4830 results for '"Gerdts, William H.'

'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...

The angry emotions, and the problems they presented, were an ancient Greek preoccupation from Homer to late antiquity. From the first lines of the Iliad to the church fathers of the fourth century A...

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...

Providing a concise, up-to-date presentation of current knowledge of climate change and its implications for society as a whole, this new edition has been thoroughly updated and extended to include...

This lively, intimate, sometimes disrespectful, but always knowledgeable history of the Bollingen Foundation confirms its pervasive influence on American intellectual life. Conceived by Paul and Mary...

Books on books. Reprint edition. Green cloth covers very nice, lightly rubbed. Interior clean and tight.

The evolution of the peoples of Hawaii to a complex multi-racial society has taken place with remarkably little conflict. Professor Lind shows how the islands, over a period of nearly two centuries,...

A penetrating examination, based on recently released archival material and private papers, of wartime colonial controversies.