5738 results for '"Thomas, Christopher R.'

"John E. Woods is revising our impression of Thomas Mann, masterpiece by masterpiece."  —The New Yorker"Doctor Faustus is Mann's deepest artistic gesture. . . . Finely translated by John E. Woods."...

Shortlisted for the 2014 Edgar Award and Barry Award for Best Novel Thomas H. Cook is peerless in finding the humanity behind crime. In one of his greatest novels yet, a man explores unspools the...

Placing Eakins's photographic works in the context of the transitional era when photography evolved from commerce to art, an exploration of his photographs reveals that he broke new ground in...

The origins, controversial uses, and competing interpretations of Jefferson's famous remark—"wall of separation between church and state"No phrase in American letters has had a more profound...

Political strategies for tackling climate change and other “long problems” that span generations Climate change and its consequences unfold over many generations. Past emissions affect our climate...

In 1973 the ninety-third Congress passed a new statute, the War Powers Resolution, which was enacted "to fulfill the intent of the framers of the Constitution of the United States and to insure that...

The life, times, and music of Franz SchubertDuring his short lifetime, Franz Schubert (1797–1828) contributed to a wide variety of musical genres, from intimate songs and dances to ambitious chamber...

This is the second volume of Thomas Cripps's definitive history of African-Americans in Hollywood. It covers the period from World War II through the civil rights movement of the 1960s, examining...

As the site of royal coronations, Reims cathedral was a monument to French national history and identity. But after German troops bombed the cathedral during World War I, it took on new meaning. The...

Pamela Thomas-Graham's beguiling and atmospheric Ivy League novels simmer with hot button issues -- and unveil layers of malice and murder inside the life academic. Harvard economics professor Nikki...

Gianni Vattimo (1936-2023) was among the most significant Italian philosophers of the last fifty years. A controversial figure both at home and abroad, he sometimes described himself paradoxically as...

An unsparing, "sweeping," and "vivid" (Drew Gilpin Faust, author of This Republic of Suffering) new history of World War II, recasting the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining...

Although today in France church attendance is minimal, when death occurs many families still cling to religious rites. In exploring this common reaction to one of the most painful aspects of...

“Immersive . . . bracingly ambitious . . . rewinds the story of life on Earth—from the mammoth steppe of the last Ice Age to the dawn of multicellular creatures over 500 million years ago.”—The...

This is a book about the making and unmaking of sex over the centuries. It tells the astonishing story of sex in the West from the ancients to the moderns in a precise account of developments in...

The Civil Rights Movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively...

Winner, 2024 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize“A fascinating search for personal and cultural identity.” —KirkusThomas C. Gannon’s Birding While Indian spans more than fifty years of...