1108 results for '"Norman, Jane'

As the living scriptural heritage of more than a billion people, the Qur'an (Koran) speaks with a powerful voice. Just as other scriptural religions, Islam has produced a long tradition of...

A reexamination of Austen’s unpublished writings that uncovers their continuity with her celebrated novels—and that challenges distinctions between her “early” and “late” workJane Austen’s six...

How empires have used diversity to shape the world order for more than two millenniaEmpires—vast states of territories and peoples united by force and ambition—have dominated the political landscape...

The arch, witty, outspoken memoirs of the pioneering archaeologist and scholar Mary Beard has called “my hero.”First published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf in 1925, Jane Ellen Harrison’s...

Medea betrayed her father and left her homeland for the love of Jason. Then when he abandoned her, she murdered her children. But did she? And what of Clytemnestra, the conniving adulteress? For ten...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Jane Leavy, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax, comes the definitive biography of Babe Ruth—the man Roger Angell...

Jane Austen's first published work, meticulously constructed and sparkling with her unique witMarianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes the “wondrous…mesmerizing” second installment (The Washington Post), following Some Luck, of her widely...

Completing Juliette Wells' groundbreaking trio of books on Austen's readers, this latest volume revolutionizes our understanding of how Austen came to be viewed as the world's greatest novelist...

Meet Clifford the Big Red Dog in the classic story that started it all -- reissued in a chunky board book format that's sure to appeal to the youngest Clifford fans!This durable board book edition of...

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This advanced study of systems of propositional logic offers a comprehensive account of a wide variety of logical systems and encourages students to take a critical stance toward the subject. A great...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a captivating, brilliantly imaginative story of three extraordinary animals—and a young boy—whose lives intersect in...

Now in paperback, the long-awaited new and selected collection by the author of “some of the most important poetry in the world today” (The New York Times Magazine), assaying the ranges of our shared...

A powerful exploration of the books created by Jewish Holocaust survivors to honor their lost worldBy the close of World War II, six million Jews had been erased from the face of the earth. Those who...

This intriguing book by a master historian explores the ancient story of Noah and the Flood -- its origins in pre-Biblical culture, its development in Western thought over 2,000 years, and its...