2941 results for '"Dunbar, William'

A powerful history of New York’s transformation from a city of middle-class aspiration to one of entrenched inequality. Postwar New York City famously expired in a 1970s tableau of burning Bronx...

Probability, Markov Chains, Queues, and Simulation provides a modern and authoritative treatment of the mathematical processes that underlie performance modeling. The detailed explanations of...

“I’m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can’t and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing that, only then does he...

This intriguing full-length portrait of Klaus Fuchs & his case, based in part on newly available American & British archives on the subject, is an exciting find for general readers in the history of...

Providing a concise, up-to-date presentation of current knowledge of climate change and its implications for society as a whole, this new edition has been thoroughly updated and extended to include...

This lively, intimate, sometimes disrespectful, but always knowledgeable history of the Bollingen Foundation confirms its pervasive influence on American intellectual life. Conceived by Paul and Mary...

Books on books. Reprint edition. Green cloth covers very nice, lightly rubbed. Interior clean and tight.

The Beaux Stratagem (1707) By G. Farquhar.--theconscious Lovers (1722) By R. Steele.--the Beggar's Opera (1728) By J. Gay.--the Tragedy Of Tragedies (1731) By H. Fielding.--the Stoops To Conquer By O...

The evolution of the peoples of Hawaii to a complex multi-racial society has taken place with remarkably little conflict. Professor Lind shows how the islands, over a period of nearly two centuries,...

A penetrating examination, based on recently released archival material and private papers, of wartime colonial controversies.

Describes the causes and symptoms of lung cancer, explains how it is diagnosed and treated, and explains the advantages and disadvantages of each treatment

William Randolph Hearst was a figure of Shakespearean proportions, a man of huge ambition, inflexible will, and inexhaustible energy. He revolutionized the newspaper industry in America, becoming the...

A scholarly work on the eighteenth century German philosopher Kant.

Here is a systematic critique of the theological and philosophical views of the major Jewish thinkers of the 20th century. The pattern of the book is one of challenge and response, with the purpose...