5061 results for '"Robert Wall'

The critical story of thirteen empires, showing their key role in the foundation of today’s global civilization. For over five hundred years, empires have been a feature of the political landscape,...

This useful text provides a comprehensive introductory overview of the study of victims and victimization. Victimization is here considered as a reflection of American society. Taking a broad...

First published in 1936, this now-classic volume spans a time of rapid and far-reaching change in England--from Gladstone's first ministry, through the great contest with Disraeli, the Home Rule...

This book provides an important rereading of dramatic language in the comedies of Etherege, Wycherley, and Congreve. Demonstrating that comic wit of the late 1600s was a potent means by which to...

Sitôt la Libération advenue, la Résistance est entrée dans un processus de mythification, valorisant les figures emblématiques au détriment des acteurs anonymes et popularisant la vision d'un France...

An incisive survey of the American prison establishment by an eminent environmental psychologist, with many controversial suggestions for reform.

475pp. DJ: Very Good w/ price clipped, some small chips around spine edges & corners, faint tanning. The Book: Very Good+++ w/ two price sticker traces on front paste-down.

A superbly engaging guide to music around the world, from prehistory to the present Music excites and moves us perhaps more than any other art form. From a Neanderthal's bone flute to the...

A design monograph series on the most remarkable architects, designers, brands and design movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, each book contains a historical-critical essay...

George Liska's study of foreign aid is erudite, insightful, and provocative. It is surely one of the very few really important books on this subject....

In 1939-45 the British government, through the Ministry of Information, disseminated propaganda among European neutrals, in order to enhance the allied cause in the Second World War. The neutrals'...

In England in the 17th century - the Puritan upheaval of the 1640s and 1650s and the Glorious Revolution of 1688. These crises did much to shape the empire and the colonies, often by provoking...

This classic study presents the history of the Byzantine Empire from the sixth to the fifteenth century in terms of political events, art, literature, and thought. It is addressed to the general...