4382 results for '"Ian Jakes'

A Telegraph, Spectator, Prospect, and Times Best Book of the Year“This is a story not just about Pétain but about war and resistance, the moral compromises of leadership, and the meaning of France...

How economics needs to change to keep pace with the twenty-first century and the digital economy Digital technology, big data, big tech, machine learning, and AI are revolutionizing both the tools...

A pioneering exploration of the defining traits and contradictions of our relationship to the future through the lens of discountingForest fires, droughts, and rising sea levels beg a nagging...

Planet Auschwitz explores the diverse ways in which the Holocaust influences and shapes science fiction and horror film and television by focusing on notable contributions from the last fifty years...

“Fascinating….Bessel does an excellent job of evoking the blasted landscape of a conquered Germany.”—The New Yorker“A sober yet powerful account.”—New York Times Book ReviewAuthoritative and...

It's 1966, and twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has everything a girl could want: brains, tons of friends, and a bright future in Communist China. But it's also the year that China's leader, Mao Ze-dong,...

(Applause Books). Playwright Wendy Wasserstein is, above all, a social historian. Her plays balance drama and comedy to address such issues as social class and Jewish-American identity. Most notably,...

Named a Must-Read by TIME, Buzzfeed, The Wall Street Journal, Star Tribune, Fast Company, The Village Voice, Toronto Star, Fortune Magazine, InStyle, and O, The Oprah Magazine"A joy to read—I...

For all those interested in the relationship between ideas and the built environment, John Onians provides a lively illustrated account of the range of meanings that Western culture has assigned to...

For long stretches of Greek history in the classical period, Diodorus Siculus provides the only surviving continuous narrative of events. For this narrative he summarized, however incompetently, the...

Until now there has been no comprehensive Third World history. Over five years in preparation, Global Rift fills that gap. Stavrianos reached back to the true beginnings of the economic Third World...

An intimate and honest chronicle of the everyday life of Iranian women over the past century“A lesson about the value of personal freedom and what happens to a nation when its people are denied the...

'His passion was for glory only, and in that he was insatiable'Although written over four hundred years after Alexander’s death, Arrian’s Campaigns of Alexander is the most reliable account of the...

"Jesse Hagopian brought a rare moment of truth to the corporate-dominated Education Nation show when he spoke on behalf of his colleagues at Garfield High in Seattle. He instantly became the voice...