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WW Norton & Co After Emily
Book SynopsisThe untold story of the mother and daughter who opened the door to Emily Dickinson's poetry.Trade Review"... angering but finally inspiring After Emily... " -- New Statesman"A fascinating piece of literary scholarship and biography... told in mesmerising and quick-paced detail. It is also beautifully-produced, with a number of photographic plates and manuscript materials. Dobrow’s work has the quality both of biography and of a thrilling soap-opera." -- The Irish Times"Mesmerizing... If you’re interested in [Emily Dickinson], intellectual property issues, or juicy behind-the-scenes literary history, After Emily is your book." -- Michael Dirda - The Washington Post"Long overdue... At the end of her book, Ms. Dobrow wonders what Mabel and Millicent would think of her good work. Doubtless, they’d be very pleased." -- Brenda Wineapple - The Wall Street Journal
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WW Norton & Co The Nine Lives of Pakistan
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2021 Overseas Press Club of America Cornelius Ryan Award The former New York Times Pakistan bureau chief paints an arresting, up-close portrait of a fractured country.Trade Review"A vivid, complex portrait of a country at a crossroads….Walsh’s writing is elegant and expressive. It does what the best foreign correspondence should: transport the reader." -- Amna Nawaz - New York Times Book Review"Walsh is an engaging guide....Nine Lives of Pakistan is an unquestionably illuminating and engaging book…an elegantly crafted memoir of a gifted journalist." -- Bilal Qureshi - Washington Post"An irresistible combination of storytelling panache and in-depth knowledge; Declan Walsh brings vividly to life characters and situations that illuminate some of the most significant phases of Pakistan’s history." -- Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire"A wonderful book which sets a new benchmark for non-fiction about the complex palace of mirrors that is Pakistan. Star New York Times foreign correspondent Declan Walsh has a rapier wit, a talent for skillfully sketched pen portraits and a sharp eye for tragedy, paradox and absurdity. With The Nine Lives of Pakistan he has produced a beautifully, lightly, fluently written book that is as profoundly nuanced as it is sharply perceptive." -- William Dalrymple, author of The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire"In The Nine Lives of Pakistan, Declan Walsh describes, with intellectual power and cool elegance, a much-misunderstood country. All those interested in South Asia and its complex politics and culture should read [this book]." -- Pankaj Mishra, author of The Age of Anger"Captivating.... Walsh is a wonderful writer, with a gift for sketching an impression of a place, time and ambience with a few brief lines. He knows how to interweave travelogue with an account of the relentless tensions that always threaten to burst through each vignette in the book. What also shines through is the relish with which Walsh throws himself into the far corners of Pakistan, into crowds, celebrations and rites, with a drive born of fascination with the land and its people." -- Julian Borger - Guardian"If you want to read one book about contemporary Pakistan, it has to be The Nine Lives of Pakistan, an intimate yet sweeping account of Pakistan’s contemporary history. Walsh is a rare foreign correspondent who doesn’t condescend, a storyteller who lets his characters speak. Although I am familiar with most of the events and characters Walsh writes about, his retelling left me breathless." -- Mohammed Hanif, author of A Case of Exploding Mangoes"An enthralling account of Mr. Walsh’s near-decade as a correspondent." -- Tunku Varadarajan - Wall Street Journal"[A] thrilling, big-hearted book....If Walsh’s guts take him places others have not reached, his prose – vigorous, cockeyed and clear – brings it home to the reader....This is not just a book for someone wanting to find out about Pakistan, although it performs that job admirably. It is also a richly observed study of how humans respond to the extraordinary pressures of a sometimes-choking society; empathetic, but hard-nosed and never veering into hagiography." -- Memphis Barker - Telegraph"An immersive and splendidly written portrait of Pakistan….Rich with incisive historical context, astute cultural analysis, and evocative language, Walsh’s account brings Pakistan’s contradictions to fascinating life. This masterfully reported account deserves a wide readership." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review
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WW Norton & Co Samuelson Friedman
Book SynopsisFrom the author of the critically acclaimed Keynes Hayek, the next great duel in the history of economics.Trade Review"Summarising the debate between the two most important economists of the second half of the 20th century might seem like a monumental task, best consigned to specialist textbooks. But this brave history of the intellectual duel between Paul Samuelson and Milton Friedman proves that assumption wrong, with its focus as much on their lives as their ideas." -- Zareer Masani - Literary Review"If you had to name the two most influential economists of the postwar decades, you would not go far wrong if you picked Paul Samuelson and Milton Friedman… As Wapshott shows, their arguments over the proper scope of government intervention and the control of inflation echo down to the present." -- Adam Tooze - Financial Times
£21.84
WW Norton & Co He Had a Dream Martin Luther King Jr and the
Book SynopsisHe Had a Dream is a visual record of King's life and work by the only man King trusted and to whom he gave such complete access. Schulke's images, combined with his commentary on both the moment and its place in the context of the civil rights movement, create a more immediate and revealing portrait of King than we have had before.
