Generation Left

As the most influential anthropologist of his generation, Claude L vi-Strauss left a profound mark on the development of twentieth-century thought....

Description- Six hundred rings by international artist jewelers give an insight into the contemporary jewelry scene- Author Beatriz Chadour-Sampson...

Reducere. Over a career spanning six decades, architect Paul Revere Williams came to define what gracious living looked like for the Hollywood elite. William...

Since 1965, Singapore has been propelled to the dizzying heights of first-world prosperity. Yet, the People's Action Party's signature style of tec...

An unsurpassed surge of humanityIn words and images this book seeks to capture both the glory days and haunting reminders of 21 Victorian Gold Rush...

DescriptionThe art and antics of rebellious figures in 1950s American nightlife--from the Beat Generation to eccentric jazz musicians and comedians...

Contributor(s): Author: Aldo MarchesiThis book examines the emergence, development, and demise of a network of organizations of young leftist milit...

After the Civil War, white Confederate and Union army veterans reentered--or struggled to reenter--the lives and communities they had left behind. ...

At the turn of the twentieth century, Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) created a body of work that left visible reality behind, exploring ...

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

Reducere. Description"For all of us to be free, a few of us must be brave, and that is the history of America." Read how a generation of young Americans save...

Reducere. 2052 is humanity's last year on Earth. Catastrophic disasters are tearing away at our world's infrastructure. Time is scarce. Freedom is delicate. ...

Reducere. DescriptionHow gender and generation shape perceptions of place and time as told through the voices of Mexican teenage girls This book examines the...

Reducere. The Arab Revolutions that began in 2011 reignited interest in the question of theory and practice, imbuing it with a burning political urgency. In ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book is the first in a brand new series that follows on from My Great Predecessors and sees chess legend Garry Kasparov reflecting ...

DescriptionHudson & Halls is a tale of two television chefs who helped change the bedrock bad attitudes of a nation in the 1970s and 80s to that un...

Reducere. In 1968 University of California Press published an unusual manuscript by an anthropology student named Carlos Castaneda. The Teachings of Don Juan...

Reducere. Visual Vitriol: The Street Art and Subcultures of the Punk and Hardcore Generation is a vibrant, in-depth, and visually appealing history of punk, ...

Reducere. Praise for the chapbook series: "Dawes and Abani have taken on the vital project of publishing short collections by contemporary poets from Africa,...

When it was published twenty-five years ago, this book captured a huge audience of Vietnam War protesters, dropouts, and rebels-and their baffled e...

Reducere. "The leadership lessons learned in combat apply here at home: take care of the people to your left and to your right. You are the frontlines--no ma...

Reducere. Tripoli, Tobruk, Alam al Halfa and Al Alamein are burned into military history with blood.The moment Benito Mussolini sent his 10th Army into Egypt...

Reducere. Upham Genealogy; The Descendants Of John Upham, Of Massachusetts, Who Came From England In 1635, And Lived In Weymouth And Malden. Embracing Over F...

Pigeonholed in popular memory as a Jazz Age epicurean, a playboy, and an emblem of the Lost Generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald was at heart a moralist...

Between 1876 and 1945, thousands of Japanese civilians--merchants, traders, prostitutes, journalists, teachers, and adventurers--left their homelan...

Reducere. Franklin Roosevelt is said to have explained Al Smith, and his own New Deal, with these words: "Practically all the things we've done in the federa...

Reducere. "Amy was one of those rare people who made an impact . . . She was a bundle of emotions, at times adorable and at times unbearable. . . . Amy's pas...

The long-awaited first biography of W. G. Sebald 'The best biography I have read in years' Philippe Sands 'Spectacular' Observer 'A remarkable port...

Reducere. The sexy page-turner picks up where the #1 New York Times bestselling Hollywood Wives left off showing Jackie Collins at her "ultra-celeb, super ac...

DescriptionConventional financial mindsets are failing too many people. We save, invest, and borrow the way Wall Street, banks, and the financial m...

The black and white photos in Mean Streets, collected here in print for the first time, offer a look at the infamously hardscrabble NYC in the 70s ...

Reducere. DescriptionDying for freedom isn't the worst that could happen. Being forgotten is. THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL IN THE BEST SELLING 'The Things Our Fat...

Reducere. Description"For all of us to be free, a few of us must be brave, and that is the history of America." Read how a generation of young Americans save...

Reducere. They called themselves Legionnaires of the Waffen SS, the new European Army. They came from all nations of Europe, and they were wearing the same u...

Reducere. Harry Chapin never reached sixty-five years-old. In fact, he never even reached forty. But in the all-too-brief time he was allowed, he achieved a ...

Reducere. ***EISNER AWARD WINNER*** Gengoroh Tagame's global sensation, now in one volume Yaichi is a work-at-home suburban dad in contemporary Tokyo; former...

