3610 results for '"Wilkinson, Jeffrey S.'

A novel theory of how technological revolutions affect the rise and fall of great powersWhen scholars and policymakers consider how technological advances affect the rise and fall of great powers,...

An awe-inspiring investigation into the hidden world of the deep sea—the most mysterious, unforgiving place on Earth whose secrets can radically revise our understanding of life itself and chart our...

Jeffrey Perl presents in this book a comprehensive reassessment of modernism and an effort to enrich our understanding of the direction literary culture has taken since the Renaissance. Originally...

For more than thirty years, On Being a Therapist has inspired generations of mental health professionals (and their clients) to explore the most private, confusing, and sacred aspects of helping...

An extraordinary lyric and visual meditation on place, nature, and art rippling out from Marfa, TexasSituated in the outreaches of southwest Texas, the town of Marfa has long been an oasis for...

For Jeffrey Masten, the history of sexuality and the history of language are intimately related. In Queer Philologies, he studies particular terms that illuminate the history of sexuality in...

New York is fascinating, Paris is fascinating, and Paris-on-the-Hudson, while it lasted, was twice as fascinatingConsider the oddly juxtaposed eminence of those in attendance: Wartime New York was...

This study proposes and assesses an alternative explanation of the changes in the relationship between presidential and House of Representatives election results during the last century. Jeffrey M...

A prismatic look at the meeting of Marie Curie and Albert Einstein and the impact these two pillars of science had on the world of physics, which was in turmoil. In 1911, some of the greatest minds...

“A splendid narrative about political power and mercy.” —David Grann, #1 bestselling author of The Wager The power of the presidential pardon has our national attention now more than ever before...

The first collection of short fiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Virgin Suicides, Middlesex and The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides's bestselling novels have shown that he is an...

Fully illustrated hard-cover catalogue featuring a conversation on Rauschenberg between curator and critic Jeffrey Weiss and artist Kevin Beasley, with an introduction by Christopher Rauschenberg...

The first part of a sweeping two-volume history of the devastation brought to bear on Indian nations by U.S. expansion“An elegant, organized narrative of the United States’ dispossession of Native...

From the two-time winner of the Canadian Jewish Book Award, the first full depiction of the wave of anti-Jewish pogroms that followed the Russian Revolution and how they laid the groundwork for the...

A novel theory of how technological revolutions affect the rise and fall of great powersWhen scholars and policymakers consider how technological advances affect the rise and fall of great powers,...

A lively new translation of Plutarch’s charming and timeless essay on how to be a good listener—and why listening is essential to learning and living wellListening is a skill—even an art—and it’s...

Jeffrey Stout argues that modern thought was born in a crisis of authority, took shape in flight from authority, and aspired to autonomy from all traditional influence. The quest for autonomy was an...

The right of governments to employ capital controls has always been the official orthodoxy of the International Monetary Fund, and the organization's formal rules providing this right have not...

Do religious arguments have a public role in the post-9/11 world? Can we hold democracy together despite fractures over moral issues? Are there moral limits on the struggle against terror? Asking how...

The quest for extraterrestrial life doesn't happen only in science fiction. This book describes the startling discoveries being made in the very real science of astrobiology, an intriguing new field...