£19.59
WW Norton & Co Frederick Douglass
Book SynopsisA masterpiece.[W]ill rightfully assume its place as the standard biography of a truly great figure in the nation's past. New York Newsday
£23.75
WW Norton & Co The Broken Tower The Life of Hart Crane
Book SynopsisThe first biography of Crane to appear in thirty years, The Broken Tower reads with all the drama of a psychological novel and the inexorable force of a Greek tragedy.
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WW Norton & Co Woodswoman II
Book Synopsis"If you’re looking for a real declaration of independence, and a deeper social experiment, try a woman living alone in the Adirondacks for decades." —Megan Mayhew Bergman, GuardianTrade Review"Anne LaBastille has done it again! What a splendid account of her move deeper into the woods of the Adirondacks—and deeper into her independent life as a consultant and conservationist…A book of the inspirational sort, such as we rarely see." -- Norman Myers, author of The Primary Source: Tropical Forests and Our Future
£12.34
WW Norton & Co Still Love in Strange Places
Book SynopsisA love story and a journey across the continents of marriage.Trade Review"With richly evocative prose than can only be called masterful, Beth Kephart illuminates here the questions we somehow keep forgetting to ask: how is it possible to fully love our mate without knowing and loving, too, where he or she was engendered? Still Love in Strange Places is a revelation and a feast!" -- Andre Dubus III, author of House of Sand and Fog
£15.99
WW Norton & Co The Life She Wished to Live A Biography of
Book SynopsisA comprehensive and engaging biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the beloved classic The Yearling.Trade Review"McCutchan is a sensitive observer of Rawlings’s work, and of her deeply unconventional life... It’s a pleasure to meet this cursing, hard-drinking, brilliant, self-destructive, car-wrecking, fun-loving, chain-smoking, alligator-hunting, moonshine-making, food-obsessed woman again on the page... Come to this biography for Rawlings’s outsize personality... Stay for the portrait of a woman whose writing meant everything to her." -- Dwight Garner - New York Times"[McCutchan] has a graceful style enlivened by glints of wry humor... The book re-creates the lush tropicality of north-central Florida in the 1930s and 1940s, before developers began to bulldoze over its natural wonders. And readers get a penetrating look at one driven writer's work process... [A] vivid portrait of a woman who gave her all to do her best work." -- Mary Ann Gwinn - Minneapolis Star Tribune"An engaging, lively biography of an accomplished and complicated woman... All of it adds up to a rich portrait of a woman who loved Florida, and of a Florida that’s now all but vanished." -- Colette Bancroft - Tampa Bay Times"Rawlings cleared her path through life as though armed with a machete; McCutchan, gracefully, records every chop." -- Jonathan Miles - Garden & Gun"Absorbing, affectionate, and long overdue... McCutchan looks closely at Rawlings’ letters, stories, novels and memoirs and mines the ways they reveal Rawlings’ writerly mind... The Life She Wished to Live is the biography that Rawlings has long deserved." -- BookPage"It’s been a quarter of a century since we’ve had a new biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and Ann McCutchan delivers. From Rawlings’s early newspaper days to the triumph of The Yearling, McCutchan shows us a writer of complexity, ambition, and conviction. A deeply researched and satisfying read." -- Martha Ackmann, author of These Fevered Days"An affectionate biography of the beloved author…Work by work, McCutchan carefully details Rawlings’s gradual development as a professional writer who keenly absorbed [Cross Creek, Florida’s] history, culture, and dialects…An all-inclusive and intimate assessment that could help Rawlings attract a new generation of readers." -- Kirkus Reviews"In Ann McCutchan’s welcome biography, we follow Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s evolution as a writer, glimpse her friendships with writers as various as Ernest Hemingway, Robert Frost, Margaret Mitchell and Zora Neale Hurston, and witness her vibrant literary life. Most striking is the fascinating account, unearthed from letters, of Rawlings’ personal struggle against what we would now call racist consciousness and her evolution as an ally of early 20th century struggles for social justice." -- Honor Moore, author of Our Revolution"How many contradictions can one life contain? Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings bridged the world of alligator hunting/orange growing/racially segregated early 20th century Florida and the world of legendary writers and elite New York-based editors. Ann McCutchan’s richly researched biography of the Pulitzer prize-winning author vividly portrays the uncompromising, hard-drinking and versatile Rawlings, who was equally at home wading through swamps as she was writing a novel or a cookbook, or conversing with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zora Neale Hurston and Robert Frost. The complexities of Rawlings’ massive inner insecurities and her outward, outsized personality make for a compelling and thoughtful biography." -- Julie Dobrow, author of After Emily
