4283 results for '"Ian Jakes'

APPEARED ON BEST OF THE YEAR LISTS FROM NPR, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, WASHINGTON POST, VULTURE, BOOKLIST, AND MOREThe cartoonist of This One Summer and SuperMutant Magic Academy explores the virtual and...

A mom goes to great lengths to rescue her son’s favorite doll in this delightful tribute to treasured toys—and mothers.Teddy has a lot of cool toys. But his very favorite doll has the best manners,...

Giannozzo Manetti (1396–1459) was a celebrated diplomat, historian, philosopher, and humanist scholar of the early Renaissance who mastered ancient Greek and Hebrew as well as classical Latin. In...

A fresh treatment of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, revealing the close ties between Mussolini and Hitler and their regimesFrom 1934 until 1944 Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two...

The 'end of history' has not taken place. Ideological and economic crisis and the status quo of neoliberal capitalism since 2008 demand a renewed engagement with Marx. But if we are to effectively...

In the graphic novel Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier, Jim Ottaviani and illustrator Maris Wicks capture the great humor and incredible drive of Mary Cleave, Valentina Tereshkova, and the...

From one of the foremost authorities on education in the United States, Slaying Goliath is an impassioned, inspiring look at the ways in which parents, teachers, and activists are successfully...

"This fascinating study considers the poetic and mythological artworks made for elite female monastic communities in Renaissance Italy. Nuns from the patrician class, who often disregarded...

A legend begins in Dune: The Duke of Caladan, first in The Caladan Trilogy by New York Times bestselling authors Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.Leto Atreides, Duke of Caladan and father of the...

"It has been said that this series is some of the finest historical fiction of our time....Aubrey and Maturin have been described as better than Holmes and Watson, the equal of Quixote and Panza......

A colossal, panoramic, much-needed appraisal of the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic territories across six centuriesPublished with Museu de Arte de São Paulo. Named one of the best books of 2021 by...

David Kheridian

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RO80122348. Vade-Mecum.. Août 2004. In-8. Broché. Très bon état, Couv. fraîche, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 358 pages. Frontispice en noir et blanc. Nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc,...

This study makes use of much previously unpublished material to trace the history of the Jews of Carpentras, in northern Provence, from the thirteenth century through to modern times.

Author Julian Voloj and award-winning illustrator Wagner Willian’sBlack & White is the first graphic novel biography following the life of Bobby Fischer, from chess wunderkind and national hero to...

The diary and essays of Brian Eno republished twenty-five years on with a new introduction by the artist in a beautiful hardback edition. 'One of the seminal books about music . . . an invaluable...

An insightful account of how medieval people experienced time. Alle Thyng Hath Tyme recreates medieval people’s experience of time as continuous, discontinuous, linear, and cyclical—from creation...

Not long after the white man stepped ashore in North America he began killing Indians and pushing those that survived farther and farther west. And what of his conscience? Well, he invented a...