51 results for '"MARQUIS,A"'

Offering a fresh look at what's wrong with how Americans fund the arts--and why--this book, based on wide-ranging interviews and massive research, goes beyond identifying the failures of the present...

In Black Trans Feminism Marquis Bey offers a meditation on blackness and gender nonnormativity in ways that recalibrate traditional understandings of each. Theorizing black trans feminism from the...

In Cistem Failure Marquis Bey meditates on the antagonistic relationship between blackness and cisgender. Bey asks, What does it mean to have a gender that “matches” one’s sex---that is, to be...

In a significant reevaluation of Paul’s place in the early Christian story, Timothy Luckritz Marquis explores the theme of travel in the apostle’s correspondence. He casts Paul’s rhetorical...

First published in 1797, this is a sequence of bizarre sexual adventures punctuated by philosophical and theological premises on total egoism and human liberty. Vilified by respectable society since...

"Es handelt sich darum, dass die Dummköpfe endlich aufhören, jenes lächerliche Götzenbild der Tugend anzubeten, das sie nur mit Undankbarkeit belohnt und dass Leute mit Verstand sich umso sicherer...

Dieses Werk ist Teil der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS. Der Verlag tredition aus Hamburg veröffentlicht in der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS Werke aus mehr als zwei Jahrtausenden. Diese waren zu einem...

Drawing on thousands of pages of correspondence, a biographer brings to life not only one of the most perplexing figures in Western history, but the lives of the two women who ultimately dedicated...

The late stories by an influential writer of singular talentBetween 1799, when he left the Prussian Army, and his suicide in 1811, Kleist developed into a writer of unprecedented and tragically...

Book by Kleist, Heinrich von

Reveals the revolutionary power of the Chavista grassroots movementVenezuela has been the stuff of frontpage news extravaganzas, especially since the death of Hugo Chavez. With predictable bias,...

From the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes the thrilling story of the Marquis de Lafayette’s lifelong quest to defend the principles of...

In this timely collection, some of the world's leading ethicists grapple with the variety of issues posed by human embryonic stem cell research. Investigates the moral status of the embryo...