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WW Norton & Co Bluff City
Book SynopsisThe little-known story of an iconic photographer, whose work captured—and influenced—a critical moment in American history.Trade Review"[A] vibrant study of Withers… [and] a love letter to Withers’s hometown." -- New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice"Lauterbach’s riveting recounting of the sanitation strike, and the stranger-than-fiction role Withers may have played in the riot that threw it into chaos, would be enough to make Bluff City an indispensable work." -- Steve Nathans-Kelly - New York Journal of Books"Meticulous and engrossing." -- Anjali Enjeti - Atlanta Journal-Constitution"Bluff City does a masterful job of telling the story of civil rights in Memphis in the 1960s, framing it with Withers’ biography, and culminating with the sanitation workers’ strike that would bring King to town—and to his death. Not only is it a great narrative, it’s also a reminder, in these polarised times, that moral complexity is baked into human affairs, and that sometimes people do the wrong thing for what they perceive is the right reason." -- Ed Ward - Financial Times"[Preston] Lauterbach… provides a better feel for life in Memphis… [and] a thoughtful analysis of Withers’s talent as a photographer." -- Clifford Thompson - Wall Street Journal"A story vividly told." -- Alice Speri - Intercept"A loose, rangy history of the civil rights movement in Memphis, using Withers and his camera as the (literal) lens. [Lauterbach’s] done the work, tracking the complex, intertwined dances of the radicals and the centrists, the local ministers and visiting heavyweights like King." -- Christopher Bonanos - New York Times Book Review"Through intimate reporting and effortless storytelling, Bluff City captures both the tragic ironies of FBI espionage and the fertile contradictions of Memphis, Tennessee. The photographs of Ernest Withers—spy, artist, race man, and cagey black conservative—have never looked more meaningful." -- William J. Maxwell, author of F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover’s Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature and editor of James Baldwin: The FBI File
£14.24
WW Norton & Co Zora and Langston A Story of Friendship and
Book SynopsisZora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, two giants of the Harlem Renaissance, were best friends—until they weren’t.Trade Review"The greatest feat... lies in Taylor’s loving yet evenhanded portraits. One of the most compelling and consequential relationships in black literary history." -- Zinzi Clemmons - The New York Times Book Review"Writing in a vivid anecdotal style, Taylor’s book carries readers along on the giddy, and ultimately, very bumpy ride." -- Maureen Corrigan - NPR"Compelling, concise and scrupulously researched [A] wonderful book." -- Clifford Thompson - The Wall Street Journal"Cullors says that, after this interview, she will turn off her phone and continue reading Zora and Langston to decompress. Yuval Taylor’s biography charts the friendship and falling out of novelist Zora Neale Hurston and poet Langston Hughes. Their works helped define the Harlem Renaissance, a flowering of African-American artistic and intellectual expression in the 1920s. Two chapters in, her review is "inspiring, amazing and juicy"." -- Patrisse Cullors, Co-founder of Black Lives Matter - Financial Times
£14.24
WW Norton & Co Bagehot
Book SynopsisThe definitive biography of a banker, essayist and editor of the Economist, by an acclaimed financial historian.Trade Review"The most perceptive and brilliant economic and political writer of his time deserves a biographer of equal literary merit. In James Grant, Walter Bagehot has found him." -- Mervyn King, former governor of the Bank of England and author of The End of Alchemy"James Grant [is] one of the most influential contemporary commentators on Wall Street... in Grant’s hands, Bagehot’s life and career provide a superb prism through which to observe the extraordinary revolution in the British economy during the 19th century." -- Simon Nixon - The Times"The book makes a convincing case that Bagehot deserves credit for being a progenitor of a wider political tradition…" -- Moneyweek"... engaging new biography of Bagehot... In this very enjoyable book, Grant demonstrates that he has the measure of a fascinating—and great—Victorian." -- Financial Times"... his [James Grant's] book is excellent—built on a lot of study (including time in the archives) and written in a gripping style. Mr Grant is at his best when writing about Bagehot’s financial journalism and indeed his career as a banker. His accounts of the collapse of Overend Gurney, supposedly the Rock of Gibraltar of Victorian finance, and of “Lombard Street”, Bagehot’s book about that debacle, are exemplary." -- The Economist
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WW Norton & Co Sisters and Rebels A Struggle for the Soul of
Book SynopsisThree sisters from the American South wrestle with orthodoxies of race, sexuality and privilege.
