3168 results for '"Zimring, Franklin E.'

From xenophobic appropriations of Joan of Arc to Afro-futurism and cyberpunk, the "national" characters of the colonial era often seem to be dissolving into postnational and virtual subjects. In...

The legend of Jean-Michel Basquiat is as strong as ever. Synonymous with 1980s New York, the artist first appeared in the late 1970s under the tag SAMO, spraying caustic comments and fragmented poems...

Igor Stravinsky declared that mathematics is "as useful to [the musician] as the learning of another language is to a poet." In this elegant exploration, Edward Rothstein, the cultural critic for The...

Inner Space/Outer Space brings together much of the exciting work contributing to a new synthesis of modern physics. Particle physicists, concerned with the "inner space" of the atom, are making...

Edward W. Said locates Joseph Conrad's fear of personal disintegration in his constant re-narration of the past. Using the author's personal letters as a guide to understanding his fiction, Said...

The controversial Flemish theologian looks at the historical Jesus and how early Christianity developed

Caps for Sale is a timeless classic, in print for over fifty years, and beloved by generations of readers. This easy-to-read story about a peddler and a band of mischievous monkeys is filled with...

The book that revealed Iran to the West, now with a new Afterword. Elaine Sciolino updates Persian Mirrors to include coverage of the 2005 presidential election in Iran. As a correspondent for...

A "beautifully written" dark fable from a doll's point of view--by the New York Times-bestselling author of The Lost Daughter and the Neapolitan Novels (The Washington Post). One of NPR's Best Books...

Elisabetta Cattanei ; Prefazioni Di Imre Toth E Thomas A. Szlezák. Includes Bibliographical References. (p. [417]-430) And Index.

C. P. E. Bach Studies collects together nine wide-ranging essays by leading scholars of eighteenth-century music. Offering fresh perspectives on one of the towering figures of the period, the authors...

This is a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of mental retardation caused by genes on the X chromosome. Clinical and laboratory data on 130 syndromes are presented in a concise and consistent manner...

Questo volume si inserisce nel panorama di un vivace, recente interesse per l'opera di Alessandro di Afrodisia, autore assai significativo nella storia del pensiero filosofico, e tuttavia...

Matthew Townes, aspiring obstetrician, has hit the glass ceiling. Unable to continue his medical studies in New York City, the young man becomes disillusioned with the reality of racism within the...

Destino e compito, finalmente presentato con un'attenta traduzione al pubblico italiano da Elena Sciarra, fu scritto da Thomas Mann durante il suo esilio americano, e più precisamente nell'estate del...

Conventional wisdom holds that Christians, as members of a “universal” religion, all believe more or less the same things when it comes to their faith. Yet black and white Christians differ in...