5004 results for '"Douglas J. Brewer'

"Write It! might be one of the friendliest poetry tool kits/notebooks ever."--Naomi Shihab Nye, Young People's Poet Laureate,Discover your creative voice and learn to write poetry in this easy-to-use...

A history of the rich and diverse civilizations over fifteen centuries of Islam seen through its greatest cities.Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering,...

A New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestseller!An acclaimed, timely narrative of how people of faith have historically--up to the present day--worked against racial justice. And a...

A New York Times bestseller! A brilliantly modern take on Jewish culinary traditions for a new generation of readers, from a bright new star in the culinary world.When you think of Jewish food, a few...

Now available in a Grove paperback edition, The Shrine at Altamira by John L'Heureux has the simple shape and powerful impact of Greek tragedy. When Maria Corazon Alvarez meets Russell Whitaker at a...

For too long, Dr John Laffin maintains, the military reputation of British Generals in World War I has not been examined critically enough, and he asks how those responsible for catastrophic defeats...

The Talmud and the Internet, in which Jonathan Rosen examines the contradictions of his inheritance as a modern American and a Jew, is a moving and exhilarating meditation on modern technology and...

In this important new book the leading philosopher Jacques Rancière continues his reflections on the representative power of works of art. How does art render events that have spanned an era? What...

The regulation of intimate relationships has been a key battleground in the culture wars of the past three decades. In this bold and innovative book, Jean Cohen presents a new approach to regulating...

Hip: The History is the story of how American pop culture has evolved throughout the twentieth century to its current position as world cultural touchstone. How did hip become such an obsession? From...

McGann (English, U. of Virginia) writes on Blake, Byron, D.G. Rossetti, and Pound, using their work to illustrate how truth and knowledge are pursued through poetry. This volume is the final work in...

Hailed on its initial publication as a work with immediate implications for countless lives, Dreze & Sen's The Political Economy of Hunger is the classic analysis of an extraordinary paradox: in a...

The five novels in The Leatherstocking Tales (collected in two Library of America volumes), Cooper's great saga of the American wilderness, form a pageant of the American frontier. Cooper's hero,...