1448 results for '"Brown, Phillip'

How chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the world’s first genuinely global orderFrom Spanish conquistadors to British colonialists, the prevailing story of...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the celebrated author of Disappearing Earth comes a tale of family, obsession, and a mysterious creature in the woods—“a mesmerizing story about hope, sisterhood, and...

The book is a discriminating survey of over twenty years of the artist's oeuvre, including some of his very latest pieces. Included are pages from his past books - 'Dante's Inferno' and 'A Humument'...

***LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION***Named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time“An extraordinary and dazzlingly original work from one of our most...

In a little-known chapter of World War II, Black people living in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe were subjected to ostracization, forced sterilization, and incarceration in internment and...

The Sense of Brown is José Esteban Muñoz's treatise on brownness and being as well as his most direct address to queer Latinx studies. In this book, which he was completing at the time of his death,...

An in-depth look at the global movement to curtail LGBTI rights―and how the LGBTI movement responds to itIn the past three decades, remarkable progress has been made in numerous countries for the...

The "New Wave" style of American film of the 1960s and 70s--characterized by exciting, narrative innovation and sometimes adventurous reworkings of older film genres, as well as images of solitude...

In this dazzling memoir, Richard Rodriguez reflects on the color brown and the meaning of Hispanics to the life of America today. Rodriguez argues that America has been brown since its...

PULITZER PRIZE FINALISTAn epic, riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster―and an anatomy of the austerity politics that continue to shape the world todayWhen the news broke in 1975...

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, People, Los Angeles Times, NPR, and more “An inventive ode to self-determination and also a surrealistic vision of Black life as forged within the...

A moving cultural biography of abolitionist martyr John Brown, by one of the most important African-American intellectuals of the twentieth century. In the history of slavery and its legacy, John...

Celebrate the anniversary of this beloved children's book, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?A big happy frog, a plump purple cat, a handsome blue horse, and a soft yellow duck-- all parade...

The author of the critically acclaimed Elvis Presley biography Last Train to Memphis brings us the life of Sam Phillips, the visionary genius who singlehandedly steered the revolutionary path of Sun...

On October 9, 1813, in the small town of Roncole, Italy, a baby by the name of Giuseppe Verdi was born. Little did his parents know that this child, born in the auspicious week of the Feast of San...

Paul De Serville. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 238-245.

Examines how the media influenced ideas of race and beauty among African American women from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II.Between the Harlem Renaissance and the end of World War II, a...

How do designers get ideas? Many spend their time searching for clever combinations of forms, fonts, and colors inside thedesign annuals and monographs of other designers' work. For those looking to...