4808 results for '"Arena, Michael P.'

A modern classic, now in a welcome new edition, Wonder Boys firmly established Michael Chabon as a force to be reckoned with in American fiction. At once a deft parody of the American fame factory...

Michael Mann is one of the most influential sociologists writing today. His three-volume work The Sources of Social Power, the third volume of which has just been completed, has transformed our way...

"Dickman's book moves with careful intensity as it confidently illuminates buried, contemporary suffering."—Publishers Weekly"Elizabeth Bishop said that the three qualities she admired most in poetry...

Founded in the early nineteenth century by F. D. E. Schleiermacher, modern hermeneutics was designed as a means for interpreting texts in a way that emphasized the historical context of the...

Rationalism in Politics established the late Michael Oakeshott as the leading conservative political theorist in modern Britain. This expanded collection of essays astutely points out the limits of...

Dangerous is Michael Jackson's coming of age album. Granted, that's a bold claim to make given that many think his best work lay behind him by the time this record was made. It offers Jackson on a...

This full-scale biography of Thomas Hardy presents not only the richest, most comprehensive account of his life available, but also the most balanced and sympathetic view of Hardy as a man and as an...

To the Center of the Earth is the first collection of Michael Fried's poems to appear in the United States. It includes a selection of poems from an earlier volume, Powers, published in England in...

An analysis of the mythologies that influence the American legal system“Mythologies,” writes veteran human rights lawyer Michael Tigar, “are structures of words and images that portray people,...

Michael Tucker and his wife, Jill Eikenberry, are enjoying the early years of retirement in their dream house, a beautiful 350-year-old stone farmhouse in the central Italian province of Umbria, when...

“Pollan shines a light on our own nature as well as on our implication in the natural world.” —The New York Times“A wry, informed pastoral.” —The New YorkerThe book that helped make Michael...

From bestselling author Michael Morpurgo comes a beautifully illustrated classic story for ages 9 to 12 about a lighthouse keeper, a daring rescue and puffins, for fans of War Horse and The One and...

"Engrossing... [Hiltzik is] an able narrator, with an eye for telling detail."--New York Times Book Review From Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Hiltzik, the epic tale of the clash for supremacy between...

Ten sheets of wrapping paper featuring patterns inspired by the inner workings of bicycles. This set also includes twelve tear-out gift tagsInspired by avid bicycle collector and designer Michael...

Nearly two decades after ending his groundbreaking Tales of the City saga of San Francisco life, Armistead Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero Michael Tolliver—the fifty-five-year-old...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Timeline, Sphere, and Congo, this is the classic thriller of science run amok that took the world by storm.Nominated as one of America’s best-loved...

Karl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) is considered by many to have been one of the greatest writers on war. Here Michael Howard examines Clausewitz's only major work, On War, relates his ideas to his...

In The Distance of a Shout, Michael Ondaatje has assembled some of his finest poems into a singular poetic memoir that invokes the arc of his own journey over fifty years.Through poems that grow out...

All authors try to do something new, or tell an old story in a new way; but for Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper, who wrote as Michael Field and called themselves ‘Poets and Lovers’, rewriting old...