7917 results for '"Long, A A"'

“A painful truth of family life: the most tender emotions can change in an instant.  You think your parents love you but is it you they love, or the child who is theirs?”  --Joyce Carol Oates, My...

Perhaps the most famous modern-day millenarian movements are the "cargo cults" of Melanesia, active especially during the 1930s and 1950s. Melanesians had long believed that the sign of the...

A captivating history of London as told through objects recovered from the muddy banks of the Thames and the lives of the people who owned themMudlark’d combines insights from two hundred rare...

A sweeping account of the rise and evolution of liberal internationalism in the modern era, selected as a Best Book of 2021 by Foreign Affairs "A thoughtful and profound defence of liberal...

An intimate, philosophic quest for eternity, amidst the disenchantments and disappointments of our time "Anyone who, in our age of disbelief, longs to believe in God will find Mr. Kronman worth...

The first exploration of the artistic and cultural intersections of the African continent and the Byzantine worldMedieval art history has long emphasized the glories of the Byzantine Empire, but less...

How anti-fascism is as American as apple pieSince the birth of fascism in the 1920s, well before the global renaissance of “white nationalism,” the United States has been home to its own distinct...

Everyone has heard of Zola, but not many people have read him. This book is quite simply designed to get you to want to, by taking a look at what is on offer, with so much more to discover.Zola made...

In this highly anticipated second book in the Talents Trilogy, the world of the dead is closer than you think.Agrigento, Sicily, 1883. With the orsine destroyed, Cairndale lies in ruins, and Marlowe...

This brilliant new work by the author of the best-selling Five Days in London, May 1940 is an unparalleled drama of two great leaders confronting each other in June 1941. It describes Hitler and...

A wickedly funny, adrenaline-rush of a novel about a graduate student who murders bad men and justifies it in the name of feminism, by a bold new voice in fictionYrsa is in a funk. She’s bored of her...

"A funny space adventure that spoofs Star Wars while providing an easy-to-read story." —BooklistIt's been a long trip, and Commander Toad and the crew of the Star Warts are bored. They've played all...

Amos & Boris is a tender yet funny story of friendship by William Steig, the Caldecott and Newbery Medal-winning creator of Shrek!.Amos the mouse and Boris the whale: a devoted pair of friends with...

A magisterial history of resistance to the rising of the British empireAs the call for a new understanding of our national history grows louder, Britain’s Empire turns the received imperial story on...

The present volume contains Maimonides most significant ethical works, newly translated from the original sources by Profs. Raymond I., Weiss and Charles E. Butterworth, well-known Maimonides...

The Symbolic Forms has long been considered the greatest of Cassirer's works. Into it he poured all the resources of his vast learning about language and myth, religion, art, and science--the various...

Getting ready for sleep is tons of fun in this special anniversary edition of a Sandra Boynton classic.The sun has set not long ago. Now everybody goes belowto take a bath in one big tubwith soap all...

Gr. 4-7. What if Alice fell down an air vent in a New York City apartment building instead of down a rabbit hole? Collins considers a similar possibility in her exceptional debut novel, a...

This book presents the first comprehensive description of the lithic assemblages from Qafzeh Cave, one of only two Middle Paleolithic sites in the Levant that has yielded multiple burials of early...

Beautifully written--an evocative story of resilience, family love, and finding hope in a new beginning. A new pet helps a refugee family find a sense of safety and home in this charming novel,...