Sentences with phrase «narrative history»

The Romanov Sisters was an outstanding narrative history of Imperial Russia and the Revolution.

Sides, best - selling author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers, displays his knack for narrative history yet again as he chronicles the journey of American officer George Washington De Long and his crew of 33 aboard the USS Jeannette.

This graphic narrativization is a stylistic update of Marshall's best - known work, monumental paintings of African - American subjects based on the traditional genre of narrative history painting.

Narrative history at its finest, this is a fascinating and readable biography of the often disregarded second president.

We were teaching the pupils narrative history.

In this groundbreaking narrative history, Ari Berman charts both the transformation of American democracy under the VRA and the counterrevolution that has sought to limit it from the moment the act was signed into law.

It's not just the addition of a single - player story campaign that does it, though that does already look fantastic, plays brilliantly, and promises an epic, 30 - year chunk of serious, currently unknown Star Wars narrative history to boot.

Recent successes include: No god but God (Random House), by religious scholar Reza Aslan; Morgan Spurlock's Don't Eat This Book (Putnam), a companion to his Academy Award nominated documentary Super Size Me; Fergus Bordewich's Bound for Canaan (Amistad), the first narrative history of the Underground Railroad; and Benjamin Kunkel's Indecision (Random House), lead fiction title by an editor of the new literary magazine n +1.

Alongside that is Dylan Holmes» A Mind Forever Voyaging, a super well - written romp through classic moments in video game narrative history.

This thrilling narrative history, which weaves together events of the Nazi occupation of Denmark with eyewitness testimonies, is based on personal interviews with more than 20 Danish survivors, rescuers, and Resistance fighters, many of whom helped Jews hide and escape.

Gripping from the first page, and rich with fascinating detail about the time, the people, and the new inventions that connect and divide us, Thunderstruck is splendid narrative history from a master of the form.

Three unsold manuscripts later, I moved on to writing narrative history, and published four books on American history with Simon and Schuster (starting with -LSB-...]

, stands out from a crowd of traditional narrative history and biography.

Marshall is known for his large - scale narrative history paintings featuring black figures — defiant assertions of blackness in a medium in which African Americans have long been invisible — and his exploration of art history covers a broad temporal swath stretching from the Renaissance to 20th - century American abstraction.

It is at once a forthright autobiography and a raucous narrative history of the art world of the past 40 years.

Bestselling author and artist Edmund de Waal speaks in conjunction with his new book, The White Road, an intimate narrative history of porcelain structured around five journeys through landscapes where porcelain was dreamed about, fired, refined, collected, and coveted.

The Star Trek corpus is all covered by copyright including all of the artistic work such as the images of characters, starships, phasors etc. as well as the narrative including characterisation, organisational descriptions, narrative history etc..

Organized around the concept that inanimate objects and inert cultural artifacts are conduits for narrative histories, the program considers how artists use moving images to extend the life of things and materials that would otherwise appear to be stable and resolute.

With glowing reviews from respected historians such as Sir Martin Gilbert, who describes it as «a true tour de force», Indian Summer is narrative history at its most compelling.

• Biography • Engravings and Portraits • Early Paintings • Portraiture • Narrative History Painting • Legacy

What makes Rob Dunn's narrative history of advances in heart research so fascinating is on vivid display in the opening chapter of The Man Who Touched His Own Heart.

Mallaby, a Washington Post columnist and a senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, begins in 1900 with the birth of hedge fund inventor Alfred Winslow Jones, and presses forward through a narrative history of this most inscrutable of financial vehicles, and the men (and they are overwhelmingly men) who have driven them.

In its intuitive, poetic way, saga communicates truths about the ultimate origins of things, just as the narrative history in the Bible presents truth in a different way, stories with a moral lesson like the good Samaritan in another, and the poetry of the Psalms in yet another.

The narrative history told in the Bible is, then, simply the outworking in time of that eternal act.

Their narrative history portrays it as being first given at the foot of Mount Sinai some twelve hundred fifty years before the birth of Jesus.

Though this is a narrative history, Herrin has more in mind than telling a good story.

Timeless Cities is a polemic in the guise of a narrative history of five Italian cities and towns» Rome, Venice, Florence, Siena, and Pienza» and an exercise not unlike (if necessarily more visual and less prolix than) Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue in its combination of acute analysis with extraordinary portions of cultural retrieval.

Other writers have attempted to explain the capacity of narrative to summarize the complexities of self - understanding: «Narrative history of a certain kind,» says Alasdair MacIntyre, «turns out to be the basic and essential genre for the characterization of human actions.

A narrative history of the alternative - foods movement of the past half century explores the diverse fringe trends, charismatic personalities and counterculture elements that have rendered quotidian wholefoods, from whole grain bread and tofu to yogurt and brown rice, part of the mainstream American diet.

Keith Jeffery is an excellent historian and his use of MI6 archives as well as secondary sources provide a narrative history as well as analysis.

Yet there's no consciousness of consciousness, nor any narrative history of the past or projected future plans.

A narrative history of the alternative - foods movement of the past half century explores the diverse fringe trends, charismatic personalities and counterculture elements that have rendered quotidian wholefoods, from whole grain bread and tofu to yogurt and brown rice, part of the mainstream American diet.

Erik is looking for the following: literary / upmarket fiction with an emphasis on plot (as in, nothing too slow / quiet / static); popular and academic / trade science nonfiction, especially evolutionary biology; narrative history and biography; contemporary culture criticism (think Klosterman); sports books, if it's got a scope that extends past just games and players and into culture / larger issues.

McPhee is a triumph with this gorgeous piece of narrative history.

For more history of Rowan County, read The Rowan Story, 1753 - 1953: A narrative history of Rowan County, North Carolina, by James S. Brawley (out of print but available in all good Rowan County libraries!).

This artful work of narrative history is splendidly researched and documented.

Compulsively readable, Fleming's artful work of narrative history is splendidly researched and documented.

The Washington Post called it a portrait «rich in empathy and understanding» by «an acknowledged master of narrative history».

Outta the parkThe baseball books lead off with Harvey Frommer's timely Remembering Yankee Stadium: An Oral and Narrative History of the House That Ruth Built.

He works primarily with quality fiction — literary, historical, strongly written commercial — and with voice - driven nonfiction across a range of areas — narrative history, biography, memoir, current affairs, cultural trends and criticism, science, sports, etc..

Although the history of kings and rulers is unequivocally fascinating, I think that we are also hungry for the narrative history of ordinary people, who lack connections and material resources.

Zimmerman is steeped in NYC lore — her other 2012 release is a narrative history about two of the city's most famous residents during the Gilded Age — and this is a story that's sure to please fans of Geraldine Brooks and Tracy Chevalier.

The book is a narrative history, constructed from many interviews and recollections, and its political message is of the subtle, discerning kind where nothing turns out to be completely black or white.

Taylor has penned a compelling, thrilling, narrative history of the rise and fall of The Berlin Wall from a hastily constructed barbed - wire fence to the 30 miles of concrete and 300 watchtowers that followed shortly after.

A compulsively readable, splendidly researched work of narrative history.

Fans of narrative history will devour it (and then zoom through Massie's backlist).

A recipient of the ALA Carnegie - Whitney Award, he has expanded his bibliography into a reference book, Animal - Assisted Therapy (Greenwood, 2011), which also includes a narrative history.

This narrative history shows how historic mistakes can change the future problems of nations.

What makes Rob Dunn's narrative history of advances in heart research so fascinating is on vivid display in the...