1838 results for '"Simon, Denis Fred'

The globe's first true world war comes vividly to life in this "rich, cautionary tale" (The New York Times Book Review)The French and Indian War -the North American phase of a far larger...

William of Ockham, the most prestigious philosopher of the fourteenth century, was a late Scholastic thinker who is regarded as the founder of Nominalism -- the school of thought that denies that...

Field Work is the record of four years during which Seamus Heaney left the violence of Belfast to settle in a country cottage with his family in Glanmore, County Wicklow. Heeding "an early warning...

Does humour make us human, or do the cats and dogs laugh along with us? On Humour is a fascinating, beautifully written and funny book on what humour can tell us about being human. Simon Critchley...

"In American musical theater, Bordman has become as important a historian as Stephen Sondheim is a writer," according to Library Journal. The author of the monumental American Musical Theater: A...

Includes work by artists: Charles Alston, Benny Andrews, William Artis, Maria Auxiliadora da Silva, Kofi Bailey, Edward Mitchell Bannister, James Richmond Barthae, Romare Bearden, Dawoud Bey, John...

"Kind of Cl'Ude ~ but it UJorks~ boy~ it UJOrksl" Alan Ner. ueH to Herb Simon~ C1rl'istmas 1955 In 1954 a computer program produced what appears to be the first computer generated mathematical proof:...

This study traces Virgil's journey through twentieth-century France by examining his profile in the works of Gide, Aragon, Valery, Pagnol, Klossowski, Butor, Simon and Pinget, and by looking at how...

Atlantic is a biography of a tremendous space that has been central to the ambitions of explorers, scientists, and warriors, and continues profoundly to affect our character, attitudes, and dreams...

A group of Argive women has come to Eleusis to ask King Theseus and his city of Athens to bring about the burial of their sons who are being denied it by their Theban conquerors. Theseus is...

The 50th Anniversary Edition of Jacqueline Susann's All-Time Pop-Culture Classic The perfect gift for any Valley fan or your favorite Doll, featuring a new cover design * introduction by Simon Doonan...

This volume brings together twelve essays, eleven of which have been published in various books and periodicals over the past two decades. "The Opera of Stanislaw Moniuszko" is published here for the...

Taking us back to a time that is half history, half myth and wholly magical, bestselling author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni gives voice to Panchaali, the fire-born heroine of the Mahabharata, as she...

The first novel written by Booker finalist Tom McCarthy—acclaimed author of Remainder and C—Men in Space is set in a Central Europe rapidly fragmenting after the fall of communism. It follows an...

The bestselling, beloved classic on how to go into the dark side of yourself to bring out the light -- now with new material.Debbie Ford believes that we each hold within us a trace of every human...

Soon to be Apple feature movie, Being Heumann, directed by CODA’s Sian Heder and starring BAFTA-nominated actress Ruth Madeley as Judy HeumannAs featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary Crip Camp,...

Dr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963  On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the...

Clever puns and elaborately detailed, surreal artwork illuminate a collection of comically grim verses that can’t help but tickle the funny bone.Reader, if I had more timeI’d say au revoir in...

Basher Basics: Weather, Whipping up a storm! created and illustrated by Simon Basher, written by Dan Green:Welcome to the wild world of weather, Basher style! Meet Hurricane, a violent blusterer;...

“Precise and attentive. O’Riordan has the painter’s eye for detail and the pianist’s touch for sounding the right notes.”―Simon Armitage This startling debut from a young British poet traces the...