5272 results for '"Marcus, George E.'

From the bestselling author of Tenth of December comes a splendid new edition of his acclaimed collaboration with the illustrator behind The Stinky Cheese Man and James and the Giant Peach! Featuring...

From the author of Storm, a breathtaking novel about a raging fire and the path of destruction and change it leaves in its wake.Spitcat, a raging forest fire in the Sierra Nevada of California, had a...

A New York Times Bestseller and the #1 Most Challenged Book in America according to the American Library AssociationIn a series of personal essays, award-winning author and LGBTQIA+ activist George M...

“Riveting and action-packed…[Behind Nazi Lines] shows how one brave American Red Cross volunteer negotiated the release of 149 Allied POWs. A great read.”—Marcus Brotherton, author of Shifty's WarIn...

Long-listed for the 2016 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardDelightfully readable, Spooky Action at a Distance is a mind-bending voyage to the frontiers of modern physics that will change...

The case for a thoughtful secularism from some of today's most distinguished scientists, philosophers, and writers Can secularism offer us moral, aesthetic, and spiritual satisfaction? Or does the...

In Shape, George Stiny argues that seeing shapes--with all their changeability and ambiguity--is an inexhaustible source of creative ideas. Understanding shapes, he says, is a useful way to...

The rise of heterosexual culture and the resistance it met from feudal lords, church fathers, and the medical profession.Heterosexuality is celebrated—in film and television, in pop songs and opera,...

Comment imaginer un plus beau destin de chevalier ? Guillaume est un homme nouveau issu d’un modeste lignage. Il est né au milieu du xiie siècle sous le règne d’Etienne de Blois, petit-fils de...

A selection of George Orwell's politically charged essays on language and writing that give context to his dystopian classic, 1984Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have...

A determined, ambitious, and extremely able player of the game of parliamentary politics, Georges Mandel was one of the leading political figures of the Third French Republic. He began his public...

A wise, playful, electric novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo, taking place at the bedside of an oil company CEO in the twilight hours of...

The life and times of C. S. Lewis's modern spiritual classicMere Christianity, C. S. Lewis's eloquent and winsome defense of the Christian faith, originated as a series of BBC radio talks broadcast...

How humans' aesthetic perceptions have shaped other life forms, from racehorses to ornamental plants.Humans have bred plants and animals with an eye to aesthetics for centuries: flowers are selected...

The classic novel from "America's best crime novelist" (Time), with a new introduction by Dennis LehaneGeorge V. Higgins's seminal crime novel is a down-and-dirty tale of thieves, mobsters, and cops...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “One of our most inventive purveyors of the form returns with pitch-perfect, genre-bending stories that stare into the abyss of our national character. . . . An exquisite...

Impressive analytical essays on the transformation of historical studies in Europe.In four impressively researched essays Georg Iggers recounts the transformation of historical studies in Europe...

An exquisite exploration of the power of flowers, placing them at the center of the story of how evolution created the world we know todayWe live on a floral planet, yet flowers don’t get the credit...