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In the Balance: Law and Politics on the Roberts Court
Mark Tushnet · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An examination of the initial years of the Roberts Court and the intellectual battle between Roberts and Kagan for leadership. When John Roberts was appointed chief justice of the Supreme Court, he said he would act as an umpire. Instead, his Court is reshaping legal precedent through decisions... |
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GED Test Premier 2017 with 2 Practice Tests: Online Book Videos Mobile
Caren Van Slyke · Kaplan Pub
Pages: 784
Format: Print book
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Comprehensive content review, strategies, and practice for all sections of the GED Tests from a top expert The GED is a high school equivalency test that is recognized by educational institutions and employers throughout the United States and Canada. Every year, hundreds of thousands of individuals... |
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Getting Away with Murder: Benazir Bhutto's Assassination and the Politics of Pakistan
Heraldo MunÌ?oz · W W Norton & Co Inc
Pages: 268
Format: Hardcover
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By the lead commissioner of the UN investigation, an authoritative account of Benazir Bhutto's assassination. On December 27, 2007, a suicide bomber killed Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister of Pakistan. Brilliant and charismatic, the head of a political family as important to Pakistani... |
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A Lifetime of Fiction: The 500 Most Recommended Reads for Ages 2 to 102
William Patrick Martin · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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A Lifetime of Fiction The 500 Most Recommended Reads for Ages 2 to 102 is the most authoritative set of fiction book recommendations in the United States because it is a composite of the most noteworthy book award lists, best book publications, and recommended reading lists from leading... |
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A Splendid Savage: The Restless Life of Frederick Russell Burnham
Steve Kemper · W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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A life of adventure and military daring on violent frontiers across the American West, Africa, Mexico, and the Klondike.Frederick Russell Burnham's (1861-1947) amazing story resembles a newsreel fused with a Saturday matinee thriller. One of the few people who could turn his garrulous... |
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Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble
Marilyn Johnson · Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The author of The Dead Beat and This Book is Overdue! turns her piercing eye and charming wit to the real-life avatars of Indiana Jones - the archaeologists who sort through the muck and mire of swamps, ancient landfills, volcanic islands, and other dirty places to reclaim history for us all.Pompeii,... |
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Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
Danielle Allen · Liveright Publishing Corp
Pages: 315
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the Zócalo Book Prize Shortlisted for the 2015 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, Society of American Historians "Danielle Allen lays bare the Declaration's history and significance, returning it to its true and rightful owners -- you and me."... |
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Breakfast at Sotheby's: An A-Z of the Art World
Philip Hook · The Overlook Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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When you stand in front of a work of art in a museum or exhibition, the first two questions you normally ask yourself are 1 Do I like it? and 2 Whos it by? When you stand in front of a work of art in an auction room or dealers gallery, you ask these two questions followed by others How much... |
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Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library
Wayne A Wiegand · Oxford University Press, USA
Pages: 331
Format: Hardcover(New Edition)
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Despite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only increased. Two of three Americans frequent a public library at least once a year, and nearly that many are registered borrowers. Although library... |
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Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism
Mark Stoll · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In Inherit the Holy Mountain, historian Mark Stoll introduces us to the religious roots of the American environmental movement. Religion, he shows, provided environmentalists both with deeply-embedded moral and cultural ways of viewing the world and with content, direction, and tone for the causes... |
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Historical Dictionary of Librarianship
Mary Ellen Quinn · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Although the history of librarianship as an organized profession dates only as far back as the mid-nineteenth century, the history of libraries is much older, and people have been engaged in pursuits that we recognize as librarianship for many thousands of years. This book traces librarianship... |
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Moments That Made the Movies
David Thomson · Thames & Hudson; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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Lushly illustrated, compellingly written—David Thomson's choice of the key moments in movie history In his first fully illustrated work, David Thomson breaks new ground by focusing in on a series of moments—which his readers will also experience in beautifully reproduced... |
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