717 results for '"Alan Brinkley'

498 pp. 8vo, cloth. Name label on front paste down, else a very good, clean HARDCOVER copy. No dust wrapper.

This anthology of Russian verse includes biographical notes by Nobel prize-winner Joseph Brodsky and aims to bring the wealth of Russian poetry to the public view. Representative selections from...

Don DeLillo, Paul Auster, Cormac McCarthy, Rolando Hinojosa, E. Annie Proulx, Bret Easton Ellis, Douglas Coupland, and Thomas Pynchon: An Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction introduces the...

Hardcover with dust jacket. VG/G. Dust jacket is edge chipped, worn and scuffed.

Concerned with the origins of capitalism and the conditions that accompanied its birth, this work argues that capitalism is more than an economic system: it is a culture that affects not just the...

Alun Morgan ; Selected Discography By Alun Morgan. Discography: P. 72-92. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 94) And Index.

This monograph attempts to go beyond Nietzsche's flamboyant but ambiguous words of praise for violence and oppression, in search of the subtler teachings. White's search leads through the nihilism of...

"Newcomers illuminates a vibrant, teeming story of ambition, struggle, and hard-won success, unfolding in a world that the standard accounts banish to the footnotes." --John Matteson

The incomparable Jonathan Lethem returns with nine stories that demonstrate his mastery of the short form.Jonathan Lethem’s third collection of stories uncovers a father’s nervous breakdown at...

Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker PrizeAn extraordinary, “playful, moving, and wholly remarkable” (The Guardian) coming-of-age novel filled with myth and magic from one of England's greatest living...

An account of Darwin's five-year expedition, as a naturalist on board HMS Beagle, illustrated from contemporary sources

This volume covers the history of the Roman Empire from the accession of Septimius Severus in AD 193 to the death of Constantine in AD 337. This period was one of the most critical in the history of...