1496 results for '"Martin Walser'

A compelling history of the national conflicts that resulted from efforts to produce the first definitive American dictionary of English In The Dictionary Wars, Peter Martin recounts the patriotic...

A terribly funny and lovably louche novel about five friends growing older, if not always up, from Andrew Martin, author of Early Work and Cool for America. Without Cassandra, Aaron would probably...

A revealing collection that restores Dr. King as being every bit as radical as Malcolm X "The radical King was a democratic socialist who sided with poor and working people in the class struggle...

From National Book Award–winning author Martin Marty, the surprising story of a Christian classic born in a Nazi prison cellFor fascination, influence, inspiration, and controversy, Dietrich...

Two volumes of the Jewish philosopher's classic work that collects and retells the marvelous legends of Hasidism.   This new paperback edition brings together volumes one and two of Buber's classic...

In myths and legends, squids are portrayed as fearsome sea-monsters, lurking in the watery deeps waiting to devour humans. Even as modern science has tried to turn those monsters of the deep into...

In this fully revised and updated pamphlet, Martin Blinkhorn explains the significance of the man, the movement and the regime which dominated Italian life between 1922 and the Second World War...

A major new history of the Cold War that explores the conflict through the minds of the people who lived through it.More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the...

"What a debut! Early Work is one of the wittiest, wisest (sometimes silliest, in the best sense), and bravest novels about wrestling with the early stages of life and love, of creative and...

Thomas R. Martin recounts the unmatched political and military career of Phocion of Athens, and his tragic downfallPhocion (402–318 BCE) won Athens’s highest public office by direct democratic...

"A compelling history of the national conflicts that resulted from efforts to produce the first definitive American dictionary of English. ... [English professor] Peter Martin recounts the patriotic...

An autobiographical novel that’s a tender, witty exploration of the hardest questions: how to live, how to grieve, and how to die–from “the Mick Jagger of literature ... Amis is the most dazzling...

The shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of America as a white Christian nationOn a Sunday morning in 1966, a group of white evangelicals...

WINNER OF THE 2022 HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL"[An] all around brilliant space opera, I absolutely love it."—Ann Leckie, on A Memory Called EmpireA Desolation Called Peace is the spectacular space...

Africa does not give up its secrets easily. Buried there lie answers about the origins of humankind. And yet, though vital clues still remain hidden, scientists have over the last century transformed...

Although Balzac's work has been much studied, practically nothing has been written on his use of linguistic concepts. Applying a new approach, this perceptive book demonstrates that the theme and...

The story of literature in sixteen acts--from Homer to Harry Potter, including The Tale of Genji, Don Quixote, The Communist Manifesto, and how they shaped world history In this groundbreaking book,...

This book collects a number of Martin Shefter's most important articles on political parties. They address three questions: Under what conditions will strong party organizations emerge? What...

Martin Amis' life could itself provide the formula for an enthralling work of fiction.Martin Amis' life could itself provide the formula for an enthralling work of fiction. Son of one of the most...

Now available in paperback, Tongues of Fire deals with one of the most extraordinary developments in the world today - the rapid spread of Evangelical Protestantism in vast areas of the...