2976 results for '"Douglas E. Appelt'

Elite, personable, and persuasive, Edward Douglass White, a ''large and bearish man from Louisiana, '' served on the United States Supreme Court for twenty-seven years. During his tenure, first as an...

A lost nineteenth-century literary life, brilliantly rediscovered--Letitia Elizabeth Landon, hailed as the female Byron; she changed English poetry; her novels, short stories, and criticism, like...

Can charter schools save public education? This radical question has unleashed a flood of opinions from Americans struggling with the contentious challenges of education reform. There has been plenty...

An enchanting story that has inspired generations of writers, including Boccaccio, Shakespeare, Cervantes and Keats Written towards the end of the second century AD, The Golden Ass tells the story of...

The latest innovation in textiles design, paired with images that range from digital patterns to catwalk shots of the finished articleThe invention of the Jacquard loom in eighteenth-century France...

By G.e.f. Chilver ; Completed And Revised By G.b. Townend. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. Viii-xii.

This interpretive history of Latin America has been brought up to date in all areas, including the ongoing war against international drug trafficking, the difficulties and promises of NAFTA, the...

Bringing together essays that span the career of I.A. Richards—as both literary critic and pedagogue—this collection provides a much-needed re-introduction to a thinker whose works have been largely...

That space and time should be integrated into a single entity, spacetime, is the great insight of Einstein's special theory of relativity, and leads us to regard spacetime as a fundamental context in...

An introduction to the horrors endured by African Americans between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries provides information that reveals how some one hundred million Africans died as a direct...