3236 results for '"Williams, Terry Tempest'

Una cuidada edición bilingüe de la tragedia más célebre de la literatura. Introducción de Adrian Poole, catedrático del Trinity College de Cambridge Edición de Josep María Jaumà, catedrático de la...

A rediscovered classic of Black American literature first published in 1950, about an unlikely friendship in a West Virginia townAfter several years of silence and seclusion in Beetlecreek's black...

This book provides a new rationale for “religious criticism” in American society. First, Dean shows why today’s academic intellectuals are relatively indifferent to questions of meaning in America,...

Part One of this book shows how bureaucracy sustained the Habsburg Empire while inciting economists, legal theorists, and socialists to urge reform. Part Two examines how Vienna's coffeehouses,...

Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of Richard II, chronologically the first of the eight plays in Shakespeare’s History Cycle, which marks the...

Nature is a topic in many Indian and Tibetan philosophical texts, although its meaning varies considerably in both Hindu and Buddhist scriptures. The discussion of nature pursued in this book begins...

A critical survey of Romantic art, assessing and illustrating the achievement of the great artists, from Blake to Goya, and defining the positions of lesser-known painters, sculptors, and architects

"Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish that hasn't changed in a thousand years. For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard is a...

"For most people the phrase 'Shakespeare's Sonnets' refers to the 154 poems published in 1609 under the title Shakespeare's Sonnets: Never before Imprinted. These have since appeared in numerous...

This comparative study of contemporary artists William Kentridge (born 1955) and Nalini Malani (born 1946) focuses on their use of the shadow play as a medium of memory. Independently of each other,...

Renowned as a great scholar, teacher, and legal historian, Frederic William Maitland (1850-1906) advanced the cause of legal history, opposing the idea that legal history was law and not history, yet...

Why and how American colleges and universities need to change in order to meet the nation's pressing needs American higher education faces some serious problems--but they are not the ones most...

The classic Pulitzer Prize-winning study of the Atlantic blue crab and the people of the Chesapeake Bay who have depended on it for generations.For decades, William Warner's exploration of the...

William Makepeace Thackeray's classic tale of class, society, and corruption, soon to be an Amazon mini-series starring Olivia CookeNo one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly...

World Out of Balance is the most comprehensive analysis to date of the constraints on the United States' use of power in pursuit of its security interests. Stephen Brooks and William Wohlforth...

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

For fans of Master Slave Husband Wife and Django Unchained comes the extraordinary forgotten story of an event known in its day as "the first shots of the Civil War," from the New York Times...