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WW Norton & Co Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden
Book SynopsisSisters separated by war forge new identities as they are forced to choose between family, nation and their own independenceTrade Review"With sensitivity and sincerity, Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden takes readers through the most complicated, difficult, sorrowful, and indecipherable years in China’s modern history. Zhuqing Li’s beautifully narrated family stories are tightly entangled with the wider historical context, unfolding on a magnificent scale, and evoke unique feelings of pain and helplessness that belong to that era." -- Ai Wei Wei, author of 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows"Li Zhuqing has captured the agonizing struggle of late-20th-century Chinese history within the microcosm of her own extraordinary family, split by chance in the tumultuous summer of 1949. This is a tale of accidental exile, capitalism and communism, medicine and mercantilism, lifelong nostalgia and wilful forgetting, and the breathtaking resilience of two sisters, Li's indomitable aunts. How lucky we are that their niece has the skill and devotion to tell their story so well." -- Janice Nimura, author of The Doctors Blackwell"A heartrending story, beautifully told, about the struggles and triumphs of two sisters separated by the Taiwan Strait, but united in their determination to pursue meaningful lives amid political upheaval. I couldn’t stop reading it." -- Amy Stanley, author of Stranger in the Shogun's City"In gorgeous prose, Zhuqing Li tells a story that is at once distinctive and familiar, of Chinese families of a certain generation that lived through wars, revolutions, separations, and reunions. I couldn’t put it down. A lovely book." -- Mae Ngai, author of The Chinese Question"At last, a profoundly human story that illuminates the staggering personal consequences of China and Taiwan’s historic split—from both sides. Rare is the author who can portray war and its aftermath so evenhandedly. This powerful page-turner of a family torn apart—and surviving—is as unforgettable as it is important." -- Nicole Mones, author of The Last Chinese Chef"Beginning in war-torn China, Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden tells a compelling story about diaspora, root-seeking, and the triumph of familial love and human perseverance." -- David Wang, author of The Lyrical in Epic Tim
£20.89
WW Norton & Co Code Name Madeleine A Sufi Spy in NaziOccupied
Book SynopsisThe dramatic story of Noor Inayat Khan, a secret agent for the British in occupied France.
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WW Norton & Co Code Name Madeleine
Book SynopsisThe dramatic story of Noor Inayat Khan, a secret agent for the British in occupied France.
£12.34
WW Norton & Co Into the Great Emptiness
Book SynopsisThe riveting story of one of the greatest but least-known sagas in the history of exploration from David Roberts, the “dean of adventure writing”
£22.79
WW Norton & Co The Souls of Black Folk
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Penguin Putnam Inc Visiting Hours A Memoir of Friendship and Murder
Book Synopsis“A gripping and poignant memoir.”–Kirkus In this powerful and unforgettable memoir, award-winning writer Amy Butcher examines the shattering consequences of failing a friend when she felt he needed one most. Four weeks before their college graduation, twenty-one-year-old Kevin Schaeffer walked Amy Butcher to her home in their college town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Hours after parting ways with Amy, he fatally stabbed his ex-girlfriend, Emily Silverstein. While he was awaiting trial, psychiatrists concluded that he had suffered an acute psychotic break. Although severely affected by Kevin’s crime, Amy remained devoted to him as a friend, believing that his actions were the direct result of his untreated illness. Over time, she became obsessed—determined to discover the narrative that explained what Kevin had done. The tragedy deeply shook her concept of reality, disrupted her sense of right and wrong, and dismantled every conce
£14.40
Penguin Putnam Inc Becoming Grandma The Joys and Science of the New
Book SynopsisThe New York Times BestsellerFrom one of the country’s most recognizable journalists, Lesley Stahl of CBS's 60 Minutes: How becoming a grandmother transforms a woman’s life. After four decades as a reporter, Lesley Stahl’s most vivid and transformative experience of her life was not covering the White House, interviewing heads of state, or researching stories at 60 Minutes. It was becoming a grandmother. She was hit with a jolt of joy so intense and unexpected, she wanted to “investigate” it—as though it were a news flash. And so, using her 60 Minutes skills, she explored how grandmothering changes a woman’s life, interviewing friends like Whoopi Goldberg, colleagues like Diane Sawyer (and grandfathers, including Tom Brokaw), as well as the proverbial woman next door.Along with these personal accounts, Stahl speaks with scientists and doctors about physiological changes that occur in women when they have grandchildren; anthropologists about why there are grandmothers, in evolutionary terms; and psychiatrists about the therapeutic effects of grandchildren on both grandmothers and grandfathers.Throughout Becoming Grandma, Stahl shares stories about her own life with granddaughters Jordan and Chloe, about how her relationship with her daughter, Taylor, has changed, and about how being a grandfather has affected her husband, Aaron.In an era when baby boomers are becoming grandparents in droves and when young parents need all the help they can get raising their children, Stahl’s book is a timely and affecting read that redefines a cherished relationship.
