5809 results for '"Thomas, Christopher R.'

This New York Times bestseller with a brand-new cover, is the hilarious, insightful philosophy course everyone wishes they'd had in school"[Cathcart and Klein] know their stuff and wear their...

A rewritten and re-organised edition of The Physiological Ecology of Seaweeds (1985). Seaweed Ecology and Physiology surveys the broad literature, but it is not merely an update of the earlier book...

This volume examines the usefulness of neo-liberal theory and prescription for tackling problems in such areas as agriculture, industry, education, and health, as well as its effectiveness in dealing...

Around the world, more than a million people die by suicide each year. Yet many of us know very little about a tragedy that may strike our own loved onesÑand much of what we think we know is wrong...

An original and insightful new history of Pop Art from one of the most important art historians of our timeThomas Crow’s paradigm-changing book challenges existing narratives about the rise of Pop...

Thoroughly revised and expanded for a new generation of readers, this classic guide to enjoying literature to its fullest--a lively, enlightening, and entertaining introduction to a diverse range...

Xenophon s personal history was exceptional for its combination of Socratic education and the exercise of military leadership in a time of crisis. His writings provide an intellectually and morally...

A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as everIn the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire...

Volume III of the Cambridge History of Law in America covers the period from 1920 to the present, 'the American Century'. It charts a century of legal transformations - in the state, in legal thought...

The Swiss writer Robert Walser is one of the quiet geniuses of twentieth-century literature. Largely self-taught and altogether indifferent to worldly success, Walser wrote a range of short stories,...

Dean Rusk compared his position as secretary of state in the 1960s to a soldier in a foxhole, defending America against the communist alliance. Author Thomas W. Zeiler writes that the foxhole really...

Professor Thomas relates security policy to the country's economy and technological capacity, discusses the capabilities of each of the armed services, and considers the issue of arms importation vs...

100 Years of Collecting in The Story of Sotherby Parke Bernet. By Thomas E. Norton. " Great fortunes were amased in newly industrialized America in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. With...

Thomas Hardy abandoned the novel form at the turn of the century, probably after public reaction to Jude the Obscure, but continued to write verse displaying a wide variety of metrical styles and...

Haunting and darkly humorous poems by the internationally acclaimed Austrian novelist, playwright, and memoirist Thomas Bernhard (1931–1989) has been compared to Kafka and Beckett, and critics have...

These newly translated stories chart the making of a literary provocateur, one experiment and ethical dilemma at a time. Before Thomas Bernhard became one of the most provocative voices in modern...