469 results for '"Patrick Bateson'

“A fast-paced look at white personalities in Africa, a few well-knowns from the past and a few collected by the author in recent years . . . Denis Boyles knows the territory well.”—The New York Times...

Do you know how to calculate the pass completion percentage of Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl-winning quarterback Patrick Mahomes? What was the highest scoring game in football history? Become a...

An intimate and inspiring firsthand encounter with the radical philosophy of the renowned twentieth-century artist Dieter Roth.The oeuvre of Dieter Roth (1930–1998) encompasses painting, sculpture,...

The history of paint and color in interior design, spanning a period of three centuries.Why were primary colors popular in postwar kitchens? Why did the Art Deco era prefer clean lines and pastel...

A New York Times bestseller and USA Today bestselling book! From award-winning actor Neil Patrick Harris comes the magical first book in a new series with plenty of tricks up its sleeve.When street...

Revered as the most prestigious tournament in golf, the Masters commands international attention, even among nongolfers. The first and second editions of The Masters: A Hole-by-Hole History of...

Winner of the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award!A Bram Stoker and Splatterpunk Award Nominee!One of Esquire's Best Horror Books of the Year!An Indie Next Pick!"This is gory and brutal and...

As London braces for WWII, a string of murdered rabbis draws Inspector Troy into a mystery that "sets pulses racing and the jaded responses tingling" (The Irish Times).One of today's top historical...

"Chamoiseau is a writer who has the sophistication of the modern novelist, and it is from that position (as an heir of Joyce and Kafka) that he holds out his hand to the oral prehistory of literature...

In the 1960s, many believed that the civil rights movement’s successes would foster a new era of racial equality in America. Four decades later, the degree of racial inequality has barely changed. To...

A thrilling, inventive, playful, and unorthodox detective and caper novel, the latest work by a French master.“Fans of Jean-Patrick Manchette's deadpan irony will appreciate Command Performance,...

Okwui Enwezor's 2016 exhibition Postwar: Art between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945-1965 redefined the history of art produced in those two decades. Nearly a decade later, Postwar Revisited...

The definitive edition of the classic novel of love during wartime, featuring all of the alternate endings: “Fascinating…serves as an artifact of a bygone craft, with handwritten notes and long...

From Kate Milford, the bestselling author of National Book Award nominee Greenglass House, comes another magical, middle-grade adventure, The Left-Handed Fate.Lucy Bluecrowne and Maxwell Ault are on...

In the 1860s, on Virginia's Appalachian frontier, the fates of five people are forever linked as they navigate love, loss, and the cost of buried secrets amid the strife and turmoil of an...

A detailed examination of the major neuropsychiatric syndromes of Parkinson's disease and a cognitive theory that accounts for their neurology and phenomenology. Patients with Parkinson's disease...

The most intimate and elaborately enhanced addition to the Hemingway Library series: Hemingway’s memoir of his safari across the Serengeti—presented with archival material from the Hemingway...

Today, history is increasingly written in the first person. A growing number of historical works include an autobiographical dimension, as if writing about the past required exploring the inner life...

'INCOMPARABLE DEPTH AND UNDERSTANDING…AND EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE' NOAM CHOMSKYThe final work from foreign correspondent Robert Fisk, picking up the story in the Middle East where his internationally...

Johnny Dwyer examines the New York crimes we’ve seen in the news, in movies, and on television—drug trafficking, organized crime, terrorism, corruption, and white-collar crime—while weaving in the...