2312 results for '"Gerald B. Folland'

Strand's classic book on the landscape and people of New England, originally published in 1950, but printed with better detail in this edition. Photographs by Paul Strand; text selected and edited by...

Features elegantly crafted spiritual objects that are both functional and relate to individuals from every age, race, and ethnicity. Essays by leading art and Judaism scholars, curators, and writers...

This is the only comprehensive textbook reference work covering the principal human rights areas by subject matter. Covering both global and regional aspects, topics discussed include civil rights,...

It has long been one of the most fundamental problems of philosophy, and it is now, John Searle writes, "the most important problem in the biological sciences": What is consciousness? Is my inner...

In the second part of John le Carré's Karla Trilogy, the battle of wits between spymaster George Smiley and his Russian adversary takes on an even more dangerous dimension. As the fall of Saigon...

Presentación del editor: "Seit den 1960er Jahren haben marxistische Historiker aus England, Frankreich und den USA wesentliche Innovationen in der Geschichtswissenschaft vorangetrieben. Im...

How hot is lightning?A. as hot as a microwave on highB. as hot as the sun's surfaceC. five times hotter than the sun's surfaceD. as hot as lava(Correct answer: C)What's do you call a group of cats? A...

Few poets have excited such extremes of admiration and hostility as Dylan Thomas, the Welshman who was perhaps the greatest lyric poet of the 20th Century. This authoritative biography is based on a...

Maps the divisions that stall the production of knowledge in theatre and performance studies, queer studies, and women's studies.Each of Jill Dolan's three academic locations — theatre and...

Now in paperback, an illustrated chapter book from industry legends Judith Viorst and Lane Smith!I’m gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, gonna, geta bronto-bronto-bronto-bronto-saurus for a pet!Lulu is so...

8vo. xxiv, 417 pp, James Marshall Osborn 1906-1976 by Rene Wellek, Jim Osborn: Some Personal Notes by David Daiches, list of b&w plates: frontis + illustrations following pages 134, and 182, 24...

The essential playlist of great writing about the music that rocked America, with fifty landmark pieces on Otis Redding, Janis Joplin, Lez Zepplin, and other rock n’ roll legends Jonathan Lethem and...

This pathbreaking collection of essays recasts the prevailing conceptions of the historical roots and role of the U.S. Communist Party and its social setting. The contributors focus on the movement...

Blues is the cornerstone of American popular music, the bedrock of rock and roll. In this extraordinary musical and social history, Robert Palmer traces the odyssey of the blues from its rural...

A selection of papers given at the Institute of Classical Studies during 1996. They cover a variety of new work on the 900 years of philosophy from Aristotle to Simplicius. There is a strong...

From the Preface: 'topics are: (a) valuation theory; (b) theory of polynomial and power series rings (including generalizations to graded rings and modules); (c) local algebra the algebro-geometric...

When the great Russian writer Tolstoy was first offered the use of a brand new invention called the Dictaphone, he refused it, saying that it was sure to be "too dreadfully exciting" and would...

In The Real World of Democracy, C. B. Macpherson examines the rival ideas of democracy - the communist, Third World, and Western-liberal variants - and their impacts on one another. Macpherson, who...

Testi di Francesca Salvadori.Introduzione di David Bindman.Milano, 2003; cartonato, pp. 240, 280 ill. b/n, cm 29x29.(Arte e cultura). Il volume riunisce e riproduce per la prima volta il corpus delle...

Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E. B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America's foremost literary figures. The New York Times...