelling" (Keisha N. Blain, coeditor of the #1 New York Times-bestseller Four Hundred Souls) narrative history of 1963, the pivotal moment in America's long civil rights...

A groundbreaking study of one of the most important and influential artists of the postwar periodJoseph Beuys (1921–1986) was one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century—and one of...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • From the acclaimed author of Netherland (a New York Times Book Review Best Book of the year): the odyssey of two brothers...

Joseph Brodsky spent his life advocating for the place of the poet in society. As Derek Walcott said of him, “Joseph was somebody who lived poetry . . . He saw being a poet as being a sacred calling...

The author of seven highly acclaimed books, Joseph J. Ellis has crafted a landmark biography that brings to life in all his complexity the most important and perhaps least understood figure in...

"A vivid reconstruction of the actions of the wartime allies and the Nazi elite at Nuremberg. Persico easily carries us into a deeper understanding of the trials."—New York NewsdayThe Nuremberg...

"Friendships, connections, family ties, trust, loyalty, obedience-this was the 'glue' that held us together."These were the principles that the greatest Mafia "Boss if Bosses," Joseph Bonnano, lived...

Through a focused and systematic examination of late medieval scholastic writers - theologians, philosophers and jurists - Joseph Canning explores how ideas about power and legitimate authority were...

A magnificent one-volume abridgement of one of the greatest literary biographies of our time Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the...

Joseph Schumpeter is seen as the foremost theoretician of entrepreneurship. In addition, Schumpeter, whose "creative destruction" is as famous as Milton Friedman's "there is no free lunch," is...

This fifth and final volume of Joseph Frank's justly celebrated literary and cultural biography of Dostoevsky renders with a rare intelligence and grace the last decade of the writer's life, the...

Winner, 2024 W.W. Howells Prize, American Anthropological Association, Biological Anthropology Section The science on race is clear. Common categories like "Black," "white," and "Asian" do not...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!A Stonewall Honor Book in Young Adult Literature!A blood-soaked and nauseating triumph that cuts like a scalpel and reads like your darkest nightmare.New York Times...

Joseph Cornell remains one of the most popular artists of the 20th century. This work provides an insight into the artist's remarkable inner world: a universe populated with empty cages, mirrors,...