1617 results for '"Kovacs, Gabor T.'

The legacy and memory of wartime South Vietnam through the eyes of Vietnamese refugees In 1975, South Vietnam fell to communism, marking a stunning conclusion to the Vietnam War. Although this former...

A complex portrait of contemporary black political stancesBlack Nationalism is one of the oldest and most enduring ideological constructs developed by African Americans to make sense of their social...

Those Passions unpicks the nature of capitalist societies since the fifteenth century and the art produced within them. It evaluates the central politics of appearance--the building of...

With this volume, Steven T. Katz initiates the provocative argument that the Holocaust is a singular event in human history. Unlike any previous work on the subject, The Holocaust in Historical...

A master historian uncovers a spellbinding story illustrating the stakes for the new nation in the American War for Independence How does a new country demonstrate to the world that it is prepared to...

The partisan divide in the United States has widened to a chasm. Legislators vote along party lines and rarely cross the aisle. Political polarization is personal, too―and it is making us miserable...

Ward's Island in the East River sits just a short distance from Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx, yet it has been cordoned off from the rest of New York City. For nearly two centuries, it has been...

"Hoof Beats helps readers see the drama even in the grass eating. . . . Taylor has written that too-rare work that is as authoritative as it is legible to the lay audience."—New York TimesJourney to...

"Fascism" is a word ubiquitous in our contemporary political discourse, but few know about its roots in the ancient past or its long, strange evolution to the present.In ancient Rome, the fasces were...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Worldwide Puzzle Phenomenon "Murdle is a must-read." —CBS Essentials"An absolute phenomenon." —Richard Osman, bestselling author of The Thursday Murder Club"Clever,...

Drawing on the riches of the Western tradition, Anthony T. Kronman defends a humane conservativism for our enlightened age "Rigorous and philosophically demanding, Kronman's book invites...

Since the early 1980s, the rapidly increasing cost of college, together with what many see as inadequate attention to teaching, has elicited a barrage of protest. Buying the Best looks at the...

From T. J. English, the New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne, comes the epic, scintillating narrative of the interconnected worlds of jazz and organized crime in 20th century America...

A look at the revolution in game live streaming and esports broadcastingEvery day thousands of people broadcast their gaming live to audiences over the internet using popular sites such as Twitch,...

A radical reexamination of the textual and archaeological evidence about Augustus and the PalatineCaesar Augustus (63 BC–AD 14), who is usually thought of as the first Roman emperor, lived on the...

Now a USA TODAY bestseller!Ilube Nommo Award 2022 for Best Novel"An absolute delight . . . kept me totally hooked." – Genevieve Cogman, bestselling author of The Invisible Library Sixth Sense meets...

T.S. Eliot was arguably the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century. T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life portrays the vexed, tormented emotional life of the poet and the man, dissolving the...

An autobiographical meditation on art from the world-renowned dancer and choreographerIn this ceaselessly questioning book, acclaimed African American dancer, choreographer, and director Bill T...

Derided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Barack Obama puzzles observers. In Reading Obama, James T. Kloppenberg reveals the sources of Obama's ideas and explains why his...