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Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale Chasing Light Michelle Obama Through the Lens of
Book SynopsisA New York Times Best SellerA collection of striking and intimate photographs of Michelle Obama—many never before seen—coupled with personal reflections and behind-the-scenes stories from Official White House Photographer Amanda Lucidon, presented in a deluxe format. Michelle Obama is one of the most admired First Ladies in history, known for her grace, spirit, and beauty, as well as for the amazing work she did during her tenure to promote girls’ education, combat childhood obesity, and support military families. In Chasing Light, former White House photographer Amanda Lucidon, who spent four years covering the First Lady, shares a rare insider’s perspective, from documenting life at the White House to covering domestic and overseas travel. This collection of 150 candid photos—many previously unreleased—and Amanda’s narrative reflections reveal just what makes Mrs. Obama so special. Fro
£25.49
Random House USA Inc The Undocumented Americans
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans in this deeply personal and groundbreaking portrait of a nation.“Karla’s book sheds light on people’s personal experiences and allows their stories to be told and their voices to be heard.”—Selena GomezFINALIST FOR THE NBCC JOHN LEONARD AWARD • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, NPR, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, BOOK RIOT, LIBRARY JOURNAL, AND TIMEWriter Karla Cornejo Villavicencio was on DACA when she decided to write about being undocumented for the first time using her own name. It was right after the election of 2016, the day she realized the story she’d tried to steer clear of was the only one she wanted to tell. So she wrote her immigration law
£22.10
Taylor & Francis Ltd Whos Who in Twentieth Century Warfare Whos Who
Book SynopsisThis authoratative biographical guide to warfare in the twentieth century is at once fascinating reading and an invaluable work of reference for anyone interested in modern military history.;Trade Review'... a well-balanced book that gives equal weight to commanders from all areas of the globe.' - Bill Maxwell, The British Army Review, no. 131, 2003'This book ... is a useful reference when reading twentieth century military history.' - Bill Maxwell, The British Army Review, no. 131, 2003Table of ContentsChapter 1 A; Chapter 2 B; Chapter 3 C; Chapter 4 D; Chapter 5 E; Chapter 6 F; Chapter 7 G; Chapter 8 H; Chapter 9 I; Chapter 10 J; Chapter 11 K; Chapter 12 L; Chapter 13 M; Chapter 14 N; Chapter 15 O; Chapter 16 P; Chapter 17 Q; Chapter 18 R; Chapter 19 S; Chapter 20 T; Chapter 21 U; Chapter 22 V; Chapter 23 W; Chapter 24 Y; Chapter 25 Z;
£105.00
Penguin Publishing Group The Seamstress A Memoir of Survival
Book SynopsisFrom its opening pages, in which she recounts her own premature birth, triggered by terrifying rumors of an incipient pogrom, Bernstein' s tale is clearly not a typical memoir of the Holocaust. She was born into a large family in rural Romania...and grew up feisty and willing to fight back physically against anti-Semitism from other schoolchildren. She defied her father' s orders to turn down a scholarship that took her to Bucharest, and got herself expelled from that school when she responded to a priest/teacher's vicious diatribe against the Jews by hurling a bottle of ink at him...After a series of incidents that ranged from dramatic escapes to a year in a forced labor detachment, Sara ended up in Ravensbruck, a women' s concentration camp, and managed to survive...she tells this story with style and power. —Kirkus Reviews
£999.99
Penguin Putnam Inc Take A Stand Lessons From Rebels
Book SynopsisEmmy Award-winning journalist and Univision anchor Jorge Ramos looks back on groundbreaking interviews with rebels such as President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Spike Lee, Barbara Walters, Fidel Castro, and more.After 30 fascinating years uncovering the hard truth, journalist Jorge Ramos opens up for the first time about life-altering lessons by sharing captivating never-before-told stories. Widely recognized for his unapologetic, no-holds-barred approach to interviewing global leaders, business titans, democratic policy makers, and dictators, Ramos unearths their one common trait—they were all rebels at one point in their lives. Rebels are different. They decided to challenge the prevailing status quo. Sometimes they rebelled to change a regime, other times to prevent abuse or discrimination, but in most cases they strived to correct an injustice.Candid and at times controversial, Ramos draws invaluable awareness of issue
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Time Warner Trade Publishing The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
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Time Warner Trade Publishing Secret Diary of a Call Girl
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Penguin Putnam Inc Claude MonetSunshine and Waterlillies Om
Book SynopsisSteven chronicles Claude Monet''s rise to fame and contributions to Impressionism in this colorful report, featuring Steven''s funny cartoons alongside reproductions of classic paintings like Waterlilies.
