3174 results for '"Quirk, James'

How did Buddhism, so prominent in Japanese life for over a thousand years, become the target of severe persecution in the social and political turmoil of the early Meiji era? How did it survive...

The Buddhist monk Tanxu surmounted extraordinary obstacles--poverty, wars, famine, and foreign occupation--to become one of the most prominent monks in China, founding numerous temples and schools...

Celebrated historian of World War II James Holland chronicles the astonishing Allied victory at the Battle of the Admin Box in Burma (now Myanmar), a turning point of the war in the Far EastIn...

It is the first day of school in Chad, Africa. Children are filling the road."Will they give us a notebook?" Thomas asks. "Will they give us a pencil? Will I learn to read?"But when he and the other...

A brilliantly entertaining and innovative history of the ancient Athenians' consuming passions for food, wine and sex. Sex, shopping and fish-madness, Athenian style. This fascinating book reveals...

Five favorite Pete the Kitty My First I Can Reads in one book from the New York Times bestselling author-illustrator team Kimberly and James Dean! Join Pete the Kitty as he helps a friend, visits the...

One of America's most important writers takes on the arrest of Wayne Bertram Williams for the murder of twenty-eight black children in Atlanta to offer this searing indictment of the nation's racial...

New York Times bestselling author-artist James Dean brings us a cool collection of seven of the grooviest Pete the Cat stories out there!Whether he’s building a robot, sharing a giant sandwich, or...

Background materials include reproductions of the original scientific papers in which the double helical structure of DNA was first presented in 1953 and 1954.In Criticism, which begins with "A...

Perhaps the finest soul singer of the rock era-but equally at home singing blues and jazz -- Etta James is one of the great women of American music. In Rage to Survive she tells her mesmerizing tale...

"Of all the books on democracy in recent years one of the best is James Miller’s Can Democracy Work? . . . Miller provides an intelligent journey through the turbulent past of this great human...

Discover one of the greatest true crime stories in music history, as only James Patterson can tell it. With the Beatles, John Lennon surpasses his youthful dreams, achieving a level of superstardom...

A memoir from the New York Times bestselling author of Warning of War and Marines of Autumn, James Brady's The Scariest Place in the World.Half a century after he fought there as a young lieutenant...

"James Payne's YouTube Channel "Great Art Explained" gained a huge and appreciative worldwide audience. This beautifully put-together book is simply the best introduction to the lifelong pleasure and...

Everyone, even teachers, can learn something new at school in this Pete the Cat I Can Read adventure from New York Times bestselling author-illustrator, James Dean.When Pete goes to school, he finds...

James Kugel, acclaimed Harvard scholar and former poetry editor of Harpers Magazine, selects eighteen essential poems from the Hebrew Bible and offers his own original and articulate translations of...

This new edition of C. L. R. James's classic Beyond a Boundary celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of one of the greatest books on sport and culture ever written.Named one of the Top 50 Sports Books...

A powerful, provocative, and genre-bending literary memoir that grapples with victimhood, recovery, and resilience In the before, Jesse James Rose is happy. She has a beautiful boyfriend with...

The Jameses are perhaps the most extraordinary and  distinguished family in American intellectual life. Henry’s novels, celebrated as among the finest in the language, and William’s groundbreaking...

Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by The Guardian and TIMEThe essays in James Baldwin's first nonfiction collection explore what it means to be Black in America and his own...