3728 results for '"Lebedev, L. P.'

After decades covering war and disaster, bestselling author and acclaimed satirist P. J. O'Rourke takes on his scariest subjects yet--business, investment, finance, and the political chicanery behind...

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A biography of the famous eighteenth-century Quaker whose abolitionist fervor and spiritual practice made him a model for generations of Americans John Woolman (1720–72) was perhaps the most...

The long 1950s, which extend back to the early postwar period and forward into the early 1960s, were a period of “containment culture” in America, as the media worked to reinforce traditional family...

Investigating the origins of theatre in archaic RomeTheatre was an integral part of Roman civic, religious and political life for nearly a thousand years, but our understanding of it is skewed by the...

A new and incisive exploration of female slavery and reproduction in ancient Rome One of ancient Rome's most significant legacies is a legal framework for hereditary slavery. Under the Roman...

Watch Craig Bauer discuss the Zodiac Killer's cipher on HISTORY's miniseries The Hunt for the Zodiac Killer In 1953, a man was found dead from cyanide poisoning near the Philadelphia airport with a...

Featuring a wealth of illustrations, a fungi-filled tour of the importance of mushrooms, from the enchanted forests of folklore to their role in sustaining life on earth. Mushrooms hold a peculiar...

An unprecedented glimpse into the life and creative process of Barkley L. Hendricks. Barkley L. Hendricks: Piles of Inspiration Everywhere explores the physical space where renowned artist Barkley...

Published to stellar praise, The World Has Changed boasts revelatory conversations between Walker and other literary and cultural icons--including Howard Zinn, Pema Chödrön, Claudia Tate, Margo...

Praised by The New York Times as "an indispensable guide for the homeowner and the professional," Tree Maintenance has been the definitive source on maintenance of North American landscape trees for...

It Still Takes A Candidate serves as the only systematic, nationwide empirical account of the manner in which gender affects political ambition. Based on data from the Citizen Political Ambition...

A Ghanaian scholar of religion argues that poverty is a particularly complex subject in traditional African cultures, where holistic worldviews unite life’s material and spiritual dimensions. A South...

New York Times best-selling author P. J. O'Rourke lobbed one-liners on the battlefields of the Gulf War, traded quips with communist rebels in the jungles of the Philippines, and went undercover at...

A fascinating look at key thinkers throughout history who have shaped public perception of science and the role of authority.When does a scientific discovery become accepted fact? Why have scientific...

This is the first full-scale commentary on poems by Theocritus since Gow's edition of 1950, and the first to exploit the recent revolution in the study of Hellenistic and Roman poetry; the poems...

More than one hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination, and its reverberations can still be felt throughout...

This election cycle was so absurd that celebrated political satirist, journalist, and die-hard Republican P. J. O'Rourke endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. As P.J. put it, "America is...