3196 results for 'mark vortex'

Mark Sagoff has written an engaging and provocative book about the contribution economics can make to environmental policy. Sagoff argues that economics can be helpful in designing institutions and...

"Sarduy's 'inventory of marks,' both physical and mnemonic, is a collection of 26 essays that, in Sarduy's words, 'outline a possible autobiography.' Afterword by collaborative translators Suzanne...

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's...

The long-awaited paperback edition of Selected Poems, revised and updated with more than forty new poems never before published in English 2011 marks the centenary year of one of the twentieth...

Fourteen stories about the strength and passion of today’s American Indian—including six from the acclaimed Leslie Marmon Silko.   Anthropologists have long delighted us with the wise and colorful...

'A must read for modernists, and for anyone who misses the future.' Bob Stanley, musician, journalist, author, and film producer This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed...

The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror Ominous Omnibus Vol. 1: Scary Tales & Scarier Tentacles is the first of three volumes collecting the complete comic series by creator Matt Groening, packaged in a...

This book marked the author's first important step toward theorizing the postmodern condition. Moving away from Marxist and Freudian approaches, he develops here a theory of contemporary culture that...

Reissued to mark the centenary of Wilfred Owen's birth, this biography is more than a simple account of his life--the childhood spent in the back streets of Birkenhead and Shrewsbury, the appalling...

"Marcus Tullius Cicero (pron.: /ssro/; Classical Latin: [marks tul.ljs kkro?]; 3 January 106 BC? 7 December 43 BC; sometimes anglicized as Tully was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, orator,...

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, 1st Edition, Chatto 1977. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate,small discreet inscription, no further marks of...

This volume brings together mostly previously unpublished studies by prominent historians, classicists, and philosophers on the roles and effects of religion in Socratic philosophy and on the trial...

Another classic from the author of the internationally bestselling The OutsidersContinue celebrating 50 years of The Outsiders by reading this companion novel. That Was Then, This is Now is S. E...

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Rattlin the Reefer, hardcover, Very Good, 1st Edition. Royal 8vo. xx, 414 p. Very good, appears unopened and unread, clean tight...

'Excellent.' - The New YorkerThe first publication dedicated to artists' zines in North America, a revelatory exploration of an unexamined but thriving aesthetic practiceCopy Machine Manifestos...

In this classic work which analyzes the context in which thirty years of war and revolution wracked the European continent, the great historian Arno Mayer emphasizes the backwardness of the European...

Hardcover in good condition. No jacket. Ex-university library. From Somerville College Library, Oxford. Boards and page block are marked. Leading corners, edges and spine ends are lightly bumped and...

Heads of state today mark their rites of passage with splendid ceremonial, from Reagan's inaugural to Andropov's funeral. Such spectacles continue to be a prominent part of modern political systems,...

First published in 1937, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston. Told in the captivating voice of a...

A magnificent drama of love and war, this riveting tragedy presents one of Shakespeare's greatest female characters—the seductive, cunning Egyptian queen Cleopatra. The Roman leader Mark Antony, a...