Essays, Hardcover

Reducere. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Published more than two decades ago to great critical acclaim and commercial success, A Brief History of Time has beco...

Reducere. "A celebration of the adventure that is other people." --Ariel Levy, author of The Rules Do Not Apply Lauren Groff, Elizabeth Kolbert, Pam Houston,...

*A Book Riot Most Anticipated Nonfiction Book of 2021* The creators of the popular website Black Nerd Problems bring their witty and unflinching in...

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. 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 ...

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

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

Reducere. I believe in dignity in all things, and it goes both ways, and while that attitude is modeled, the why-what-how has first to be shown, taught, and ...

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

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

Reducere. Brian Doyle himself explains it best: "A few years ago I was moaning to my wry gentle dad that basketball, which seems to me inarguably the most gr...

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

Visualizing Nature brings together contemporary visionaries to share deeply personal essays on nature, ecology, sustainability, climate change, phi...

Reducere. A powerful and provocative collection of essays that offers poignant reflections on living between society's most charged, politicized, and intract...

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. Ranging from Ta-Nehisi Coates's case for reparations to Toni Morrison's revolutionary humanism to D'Angelo's simmering blend of R&B and racial just...

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

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

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

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

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. For ten years or so I've been putting down my thoughts on design, and technology, and ethics. Essays after essay. Some of those essays get turned i...

Reducere. Cheryl Trench is a national treasure tucked within the pages of a small town paper. Her near half century of musings and missives are witty, insigh...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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. Powerful, wry essays offering modern takes on a primitive practice, from one of our most widely read death penalty abolitionists As Ruth Bader Gins...

Reducere. The Essays (1625) is a collection of writings by Francis Bacon, one of England's most prominent philosophers and scientists whose work was central ...

Reducere. Barrett Swanson embarks on a personal quest across the United States to uncover what it means to be an American amid the swirl of our post-truth cl...

Reducere. Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays and poems on the transcendental movement in the United States became some of the most important literary pieces in Ame...

The New York Times-bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with his collection of thoughts on time, the cr...

Instant New York Times Bestseller "Truly, there's no shame in taking a break from books during the pandemic. But if you're feeling ready to reach o...

The bestselling author of American Housewife and Southern Lady Code returns with a viciously funny, deeply felt collection of essays on friendship ...

Do you want to read What is Man? If so then keep reading...In "What is Man?" Mark Twain raises numerous thought-provoking questions about mankind a...

Reducere. Civil Disobedience and Other Essays is a collection of some of Henry David Thoreau's most important essays. Contained in this volume are the follow...

Reducere. In his debut essay collection, award-winning poet Jaswinder Bolina meditates on "how race, " as he puts it, "becomes metaphysical": the cumulative ...

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. For nearly four decades, poet, essayist, and small-town funeral director Thomas Lynch has probed relations between the literary and mortuary arts. ...

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...

From the creator of Elle's "Eric Reads the News, " a heartfelt and hilarious memoir-in-essays about growing up seeing the world differently, findin...

In Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why, acclaimed Washington Post satirist Alexandra Petri offers perfectly logical, reassuring reasons for everything...

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

Reducere. An O, The Oprah Magazine LGBTQ Book Changing the Literary LandscapeA gorgeously illustrated collection of essays written by today's queer heroes--f...

Reducere. Introduction by New York Times bestselling author Henry Louis Gates Jr. Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of ...

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. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. The fifteen essays in this collection, first published in 1947, treat a variety of economic, social, political, and philosophical problems and were...

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

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. "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 ...

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. Two decades of living is not nothing. It is everything we know.In Twenty-One Years Young: Essays, author Amy Dong examines the uncertainty, absurdi...

Elegant and learned, personal and universal, literary, philosophical, and historical--Hillel Halkin's finely wrought essays on themes of Jewish cul...

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

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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...

One of our most vital and incisive writers on literature, feminism, and knowing one's self For nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick's essays, written...

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

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...

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

DescriptionBest-known for his corporate brand logos and art direction, Paul Rand (1914-1986) transformed commercial art from craft to profession, i...

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. 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...