A noble radiance

Donna Leon has topped European bestseller lists for more than a decade with a series of mysteries featuring clever Commissario Guido Brunetti. Always ready to bend the rules to uncover the threads of a crime, Brunetti manages to maintain his integrity while maneuvering through a city rife with po...

A nose and three eyes

A NOTABLE AFRICAN BOOK OF 2024 (BRITTLE PAPER) Written by iconic Egyptian novelist Ihsan Abdel Kouddous, this classic of love, desire, and family breakdown smashed through taboos when first published in Arabic and continues to captivate audiences todayIt is 1950s Cairo and 16-year-old Amina is en...

A not-so-new world

When Samuel de Champlain founded the colony of Quebec in 1608, he established elaborate gardens where he sowed French seeds he had brought with him and experimented with indigenous plants that he found in nearby fields and forests. Following Champlain's example, fellow colonists nurtured similar ...

A notion of enterprise risk management

Soumi Majumder and Nilanjan Dey address the unique challenges posed by Industry 4.0, exploring the intersection of risks and cultural shifts within the business landscape. Key topics include the transformative potential of machine learning; big data; and IoT in the domain of enterprise risk manag...

A novel bookstore

“A love letter to the novel . . . and a profound exploration of human nature.”—Library Journal Ivan and Francesca decide to open a bookstore devoted to their love of books. Tucked away in a corner of Paris, the store offers a selection of literary masterpieces chosen by a top-secret committee of ...

A number

A remarkable follow up play to Far Away by one of England's most astonishing playwrights.

A once charitable enterprise

This work, examines the transformation of American hospitals from a series of community- based charitable institutions into the large, bureaucratic system that existed by the end of the Progressive era.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand techn...

A panorama of american film noir (1941-1953)

This first book published on film noir established the genre--a classic, at last in translation.

A panorama of linguistic landscape studies

This book provides an overview of how the field of Linguistic Landscape Studies has emerged and developed over the past 20 years, combined with an in-depth exploration of the theoretical approaches, innovative research methods and major themes that have been central to this dynamic area of research.

A paradigm of care

This book celebrates the act of care, from medical professionals to mothers, teachers, and beyond. It highlights the need for a care paradigm to address the crisis of care, advocating for a collective approach to nurture and support all individuals and the environment, emphasizing the importance ...

A partial enlightenment

Avram Alpert combines personal experience and readings of modern novels to offer another way to understand modern Buddhism. He argues that it represents a rich resource not for attaining perfection but rather for finding meaning and purpose in a chaotic world.

A partisan century

For more than sixty years, Partisan Review has been the most influential literary and cultural journal in America, home to some of this century's finest writers. A Partisan Century now collects the journal's greatest political essays from the 1930s to the present.The list of writers collected her...

A partisan from vilna

A Partisan of Vilna is the memoir of Rachel Margolis, the sole survivor of her family, who escaped from the Vilna Ghetto with other members of the FPO (United Partisan Organization) resistance movement and joined the Soviet partisans in the forests of Lithuania to sabotage the Nazis. Beginning wi...

A party for lazarus

A Party for Lazarus is the story of a Cuban family, six generations removed from slavery, struggling to honor its ancestors amid changing fortunes and a crumbling state. This intimate intergenerational account centers on an annual feast celebrating ancestors and orisás—the life-changing spirits a...

A passion for birds

In the decades following the Civil War--as industrialization, urbanization, and economic expansion increasingly reshaped the landscape--many Americans began seeking adventure and aesthetic gratification through avian pursuits. By the turn of the century, hundreds of thousands of middle-and upper-...

A passion for facts

In this path-breaking book, Tong Lam examines the emergence of the “culture of fact” in modern China, showing how elites and intellectuals sought to transform the dynastic empire into a nation-state, thereby ensuring its survival. Lam argues that an epistemological break away from traditional mod...

A passion for ignorance

An original and provocative exploration of our capacity to ignore what is inconvenient or traumaticIgnorance, whether passive or active, conscious or unconscious, has always been a part of the human condition, Renata Salecl argues. What has changed in our post-truth, postindustrial world is that ...

A passion for society

What does human suffering mean for society? And how has this meaning changed from the past to the present? In what ways does “the problem of suffering” serve to inspire us to  care for others? How does our response to suffering reveal our moral and social conditions? In this trenchant work, Arth...

A passion for this earth

A passion in the desert

A French soldier escapes captivity and stumbles into something stranger than war: solitude, survival, and a wild intimacy with a panther in the sands of Egypt.

A pathway to pds partnership

This book is a practical guide for creating Professional Development Schools (PDS), offering tools to assess school and university readiness for partnerships. It includes the PDSEA Protocol with surveys and planning templates. The authors share insights from their 13 years of experience in PDS de...

