Essays, Hardcover

DescriptionAs a scholar of medieval languages and literature, J.R.R. Tolkien brought to his fiction an intense interest in myth and legend. When he...

This book brings together a landmark collection of essays on tax law and policy to celebrate the legacy of Professor Judith Freedman. It focuses on...

Reducere. This book offers new perspectives on the environmental history of lands that have come under Russian and Soviet rule by paying attention to 'place'...

Reducere. This book explores the exchange of music, musicians and musical practice between Britain and the Continent in the period c.1500-1800. Inspired by P...

Reducere. "Born in Tashkent, raised in Moscow and New York City, an editor in Odessa, a correspondent in Paris, there seems nowhere Davidzon hasn't been, no ...

Alternate history is a genre of fiction that, although connected to science fiction, has its own rich history and lineage. With its roots in the wr...

John Dewey was America's greatest public philosopher. A prolific and influential writer for both scholarly and general audiences, he stands out for...

A sweeping historiographical collection, Reinterpreting Southern Histories updates and expands upon the iconic volumes Writing Southern History and...

DescriptionFrom his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to founding the field of cultural studies and examining race a...

DescriptionThis edited collection offers an interdisciplinary study of Twin Peaks: The Return, the third season of a TV program that has attracted ...

DescriptionThis book offers a comprehensive reassessment of ekphrasis: the verbal representation of visual art. Ekphrasis has been traditionally re...

Reducere. It is time for an eco-liturgical liberation theology! One that hears the cries of the people and the earth and orients thinking and practices from ...

DescriptionTheatre is often said to offer unique insights into the nature of reality, but this obscures the reality of theatre itself. In Real Thea...

DescriptionFor those open to the possibility that philosophical thought can improve life, David Hume's Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary have ...

These highly original essays illuminate Virginia Woolf and a selection of other twentieth-century writers and artists. Based on detailed research a...

Reducere. For nearly half a century, celebrated historian Ron Tyler has researched, interpreted, and exhibited western American art. This splendid volume, gl...

DescriptionIn the 120 years since the publication of his final poetry collection, Decorations: In Verse and Prose (1899), Ernest Dowson has become ...

DescriptionContinuing his contribution to medieval Jewish intellectual history, Haym Soloveitchik focuses here on the radical pietist movement of H...

Reducere. A two-volume hardcover set In The Heart of Torah, Rabbi Shai Held's Torah essays--two for each weekly portion--open new horizons in Jewish biblical...

Reducere. From Goethe to Gundolf: Essays on German Literature and Culture is a collection of Roger Paulin's groundbreaking essays, spanning the last forty ye...

Reducere. DescriptionThe indispensable writings of our foremost voice on the current ecological and cultural crisis, more relevant now than ever, in a specia...

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Reducere. During the American colonial period, what would become the Midwest was the "backcountry, " or the area behind the coastal population centers. It wa...

Reducere. This book 's radical theory of police argues that the police demand for order is a class order and a racialized and patriarchal order, by arguing t...

Reducere. This volume brings together a collection of seven articles previously published by the author, with a new introduction reframing the articles in th...

Reducere. One of the finest historians of her generation, Jan Ellen Lewis transformed our understanding of the early U.S. Republic. Her groundbreaking essays...

Reducere. DescriptionThe eighty-five Federalist articles were written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay; three Founding Fathers who together ...

Essays defend, discuss, and critique specific theories of consciousness with respect to various psychopathologies.In Disturbed Consciousness, philo...

A compelling first-hand look at one of today's most fascinating food trends - the practice of cooking with and eating insects The concept of eating...

Reducere. Tsimtsum (contraction) and hitpashtut (expansion). These two kabbalistic terms aptly describe the thought of Bezalel Naor. Though diametrically opp...

DescriptionAgrarian transition, exploitative production relations, bondage in the agriculture and informal sectors, food insecurity, and poverty ar...

Reducere. The COVID-19 pandemic represents a watershed moment for hotels around the world. Weathering the short-term consequences of a global travel shutdown...

How can we find stability in the Night of the World? How can we anchor ourselves in the void of existence, the great nothingness of the endless dar...

Reducere. Interpreting Jesus brings together N. T. Wright's most important articles on Jesus and the Gospels over the last three decades. Many of the include...

