Equally important to our understanding of history and humanity are the great works of literature. The Nobel Prize for literature recognises modern classics and the efforts of authors to bridge gaps between different cultures, time-periods and styles; the prizewinners between 1968 and 1995 are from fo ... details 20.54 USD

This 1977 report prepared for the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate relates much of the history that affects international relations today.For the United States, access to secure supplies of foreign oil has become an increasingly vital policy goal with the decline ... details 28.65 USD

The essays in this volume represent the major currents in critical thinking about Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison''s widely acclaimed examination of the individual quest for self-knowledge in the context of the African-American experience. This collection offers a broad overview of the scholarship tha ... details 31.61 USD

"The genocide in Rwanda showed us how terrible the consequences of inaction can be in the face of mass murder. But the conflict in Kosovo raised equally important questions about the consequences of action without international consensus and clear legal authority. On the one hand, is it legitimate fo ... details 105.0 USD

Source of the debate on how much competition and regulation are necessary in the health care industry. This is a reprint of proceedings from a 1977 conference. ... details 31.99 USD

Now in paperback, Night Stalks the Mansion recounts a Philadelphia family's encounter with a supernatural presence in their eighteenth-century mansion on Plum Tree Lane and the events that became common occurrences, footsteps at night, opening doors, strange sounds and feelings that centered around t ... details 11.05 USD

This book traces the history and theology of Evangelicals in the Church of England, both liberal and conservative, from the First World War to the appearance of the Alternative Service Book in 1980. Evangelical Anglicans stand for what they see as historic Anglicanism with its emphasis on the intrins ... details 43.0 USD

Founded in 1977 as the publication organ for the Fifteenth-CenturySymposium, Fifteenth-Century Studies has appeared annually sincethen. It publishes essays on all aspects of life in the fifteenth century, including literature, drama, history, philosophy, art, music, religion, science, and ritual and ... details 78.12 USD

Nilpotence and Periodicity in Stable Homotopy Theory describes some major advances made in algebraic topology in recent years, centering on the nilpotence and periodicity theorems, which were conjectured by the author in 1977 and proved by Devinatz, Hopkins, and Smith in 1985. During the last ten yea ... details 67.55 USD

Der 1950 in Aarau geborene Daniele Marques studierte an der ETH in ZA1/4rich bei Aldo Rossi und Dolf Schnebli und grA1/4ndete schon 1977 ein eigenes ArchitekturbA1/4ro in Luzern. Neben seiner EntwurfstAtigkeit war er Dozent an verschiedenen Architekturschulen; seit 2000 ist er Professor an der Techni ... details 29.01 USD

T-Rex icon Marc Bolan day-by-day through super stardom to tragic car crash death. ... details 13.23 USD

Sergei Eisenstein was born in Riga in 1898. His father was a Jew of German origin who had converted to Russian Orthodoxy and who passed himself off as a Baltic baron. His mother was the daughter of wealthy Russian (and traditionally anti-Semitic) merchants from St.Petersburg. Eisenstein's life was fu ... details 17.29 USD

WILL DURANT (1885-1981) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize (1968) and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977). He spent over fifty years writing his critically acclaimed eleven-volume series, The Story of Civilization (the later volumes written in conjunction with his wife, Ariel). A champion of human r ... details 16.56 USD

Basic treatment, incorporating language of abstract algebra and a history of the discipline. Topics include unique factorization and the GCD, quadratic residues, number-theoretic functions and the distribution of primes, sums of squares, quadratic equations and quadratic fields, diophantine approxima ... details 9.75 USD

When the first edition of Porsche: Excellence Was Expected was published in 1977, reviewers sang high praises for author Karl Ludvigsen and his monumental book. Now Ludvigsen surpasses these achievements with this fully updated edition of Porsche: Excellence Was Expected. This new edition includes au ... details 189.94 USD

Roberta Smith called him the madcap bad boy of contemporary German art and also one of the three or four best German artists of the postwar period. Martin Kippenberger disrupted the status quo throughout his too-short, highly excessive life, not just by making art of every variety and medium but also ... details 35.69 USD

Nisargadatta Maharaj was a highly respected sage who lived the modest life of a Bombay shopkeeper and family man. Because of the depth of his spiritual realization, people from all over the world visited Maharaj to benefit from his wisdom and guidance. His teachings, known for their exceptional clari ... details 11.05 USD

On March 27, 1977, 583 people died when KLM and Pan Am 747s collided on a crowded, foggy runway in Tenerife, the Canary Islands. The cause, a miscommunication between a pilot and an air traffic controller. The pilot radioed, We are now at takeoff , meaning that the plane was lifting off, but the towe ... details 22.16 USD

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Copyright; Copyright, International; ... details 54.2 USD

Many new characters, in one of Schulz''s most creative periods! With an introduction by Alec Baldwin. ... details 17.64 USD