293 results for '"Lipska, Ewa'

"Syncretism, refers to the mixing of different religious traditions whether as active, ongoing process or as historical fact. In the present era of displacement, migration and generally increasing...

The seventeen equations that form the basis for life as we know itMost people are familiar with history's great equations: Newton's Law of Gravity, for instance, or Einstein's theory of relativity...

"An important work for Wagnerites and musical scholars."―Choice There had long been a need for a modern English translation of Wagner’s Ring―a version that would be reliable and readable yet at the...

Why does a power expand and become an empire? Writing in the early years of the Peloponnesian War, Herodotus gave Athens full credit for saving Greece from Persia, but also identified the city's...

a comic about dinosaurs finding meaning, together from the international bestselling team behind dinosaur therapy, @dinosaurcouch including exclusive, never-before-seen bonus comics posing...

This comprehensive study interprets Paradise Lost as a rhetoric of literary forms, by attending to the broad spectrum of literary genres, modes, and exemplary works Milton incorporates within that...

An uncompromising look at Nigeria’s crisis of democracy by a renowned essayist and criticIn this groundbreaking work, the essayist and critic Adewale Maja-Pearce delivers a mordant verdict on...

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...

This finely detailed statistical study of lynching in ten southern states shows that economic and status concerns were at the heart of that violent practice. Stewart Tolnay and E. M. Beck...

In the period between 1150 and 1550, an increasing number of Christians in western Europe made pilgrimage to places where material objects — among them paintings, statues, relics, pieces of wood,...

“A colorful and inventive adventure tale.”—Washington Post“It’s True Grit, New York style.”—New York Post“One of the best mystery novels of the year: wonderful and very entertaining.”—New York...

“One of the finest poets of the last fifty years.” —Saltto the Nth, like the truth of an endingunskeined across the crust of the white field.Though it happened only once, Iam sending the thoughtof...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • Named One of the Best Beach Reads of the Year by Parade, O: The Oprah Magazine, and Good Housekeeping“The exuberant activity aboard the Splendido...

In Transnational America, Inderpal Grewal examines how the circulation of people, goods, social movements, and rights discourses during the 1990s created transnational subjects shaped by a global...

The instant New York Times bestseller • A New York Times Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by The Economist • Nominated for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year...