5903 results for '"Rogers, Robert L.'

The collected essays of the cofounder of the New Narrative movement, on theory, identity, poetry, and muses from Kathy Acker to Georges Bataille.I read and wrote to invoke what seemed...

Hailed as the great nature writer of this generation (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In...

Robert Olen Butler, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, teaches graduate fiction at Florida State University -- his version of literary boot camp. In From Where You Dream, Butler reimagines the...

Jean Hollander, an accomplished poet, and Robert Hollander, a renowned scholar and master teacher, whose joint translation of the Inferno was acclaimed as a new standard in English, bring their...

Ce troisime tome de Midi rouge, qui fait suite aux deux prcdents consacrs aux annes 1930 et la prise en main du dpartement par Vichy en 1940-1942, offre un tableau densemble de Marseille et des...

Wall Street Journal ― "What to Read: 10 Best Books of February" Blending biography and archival history, After the Flood asks of Bob Dylan, “If your dreams are fulfilled at twenty, what do you do...

The Pragmatism Reader is the essential anthology of this important philosophical movement. Each selection featured here is a key writing by a leading pragmatist thinker, and represents a...

Most international relations specialists since World War II have assumed that morality plays only the most peripheral role in the making of substantive foreign policy decisions. Robert McElroy shows...

The often-forgotten global story of how the Confederacy lost its bid for sovereign nationhood In 1861, proslavery secessionists severed ties with the United States, launched the Confederacy, and...

The first monograph on English medieval county courts, this book provides a major revision of traditional conceptions of the character of these courts and the organization of English society from the...

Why the irrational exuberance of investors hasn't disappeared since the financial crisisIn this revised, updated, and expanded edition of his New York Times bestseller, Nobel Prize–winning economist...

They shot them down like rabbits . . .September 30, 1919. The United States teetered on the edge of a racial civil war. During the previous three months, racial fighting had erupted in twenty-five...

A New York Times Bestseller From the best-selling authors of The Lost Words, a dazzling celebration of endangered birds. The Book of Birds is a field guide with a difference: It shows readers not...

Nobel Prize-winning economist explains why we need to reclaim finance for the common goodThe reputation of the financial industry could hardly be worse than it is today in the painful aftermath of...

Uncovers the ways the United States government responds to natural and human-induced disasters in relation to race over the past eight decadesWhen the images of desperate, hungry, thirsty, sick,...

It is difficult to think of two twentieth century books by one author that have had as much influence on American culture when they were published as Alex Haley's monumental bestsellers, The...

Although we seldom think of it, our lives are played out in a world of numbers. Such common activities as throwing baseballs, skipping rope, growing flowers, playing football, measuring savings...

The definitive single-volume compendium of all things PrincetonThe New Princeton Companion is the ultimate reference book on Princeton University’s history and traditions, personalities and key...

Anyone who has sat on a jury or followed a high-profile trial on television usually comes to the realization that a trial, particularly a criminal trial, is really a performance. Verdicts seem...

America has a long tradition of middle-class radicalism, albeit one that intellectual orthodoxy has tended to obscure. The Radical Middle Class seeks to uncover the democratic, populist, and even...