6267 results for '"Vernberg, Eric M.'

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An exciting and at times almost unbelievably dramatic story.” ―Michael O’Donnell, Wall Street Journal New York Times • “The Nonfiction Everyone Will Be Talking...

Preface Social media marking has been heralded as a sea change in the market- consumer relationship, but its rapid growth and rabid following among m- keters has also produced a sea of confusion...

The fascinating and wide-ranging history of vanilla, from the sixteenth century to today Vanilla is one of the most expensive of flavorings—so valuable that it was smuggled or stolen by pirates in...

Why did the twentieth century witness unprecedented organized genocide? Can we learn why genocide is perpetrated by comparing different cases of genocide? Is the Holocaust unique, or does it share...

"Economists agree about many things--contrary to popular opinion--but the majority agree about culture only in the sense that they no longer give it much thought." So begins the first chapter of...

This “ambitious [and] delightful” (The New York Times) work of literary nonfiction interweaves the science and history of the powerful refrigerant (and dangerous greenhouse gas) Freon with a haunting...

The sequel to The Age of Extremes by "the best -known living historian in the world" (The Times, London). Eric Hobsbawm's The Age of Extremes was a remarkable phenomenon, a book of serious and...

From bestselling author and illustrator Eric Carle, the creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, comes another classic tale about one very clumsy click beetle. A perfect gift to share with the child...

The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom.More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's...

A vivid portrait of the early years of biblical archaeology from the acclaimed author of 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization CollapsedIn 1925, James Henry Breasted, famed Egyptologist and director of...

One day in 1996, the neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel took a call from his program officer at the National Institute of Mental Health, who informed him that he had been awarded a key grant. Also, the...

"L'histoire de l'art a commencé avec les invasions barbares. Vers 1800, ces invasions sont devenues l'événement décisif par lequel l'Occident se serait engagé dans la modernité : le sang neuf des...

A graduate-level text that examines the semiclassical approach to quantum mechanicsPhysical systems have been traditionally described in terms of either classical or quantum mechanics. But in recent...

"Almost everyone has a target for reducing CO2 emissions. Not just governments in Europe, the United States, China and India, even the largest businesses in the world have joined the club. The goal...

A bold reassessment of what caused the Late Bronze Age collapseIn 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but...

From the acclaimed author of 1177 B.C., a spellbinding account of the archaeological find that opened a window onto the vibrant diplomatic world of the ancient Near EastIn 1887, an Egyptian woman...

La 4e de couverture indique : "Avant même l'ouverture du procès, la cause semble entendue : Maurice Papon, secrétaire général de la préfecture de la Gironde sous l'Occupation, est coupable. Mais, au...

Since its publication twenty-five years ago, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men has been recognized as a classic, an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the causes of the American Civil...

In there four incisive and keenly perceptive essays, one of out most celebrated and respected historians of modern Europe looks at the world situation and some of the major political problems...

A few short years after HIV first entered the world blood supply in the late 1970s and early 1980s, over half the hemophiliacs in the United States were infected with the virus. But this was far more...