574 results for '"Whitman, Walt'

From a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, a biography of the famed poet, courtier, and colonizer, showing how he laid the foundations of the English EmpireSir Walter Ralegh was a favorite of Queen...

Displaced by Britten and later by Tippett after failing to fulfill the promise of his early masterpieces, composer William Walton was once regarded as a promising experimentalist and successor to...

"The first complete account of the ideas and writings of a major figure in twentieth-century intellectual life. Walter Kaufmann (1921-1980) was a charismatic philosopher, critic, translator, and poet...

The life and ideas of one of the twentieth century’s leading political thinkersWalter Lippmann (1889–1974) was among the most influential and wide-ranging political writers in modern America. As both...

Walter Crane (1845-1915) was one of the most important, versatile, and radical artists of the 19th century: a painter, decorator, designer, book illustrator, poet, author, teacher, art theorist, and...

"A mind-bending jaunt ... that makes clear in fascinating detail how math is more than a sum of its parts" (Publishers Weekly)“Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here,” Plato warned would-be...

From New York Times bestselling author and former American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Misty Copeland comes the first book in a middle grade series about a girl who must balance her ballet...

From our finest radical literary analyst, a classic study of the great philosopher and cultural theorist.

The author traces his friendship with the philosopher and critic, Walter Benjamin, from their youth in Berlin to Benjamin's death in 1940 and includes selections from their letters

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is now generally recognized as one of the most influential thinkers of the last century. This Very Short Introduction explores his extraordinary life and thought. His...

An illuminated tour of Walter Benjamin's ideas; a graphic translation; an encyclopedia of fragments.Walter Benjamin was a man of letters, an art critic, an essayist, a translator, a philosopher, a...

An exploration of the life and work of Walter Crane, the pioneering British socialist artist who transformed the illustration of children’s books.This volume in Thames & Hudson’s The Illustrators...

Walter Benjamin is one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals, and also one of its most elusive. His writings—mosaics incorporating philosophy, literary criticism, Marxist analysis,...

An accessible and authoritative biography of Walter Benjamin that guides the reader through the complexity of his intellectual legacy and the turbulence of his time Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is...

Unusual book

In a lucid, brilliant work of nonfiction, Larry McMurtry has written a family portrait that also serves as a larger portrait of Texas itself, as it was and as it has become.Using an essay by the...

Sherriff Walt Longmire is back in another action-packed mystery following the events of Return to Sender.