591 results for '"Whitman, Walt'

Unusual book

In a lucid, brilliant work of nonfiction, Larry McMurtry has written a family portrait that also serves as a larger portrait of Texas itself, as it was and as it has become.Using an essay by the...

In this theological biography of the most prolific Old Testament student of the twenty-first century, Conrad Kanagy portrays Walter Brueggemann within the historical and cultural landscape of his...

Enter the fascinating world of reclusive nature-lover Walter Anderson — perhaps the most famous American artist you’ve never heard of. Residents along the Mississippi Gulf Coast thought Walter...

Sherriff Walt Longmire is back in another action-packed mystery following the events of Return to Sender.

From its shocking curtain-raiser—the conflagration that consumed Lower Manhattan in 1835—to the climactic centennial year of 1876, when Americans staged a corrupt, deadlocked presidential campaign...

In 1913, outraged by Henri Matisse's painterly violations of the female body, students of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago found him guilty of "artistic murder" and "rapine" and proceeded...

Traces the history and development of the treatment of scenes of artists at work and incidents from the lives of famous artists in paintings from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century

Les thèses Sur le concept d’histoire de 1940 sont le dernier écrit de Walter Benjamin et constituent peut-être le document le plus significatif dans la pensée critique du XXe siècle. Texte allusif,...

Text: French

Book by Edward Walter Hamilton Dudley W R Bahlman

Sir Walter Raleigh, an English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer. He is also well known for popularizing tobacco in England. This is an account of his expeditions, his...

Text: German

Eine transnationale Diskursgeschichte des völkerstrafrechtlichen Umgangs mit staatlich organisierter Gewalt im 20. Jahrhundert. Mit dem Aufkommen des modernen Kriegsvölkerrechts im letzten Drittel...