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Design of a cloth antimacassar Armchair with antimacassar-Sheffield Mayors Parlour Antimacassars on rail carriage seats. An antimacassar / ˌ æ n t ɪ m ə ˈ k æ s ər / is a small cloth placed over the backs or arms of chairs, or the head or cushions of a sofa, to prevent soiling of the permanent fabric underneath. [1]
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (paperback edition: The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began [1]) is a 2011 book by Stephen Greenblatt and winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and 2011 National Book Award for Nonfiction. [2] [3]
The Black Book (1990) by Orhan Pamuk [63] Vineland (1990) by Thomas Pynchon [64] Soul Mountain (1990) by Gao Xingjian [65] Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) by Salman Rushdie [66] American Psycho (1991) by Bret Easton Ellis [67] Time's Arrow (1991) by Martin Amis [68] The Gold Bug Variations (1991) by Richard Powers [69] Mao II (1991) by Don ...
William Thomas Gaddis Jr. (December 29, 1922 – December 16, 1998) was an American novelist. [1] [2] The first and longest of his five novels, The Recognitions, was named one of TIME magazine's 100 best novels from 1923 to 2005 [3] and two others, J R and A Frolic of His Own, won the annual U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. [4]
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature is a best-selling 2002 book by the cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker, in which the author makes a case against tabula rasa models in the social sciences, arguing that human behavior is substantially shaped by evolutionary psychological adaptations.
The last sentence of the prologue reveals an important and major theme in Mao II: "The future belongs to crowds."Crowds feature heavily in the book, from the opening crowds of thousands at the mass wedding at Yankee Stadium, to the crowds living in Tompkins Square Park, to the thousands of mourners at the Ayatollah's funeral as observed on television by Karen.
Contemporary members of the Italian Anarchist Federation marching in Rome in 2008 in an anti-Catholic manifestation (the text translates as "free from dogmas, always heretics") Around the turn of the 21st century, anarchism grew in popularity and influence as part of the anti-war, anti-capitalist and anti-globalisation movements. [25]
The first edition was published in 1891 by West Publishing, with the full title A Dictionary of Law: containing definitions of the terms and phrases of American and English jurisprudence, ancient and modern, including the principal terms of international constitutional and commercial law, with a collection of legal maxims and numerous select titles from the civil law and other foreign systems.