4489 results for '"Dutton, William H.'

Before Shrek made it big on the silver screen, there was William Steig's SHREK!, a book about an ordinary ogre who leaves his swampy childhood home to go out and see the world. Ordinary, that is, if...

The Temple In The Books Of Chronicles / H.g.m. Williamson -- The Presence Of God In The Second Temple And Rabbinic Doctrine / G.i. Davies -- The Sibyl And The Temple / Andrew Chester -- Temple...

The poems here delve into what William Logan calls the “ill-lit kingdom of the past.” The book is haunted by the dead but equally penitent toward the rich insinuations of the living: the lost floral...

source of illustrations, acknowledgments, preface, 1. An Abbey and Ancestors; 2. Minority, Cambridge and the 1820s; 3. The Creative Decade; 4. Photogenic Drawing; 5. The Calotype; 6. Photography: Of...

From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner—also available are Snopes, As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and Selected...

"In this compelling biography, William R. Cross chronicles the life story of the great painter and illustrator Winslow Homer (1836-1910), who captured America in the crucible of the Civil War and...

When it first appeared in 1979, the Williams Report on Obscenity and Film Censorship provoked strong reactions. The practical issues and political principles examined are of continuing interest and...

Georges Duby, one of this century's great medieval historians, has brought to life with exceptional brilliance and imagination William Marshal, adviser to the Plantagenets, knight extraordinaire, the...

From CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams, a revelatory account of how one man, four teenagers, and a struggling city collided over race, vigilantism, and public safety . . . exposing the fault lines of...

In this trenchant science-fiction screen treatment written in the mid-1970's, William S. Burroughs predicts a coming health care apocalypse: a horror show straight out of Dante, brought to a boil by...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The iconic singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner opens up about her traumatic childhood in the Deep South, her years of being overlooked in the music industry,...

Interweaving social, political, environmental, economic, and popular history, John Alexander Williams chronicles four and a half centuries of the Appalachian past. Along the way, he explores...

In a demythologized world, William Thompson finds that the power of myth is ironically being restored at the leading edge of science. This book surveys the present, from Post-Modern theory to a...

Timely and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationistIn Erosion, Terry Tempest Williams's fierce, spirited, and magnificent essays are a howl in the desert. She sizes...

Lifeboat ethics : the case against helping the poor / Garrett Hardin -- Famine, affluence, and morality / Peter Singer -- Rights and the duty to bring aid / John Arthur -- Morality and starvation /...

Almost half a century later, The Changeling is no less haunting and no less visionary than the day it was published. It has only become clearer that Joy Williams is a virtuosic stylist and a singular...

In Killing Hope, William Blum, author of the bestselling Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, provides a devastating and comprehensive account of America's covert and overt military...

Economist, philosopher, civil servant, and politician, John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) made his mark as a liberal in Victorian society. His major works--System of Logic and Principles--as well as his...

Terry Tempest Williams presents a sharp-edged perspective on the ethics and politics of place, spiritual democracy, and the responsibilities of citizen engagement. By turns elegiac, inspiring, and...