August: osage county (tcg edition)

A Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning family drama from author Tracy Letts.

Augusta savage

A visual exploration of the lasting legacy of sculptor Augusta Savage (1892-1962), African-American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance.

Augustan culture

Grand political accomplishment and artistic productivity were the hallmarks of Augustus Caesar's reign (31 B.C. to A.D. 14), which has served as a powerful model of achievement for societies throughout Western history. Although much research has been done on individual facets of Augustan culture,...

Augustine and the bible

Based on the acclaimed French volume Saint Augustin et la Bible, this translation with additional selections honors the beautifully wrought monument to the scholarly research of Anne-Marie la Bonnardière and her colleagues. Editor Pamela Bright offers the first English-language edition of this vo...

Augustine and the cure of souls

Augustine and the Cure of Souls situates Augustine within the ancient philosophical tradition of using words to order emotions, offering a fresh reading of his writings.

Augustine and the limits of politics

Elshtain brings Augustine's thought into the contemporary political arena and applies Augustinian thought to modern problems and misguided politics.

Augustine of hippo

This classic biography was first published forty-five years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching. The remarkable discovery of a considerable number of letters and sermons by Augustine cast fresh light on the first and last decades of ...

Augustine our contemporary

This volume addresses Augustinian influence on the idea of the self from the Middle Ages to modernity in theology, philosophy, history, and literary studies.

Augustine's confessions

From Pulitzer Prize–winner Garry Wills, the story of Augustine’s ConfessionsIn this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the Confessions--what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it has been misread in th...

Aunt dan and lemon

“A compulsive, mesmerizing and thoroughly uncomfortable experience.”—Time OutAunt Dan & Lemon takes us into the world of a young recluse named Lemon (alias Leonora) who spends her nights reading chronicles of Nazi atrocities. Lemon tells the audience about the overwhelming influence in her li...

Aunt safiyya and the monastery

This brief, beautifically crafted novel introduces one of the finest contemporary Arab novelists to English-speaking audiences. In it, Bahaa' Taher, one of a group of Egyptian writers—including the Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz—noted for their revealing portraits of Egyptian life and society, tel...

Aurangzeb

The Mughal emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir is one of the most hated men in Indian history. Widely reviled as a religious fanatic who sought to violently oppress Hindus, he is even blamed by some for setting into motion conflicts that would result in the creation of a separate Muslim state in South Asia...

Aureole

Intimate and erotic celebration of desire from one of America's most innovative and daring writers.

Aurora americana

From an award-winning poet, an exciting new collection that explores exile and return, from North Africa to North AmericaIn Aurora Americana, Myronn Hardy, an American poet who moved back to the United States after living for years in Morocco, reflects on exile and return as he describes the expe...

Auspicious animals

The world of mythical creatures born from human imagination is presented in this beautiful collection of artworks that symbolize good luck.Many imaginary animals that are believed to be auspicious symbols of good fortune originated in ancient China. The most famous examples are the “Big Four”: th...

Austerity

John Fender explains how the economics of austerity works in theory and how it has played out in practice in the UK, U.S., and the EU. He provides students with a clear and rigorous guide to the principles and mechanisms of austerity economics and offers a balanced point of reference.

Australia

Australia and canada in afghanistan

Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, Australia and Canada joined the U.S. and other Western allies in attacking al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan. In the book, a stellar group of academic and political experts explore the Canadian and Australian experiences in Afghanistan.

Australia, canada, and iraq

The 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq was intensely controversial. Australia joined in the war, while Canada refused to. Australia, Canada, and Iraq is a collection of essays by world leaders and esteemed academics that offers a fresh review of the war and the critical Australian and Canadian decision...

Australian franchising code of conduct

Including chapters on the areas of disclosure, good faith, and intellectual property, Buberis takes a comprehensive approach in exploring the Australian Franchising Code of Conduct's development through its consideration and enforcement by the Regulator and the courts.

Australian metal music

This book explores heavy metal music in Australia, engaging with the nuanced ways in which metal music, scenes and cultures are experienced. Leading metal scholars and active scene members examine the diversity of practices, histories and identities within Australian metal music, and question wha...

Austria from habsburg to hitler, volume 1

Austria from Habsburg to Hitler, Volume I: Labor's Workshop of Democracy offers a meticulous exploration of Austria's journey from the fall of the Habsburg Empire to its first republic. Written by Charles A. Gulick, the book investigates the rise of the Austrian working-class movement, its politi...

Austrian economics

This book brings together emerging and established scholars to explore the insights that can be gleaned from applying Austrian economics to a range of different topics and a variety of related disciplines, from history to politics to public policy.

Austro-marxism: the ideology of unity

The essential theoretical contributions of leading Austro-Marxist thinkers—Bauer, Renner, Adler, Hilferding, and Neurath—finally collected in one volume.

Authentic fakes

Authentic Fakes explores the religious dimensions of American popular culture in unexpected places: baseball, the Human Genome Project, Coca-Cola, rock 'n' roll, the rhetoric of Ronald Reagan, the charisma of Jim Jones, Tupperware, and the free market, to name a few. Chidester travels through th...

Authentic leadership (hbr emotional intelligence series)

What does it mean to be yourself at work? As a leader, how do you strike the right balance between vulnerability and authority?This book explains the role of authenticity in emotionally intelligent leadership. You'll learn how to discover your authentic self, when emotional responses are appropr...

Authentic voices

This book, written by K-4 educators at a New York charter school, highlights the impact of culturally responsive teaching in the state’s curriculum. It showcases lessons, family interviews, and school events that integrate students' languages and cultures, while analyzing student academic and emo...

Authentic wine

“A great primer. . . . If you're new to the natural/organic/biodynamic wine debates, Authentic Wine is the place to start.”—Huffington Post“This is one of the most engaging, thoughtful and enlightening books on contemporary wine. . . . A manifesto for an industry looking to shape its future.”—Win...

Authentic witnesses

The central theme in any history of texts and books must be that of change and renewal: Parchment that is written on, in one set of circumstances in late antiquity, may in the Early Middle Ages be scraped clean and written on again, leaving evidence of a civilization in which blank parchment is m...

Authenticity & tourism

This book brings together contributions from authors who are actively engaged in authenticity research in a tourism context. In so doing, it demonstrates the various trajectories research has taken towards understanding the significance of authenticity.

Authenticity across languages and cultures

This volume centres around concepts of personal and cultural authenticity in foreign language teaching and learning. The chapters cover a wide range of contexts and disciplines, offering diverse perspectives regarding the role language plays in processes of personal growth, learning, development,...

Authenticity as self-transcendence

McCarthy develops and expands his earlier argument with four new essays, designed to show Lonergan's exceptional relevance to the cultural situation of late modernity.

Authoritarian argentina

David Rock has written the first comprehensive study of nationalism in Argentina, a fundamentalist movement pledged to violence and a dictatorship that came to a head with the notorious "disappearances" of the 1970s. This radical, right wing movement has had a profound impact on twentieth-century...

Authoritarian contagion

The 21st century has not seen the triumph of democracy that some predicted but instead, in many cases, a turn towards authoritarian forms of government as an imagined solution to the many crises facing humanity. This innovative and important book draws on examples from around the world to examine...

Authoritarian el salvador

In Authoritarian El Salvador, Erik Ching seeks to explain the origins of the military regime that came to power in El Salvador in 1931.

Authoritarian legacies and democracy in latin america and southern europe

Authoritarian Legacies and Democracy in Latin America and Southern Europe brings together well-known comparative political scientists to define and explore the effects of authoritarian rule in post-authoritarian regimes in Southern Europe, the Southern Cone, and Brazil. Contributors to this volum...

Authority and authorship in medieval and seventeenth century women's visionary writings

In the medieval and early modern eras, female visionary writers used the mode of prophecy to voice their concerns and ideas. Deborah Frick analyzes medieval writings by Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe in comparison to seventeenth-century writings by authors such as Anna Trapnel, Mary Cary, An...

Authority and estrangement

Since Socrates, and through Descartes to the present day, the problems of self-knowledge have been central to philosophy's understanding of itself. Today the idea of ''first-person authority''--the claim of a distinctive relation each person has toward his or her own mental life--has been challen...

Authority and participation in a new democracy

Authority and Participation in a New Democracy focuses on the changes undergone by Mapai, Israel’s first ruling party, during Israel’s first years of independence, then analyzes the effects of these changes in relation to Israeli political culture. Bareli’s main claim is that it was only during t...

Authority and trust in us culture and society

This volume takes an interdisciplinary and historical look at the transformations of authority and trust in the U.S. The contributors examine government institutions, political parties, urban neighborhoods, scientific experts, international leadership, religious communities, and literary production.

Authority, gender and space in the anglo-norman world, 900-1200

SHORTLISTED for the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain's Hitchcock Medallion. A ground-breaking interdisciplinary approach to the medieval manor pre- and post-Conquest.Medieval manors have long been the subject of academic study, though the ways in which these houses reflected a...

Authority, identity and the social history of the great war

The unprecedented scope and intensity of the First World War has prompted an enormous body of retrospective scholarship. However, efforts to provide a coherent synthesis about the war's impact and significance have remained circumscribed, tending to focus either on the operational outlines of m...

Authors of their own lives

All students and scholars are curious about the human faces behind the impersonal rhetoric of academic disciplines. Here twenty of America's most prominent sociologists recount the intellectual and biographical events that shaped their careers. Family history, ethnicity, fear, private animosities...

Autism and covid-19

Autism and COVID-19 both reviews the existing literature and presents new findings from a survey distributed to autistics and parents of autistics during the pandemic, all of which offer a unique and timely contribution to researchers, academics, practitioners, and those working with autistics an...

Autism's false prophets

A London researcher was the first to assert that the combination measles-mumps-rubella vaccine known as MMR caused autism in children. Following this "discovery," a handful of parents declared that a mercury-containing preservative in several vaccines was responsible for the disease. If mercury c...