The Writing Revolution

Reducere. The Jewish Question is foundational to the demographic transformation of the West, the revolution in its sexual and ethical mores, and to the traje...

DescriptionIn a radical reappraisal of Iran's modern history, Ervand Abrahamian traces the country's traumatic journey from the mid-nineteenth cent...

After World War II and the Communist Revolution in China, Mark's father, H. Thomas Luke, a graduate of Yenching University in Beijing, escaped with...

Reducere. Award-winning biographer Jean Fritz brings one of America's favorite Founding Fathers to life Most people know that Alexander Hamilton was killed i...

Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, The Thin White Duke: David Bowie had an extraordinary talent for reinvention. But at the beginning of his career, he ...

Reducere. If you aren't fond of slugs and bugs, you might be pleased to discouver that salamanders will help control them in your garden. In contrast, nectar...

DescriptionLucy Fitch Perkins (1865-1937) was an American children's book author and illustrator, famous for writing the "Twins" series of books. H...

DescriptionThe extended critical interview is especially flexible as a form, by turns tenacious and glancing, elliptical or sustained, combining ar...

Reducere. At age twenty-two, General Henry Lee commanded the elite Lee's Legion and earned an enviable record: capturing the fort at Paulus Hook; distinguish...

Reducere. Volume 1 of Accounting History covers the first 10, 000 plus years of the rise of accounting and civilization. Conveniently, accounting was part of...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book is a supplement to the textbook Basic Technical Japanese. It introduces 100 new kanji and more than 1500 technical terms that ...

Reducere. In a story arc of loss, exile, and self-reliance, here a roadside view of a lost America never glimpsed by historians, journalists, or celebrities....

Reducere. Even as American Patriots fought for independence from British rule during the Revolutionary War, oppressive conditions remained in place for the t...

DescriptionIn Art to Come Terry Smith--who is widely recognized as one of the world's leading historians and theorists of contemporary art--traces ...

Elegy and iambus are major forms of Greek literature which are crucial to understanding the Archaic and early Classical periods in particular. This...

Reducere. *** WINNER OF THE 2019 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019SHORTLISTED FOR THE NAYEF AL-RODHAN PRIZE...

Reducere. The explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the heigh...

In the wake of the Scientific Revolution, the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw the complete demolition of traditional structures of au...

Reducere. The Instant New York Times Besteller National Bestseller [The] authors' finest work to date. --Wall Street JournalThe explosive true saga of the le...

Reducere. The post-digital publishing paradigm offers authors, readers, publishers, and scholars the opportunity to engage with the production and circulatio...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Philippe PaquetAn award-winning biography of one of the greats.Simon Leys is the pen-name of Pierre Ryckmans, who was born ...

Contributor(s): Author: Michel SerresMarginalized by the scientific age the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language ...

Reducere. It is now forty years after Mao Zedong's death and the end of the Cultural Revolution, and more than fifty years since the Great Leap Forward and t...

DescriptionA fundamentally new approach to the history of science and technologyThis book presents a new way of thinking about the history of scien...

"Deeply moving...A first-rate, highly readable intellectual history." -The Wall Street Journal The drama that shaped today's Iran, from the Revolut...

Reducere. Anna Akhmatova (1889-1666) is one of Russia's greatest poets, and perhaps the greatest woman poet in the history of Western culture. The two long p...

DescriptionWhere the Mesquite Tree Grows is a poignant and riveting journey through the thoughts and recollections of a Mexican American young man ...

Reducere. In a clear conversation with the reader, Berkman discusses society as it now exists, the need for Anarchism and the methods for bringing it about. ...

Reducere. A New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller, this exciting finale to Lauren Oliver's acclaimed Delirium trilogy is a riveting ble...

DescriptionAuthor Graham Greene finds himself in the midst of an intricate plot to unseat the government of Czechoslovakia in an event that would b...

DescriptionThe most comprehensive collection of feminist manifestos, chronicling our rage and dreams from the nineteenth century to today In this l...

'Delightfully insightful and intensely readable [...] There is an energy and drama to Rory's writing which nonetheless leaves space for us, the rea...

Turkey occupies a strategic position in today's world: the only predominantly Muslim nation to be a member of NATO and an ally of Israel, it stradd...

Reducere. In a book written while he was president of Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Havel combines the same powerful eloquence, moral passion, and abiding wisdom th...

Reducere. From one of the 20th century's great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time. Speak, Memory was first published by Vladimir Nab...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: W. H. HudsonIntroduction by: John GalsworthyAfter a failed revolution, Abel is forced to seek refuge in the virgin forests ...