£6.99
Penguin Putnam Inc The Company She Keeps The Dangerous Life of a
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Broadway Books The Last Palace
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Penguin Putnam Inc King Con The Bizarre Adventures of the Jazz Ages
Book SynopsisThe spellbinding tale of hustler Edgar Laplante—the king of Jazz Age con artists—who becomes the victim of his own dangerous game. Edgar Laplante was a smalltime grifter, an erstwhile vaudeville performer, and an unabashed charmer. But after years of playing thankless gigs and traveling with medicine shows, he decided to undertake the most demanding and bravura performance of his life. In the fall of 1917, Laplante reinvented himself as Chief White Elk: war hero, sports star, civil rights campaigner, Cherokee nation leader—and total fraud. Under the pretenses of raising money for struggling Native American reservations, Laplante dressed in buckskins and a feathered headdress and traveled throughout the American West, narrowly escaping exposure and arrest each time he left town. When the heat became too much, he embarked upon a lucrative continent-hopping tour that attracted even more enormous crowds, his cons growing in propor
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Penguin Putnam Inc Every Frenchman Has One
Book SynopsisBack in print for the first time in decades—and featuring a new interview with the author, in celebration of her centennial birthday—the delectable escapades of Hollywood legend Olivia de Havilland, who fell in love with a Frenchman—and then became a Parisian In 1953, Olivia de Havilland—already an Academy Award-winning actress for her roles in To Each His Own and The Heiress—became the heroine of her own real-life love affair. She married a Frenchman, moved to Paris, and planted her standard on the Left Bank of the River Seine. It has been fluttering on both Left and Right Banks with considerable joy and gaiety from that moment on. Still, her transition from Hollywood celebrity to parisienne was anything but easy. And in Every Frenchman Has One, her skirmishes with French customs, French maids, French salesladies, French holidays, French law, French doctors, and above all, theTrade ReviewNew York Times Bestseller“Delightfully witty... [de Havilland's] tone might be playful, but her talent was, and is, serious.”—Entertainment Weekly“Charming, cheeky fun...[with] plenty of nostalgic pleasure.”—Vogue.com“Sensational.”—Parade.com (13 Summer Reads That Are Must-Haves for the Beach)“I found myself supremely enchanted by Every Frenchman Has One....[L]ittle did I imagine that this tome inspired by her 1953 move to Paris following her marriage...would reveal such a marvelous reserve of mischievous wit and self-deprecating humor.... Like a delicious collection of bon bons waiting to be gobbled, juicy anecdotal material is mined from an array of inviting topics.... A charming book.”—Susan Wloszczyna, Buffalo News“An undiluted pleasure.”—Peter Tonguette, Columbus Dispatch“A light-hearted but also penetrating look at adjusting to French life…[with a] surprisingly vibrant sense of humor.” —Martin Rubin, Washington Times “Delightful.”—People“Disarmingly self-deprecating...[an] amusing outsider look at Paris.”—Huffington Post“An unending battle with law, custom, society, fashion… sales clerk and landlord… Who laughs last laughs best. She does and you along with her.”—New York Herald Tribune“A rib-tickler… excellent.”—New York Mirror “Lively and pleasant… wicked and roguish.”—Oakland Tribune “Nostalgic, provocative.”—New York Times“Miss de Havilland Tells All…”—Chicago Tribune “Her seven-year stint as Mme. Pierre Galante, a sharp-eyed Franco-U.S. housewife and what she found out about French husbands… a happy Jean Kerr-ish account… a funny one…”—Life
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Broadway Books See You in the Piazza New Places to Discover in
Book SynopsisThe bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun discovers the hidden pleasures of Italy in a sumptuous travel narrative that crisscrosses the country, with inventive new recipes celebrating Italian cuisine. Don’t miss Frances Mayes in PBS’s Dream of Italy: Tuscan Sun Special! “Reading this book is a vacation in itself.”—The New York Times Book Review (Best Travel Books of the Summer)The Roman Forum, the Leaning Tower, the Piazza San Marco: these are the sights synonymous with Italy. But such landmarks only scratch the surface of this magical country's offerings. In See You in the Piazza, Frances Mayes introduces us to the Italy only the locals know, as she and her husband, Ed, eat and drink their way through thirteen regions—from Friuli to Sicily. Along the way, she seeks out the cultural and historic gems not found in traditional guidebooks
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Broadway Books The Ghosts of Eden Park The Bootleg King the
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic true crime story of the most successful bootlegger in American history and the murder that shocked the nation, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy“Gatsby-era noir at its best.”—Erik LarsonAn ID Book Club Selection • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SMITHSONIANIn the early days of Prohibition, long before Al Capone became a household name, a German immigrant named George Remus quits practicing law and starts trafficking whiskey. Within two years he's a multi-millionaire. The press calls him King of the Bootleggers, writing breathless stories about the Gatsby-esque events he and his glamorous second wife, Imogene, host at their Cincinnati mansion, with party favors ranging from diamond jewelry for the men to brand-new cars for the women. By the summer of 1921, Remus owns 35 percent of all the liquor in the United States. Pioneering prosecutor Mabel Walker Willebrandt is determined to bring him down. Willebrandt's bosses at the Justice Department hired her right out of law school, assuming she'd pose no real threat to the cozy relationship they maintain with Remus. Eager to prove them wrong, she dispatches her best investigator, Franklin Dodge, to look into his empire. It's a decision with deadly consequences. With the fledgling FBI on the case, Remus is quickly imprisoned for violating the Volstead Act. Her husband behind bars, Imogene begins an affair with Dodge. Together, they plot to ruin Remus, sparking a bitter feud that soon reaches the highest levels of government--and that can only end in murder. Combining deep historical research with novelistic flair, The Ghosts of Eden Park is the unforgettable, stranger-than-fiction story of a rags-to-riches entrepreneur and a long-forgotten heroine, of the excesses and absurdities of the Jazz Age, and of the infinite human capacity to deceive.Praise for The Ghosts of Eden Park“An exhaustively researched, hugely entertaining work of popular history that . . . exhumes a colorful crew of once-celebrated characters and restores them to full-blooded life. . . . [Abbott’s] métier is narrative nonfiction and—as this vibrant, enormously readable book makes clear—she is one of the masters of the art.”—The Wall Street Journal“Satisfyingly sensational and thoroughly researched.”—The Columbus Dispatch“Absorbing . . . a Prohibition-era page-turner.”—Chicago Tribune
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Penguin Publishing Group Prime Obsession
Book SynopsisThe definitive story of the Riemann Hypothesis, a fascinating and epic mathematical mystery that continues to challege the world.In 1859, Bernhard Riemann, a little-known thirty-two year old mathematician, made a hypothesis while presenting a paper to the Berlin Academy titled “On the Number of Prime Numbers Less Than a Given Quantity.” Today, after 150 years of careful research and exhaustive study, the Riemann Hyphothesis remains unsolved, with a one-million-dollar prize earmarked for the first person to conquer it.Alternating passages of extraordinarily lucid mathematical exposition with chapters of elegantly composed biography and history, Prime Obsession is a fascinating and fluent account of an epic mathematical mystery that continues to challenge and excite the world.
