Robert Frank: 147 books

This book deals with large-scale, systemic corruption, a phenomenon that it identifies as part of the political landscape in most, if not all, societies of the contemporary world. While the analysis is grounded in the political thought of earlier thinkers, especially Edmund Burke, and integrates the...

Most American Indian reservations are islands of poverty in a sea of wealth, but they do not have to remain that way. To extract themselves from poverty, Native Americans will have to build on their rich cultural history including familiarity with markets and integrate themselves into modern economies...

The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field. Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...

Humanity is deeply committed to living along the world’s shores, but a catastrophic storm like Sandy—which took hundreds of lives and caused many billions of dollars in damages—shines a bright light at how costly and vulnerable life on a shoreline can be. Taking Chances offers a wide-ranging...

Dragons are creatures of legend. Of magic. Of wisdom, nature, and the power of creation. They have been in every culture and mythology since the beginning of time. Writers are creatures of legend. With magic, wisdom, and the power of creation at their fingertips. They, too, are in every culture...

Red. The color of blood, of war, of passion—and of a new unicorn herd. A Game of Horns: A Red Unicorn Anthology has gathered 21 original stories about red unicorns from famous and soon-to-be-famous authors, including New York Times best-selling authors Jody Lynn Nye and David Farland. Some...

Volume 51 contains a total of 60 lectures covering 12 topics: History Poetry Natural Science Philosophy Biography Prose Fiction Criticism and the Essay Education Political Science Drama Voyages and Travels Religion

   Table of contents A Cosmopolite in a Cafe At Sea Aunt Kipp Little Bun Rabbit    The Ambitious Guest   The Story Of The Bad Little Boy Vanka   The Body Snatcher   The Mark On The Wall   The Affair at Coulter's Notch   A Cosmopolite in a Cafe by O. Henry     At midnight the cafe was crowded....

Example in this ebook   FLOWERS OF EVIL AVE ATQUE VALE In Memory of Charles Baudelaire By ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Nous devrions pourtant lui porter quelques fleurs; Les morts, les pauvres morts, ont de grandes douleurs, Et quand Octobre souffle,...

Nine long stories and essays, originally published in the acclaimed Ploughshares Solos digital series, create this fourth annual print collection. Visit a small island off the coast of Maine where the reappearance of an old friend might just push a painter suffering from artist’s block over...

Frederick Douglass (1818--1895) was a prolific writer and public speaker whose impact on American literature and history has been long studied by historians and literary critics. Yet as political theorists have focused on the legacies of such notables as W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington,...

Im Sommer 2037 haben Perry Rhodan und seine Gefährten endlich das Arkon-System erreicht, das Zentrum des Großen Imperiums. In einem Sternhaufen außerhalb der Milchstraße ballen sich zahlreiche besiedelte Sonnensystemen, und Arkon selbst ist eine Ansammlung faszinierender Welten. Doch zum Staunen...

Privatdetektiv Spenser wird an die Universität bestellt, um den Diebstahl eines wertvollen Manuskriptes aus dem 14. Jahrhundert aufzuklären. Dabei gerät er an eine Studentenvereinigung, bei der einiges im Argen liegt und bald wird er in einen Mordfall verwickelt. Die Hauptverdächtige ist die schöne...

In 1990, Gerald Conaty was hired as senior curator of ethnology at the Glenbow Museum, with the particular mandate of improving the museum’s relationship with Aboriginal communities. That same year, the Glenbow had taken its first tentative steps toward repatriation by returning sacred objects to...