3947 results for '"David Clark'

How have the Jews survived? For millennia, they have defied odds by overcoming the travails of exile, persecution, and recurring plans for their annihilation. Many have attempted to explain this...

How the unique sleep habits of early humans fostered survival, innovation, and social evolution—and how this evolutionary legacy holds insights into how we sleep todayDespite sleep’s critical role in...

For decades they have roamed the seas, this shipload of undead pirates. They are desperate to die, but every time they try to dash their ship to splinters and end their miserable existence, a...

The fifth and final volume of a celebrated translation of the classic Chinese novelThis is the fifth and final volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the most famous and important...

How the specter of climate has been used to explain history since antiquityScientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest...

The Victor's Crown brings to vivid life the signal role of sport in the classical world. Ranging over a dozen centuries--from Archaic Greece through to the late Roman and early Byzantine...

Why does agency -- the capacity to make choices and to act in the world -- matter to us? Why is it meaningful that our intentions have effects in the world, that they reflect our sense of identity,...

“Very funny and unexpected, a material response to our times, plush as velvet.” –Rachel Cusk“A wickedly funny and emotionally expansive novel about all the bewildering ways we seek solace from the...

How Shakespeare’s exploration of central human questions—about identity, politics, religion and right and wrong—explains his lasting power, popularity and relevance In the eighteenth century, Samuel...

Dynamic and accessible, this graphic novel explores the complex and multifaceted career of one of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries' most influential and iconoclastic artists. David Hockney's...

This illustrated edition of Walden features 66 photographs by Herbert W. Gleason, one of the great American landscape photographers of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Gleason, who had a...

An exquisite exploration of the power of flowers, placing them at the center of the story of how evolution created the world we know todayWe live on a floral planet, yet flowers don’t get the credit...

"An examination of an important yet understudied aspect of Italian Renaissance paintings, their lush and detailed backgrounds and surfaces" ; "The Italian Renaissance picture is renowned for its...

Geography and Enlightenment explores both the Enlightenment as a geographical phenomenon and the place of geography in the Enlightenment. From wide-ranging disciplinary and topical perspectives,...

Has contemporary liberalism's devotion to individual liberty come at the expense of our society's obligations to children? Divorce is now easy to obtain, and access to everything from violent movies...

A groundbreaking historical study based on documents previously locked in the Vatican’s secret archives: The Popes Against the Jews graphically shows how the Catholic Church helped make the Holocaust...

The first few decades of the eighteenth century witnessed an important moment in Jewish-Christian relations, as influential Christian scholars increasingly looked to Jewish texts to reveal the truths...

In this new study, author David Paxman demonstrates that ordinary spatial concepts, together with the changing sense of the earth's space brought about by exploration, navigation, and mapping exerted...

From the bestselling team behind classics like The Leader in Me comes a supremely practical and inspiring guide to making a profound difference in students’ positive well-being and reigniting...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA revelatory biography of literary icon Henry Adams—one of America’s most prominent writers and intellectuals of his era, who witnessed and contributed...