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Basic Books Passionate Spirit The Life of Alma Mahler
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Blood and Whiskey
Book SynopsisBorn in Lynchburg, Tennessee, in 1850, Jack Daniel became a legendary moonshiner at age 15 before launching a legitimate distillery ten years later. By the time he died in 1911, he was an American legend-and his Old No. 7 Tennessee sipping whiskey was an international sensation, the winner of gold medals at the St.Trade ReviewThe author traces the Daniel family lineage from Scotland and Ireland to rural Tennessee, and Jasper “Jack” Newton Daniel’s rise from hardscrabble youth to a dandy gent with a love of horses, fine clothes and women, a colleague of J.P. Morgan’s and one of the most famous spirits producers in the world. Orphaned at 15, Jack discovered a whiskey still on the property of his longtime neighbor and new guardian, Dan Call, and his interest in distilling booze was born. Krass (Carnegie) details the early business partnership between Call and Daniel and their eventual split, as Call forces himself to choose between preaching and making whiskey. “One Call [descendant] wished he’d given up preaching instead because the Jack Daniel Distillery was eventually worth tens of millions of dollars,” Krass writes. While Krass’s research is ample, the book often gets bogged down in historical minutiae, and at times the reader wishes for a more charismatic star of the show than the somewhat dour Daniel. But witnessing the maturation of his namesake company—not to mention the maturation of the U.S. as it confronts slavery, the Civil War and the temperance movement—is engrossing. Fans of the whiskey will be happy to hear the alleged real story behind the Old No. 7 that adorns each bottle, and anyone can appreciate the classic American characters sprinkled throughout the text, including the richly monikered Eph Grizzard, Beauregard Beam and Lemuel Motlow. Agent, Ed Knappman. (May) (Publishers Weekly, April 12th, 2004)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1 The Cursed Child 7 2 Everything Gone but the Dirt 25 3 Legend of the Boy Distiller 42 4 The Nomad 64 5 Reunion and Challenge 75 6 A Rebellion against the Government 92 7 Identity Crisis 107 8 Seizing the Legendary Hollow 120 9 Taking On Nashville 136 10 Big Man, Lonely Man 155 11 Brand Magic 166 12 Enemies 178 13 Reborn 191 14 The Final Battle 204 Epilogue Lem’s Trials 215 Afterword The Making of a Legend 227 Notes 235 Bibliography 257 Index 261
£23.20
John Wiley & Sons Inc The Making of Dr Phil The StraightTalking True
Book SynopsisMillions look to Dr. Phil for advice on everything from relationships to life. But Dr. Phil is more than just a pop psychologist. Hea s also an amazing businessman who has started and run a number of flourishing ventures. In The Making of Dr. Phil, award--winning journalists Sophia Dembling and Lisa Gutierrez take readers inside the world of Dr.Table of ContentsPrologue. 1. Learning to Fly. 2. Like Father, Like Son. 3. Big Man on Campus. 4. Tackling the Rough Times. 5. Let's Make a Deal. 6. Studying Psychology. 7. Licensed to Phil. 8. From the Couch to the Courtroom. 9. Oprah Comes Calling. 10. Becoming a Bestseller. 11. Ready for the Spotlight. 12. The Dr. Phil Show. 13. Mass-Marketing Tough Talk. 14. A Perfect Marriage. 15. The Son Also Rises. 16. Quick-Draw McGraw. 17. Enjoying Celebrity. 18. Dr. Phil's Life Laws for Success. Significant Events in Dr. Phil's Life. Acknowledgments. Source Notes. Index.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Frank Lloyd Wright
Book SynopsisA complete biography based on a wide range of previously untapped primary sources, covering Wrighta s private life, architecture, and role in American society, culture, and politics. Views Wrighta s buildings as biographical as well as social statements, analyzing his work by type, category, and individual structure.Table of ContentsNearly Everything to Learn 1867-1893. The Art and Craft of Success 1893-1901. A Radically Different Conception 19O1-1909. Thinking and Working Along Original Lines 1901-1909. Affinity Tangle 1907-1912. Spiritual Hegira 1910-1914. A Regular Life Is Cunningly Ambushed 1914-1932. Little Experiment Stations in Out of the Way Places1932-1938. Usonia: Shelter in the Open 1936-1947. Characteristically Modest Projects 1936-1945. Organic Architecture 1930-1959. The Boldest Buildings of His Career 1946-1959. A Giant Tree in a Wide Landscape 1946-1959. How Do You Speak to a Divinity? After 1959. Appendix. Bibliography. Index.
