Timothy: 2930 books

Alberto Giacometti's attenuated figures of the human form are among the most significant artistic images of the 20th century. Sartre, Breton, and Winnicott are just some of the great thinkers who have drawn upon the graceful, harrowing work of Giacometti, which has continued to resonate with artists,...

My goal is to find used BMW motorcycles and ride them over the 100,000 miles then either sell them cheap or just give them away. The following story is about buying a 1995 BMW K1100RS with 22,600 miles on it at purchase in July of 2007. 5 years later I had 123456 miles with the trip odometer at 789.0...

All autobiographers are unreliable narrators. Yet what a writer chooses to misrepresent is as telling -- perhaps even more so -- as what really happened. Timothy Adams believes that autobiography is an attempt to reconcile one's life with one's self, and he argues in this book that autobiography should...

TRAVESTY is an anthropologist’s personal story of working with foreign aid agencies and discovering that fraud, greed, corruption, apathy, and political agendas permeate the industry. It is a story of failed agricultural, health and credit projects; violent struggles for control over foreign aid;...

John Adams's opera, Nixon in China, is one of the most frequently performed operas in the contemporary literature. Timothy A. Johnson illuminates the opera and enhances listeners' and scholars' appreciation for this landmark work. This music-analytical guide presents a detailed, in-depth analysis...

A writer rents a room from a depressed woman in Eugene, Oregon. She had issues: a failed marriage, custody battles, being a convicted felon, employment struggles, and anger. He discusses her life spiraling out of control with a ghost.

The twenty-first century has seen an increased awareness of the forms of environmental destruction that cannot immediately be seen, localised or, by some, even acknowledged. Ecocriticism on the Edge explores the possibility of a new mode of critical practice, one fully engaged with the destructive...

In a postcolonial world, where structures of power, hierarchy, and domination operate on a global scale, writers face an ethical and aesthetic dilemma: How to write without contributing to the inscription of inequality? How to process the colonial past without reverting to a pathology of self-disgust?...

De Holocaust staat gelijk aan de verschrikkelijke dood van miljoenen joden in de gaskamers. Maar nog voordat die gaskamers werden gebouwd, was het grootste deel van de Europese joodse bevolking al door de nazi’s gedood in de landen ten oosten van Duitsland. In Zwarte aarde geeft Timothy Snyder antwoord...

Former US Open Champion Timothy Taylor presents a repertoire for Black against the universally popular Spanish Opening (Ruy Lopez). The backbone of Blacks repertoire is based on the Modern Steinitz Defence, which has justifiably earned a reputation as an important alternative to the main lines. The...

The American military establishment is intimately tied to its technology, although the nature of those ties has varied enormously from service to service. The air force evokes images of pilots operating hightech weapons systems, striking precisely from out of the blue to lay waste to enemy installations....

Lay the critical foundation for reading fluency with this engaging resource! Increasing Fluency with High Frequency Word Phrases<\i> offers 20 creative lessons that analyze high frequency practice to gain word recognition, expression, and fluency with comprehension questions to evaluate mastery....

Throughout history, kings and emperors have promised “freedoms” to their people. Yet these freedoms were really only permissions handed down from on high. The American Revolution inaugurated a new vision: people have basic rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and government must...

There are secrets in the White House that are so scandalous, that if made public could affect the entire nation.