A patrimony of fishes

A peculiar grace

A pedagogist’s memoir

The memoir now looms large as a pedagogical tool for multiple levels of schooling and of education. Addressed essentially to senior students in schools, students undertaking undergraduate and postgraduate teacher preparation courses in universities.

A people's art history of the united states

Inspired by the pathbreaking work of Howard Zinn, A People's Art History of the United States is propelled by a democratic vision of art, showing that art doesn't just belong within the confines of museums and archives. In fact, art is created every day in the street and all around us, and everyo...

A people's constitution

It has long been contended that the Indian Constitution of 1950, a document in English created by elite consensus, has had little influence on India’s greater population. Drawing upon the previously unexplored records of the Supreme Court of India, A People’s Constitution upends this narrative an...

A people's guide to capitalism

A lively, accessible, and timely guide to Capitalism for those who want to understand and dismantle the world of the 1%

A people's guide to greater boston

A People's Guide to Greater Boston reveals the region’s richness and vibrancy in ways that are neglected by traditional area guidebooks and obscured by many tourist destinations. Affirming the hopes, interests, and struggles of individuals and groups on the receiving end of unjust forms of power,...

A people's guide to los angeles

A People’s Guide to Los Angeles offers an assortment of eye-opening alternatives to L.A.’s usual tourist destinations. It documents 115 little-known sites in the City of Angels where struggles related to race, class, gender, and sexuality have occurred. They introduce us to people and events usu...

A people's guide to richmond and central virginia

An expansive guide for resistance and solidarity across this storied region.   Richmond and Central Virginia are a historic epicenter of America’s racialized history. This alternative guidebook foregrounds diverse communities in the region who are mobilizing to dismantle oppressive systems and fu...

A people's guide to the san francisco bay area

An alternative history and geography of the Bay Area that highlights sites of oppression, resistance, and transformation. “Lavishly produced, with beautiful images and crystal clear prose, A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area is for readers and activists who have taken part in protests ...

A people's history of chicago

Named "Best Chicago Poet" by The Chicago Reader, Kevin Coval channels Howard Zinn to celebrate the Windy City's hidden history.

A people's history of civilization

Has civilization been a good idea? Zerzan doesn't think so. We may need this critical perspective, as the nature of civilization becomes clearer--and more frightening!

A people's history of india 14

This volume explores the economic and social history of India from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century. It describes the agrarian order, urban economy, and trading world during the Delhi Sultanate, the subsequent period of political divisions, and conditions in the Vijayanagara Empire, which ...

A people's history of india 30

This book considers the first phase of Indian popular resistance to colonial rule, including the Revolt of 1857–58, its nature and legacy; the rise of national consciousness; the movement for social reform and political awakening among the middle classes, and, finally, Gandhiji’s arrival and the ...

A people's history of india 31

This volume takes up the story of the Indian National Movement from 1919 when the first nationalist struggle took place on an all-India scale. The work ends with August 1947 when India finally attained independence.

A people's history of sfo

An illuminating profile of the San Francisco Bay Area, and its regional and global influence, as seen from the focal point of San Francisco International Airport (SFO).A People's History of SFO uses the history of San Francisco International Airport (SFO) to tell a multifaceted story of developme...

A people's history of the u.s. military

Military service can shatter or give meaning to lives–it is rarely a neutral ­encounter—and it has resulted in a rich outpouring of personal testimony from the men and women who have literally placed their lives on the line. “A 'real' love letter to our military [that] will prove enlightening, ev...

A people's history of the united states

Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States has turned history on its head for an entire generation of readers, telling the nation's story from the viewpoints of ordinary people—the slaves, workers, immigrants, women, and Native Americans who made their own history but whose voices are ...

A people’s senate for canada

This little book is written for Canadians who care about our democracy and the future of our planet. The Senate, surprisingly, could make major contributions to both. A People’s Senate for Canada explains how we can make that happen.What if we had a Senate that was independent of party politics, ...

A perfect frenzy

From the nationally bestselling author of The Secret Token, the largely untold story of rebellion in Virginia that will forever change our understanding of the American RevolutionAs the American Revolution broke out in New England in the spring of 1775, dramatic events unfolded in Virginia that p...

A perfect turmoil

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNERThe rise, fall, and redemption of the doctor behind America’s first public school for mentally disabled peopleFrom the moment he became superintendent of the nation’s oldest public school for intellectually and developmentally disabled children in 1887 unt...

A performer’s guide to the piano music of samuel adler

This comprehensive study of the piano music of award-winning American composer Samuel Adler will interest pianists, teachers, and anyone interested in the musical art of our day.American composer Samuel Adler has composed a huge and multi-faceted body of works ranging from symphonies, concertos, ...