2202 results for '"Jarstad, Anna K.'

"A unique exploration of the close relationship between art and design, explored through the historic and contemporary fabric designs of Liberty, where avant-garde art has influenced the colourful,...

'A sweeping meditation on femininity, power, vulnerability, and the visual vocabulary we use to define all three.' - Vogue The complete Annie Leibovitz Women collection, featuring more than 250...

Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography he recounts the story of his life and how he developed his concept of active nonviolent resistance,...

Shortlisted for the 2021 Wolfson History Prize and a finalist for the 2021 Cundill History PrizeTold for the first time from their perspective, the story of children who survived the chaos and trauma...

Century 21, a time machine in literary form, ignores the unity of time, space, and character. This tragicomical idyll of the future past mixes ancient and modern genres: Platonic dialogue and...

"Once again, the author takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College...

From the author of Regretting You, this riveting sequel to the “glorious and touching” (USA TODAY) #1 New York Times bestseller picks up where It Ends with Us concluded and shares what happens next...

Does the past have useful economics? / Donald N. McCloskey -- An economic interpretation of the American Revolution / Marc Egnal and Joseph A. Ernst -- The market and Massachusetts farmers, 1750-1855...

A harrowing and unforgettable look at reporting in Mexico, one of the world's most dangerous countries to be a journalistIn 2017, Mexico edged out Iraq and Syria as the deadliest country in the world...

'And low, stole o'er the stillness the heartbeats of sleep' In Chapelizod, a suburb of Dublin, an innkeeper and his family are sleeping. Around them and their dreams there swirls a vortex of world...

G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown may seem a pleasantly doddering Roman Catholic priest, but appearances deceive. With keen observation and an unerring sense of man’s frailties–gained during his years...

This book provides the first comprehensive examination of modern political partition and military conflict. Once touted as the most efficient geopolitical means for resolving ideological and ethnic...

Sodom and Gomorrah opens a new phase of In Search of Lost Time. While watching the pollination of the Duchess de Guer-mantes’s orchid, the narrator secretly observes a sexual encounter between two...

In an age of globalization characterized by the dizzying technologies of the First World, and the social disintegration of the Third, is the concept of utopia still meaningful? Archaeologies of the...

Three important poetry collections brought together under one cover by Harryette Mullen, author of Sleeping with the Dictionaryif you turned down the mediaso I could write a bookthen you could look...

In this haunting novel of intensely felt adolescence, Jack Kerouac tells the story of Jack Duluoz, a French-Canadian boy growing up, as Kerouac himself did, in the dingy factory town of Lowell,...

A captivating, absorbing, and suspenseful evocation of the spells of childhood.In a timeless coming-of-age tale as charming and haunting as the movie Stand By Me, Andrew Lovett’s Everlasting Lane...

Is Confucianism a religion? If so, why do most Chinese think it isn't? From ancient Confucian temples, to nineteenth-century archives, to the testimony of people interviewed by the author throughout...

The poets’ Great War: violence, revolution and modernismThe First World War changed the map of Europe forever. Empires collapsed, new countries were born, revolutions shocked and inspired the world. ...

A brilliant translation of one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, revealing a tale that is as full of energy and power as it was when it was first written. From the author of The...