Reducere. A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Jack London, an influential writer of the Ind...

Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaratio...

Reducere. A king without a crown seeks the meaning of a world troubled by war. A silver princess entrusts her life to a red captain in the chaos of an unknow...

Reducere. The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 5, spanning 1932 through May 1934, traces the completion and publication of Death in the Afternoon and Winn...

Predictions for each year of life go back to the earliest times of Hellenistic astrology. Elaborated by Persian and Arabic astrologers who emphasiz...

Reducere. In Google It, award-winning investigative reporter Anna Crowley Redding shares an inspiring story of innovation, personal and intellectual bravery,...

Roderick Beaton re-examines Lord Byron's life and writing through the long trajectory of his relationship with Greece. Beginning with the poet's yo...

Reducere. In its time, it was considered the most significant work of American natural history. Coleridge, Emerson, and Wordsworth were fans, and drew from i...

DescriptionIn its time, it was considered the most significant work of American natural history. Coleridge, Emerson, and Wordsworth were fans, and ...

Reducere. Jeff Greenwald's classic travelogue follows his quest for the "perfect" Buddha statue. At turns hilarious and moving, his quest features a cast of ...

Reducere. In Upright Women Wanted, award-winning author Sarah Gailey reinvents the pulp Western with an explicitly antifascist, near-future story of queer id...

Reducere. An audacious "biography" of the ex-president of Cuba told in Castro's own outrageous, bombastic voice. Prize-winning author and journalist Norberto...

Reducere. Delightful and inspiring tales of some of the most fascinating andawesome women of colonial times American history is rife with stories of our foun...

If someone stole your wallet, you'd notice it. So why don't people notice when they are robbed of something much more valuable than their wallet--t...

DescriptionWeaving together narrative essay and bilingual poetry, Knitting the Fog is the complex self-portrait of a young Chapina girl who wakes u...

Reducere. Rebelling against the Elvis-based, American-imported rock scene in late '60s Brazil, Caetano Veloso suffused lyrical Brazilian folksongs with fuzz ...

This study investigates the negotiation of Jewish-German-Communist identity in post-Holocaust Germany, specifically East Germany. After an introduc...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Laura Grace Weldon"Free Range Learning should be read by every parent, teacher, and school administrator as the beginning o...

Reducere. Introductory and user-friendly textbook for scholars and students in the humanitiesMultidisciplinary approach to digital cultureCross-fertilization...

Reducere. The epic conclusion to The Dagger and The Coin series, perfect for fans of George R.R. Martin. Lord Regent Geder Palliako's great war has spilled a...

Reducere. A New York Times Notable Book of the YearIsaiah Berlin's The Sense of Reality contains an important body of previously unknown work by one of our c...

Reducere. A rebel angel's observations from her half-million years on Earth and her perspective on the spiritual journey of her human charge - Explains the h...

Reducere. Charles-Marie Gustave Le Bon was a French polymath whose areas of interest included anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine, invention, and p...

Gravel and Grit recounts not only a rural boyhood in a period of racial hostility and class exclusion but also of simple country pleasures and stro...

Reducere. Craig Odanovich laughingly refers to this book as a nonfiction novel. Craig's Record Factory is a coming-of-age journey through the 70's and 80's. ...

Reducere. Description#5 on Billboard Magazine's list of the Top Ten Music Books of 2018New York, NY, January 1, 2019 - Celebrated music producer John Simon h...

- For the first time, a lavishly illustrated book shows how traditional handmade rugs and carpets have become vehicles for contemporary trends and ...

The Eisner Award winning series concludes! Just when the crew of the Sundog thought they'd made it through the most dangerous edge of space--they a...

Reducere. Welcome to Western Writers of America's first anthology for young readers. In this collection of true tales of the West, we leave textbook history ...

Reducere. The American Revolution is finally over, and Sophie Menzies is starved for good news. When her nearest neighbor, General Seamus Ogilvy, finally com...

DescriptionAdrian Bell was farming and writing during a period when the English countryside underwent its most significant transformation for hundr...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Angie CruzAngie Cruz has established herself as a dazzling new voice in Latin American fiction, her writing compared to Gab...

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is among the most enigmatic and influential figures of the twentieth century. While his life and work are crucial to any unde...

Reducere. Longlisted for the 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardShort-listed for Physics World's Book of the YearThe Sunday Times (UK) Best S...