£44.06
LUP - University of Michigan Press Ten Thousand Nights Highlights from 50 Years of
Book SynopsisEsteemed scholar and theatre aficionado Marvin Carlson has seen an unsurpassed number of theatrical productions in his long and distinguished career. Ten Thousand Nights is a lively chronicle of a half-century of theatre-going, in which Carlson recalls one memorable production for each year from 1960 to 2010.
£23.70
LUP - University of Michigan Press Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art
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The University of Michigan Press Remembering Tanizaki Junichiro and Matsuko
Book SynopsisProvides previously unpublished memories, anecdotes, and insights into the lives, opinions, personalities, and writings of the great novelist Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965) and his wife Matsuko (1903-1991), gleaned from the diaries of Edward Seidensticker and two decades of Anthony Chambers”s conversations with Mrs. Tanizaki and others who were close to the Tanizaki family.Trade ReviewRemembering Tanizaki Jun'ichiro and Matsuko is a must read for Tanizaki lovers. Once I started I couldn't put it down and found myself squealing with delight at each new morsel of detail about the life and opinions of Tanzaki and his remarkable third wife and muse, Matsuko. The book takes an unapologetically biographical, if not downright gossipy, approach. This perhaps makes it more of a book for fans than for scholars. For those of us who are both, it feels at times like a bit of a guilty pleasure. It is both a record and an example of the kind of fan-like devotion that Tanizaki continues to inspire."" - J. Keith Vincent, Boston University, and award-winning translator of Okamoto Kanoko's A Riot of Goldfish and Tanizaki's Devils in Daylight
£60.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Tempests into Rainbows
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£42.70
The University of Michigan Press Communications with the Future
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Rosa Bonheur
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Feather Brained
Book SynopsisBob Tarte offers readers a droll look at the pleasures and pitfalls of birding, introduces a colourful cast of fellow birders from across the US, and travels to some of the premier birding sites in the Midwest. This funny, heartfelt memoir will appeal to birders of all skill levels as well as to anyone who knows and loves a birder.Trade Review“[Tarte’s] unforgettable family—feathered, furred and (the human ones, mostly) flummoxed—is one you’ll love visiting.”—Sy Montgomery, Author of The Good Good Pig""Bob’s tone is self-deprecating, humorous, and totally winsome.”—Nancy Pearl, NPR Morning Edition“Tarte’s laughter-through-tears approach is therapeutic and inspirational.”—Entertainment Weekly
£18.00
LUP - University of Michigan Press 10000 Nights
Book SynopsisEsteemed scholar and theater aficionado Marvin Carlson has seen an unsurpassed number of theatrical productions in his long and distinguished career. Ten Thousand Nights is a lively chronicle of a half-century of theatre-going, in which Carlson recalls one memorable production for each year from 1960 to 2010.Trade Review“This book distils fifty years of theatregoing into fifty succinct yet illuminating reviews … That this book is the product of a deep and lifelong love for the theatre is clear” – Times Literary Supplement“Marvin Carlson has probably attended more performances than any other person on the planet . . . One couldn't ask for a more amiable, passionate, astute, and knowledgeable guide to a rich half shy century of work for the stage." - Alisa Solomon, Columbia School of Journalism"The appeal of this book extends far beyond academia . . . To people who work in theatre, it offers an exhilarating excursion through the great achievements of the past half-century; to theatre lovers, a delightful memory palace as well as supplement to our own cherished recollections of great performances; finally, to students and young artists, an inspiring invitation to embark on their own lifelong voyages of artistic discovery." - Una Chaudhuri, New York University
£53.39
University of California Press A Heart at Fires Center The Life and Music of
Book SynopsisNo composer contributed more to film than Bernard Herrmann, who in over 40 scores enriched the work of such directors as Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Truffaut, and Martin Scorsese. This biography explores the interrelationships between Herrmann's music and his turbulent personal life.
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