6308 results for '"Steven Ott, J.'

A leading expert challenges the prevailing gloomy outlook on higher education with solid evidence of its successesCrushing student debt, rapidly eroding state funding, faculty embroiled in speech...

There have been many demonstrations, particularly for magnetic impurity ions in crystals, that spin-Hamiltonians are able to account for a wide range of experimental results in terms of much smaller...

In Emanuel Leutze's iconic painting of Washington's Crossing, the American commander gazes confidently through the dawn, envisioning Hessian soldiers asleep that December 25, 1776, in the...

A poignant, hilarious, and wholly original love story, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Celebrants and winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor.College professor Jesse del Ruth...

To the Other Shore tells the story of a small but influential group of Jewish intellectuals who immigrated to the United States from the Russian Empire between 1881 and the early 1920s--the era of...

A storm of illiberalism, building in the United States for years, unleashed its destructive force in the Capitol insurrection of January 6, 2021. The attack on American democracy and images of mob...

The classic textbook on comparative biomechanics—revised and expandedWhy do you switch from walking to running at a specific speed? Why do tall trees rarely blow over in high winds? And why does a...

A guide to the art of reviewing scholarly books, with strategies and suggestionsScholarly book reviews should be enjoyable—both to write and to read. All too often, though, they offer little more...

A thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen’s iconic album, Born in the U.S.A.—a record that both chronicled and foreshadowed the changing tides of modern AmericaOn June 4, 1984, Columbia...

With this volume, Steven T. Katz initiates the provocative argument that the Holocaust is a singular event in human history. Unlike any previous work on the subject, The Holocaust in Historical...

“A comprehensive, even magisterial review . . . This is strong stuff, but Simon does not flinch.” —Foreign AffairsA longtime American foreign policy insider’s penetrating and definitive reckoning...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the authors of How Democracies Die“[Levitsky and Ziblatt] write with terrifying clarity...

AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLERAn Indie Next PickPatrick O'Hara is called back to his guncle duties . . . This time for a big family wedding in Italy.Patrick O’Hara is back. It’s been five years...

Named one of Rolling Stone's Best Music Books of 2018One of Newsweek's 50 Best Books of 2018A Billboard Best of 2018A New York Times Book Review "New and Noteworthy" selection“A wise meditation on...

A leading expert challenges the prevailing gloomy outlook on higher education with solid evidence of its successesCrushing student debt, rapidly eroding state funding, faculty embroiled in speech...

The Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, is considered one of the greatest art collections of the twentieth century. It originated in the 1930s when Robert...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The urgent and influential guide to the forces that have undermined democracies across the globe—forces running rampant in the United States today—hailed as “a touchstone”...

A rediscovery of patriotism as a virtue in line with the core values of democracy in an extremist age "Like you perhaps, I still regard myself as an extremely patriotic person. Which is why I so...

Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise...