The internationally renowned Jesus scholar uses the latest research into the historical Jesus to paint a vivid new portrait of this important historical and religious figure, based on the a close-up analysis of New Testament writings. 12,500 first...

From 1983 to 1986, the legendary physicist and teacher Richard Feynman gave a course at Caltech called “Potentialities and Limitations of Computing Machines.”Although the lectures are over ten years old, most of the material is timeless and presents a...

They try to identify key themes and methods in 20th century analytical philosophy and assess various conceptions of what analytical philosophy like that of Dummett is by comparing them with the methodology and practice of eminent analytical philosophers.

Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Octavo, 8 ¼” h × 5 ¼” w, 153 pp. First American edition (the original was published in French in 1957). Bound in publisher's black cloth with white lettering. The jacket is unfaded and...

"In this impassioned warning and inspirational call to arms, Ressa identifies and illuminates her core values of empathy, honesty, and faith in humanity to illustrate how a strong commitment to such foundational beliefs can provide the key to democracy's...

Traces the first one hundred and fifty years of photography, and shows photographs of representative artists from William Henry Fox Talbot to Cindy Sherman

Biography and descriptive analysis are combined in this study of all the buildings of the firm of Greene and Greene as well as many individual works of the brothers

"Using the venerable literary device of the bedtime story, which links fictions as different as The Arabian Nights and Charlotte's Web, John Barth ingeniously interweaves stories from an ongoing, high-spirited but deadly serious nocturnal game of...

In his first collection since the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, Robert Olen Butler dazzles anew with his mastery of the short-story form and his true empathy for the denizens of the less-well-explored corners of the human...

Revised to include important new scholarship, James Brewer Stewart's eloquent survey of the abolitionist movement is also a superb analysis of how the antislavery movement reinforced and transformed the dominant features of pre-Civil War America...

The author shares his experiences traveling through El Salvador and Nicaragua, describes the plight of Christians there, and looks at the political violence in Central America

Photos depict the lives of Polish Jews on the eve of the Holocaust, and are accompanied by a discussion of the aspects of Jewish life that gave it its special qualities

Con 90 fotografie di Ed Clarity, John J, Reidy, Ray Gora, Ed Morgan, Christopher Travis, Bill Quinn, George Mattson, et al. Testo in inglese . 8vo pp. 96 Brossura (wrappers) Molto buono (Very Good)

Unmarked book with light wear

Softcover book which shows signs of consistent use, but it remains in good condition. Pages and cover are intact but cover has small pen mark and smudges from previous handling. No writing or highlighting in body of text but acquisition date and...

Looks at the artists's texts, executed on billboards, posters, tractor caps, stickers, store windows, telephone booths, benches, television, and stadium scoreboards, and shares her comments on her approach to art

Winner of the 1990 Los Angeles Times Book Review Prize for Fiction, Lantern Slides reveals the wit and passion of an author at the height of her powers. Rich and humorous, full of bitterness and despair, struggle and boldness, these twelve new stories...

From the author of the cult sensation Fight Club (now a major motion picture starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter) comes Survivor. "A turbo-charged, deliciously manic satire of contemporary American life." --"Newsday "The only...

Winner of the 2016 Baillie Gifford Prize for NonfictionWinner of the 2017 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize "A monumental achievement...a profoundly personal account of the origins of crimes against humanity and genocide, told with love, anger and precision...