357 results for '"Navaretti, Giorgio Barba'

Franklin Roosevelt's intentions during the three years between Munich and Pearl Harbor have been a source of controversy among historians for decades. Barbara Farnham offers both a theory of how the...

This authoritative, yet accessible book presents the principal techniques of empirical behavioral research through a practical hands-on approach. The text describes four major research methods:...

"In her time, Maria Theresa (1717-1780) was the most powerful woman in the world. She ruled the Habsburg Empire from 1740-1780, an era when empires dominated Europe. She was the sovereign of a vast...

An accessible, smaller-sized volume includes reproductions of some of the artist's top flower and landscape works and is complemented by a brief history of her Santa Fe museum. Original.

Despite intermittent turbulence and destruction, much of the Roman West came under barbarian control in an orderly fashion. Goths, Burgundians, and other aliens were accommodated within the provinces...

The Central Apennine peoples, represented alternately as decadent and dangerous snake-charming barbarians or as personifications of manly wisdom and virtue, as austere and worthy "new men", were...

"From the beginning of Persian rule in Ionia," writes Pericles Georges, "the Greeks noted the public facts--things that could be seen and talked about, and become the common report. But the Persians...

Alice made a promise to make the world a more beautiful place, then a seed of an idea is planted and blossoms into a beautiful plan.  This beloved classic and celebration of nature—written by a...

A rhyming, vibrantly illustrated picture book based on the folk song of seven soldiers.Ed Emberley won the 1968 Caldecott Medal for his bold illustrations for Barbara Emberley’s jaunty adaptation of...

'In the region of Washington Square or Greenwich Village, or ... among the sand dunes of Cape Cod we must look for the real birthplace of the New American Drama.' So William Archer, first translator...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An eye-opening account of life inside North Korea—a closed world of increasing global importance—hailed as a “tour de force of meticulous reporting” (The New York...

The Stracheys were an exceptionally intelligent and unusual family. Prominent in imperial administration, science, and feminism in the nineteenth century, and in the suffrage movement, women's...

A new edition of a celebrated contemporary work on race and racismPraised by a wide variety of people from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Zadie Smith, Racecraft “ought to be positioned,” as Bookforum put it,...

A haunting, bizarre short story collection about violence, mental illness, and the warped contradictions of the twentieth-century female experience.A close friend and protégé of Marguerite Duras,...

When Granddad picks Ava up from school one Thursday afternoon, she's quiet. She doesn't want to talk about the lockdown drill that has stirred up her worries.How can she be so afraid in a place that...

Since its publication in 1999, 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know has sold more than 300,000 copies in six languages. It has become a much-valued learning tool and reference for everyone from...