1642 results for '"Amy Mullin'

The untold story of how welfare and development programs in the United States and Latin America produced the instruments of their own destructionIn the years after 1945, a flood of U.S. advisors...

"Sharp and original, this book should alter how readers look at the world. " --Kirkus "This fascinating and beautifully illustrated book will make you see the world more clearly than you ever have...

Why compromise is essential for effective government and why it is missing in politics todayTo govern in a democracy, political leaders have to compromise. When they do not, the result is political...

The most widely debated conception of democracy in recent years is deliberative democracy--the idea that citizens or their representatives owe each other mutually acceptable reasons for the laws they...

Why compromise is essential for effective government and why it is missing in politics todayIf politics is the art of the possible, then compromise is the artistry of democracy. Unless one partisan...

The end of the twentieth century saw an explosive intrusion of intellectual property law into everyday life. Expansive copyright laws have been used to attack new forms of sharing and remixing...

The mathematics behind today's most widely used rating and ranking methodsA website's ranking on Google can spell the difference between success and failure for a new business. NCAA football ratings...

“A colorful and inventive adventure tale.”—Washington Post“It’s True Grit, New York style.”—New York Post“One of the best mystery novels of the year: wonderful and very entertaining.”—New York...

The bestselling author of Girl Waits with Gun brings the real-life escapades of the famous crime-fighting Kopp sisters to life in this extraordinary novel that is "perfect for book groups" (Booklist)...

“[A]n an incredibly handy manual full of information on how to grow plants in small spaces.” —GOOPThe beginner’s complete guide to urban, small space and container gardening from “our windowsill guru...

The vibrant and inspiring story of beloved singer and fierce activist Cyndi Lauper.Before Cyndi Lauper was the larger-than-life icon we know today, she was a boisterous little girl who had a hard...

"The first major biography of Barnett Newman, one of the most important and influential artists of the twentieth century"--

Published to coincide with the first major exhibition at Tate Britain and marking the 250th anniversary of the birth of two of Britain’s most beloved artists, Turner and Constable: Two Visions of...

In a thought-provoking memoir, a young law student recounts her harrowing battle with heart disease, from the initial misdiagnosis to the heart transplant that saved her life and ongoing recovery,...

For readers of The Paris Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue comes a “sensuous, captivating account of a forbidden affair between two women” (People)—Eleanor Roosevelt and “first friend” Lorena Hickok...

An entertaining anthology of more than two hundred fifty verses by some eighty authors ranges from satire to nonsense and from Shakespeare to Philip Larkin