Books from Anchor
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The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts
By Karen Armstrongand was 1886), Zechariah Frankel (1801–75), Nachman Krochmal (1785–1840) and Abraham Geiger (1810–74) applied modern critical methods to Jewish scripture and modern historiography to the history of Judaism, arguing that it was not a ...
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The Great Shame: And the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World
By Thomas KeneallyBut Donahue had been shot and somewhat kinder possibilities might exist for Larkin. Bradley was a sort of Tory, but of the less virulent colonial-born variety. He had a native flexibility. A large man, he could strip oft' his shirt and ...
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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise...
By Thomas CahillDonahue's essay “Beowulf and Christian Tradition: A Reconsideration from a Celtic Stance” in Traditio 21 (1965), Fordham University's journal of “Studies in Ancient and Medieval Thought and Religion,” is so discerning and generous that ...
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The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
By Karen Armstrong... said the Qur'an, was their link with the Torah and the gospel: “They are like a seed that brings forth its shoot, and then he strengthens it so that it grows stout, and in the end stands firm upon its stem, delighting the sowers.
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Dracula in Love
By Karen EssexYou place me on a mattress on the floor covered in furs near the hearth, and Iyelp in pain as a thorn in the back of my crown pierces my scalp. Gently, you remove the crown and kiss my wound. But as you toss the crown aside, ...
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The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific
By David BianculliThere was, however, at least one shining, stunning, happy exception: Columbo, the 1971 series created by the writing and producing team of Richard Levinson and William Link—creators not only of Columbo but of Murder, She Wrote and the ...
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Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self
By Robin Marantz Henig, David M. Brodzinsky, Marshall D. SchecterDaniel Levinson makes good use of the metaphor of the seasons in his book about the life cycle , which he calls The Seasons of a Man's Life . The sequence of seasons is not a hierarchy , writes Levinson , a psy . chologist at Yale ...
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The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co.
By William D. CohanHoffman responded when asked for the addenda, “I have not included the schedules and annexes as they are not available." One longtime partner had his goodwill percentage diluted by 5.5 percent and his profit percentage diluted by 10.6 ...
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A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan
By Michael KazinI have borrowed these details from the two fullest studies of the institution: Theodore Morrison, Chautauqua: A Center for Education, Religion, and the Arts in America (Chicago, 1974), which quotes James, 83, and Andrew C. Rieser, ...
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Sinatra: The Chairman
By James KaplanBut on July 15, Austin agreed to hear Mooney himself. Giancana was taking an enormous risk by taking the stand: he would have to undergo cross-examination by government attorneys who had thousands of pages of documents "detailing every ...
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The Actor's Art and Craft: William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique
By William Esper, Damon DimarcoIn this book he recreates that experience for us, allowing us to see how the progression of exercises works in practice.
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The Actor's Guide to Creating a Character: William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique
By William Esper, Damon DimarcoThe Actor’s Guide to Creating a Character continues the journey. In these pages, co-author Damon DiMarco vividly re-creates Esper’s second-year course, again through the experiences of a fictional class.
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Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Ethnic life-Law
By William R. Ferriscorporation of the Bill of Rights into the A View from the States ( 1972 ) ; William W. Fourteenth Amendment . The justices Freehling , Prelude to Civil War : The Nulenhanced the powers of the national lification Controversy in South ...
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The Quality of Mercy: A Novel
By Barry UnsworthCharles Bolton and Andrew Lyons were commanded to produce before the Lord Mayor at his chambers the body of Jeremy Evans and to show cause for the taking and detaining of him. The action was heard at Mansion House in the presence of the ...
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Dunfords Travels Everywheres
By William Melvin KelleyWilliam Melvin Kelley's final work, a Joycean, Rabelaisian romp in which he brings back some of his most memorable characters in a novel of three intertwining stories.
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Thames: The Biography
By Peter AckroydAbingdon, Oxfordshire, c.1805, by Joseph Mallord William Turner (Agnew's, London/ Bridgeman) Rain, ... illustration by Warwick Goble from The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley (Mary Evans Picture Library) Alice and the Pool of Tears, ...
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We'll Be Here For the Rest of Our Lives: A Swingin' Show-biz Saga
By David Ritz, Paul ShafferAn_\'wa_v, we get to Roy's, and Roy turns out to be a former music agent, Roy Silver. Given my fascination with fast-talking New York Jews, I'm pleased to meet Roy, and Roy is pleased to meet me because he knows about n1_v connection to ...
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Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance--and Why They Fall
By Amy ChuaDetermined Americans—both private entrepreneurs and government officials such as the secretary of the treasury Alexander Hamilton—found ways to counter anti-American propaganda abroad and to circumvent European restrictions.
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Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Literature-Recreation
By William R. Ferris, Charles Reagan Wilson... in painsShelby Stephenson Pembroke State University Vincent Kenny , Paul Green ( 1971 ) ; Walter S. Lazenby , Jr. , Paul Green ( 1970 ) ; William S. Powell , ed . , Dictionary of North Carolina Biography , vol . 2 ( 1986 ) .
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The Two Faces of Islam: Saudi Fundamentalism and Its Role in Terrorism
By Stephen SchwartzThe active players aside from Ibn Sa'ud—Crane and Twitchell, who had originally come to Arabia as hydrologists, and the representatives of Socal—were being manipulated from behind the scenes by St. John Philby, who perceived that ...