192 results for '"PARKER,A"'

In The Theorist's Mother one of our subtlest literary theorists turns his attention to traces of the maternal in the lives and works of canonical male critical theorists. Noting how the mother is...

An almost overwhelming influence from the 1940s onwards, Parker's brilliance has rarely if ever, been surpassed since his death in 1955. He came into prominence with the bands of Jay McShann, Earl...

 The British artist Cornelia Parker is known for her large, site-specific installations. Often composed of ordinary objects, her works makes the familiar extraordinary, whimsical, and even poignant...

The second revision in sixty years, this sublime collection ranges over the verse, stories, essays, and journalism of one of the twentieth century's most quotable authors.In this new...

An accessible synthesis of the prescient best seller exploring seventeenth-century catastrophe and the impact of climate change First published in 2013, Geoffrey Parker's prize-winning best seller...

"One boy leaps from a bridge into a river, and the ripples from his fall ring out to encompass a nation. All that remains unspoken in the reportage--the sorrow and compassion and anger--is given...

An in-depth look at how mortuary cultures and issues of death and the dead in Africa have developed over four centuriesIn My Time of Dying is the first detailed history of death and the dead in...

Magical Negro is an archive of black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads, idioms, and customs. These American poems...

Imagined by one of the world's leading experts on Casanova, this fictionalised conversation presents the essential biography of history's most famous lover.A quiet chat with Casanova turns into a...

An in-depth look at how mortuary cultures and issues of death and the dead in Africa have developed over four centuriesIn My Time of Dying is the first detailed history of death and the dead in...

An irresistible hardcover collection of the famous humorist’s poems that range from lighthearted satire to gleeful dark comedyOne of the Jazz Age’s most beloved poets, Dorothy Parker earned her...

A study of the last years of the independence of La Rochelle, concentrating upon its defeat by Richelieu. Dr Parker shows that the issues raised extended far beyond the history and concerns of the...

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Here is the definitive biography of one of the most exciting, influential, and elusive authors of the twentieth century. Christopher Isherwood’s novels and short stories, including those that...

This Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented, both in Africa and beyond. The author illustrates important aspects of...

Arranged in a compelling narrative, interviews with American men and women convicted of a range of crimes from manslaughter to contract killings reveal the violence in their lives and its roots...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!An ode to triangles, the shape that makes our lives possible   Trigonometry is perhaps the most essential concept humans have ever devised. The simple yet...