3647 results for '"Davies, Jonathan'

The definitive and “captivating” (Marty Baron, author of Collision of Power) story of San Francisco’s meteoric transformation into a global capital of technology, and how the same creative and...

How black writers’ travel to Paris contributed to the transatlantic circulation of art and ideas.Paris has always fascinated and welcomed writers. Throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first...

Aristotle was the first philosopher in the Western tradition to address politics systematically and empirically, and he remains a central figure in political theory. This essential volume presents...

A history of how humans have created monsters out of one another—from our deepest fears—and what these monsters tell us about humanity's present and future.   Monsters are central to how we think...

A People 10 Best Books of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book of the Year * An Independent (UK) 20 Best Books of the Year "Wise, bracingly honest...A reassuring reality check...Exhilarating."...

An expertly crafted evaluation of forces shaping the economy over the coming decade and portfolio management strategies designed to harness themIn Coming Into View: How AI and Other Megatrends Will...

In this deliciously noir novel from the creator of HBO's Bored to Death, idiosyncratic private detective Happy Doll embarks on a quest to help a dying friend in a sun-blinded Los Angeles as "quirky,...

The War of the Fists is a study of seventeenth-century worker culture in the city of Venice, focusing on the mock battles, or battagliole, which the town's two popular factions waged on public...

A bold retelling of the 1960s civil rights struggle through its work against police violence—and a prehistory of both the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements that emerged half a...

A New York Times Notable Book, Want Not offers funny and occasionally devastating “portraits of humanity…as beautifully mundane and unique as a fingerprint.” (Entertainment Weekly)“Wonderful…the work...

What is so special about the human voice? The relationship between the ear and the voice is unique among the senses. While we cannot emit light or smell or flavour at will, we control, unconsciously...

At its heart, this book is an examination of how a new structural material - mass-produced steel - came to be first applied to the buildings of one of the world's great cities. The focus is evolution...

Longlisted for The Booker Prize 2025 "Buckley creates a novel of quiet brilliance and sly humour, packed with mystery and indeterminacy."--The Booker Prize judges