371 results for '"Diamond, Larry'

Winner, 2021 Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award, given by the Society for Cinema and Media StudiesWinner, 2021 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Academic/Scholarly WorkHonorable Mention,...

Introduction 1. On power and illusion: the concept of transparency in international law Andrea Bianchi Part I. International Environmental Law: 2. Transparency and international environmental...

In 1831 a delegation of Northwest Indians reportedly made the arduous journey from the shores of the Pacific to the banks of the Missouri in order to visit the famous explorer William Clark. This...

“An amazing literary feat and a masterpiece of storytelling. Once again, Bharati Mukherjee prove she is one of our foremost writers, with the literary muscles to weave both the future and the past...

One of the earliest examples of the detective novel, this taut and intricate mystery remains a classic work of Victorian literatureThe Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and...

"As the case with her fiction, Berlin's pieces here are as faceted as the brightest diamond." --Kristin Iversen, NYLONNEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE. Named a Fall Read by Buzzfeed,...

From the Introduction: "There is not a successful deer hunter in the world who has not come up with his own peculiar methods -- some of them secret, some not -- for beating the long odds of killing a...

"It is a measure of the confusion of our times that the simplest words tease out the most complicated questions. Words like 'good' and 'house.' What do we mean by these? A year of my life turned on...

A memoir by the legendary television executive detailing his pioneering work on Saturday Night Live, Sunday Night Football, the Olympics, the NBA, music videos, late night, and more.Think of an...

This is the periodic table as you've never seen it before. By presenting the elements in the order in which they were discovered, The Elements also tells the story of chemistry. Now iconic, the...

“Prepared for the most inquisitive readers, bringing answers to fresh questions they may not even have thought to ask” —Smithsonian Magazine“This is a multi-dimensional triumph.” —Larry Gonick,...

Praised as “a work of wild, vaulting ambition and achievement” by Entertainment Weekly, Jamie O’Neill’s first novel invites comparison to such literary greats as James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and...

From beloved storyteller and Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, a masterly and gripping crime novel set in picturesque Nice on the French RivieraStolen jewels, black markets, hired guns, crossed...

In The War Machines, Danny Hoffman considers how young men are made available for violent labor both on the battlefields and in the diamond mines, rubber plantations, and other unregulated industries...

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • A sweeping chronicle of four tumultuous years in 1980s New York that changed the city forever—and anticipated the forces that would soon divide the...

The tales of this book explore and extend the world established by Ursula K. Le Guin's must-read Books of Earthsea. This collection contains the novella "The Finder" and the short stories "The Bones...

GOLD MEDALIST OF FOREWORD REVIEWS' 2015 INDIEFAB AWARDS IN WOMEN'S STUDIESWhat's wrong with black women? Not a damned thing!The Sisters Are Alright exposes anti–black-woman propaganda and shows how...

The Gothic cathedrals of the Middle Ages are among the world's greatest architectural achievements. Looking up at the soaring vaulted ceiling of a Gothic church, it is impossible not to marvel at the...

“Mysticism, horror, and racial identity merge fluidly in this thrilling tale of love, obsession, and power” (Publishers Weekly) written by one of the lesser-known literary figures of the much-lauded...

In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. Over a century later, the Honeys' descendants and a diverse group of...