2552 results for '"Peterkin, Allan D.'

Honorable Mention, 2019 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, given by the Society for Humanistic AnthropologyHonorable Mention, 2019 Sharon Stephens Prize, given by the American Ethnological...

"A subversive and postmodern work about the town of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. The book considers Wyeth country—what kind of place it is and how it is constituted. . . . Dorst asks questions about...

Now in its second edition, this popular text both develops a theoretical framework and provides mathematical and computational methods for understanding electromagnetic wave propagation. Topics...

This comprehensive history of French society, from the age of Enlightenment to 1992, integrates social, cultural and economic history. The author covers the major movements that have shaped France's...

Book by Jones, Douglas Samuel

Honored in "Best Books of the Year" listings from The New Yorker, National Public Radio, Library Journal, and The Huffington Post. "One With Others represents Wright's most audacious experiment yet...

Perry addresses the central question of philosophy: can moral judgments be justified by rational arguments?

From the toothy lions and towering giraffes you already know to the burrowing aardvarks and adorable gorillas you can’t help but love, this engaging reference book introduces young readers to the...

Just 12,000 years ago - at the height of the last Ice Age - saber-toothed tigers, giant ground sloths, camels, hippos and the great herds of proboscideans: giant mastodons and mammoths, extinct...

This masterful, richly illustrated account of the planning and building of the most important and influential early American railroad, the Baltimore and Ohio, is an essential contribution not only to...

Tokutomi Soho was one of modern Japan's most prolific, most popular, and most influential journalists and social critics. Through a comprehensive and balanced biography of this important public...