3914 results for '"Andrew F. G. Bourke'

In this penetrating study Andrew Kennedy sets out to analyse the modern movement in drama through the theatrical language of six key figures writing in English - Shaw, Eliot, Beckett, Pinter, Osborne...

As the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional...

In The Vegan, Andrew Lipstein challenges our notions of virtue with a brilliant tale of guilt, greed, and how far we’ll go to be good. Herschel Caine is a soon-to-be master of the universe. His hedge...

The strengths and failures of the American college, and why liberal education still mattersAs the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!A Stonewall Honor Book in Young Adult Literature!A blood-soaked and nauseating triumph that cuts like a scalpel and reads like your darkest nightmare.New York Times...

Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations is an authoritative compendium of quotations about railways from 1608 to the present day. More than 3,400 entries are drawn from over 1,300 writers and...

"Hume's Politics" provides a comprehensive examination of David Hume's political theory, and is the first book to focus on Hume's monumental History of England as the key to his distinctly...

The belief that U.S. presidents' legislative policy formation has centralized over time, shifting inexorably out of the executive departments and into the White House, is shared by many who have...

The star of a theater troupe of mice disappears just before opening night in this charming middle-grade novel from New York Times bestselling mother-daughter duo Julie Andrews and Emma Walton...

An authoritative and revelatory portrait of a nation divided - by class, by politics and by the legacy of the past - from the author of The French Intifada. The old ideals that formed the French...

"I trace my ancestry back to the Mayflower," writes Andrew S. Dolkart. "Not to the legendary ship that brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620, but to the more prosaic tenement on...

A Best Book Of 2022 (New Yorker)A Best Book Of Fall 2022 (Wall Street Journal)From Costa Award-winning and Booker Prize-shortlisted author Andrew Miller comes a tender tale of guilt, trust, and a...

A devastating account of contemporary American military folly, political dysfunction, and corruption by the Washington editor of Harper’s MagazineDuring the war of 1812 British Admiral George...

The untold story of how the Dutch conquered the European book market and became the world's greatest bibliophiles—“an instant classic on Dutch book history” (BMGN - Low Countries Historical...

Was America founded on Judeo-Christian principles? Are the Ten Commandments the basis for American law? In the paperback edition of this critically acclaimed book, a constitutional attorney settles...

When his next-door neighbors in a quaint New England town suddenly pick up and move to a gated retired community in Florida called The Villages, Andrew Blechman is astonished by their stories, so he...

Publishing one hundred years after her birth, Andrew Wilson's biography of Marilyn Monroe is a kaleidoscopic tour of her life told through 100 captivating snapshots. Dreamer. Bombshell. Icon...

The definitive history of Japanese organized crime, from its origins in samurai-era black markets and gambling rings to the shadowy syndicates of the present Japan's gangster groups, known...

In exploring the manifestations of human spiritual experience both in the imaginative activities of the individual and in the formation of mythologies and of religious symbolism in various cultures,...

A captivating, absorbing, and suspenseful evocation of the spells of childhood.In a timeless coming-of-age tale as charming and haunting as the movie Stand By Me, Andrew Lovett’s Everlasting Lane...