Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “gerald w johnson”
Skip side bar filters

  • Feynman's Operational Calculus and Beyond

    Noncommutativity and Time-Ordering

    by Gerald W Johnson, Michel L. Lapidus, Lance Nielsen ...
    Series series Oxford Mathematical Monographs
    This book is aimed at providing a coherent, essentially self-contained, rigorous and comprehensive abstract theory of Feynman's operational calculus for noncommuting operators. Although it is inspired by Feynman's original heuristic suggestions and time-ordering rules in his seminal 1951 paper An operator calculus having applications in quantum electrodynamics, as will be made abundantly clear in ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • South-Watching

    Selected Essays by Gerald W. Johnson

    by Gerald W. Johnson ...
    Series series Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Culture
    Gerald W. Johnson of North Carolina and Baltimore was one of the most prominent American journalists of the twentieth century and one of the outstanding essayists of any age. The author of some three dozen books of history, biography, and commentary on American politics and culture, he was an editorial writer for the Baltimore Sunpapers from 1926 to 1943, a contributing editor of the New Republic ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The Souls of Black Folk

    by W.E.B. Du Bois ...
    W.E.B. Du Bois was the foremost black intellectual of his time. The Souls of Black Folk (1903), his most influential work, is a collection of fourteen beautifully written essays, by turns lyrical, historical, and autobiographical. Here, Du Bois records the cruelties of racism, celebrates the strength and pride of black America, and explores the paradoxical "double-consciousness" of African ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Virtue, Valor, and Vanity

    The Inside Story of the Founding Fathers and the Price of a More Perfect Union

    by Eric Burns ...
    Washington, Adams, Henry, Jefferson, Franklin, and Hamilton: their ambitions, intrigues, and jealousies shaped the birth of the nation, but they overcame their foibles and imperfections to throw off the chains of tyranny and form a more perfect union. We think of them now as faces on money or statues on pedestals, and, as Burns illustrates in luminous prose, that’s exactly what they always wanted ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Souls of Black Folk

    With "The Talented Tenth" and "The Souls of White Folk"

    by W. E. B. Du Bois, Monica E. Elbert ...
    The landmark book about being black in America, now in an expanded edition commemorating the 150th anniversary of W. E. B. Du Bois’s birth and featuring a new introduction by Ibram X. Kendi, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist, and cover art by Kadir Nelson“The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.”When The Souls of Black Folk was first ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Souls of Black Folk Illustrated

    by W. E. B. Du Bois ...
    The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches is a 1903 work of American literature by W. E. B. Du Bois. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology and a cornerstone of African-American literature. The book contains several essays on race, some of which had been published earlier in The Atlantic Monthly. To develop this work, Du Bois drew from his own experiences as an African American in ... Read more

    $2.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Vintage Mencken

    by Alistair Cooke, H. L. Mencken ...
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Attorney for the Damned

    Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom

    by Clarence Darrow ...
    Courtroom summations by "one of America's greatest lawyers . . . this book is better than an entire college course in Rhetoric" (Thomas Geoghegan, author of The Secret Lives of Citizens and Only One Thing Can Save Us).A famous defender of the underdog, the oppressed, and the powerless, Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) is one of the true legends of the American legal system. His cases were many and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Souls of Black Folk

    Centennial Edition

    by W.E.B. Du Bois ...
    Series series Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books
    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." Thus speaks W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls Of Black Folk, one of the most prophetic and influental works in American literature. In this eloquent collection of essays, first published in 1903, Du Bois dares as no one has before to describe the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The American Reader

    Words that Moved a Nation

    by Diane Ravitch ...

    $11.49 USD

  • On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience (Mobi Classics)

    by Henry David Thoreau ...
    Civil Disobedience is an essay by Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. It argues that people should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that people have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican-American War. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Banquet at Delmonico's

    Great Minds, the Gilded Age, and the Triumph of Evolution in America

    by Barry Werth ...
    In Banquet at Delmonico’s, Barry Werth, the acclaimed author of The Scarlet Professor, draws readers inside the circle of philosophers, scientists, politicians, businessmen, clergymen, and scholars who brought Charles Darwin’s controversial ideas to America in the crucial years after the Civil War.The United States in the 1870s and ’80s was deep in turmoil–a brash young nation torn by a great ... Read more

    $6.99 USD