4023 results for '"George B. Vold'

From interplanetary escapes to snowman invasions, Weirdos from Another Planet! is packed with laugh-out-loud comics and signature Calvin and Hobbes chaos--perfect for fans of wild imagination and...

Don't miss Selznick's other novels in words and pictures, The Invention of Hugo Cabret and The Marvels, which together with Wonderstruck, form an extraordinary thematic trilogy!In this groundbreaking...

“The finest introduction to Barbara Pym” (The New York Times): a hilarious comedy of manners by the shrewdly observant British novelist often compared to Jane Austen One of Barbara Pym’s richest and...

A fresh, concise, but wide-ranging introduction and overview to British and Irish cinema, this volume contains 24 essays, each on a separate seminal film from the region. Films ranging from 1928 to...

Today we know what no previous generation knew: the history of the universe and of the unfolding of life on Earth. Through the astonishing combined achievements of natural scientists worldwide, we...

"Nothing in our time makes the Civil War as alive as the writings of Bruce Catton." --Baltimore Sun Infinitely readable and absorbing, Pulitzer Prize-winner Bruce Catton's The Civil War is one of...

From NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Blue Balliett, the story of a girl who falls into Chicago's shelter system, and from there must solve the mystery of her father's strange disappearance.Where is...

Emergencies:--when to call your child's physician immediately-what to do in case of burns, bites, stings, poisoning, choking, and injuriesCommon Illnesses:-when it's safe to treat your child at...

This is the first book to deal exclusively with Russian cinema of the 1990s. It introduces readers to the currents and common interests of contemporary Russian cinema, offers close studies of the...

A comprehensive political and design theory of planetary-scale computation proposing that The Stack—an accidental megastructure—is both a technological apparatus and a model for a new geopolitical...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' PICK“Thrilling . . . [told] with gonzo élan . . . When the sommelier and blogger Madeline Puckette writes that this book is the Kitchen...

In Public Enemies, bestselling author Bryan Burrough strips away the thick layer of myths put out by J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI to tell the full story—for the first time—of the most spectacular crime wave...

In Did Jesus Exist? historian and Bible expert Bart Ehrman confronts the question, "Did Jesus exist at all?" Ehrman vigorously defends the historical Jesus, identifies the most historically reliable...

Shortly before his death in 1977, German painter Blinky Palermo created his most significant cycle of paintings, dedicating it "to the people of nyc." The work consists of 15 parts, composed from 40...

This is an unrivaled reference work designed to allow the student of New Testament Greek to gain the greatest increase in vocabulary with the least expense of time. It includes every word in the...

A critical study of the interpretive problems surrounding readings of one of Wordsworth’s best-known lyrics.Wordsworth’s “Slumber” and the Problematics of Reading engages in detail both the nature...

WINNER of the 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardAuthor of the New York Times 2023 “Notable Book” CrossingsWashington Post “50 Notable Works of Nonfiction”Science News “Favorite...

Milicia indiana, publicado en 1599, es un tratado de arte militar pensado para los capitanes o caudillos espa oles en Am rica, enfrentados a los inconvenientes geogr ficos, y a los abor genes. Su...

The bestselling translation of one of the world's great classics, now in a beautiful new editionThe I Ching, or Book of Changes, is a widely-beloved and foundational text of Chinese philosophy and...

Jordan Peterson rocketed to fame in the 2010s and has preached on everything from the evils of postmodern neo-Marxism to the mating habits of lobsters ever since then. The Left has since leveled many...