3915 results for '"Barkow, Anthony S.'

A debut novel that tells the story of Rasa, a young gay man coming of age in the Middle East  Set over the course of twenty-four hours, Guapa follows Rasa, a gay man living in an unnamed Arab...

In 1995, Stanley Kunitz received the National Book Award in Poetry. the award reads in part: "In his genius, great clarity is joined to great generosity. His work shines with humanity, humor,...

"A first-rate piece of work and a fine read." -- Alan Taylor, University of California, Davis"This excellent history of early Kentucky resonates with the most important questions in the history of...

When a Zen master puts brush to paper, the resulting image is an expression of the quality of his or her mind. It is thus a teaching, intended to compassionately stop us in our tracks and to compel...

Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibne. Its here, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a...

Vuela lejos con Abuelita y cuenta con ella del uno al diez mientras ella da vueltas alrededor del mundo en un inolvidable viaje de compras.

With a noisy giant crashing around the kingdom, the Princess in Black uses the Sparkle Signal to call ALL her heroic friends together - for the biggest adventure yet.The Princess in Black is ready...

The 1990s saw a shock wave of dynamic new directing talent that took the Hollywood studio system by storm. At the forefront of that movement were six innovative and daring directors whose films...

A captivating fantasy novel for readers of all ages, by the author of Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses“This is, simply put, a book for anyone who loves a good story. It’s also a work of...

In this volume of critical essays, Seamus Heaney scrutinizes the poetry of many masterful poets. Throughout the collection, Heaney's gifts as a wise and genial reader are exercised with...

In this New York Times bestseller, award-winning author Simon Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology--a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI's...

“[Sigrid Undset] should be the next Elena Ferrante.” —SlateA Penguin ClassicKristin Lavransdatter interweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of family life to create...

Elogiado por la crítica, admirado por lectores de todas las edades, en escuelas y universidades de todo el país y traducido a una multitud de idiomas, llega una nueva traducción al español de un...

In a startling reinterpretation of the evidence, Stillman Drake advances the hypothesis that Galileo's trial and condemnation by the Inquisition was caused not by his defiance of the Church, but by...

A great deal of the world's history is the history of empires. Indeed it could be said that all history is colonial history, if one takes a broad enough definition and goes far enough back. And...

The author's "third collection of criticism, comprising seven essays. The collection was originally published in 1980. All of the essays were originally published, in a different or abridged form, in...

COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATEDFrom one of the world's preeminent experts on reading and dyslexia, the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and practical book available on identifying, understanding, and...

In the late 1980s, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester set out on foot to discover the Republic of Korea -- from its southern tip to the North Korean border -- in order to set the...