4705 results for '"Williams, Rhys H.'

Hardcover without dust jacket from the private library of Tony Honore and bearing his bookplate to front paste down and signature to FEP. Marks to page block and sunning to spine, no other notable...

Covers all aspects of twentieth-century technology, including developments which are essentially products of this century -- such as aeronautics and computers -- as well as those that have roots in...

In the best tradition of historical writing, this fascinating study concentrates on the distinguishing characteristics of the Russian and Chinese experiences of revolution during the same time period...

'Facades' brings together 128 of the best architectural settings and fashions from a 200-year period. Within the confines of Manhattan were found Egyptian temples and Russian cathedrals. Beaux-Arts...

A study of the English parliamentarian and statesman who vigorously supported constitutional limitations of Stuart absolutism. Using unprinted diaries of the 1620s, the author shows the evolutionary...

A powerful history of New York’s transformation from a city of middle-class aspiration to one of entrenched inequality. Postwar New York City famously expired in a 1970s tableau of burning Bronx...

Junk is not, like alcohol or a weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life. In his debut novel, Junky, Burroughs fictionalized his experiences using and...

Probability, Markov Chains, Queues, and Simulation provides a modern and authoritative treatment of the mathematical processes that underlie performance modeling. The detailed explanations of...

A penetrating account of how, over many decades, conservative backlash to the administrative state led to the rise of a strongman presidency that threatens American democracyIn Trajectory of Power,...

1961, three years after meeting Jeanne-Claude in Paris, Christo made a study of a mammoth project that would wrap one of the city’s most emblematic monuments. 60 years, 25,000 square meters of...

A novel that chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more different: Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions, her native wit, and her loose morals; and her...

This intriguing full-length portrait of Klaus Fuchs & his case, based in part on newly available American & British archives on the subject, is an exciting find for general readers in the history of...