253 results for '"Ernst, Armin'

Austria-Hungary, 1913. In the castle of a frontier town, the worldly, corrupt Count-Governor Wiladowski watches while a wave of assassinations sweeps the Empire. When one of his family is murdered...

A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year. "An urgent invitation to care for all children as our own." --Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of Random Family In this "moving condemnation of the U.S...

An absorbing, novelistic, and powerfully affecting work of history and investigative journalism that tracks the unraveling of American democracy. In American Oligarchs, award-winning investigative...

Jasper Johns is regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, and has remained central to American art since his arrival in New York in the 1950s. With his then partner Robert...

In his new book, William J. Bernstein, the celebrated author of A Splendid Exchange, chronicles the history of media, starting with the origin of writing thousands of years ago in Mesopotamia. The...

50th Anniversary Edition—With a new foreword on what Watergate means today. “The work that brought down a presidency...perhaps the most influential piece of journalism in history” (Time)—from the #1...

Focusing on one of the most productive areas of modern chemical research, this text describes the molecular-level mechanisms of elementary chemical reactions and presents the contributions of...

HARDCOVER w/ DUST JACKET

A moral philosopher’s meditations on some of life’s most important questionsWe’ve all had to puzzle over such profound matters as birth, death, regret, free will, agency, and love. How might...

One of the academy’s leading legal historians, William E. Nelson is the Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. For more than four decades, Nelson has produced some of...

Discover how a gosling hatches into the world, step by step, in this irresistibly cute and funny nonfiction picture book.Is it getting stuffy in there?Has your yolk dwindled to a smidge? Is the beak...

Streetwise brings together classic articles from the publication that helped revolutionize the way Wall Street does business. During the recession of the early 1970s, investment professionals turned...

Winner of the 1981 Bancroft Prize. Focusing primarily on the middle class, this study delineates the social, intellectual and psychological transformation of the American family from 1780-1865...

Herausgegeben Von Karl-august Wirth. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 337-243) And Indexes. Text In Latin, Introduction And Critical Matter In German.

Of all the great classical love poets, Propertius (c. 50-10 BC) is surely one of those with most immediate appeal for readers today. His helpless infatuation for the sinister figure of his mistress...

Tibullus Carmina

This is the first complete English translation of Ulrich von Hutten's Latin dialogue Arminius and Eobanus Hessus's Latin preface to its posthumous publication (1529). The translations are enhanced by...