4658 results for '"Casey J. Humbyrd'

Get ready! Grandma is coming for a visit! Grandma is coming to see you! And it doesn't matter if she has to ride on a train, ski down a mountain, or pedal a bicycle to get there. Here she comes! ...

Each volume in this series includes a collection of authoritative essays from The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, selected by the Editors to illustrate the range and diversity of economics...

"With Expectations of Modernity James Ferguson has once more made an important contribution to the reconstruction of anthropology. His own vivid ethnography of urban lives in the late twentieth...

An international group of scholars who met in Jerusalem in 1992 examined and compared the traditions that describe the historical figures Hillel (a prominent first century B.C.E. Rabbinic teacher)...

This sourcebook of fifty-seven modern Islamic writings shows the tensions inherent in the struggle of Muslims to maintain their religious identity in the modern world. Here Muslims speak for...

John Kenneth Galbraith's classic examination of the 1929 financial collapse. Arguing that the 1929 stock market crash was precipitated by rampant speculation in the stock market, Galbraith notes...

Book by Balsdon, John Percy Vyvian Dacre

By mid-5th century BC, Athens was governed by democratic rule and power turned upon the ability of the citizen to command the attention of the people, and to sway the crowds of the assembly. It was...

Renowned historian Jaroslav Pelikan details the reactions to the fall of Rome by the Church fathers, who set the pattern for interpreting this momentous event for succeeding centuries, & examines...

A provocative look at the mystery surrounding the Jersey Devil, a beast born of colonial times that haunts the corners of the Pine Barrens—and the American imagination—to this day.Legend has it that...

"Becoming Great Universities arose from co-author Richard J. Light's visits over the past twenty years to more than 250 campuses and his conversations with presidents, administrators, faculty, and...

Did you know that there is a connection between neuroscience and free will? While humans have the power to make conscious choices, they are heavily influenced by social media, YouTube, the news they...

A poignant masterpiece of wrenching personal expression from the acclaimed author of On the Road “In many ways, particularly in the lyrical immediacy that is his distinctive glory, this is Kerouac’s...

The dialect, lore, and flavor of black life in the nineteenth-century South is portrayed as it appeared to Georgia-born Joel Chandler Harris in Uncle Remus’s "Legends of the Old Plantation."For more...

Cooper's most enduringly popular novel combines heroism and romance with powerful criticism of the destruction of nature and tradition.Set against the French and Indian siege of Fort William Henry in...