681 results for '"Hilton, Anthony'

From Nobel Prize winner Syukuro Manabe and Anthony Broccoli, a definitive account of how we have come to understand the fundamental processes behind global warmingSyukuro Manabe is perhaps the...

A revealing account of the entrenched inequities that harm our most vulnerable students and what colleges can do to help them excelElite colleges are boasting unprecedented numbers with respect to...

In the past few decades, scientists of human nature—including experimental and cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, evolutionary theorists, and behavioral economists—have explored the way we...

The last quarter century has been an extraordinary and turbulent period in the art world. It was a time of creative intensity during which a handful of artists, like Julian Schnabel, Jeff Koons,...

"In an age of Al Qaeda--of terror and insurgent fundamentalists--we have grown accustomed to thinking of the world as divided among warring creeds and cultures, separated from one other by chasms of...

This book contains eight articles, six of which are based on papers contributed to a commemoration conference organised by the Past and Present Society in 1981. Two further articles and an...

Featuring numerous illustrations, this book explores the many lessons to be learned from Pleistocene megafauna, including the role of humans in their extinction, their disappearance at the start of...

Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and...

"Stellar . . . Spectacular . . . [A] heartfelt, painstaking account." —Nell Irvin Painter, The Washington Post"An extraordinary collaboration . . . A profound achievement . . . Downs is a superb,...

Tony Blair's strong start to his third term, with his role in capturing the Olympic Games for Britain, his statesman-like handling of the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on London, his promise of...

Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) was a Dutch humanist, scholar, and social critic, and one of the most important figures of the Renaissance. The Praise of Folly is perhaps his best-known work...

Dreamlike and macabre, Mervyn Peake's extraordinary novel Titus Groan--first in the Gormenghast Trilogy--is one of the most astonishing and fantastic works in modern fiction. As the novel opens,...

A passionate call for our colleges and universities to prepare young people for lives of fulfillment not just successful careers The question of what living is for--of what one should care about...

“A vast cabinet of curiosities.”—Stephen Greenblatt“Eclectic rather than exhaustive, less an encyclopedia than a buffet.”—Frederic Raphael, Literary ReviewHow do we get from the polis to the police?...

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena—dazzling, poignant, and lyrical interwoven stories about family, sacrifice, the legacy of war, and the redemptive...

Twenty-first century social movements come to life through speeches, essays, and other documents of activism, protest, and social change.Gathering more than 100 texts from social movements that have...

This study presents Wyclif's philosophy as well as his theology, and reassesses, in an ecumenical age, his significance as a reformer.

To millions throughout the world, the Russian workers' state offered new hope. People everywhere turned from the grim alternatives of a declining capitalism—unemployment, poverty, the threat of new...