52 results for 'debra madoff'

Christopher Wilmarth delighted the world with light-filled sculptures of glass and steel that were deeply poetic in their moods and extraordinarily rich in their modernist heritage. But in 1987, at...

Art historian and critic Steven Henry Madoff offers a contemporary reframing of modernist art and the way it presages installation and performance art For more than a century, European modernist art...

Named by The New Yorker as one of the Best Books of 2025 A revelatory book that lifts the curtain on America's most consequential public deception: how the rich get richer using tools the government...

Winner of a Gold Parents’ Choice Award“Reading this picture book aloud to a child, even the most jaded among us may feel again the sheer miracle of our human existence.” —Entertainment WeeklyThe...

A Hudson Valley Reckoning tells the long-ignored story of slavery's history in upstate New York through Debra Bruno's absorbing chronicle that uncovers her Dutch ancestors' slave-holding past and...

In "Autobiography and Independence," Debra Kelly examines four accomplished Francophone North African writers--Mouland Feroan, Assia Djebar, Albert Memmi, and Abdelkebir Khatibi--to illuminate the...

Debra Dickerson pulls no punches in this electrifying manifesto. Outspoken journalist and author of the critically acclaimed memoir An American Story, she challenges black Americans to stop obsessing...

How Victorian authors engaged the imaginations of their readers and elevated the novel to new heightsAs novel publication exploded in nineteenth-century Britain, writers such as Jane Austen, Charles...

An exquisitely designed and engrossing thematic study of the representation of the face on objects and in works of art from across the globe and throughout historyThe face is not only central to...

Expert guidance for living a longer, healthier, more meaningful second half of life.As she approached her fiftieth birthday, Debra Whitman, a globally recognized expert on aging, wanted to delve...

Color is a powerful selling tool. It is the first thing to catch the consumer's eye in the shop window. Get the color choice wrong and an entire range can stay on the racks. So, how do colors arrive...

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), best known and admired for his striking and seductive portraits of women, was one of the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of artists...

"This book argues that Jewish women were central players in every aspect of Jewish society in the early modern period, and reveals evidence of many aspects of their lives, as writers, entrepreneurs,...

Raising kids who experienced early life trauma can be overwhelming for the adults in their lives. The mistrust, reactivity, and impulsivity that often result from this trauma place major roadblocks...

The Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980) achieved global fame with his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes. In this first English-language biography, Rüdiger Görner depicts the...

Schools of Thought brings together a cast of prominent scholars to assess, with unprecedented breadth and vigor, the intellectual revolution over the past quarter century in the social sciences. This...

Revolution in the Revolution? is a brilliant, pragmatic assessment of the situation in Latin America in the 1960s. First published in 1967, it became a controversial handbook for guerrilla warfare...

A landmark textbook on development economicsThe study of development in low-income countries is attracting more attention around the world than ever before. Yet until now there has been no...