WINNER OF THE JUDGES' CHOICE IACP COOKBOOK AWARDIn 2013, food blogger and classical musician Molly Yeh left Brooklyn to live on a farm on the North...

Reducere. Schoolteacher Olivia Dare Christian was murdered in her Hampton, Virginia apartment in 1981. Her killer left few clues and the murder went unsolved...

In the 1960s, a new generation of university-educated youth in Japan challenged forms of capitalism and the state. In Coed Revolution Chelsea Szend...

Reducere. It's not fun to think about, but the truth is no one lives forever. We all have lost or will lose someone close to us like a parent, sibling, grand...

Reducere. During the dark days of World War II, forty-one individuals from Ganson Street in the industrialized Western New York city of North Tonawanda left ...

Reducere. If you want to make bedtime into a memorable experience while giving your child all the benefits that come with reading bedtime stories, then keep ...

Reducere. The Diamond Cutter's Daughter: A Poet's Memoir might be thought of as a nonfiction bildungsroman. Told in short lyric pieces it gives a picture of ...

Reducere. The body remembers sexual abuse and keeping family secrets causes illness. Unwittingly and unwillingly, our parents and grandparents and ancestors ...

Eisner-Award winning author Grant Morrison and artist Liam Sharp continue their incredible take on the Green Lantern After the Blackstar incursion,...

Reducere. DescriptionThere are men who are representatives of their race, of their nation, and of their generation. They are exceptional beings who are sampl...

Reducere. A WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD NOTABLE BOOK After the American Revolution, the British Empire appeared to be doomed. Yet it grew to become the greate...

Reducere. In this lavishly illustrated biography of silversmith and graphic artist William Spratling (1900--1967), Taylor D. Littleton reintroduces one of th...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Julissa ArceA remarkable true story from social justice advocate and national bestselling author Julissa Arce about her jou...

Reducere. Jack Quinlan, an American writer, travels to a small village in the remote western part of Ireland to research a book on the Irish Famine. The quie...

Reducere. Herbert McCabe, who died in 2001, was one of the most intelligent Roman Catholic thinkers of the twentieth century. An influence on philosophers su...

A traditional biography on the life of Mipham Rinpoche--one of the greatest 19th-century masters--from Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, one of the greatest...

Reducere. Baby Boomers (and I confess I am one): prepare to squirm and shake your increasingly arthritic little fists. For here comes essayist Helen Andrews....

Reducere. Dumnorix princess and born warrior, Talyn Dynan was the finest fighter of her generation. With her Callanan partner at her side, she was invincible...

Reducere. DescriptionHe's that regular guy from Astoria, Queens, who left his heart in San Francisco. He's the postwar heartthrob who inspired hundreds of yo...

Reducere. Church leaders are struggling to turn the tide of this epidemic exodus. It doesn't surprise me when I read almost universal statistics of Millennia...

Reducere. Dinesh D'Souza rose to national prominence as one of the founders of the Dartmouth Review, a leading voice in the rebirth of conservative politics ...

Arwa Salih was a member of the political bureau of the Egyptian Communist Workers Party, which was founded in the wake of the Arab-Israeli War and ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ramon J. SenderEditor: Borja Rodriguez GutierrezRequiem por un campesino espanol, a short, elegant and moving account of th...

Reducere. Whisperin' Bill: An Unprecedented Life in Country Music presents a revealing portrait of Bill Anderson, one of the most prolific songwriters in the...

Reducere. America's ancient Mound Builders left behind thousands of pyramid-shaped and conical burial mounds, complex geometric earthworks, effigy mounds, an...

Reducere. Life of the Party is a darkly humorous narrative set in Milan. The story swan dives into the underbelly of Milanese fashion and nightlife, through ...

Reducere. Want to be a better father? Four dads have come together to create a powerfully honest and insightful guide for men who sincerely want to improve r...

Reducere. "You're twenty-five years too late!" was the response of a Fredericksburg doctor when he learned of my upcoming plans to collect the German oral tr...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book is different It provides mainstream how to's and what to do's with a left of field focus on they WHO and WHY. It taps into wha...

Reducere. For most of her adult life, Dara Kurtz kept a Ziploc bag of letters written by her mother who passed away from cancer when she was twenty-eight ye...

Reducere. Cultural Writing. Most books on the 1960's focus on large liberal organizations and reformist politics. This one is unabashedly devoted to the far ...

Reducere. DescriptionWelcome to Oddertown, Vermont, population 700, more or less. Tucked into the remote Northeast Kingdom, and filled with a collection of q...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Karl BarthBarth stands before us as the greatest theologian of the twentieth century, yet the massive corpus of work which ...

Reducere. Hailed as "the Anne Rice of the text message generation, " Alys Arden's sparkling debut, The Casquette Girls, entranced over a million readers onli...