Reducere. The Southern Baptist Convention's Conservative Resurgence officially began in June of 1979. That summer the SBC elected Adrian Rogers as its Presid...

At the time of his death in the autumn of 2017, Robert W. Jenson was arguably America's foremost theologian. Over the course of a career spanning m...

DescriptionVelazquez. Poussin. Carvaggio. Bernini. Despite their disparate backgrounds, these greats of European Baroque art converged at one remar...

Martin Luther King, Jr., may be America's most revered political figure, commemorated in statues, celebrations, and street names around the world. ...

Interpreting Scripture brings together N. T. Wright's most important articles on Scripture and hermeneutics over the last two decades. Many of the ...

Reducere. The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritativ...

Reducere. When one opens the pages to this book they step into another world and place, and even on occasions, another time. No matter what you may know abou...

Reducere. For far too long, horror has been considered a male genre, made by men, marketed to men, and enjoyed by men. But in the last decade, we have seen a...

Reducere. This book has grown out of a ministry that has spanned nearly four decades. It is built around the conviction that theology does matter for theolog...

Reducere. This book contains eight essays. They have been prepared as part of an ongoing labor to recover and restore the work begun through Joseph Smith. Th...

Reducere. Oswald Spengler, in the aftermath of the Great War, gained international repute as a philosopher-historian whose apparently doom-laden forecast on ...

Reducere. Fascist Voices contains a unique and uncompromising collection of essays that appeared in Fascist Quarterly during the turbulent 1930s. This public...

While these essays were written at different times and for widely different occasions over an entire career, they are grouped here for convenience ...

Reducere. There is a constant drumbeat of commentary claiming that STEM subjects--science, technology, engineering, and math--are far more valuable in today'...

Reducere. Remembered Words is a selection of Alastair Fowler's essays on genre, realism, and the emblem (three interrelated subjects), published over six dec...

An anthology of reviews, essays, interviews & film stories by this legendary writer.

Reducere. The Russian dancer and teacher Vladimir Stepanov (1866 - 1896) developed a system of human movement notation based on the principles of music notat...

DescriptionThis collection of essays, written by many of the foremost McGahern scholars, provides solid reasons for why the Leitrim writer has assu...

Reducere. North Dakota is regarded as flyover country, but extraordinary narratives play out on this improbable Great Plains landscape. North Dakota is the h...

A deeper look at the creativity, art, expression, craft, and philosophy of landscape photography. More Than a Rock, 2nd Edition is a passionate and...

Reducere. Description"The Ideology of Fascism" was written by Oswald Mosley in 1967 and provides a post WW2 analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of Fasci...

Reducere. In Essays on Austrian Economics and Political Economy, Karen I. Vaughn takes us through her intellectual journey and career. As a neoclassical econ...

Reducere. Psyche Unbound: Essays in Honor of Stanislav Grof is an extraordinary compilation of 22 essays that honor the path-breaking lifework of Stanislav G...

DescriptionAchille Mbembe is one of the world's most profound critics of colonialism and its consequences, a major figure in the emergence of a new...

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In the late 1990s bands like Fugazi, Branch Manager, the Make-Up, Deep Lust, Quix*o*tic, Lungfish, Spirit Caravan, Scaramouche, Stinking Lizaveta, ...

Reducere. Christmas is a time for celebrating the birth of Jesus with family and friends; to gather together in sacred and jovial celebration of the Incarnat...

Reducere. DescriptionA highly acclaimed collection of twenty-eight essays, sketches, and short stories presenting nearly every facet of the author's work. "U...

In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long ca...

Reducere. The Wisdom of John Muir marries the best aspects of a Muir anthology with the best aspects of a Muir biography. The fact that it is neither, and ye...

Reducere. Milton Friedman is one of the most famous economists in history. His writings and theories on everything from capitalism and freedom to deregulatio...

Reducere. The idea of this book is that language is too interesting to be enjoyed exclusively by linguists.This is undoubtedly unfair to linguists--not peopl...

Reducere. "Enclosed in this beautiful package, please find: an agile mind, a perfect style, a canny and undeceivable heart, and a welcome, enduring presence ...

Reducere. Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their...

Reducere. Thirteen writers consider the groundbreaking work of Jane Jacobs, whose critiques of urban renewal in America resonate today more than ever.Author ...

Contributor(s): Author: Adrienne RichEditor: Sandra M. GilbertAdrienne Rich was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and ...