909 results for '"Mullen, Bill'

“A perfect blend of cutting-edge science and compelling storytelling.”—Bill BrysonA revolutionary new vision of human biology and the scientific breakthroughs that will transform our livesImagine...

"Vaclav Smil is my favorite author."—Bill GatesAn indispensable analysis of how the world really produces and consumes its food—and a scientist's exploration of how we can successfully feed a growing...

From award-winning writer Ismet Prcic, a “brutal and tender and beautiful” (Tommy Orange, author of Wandering Stars) novel that is “part existential cry…part anguished confession…a transfiguring of...

The essential illustrated compendium of ornithischian dinosaurs, from the tanklike Stegosaurus to duck-billed hadrosaursThe Princeton Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs: Ornithischians brings together every...

The conventional wisdom holds that the president of the United States is weak, hobbled by the separation of powers and the short reach of his formal legal authority. In this first-ever in-depth study...

#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham is the acclaimed master of the legal thriller. Now, he’s back with his first-ever whodunit, even more suspenseful than his courtroom dramas, as a...

Fourteen years after the monumental publication of the international bestseller The Raw Shark Texts, Maxwell's Demon heralds the triumphant return of Granta Best Young British Novelist Steven Hall...

A new, twisting thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Teacher and The Housemaid! She's looking for the perfect man. He's looking for the perfect victim. Sydney Shaw, like...

A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Charles Johnson’s National Book Award-winning masterpiece—"a novel in the tradition of Billy Budd and Moby-Dick…heroic in proportion…fiction that hooks the mind"...

The perfect gift for music lovers and Elvis Costello fans, telling the story behind Elvis Costello’s legendary career and his iconic, beloved songs.  Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink provides...

Richard Wesley was witness to a revolution. As both a celebrated participant and eager student of the Black Theater Movement in the late 1960s, he became part of a seismic force in American culture,...

The most complete and up-to-date overview available of an art form born some forty years ago and now ubiquitous internationally.Video art has moved from brief showings on tiny screens in alternative...

Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Hamilton, Adams, and Madison--together they are best known as an intimate cadre of daring, brilliant men credited with our nation's founding. But does this group tell...

A photograph of an extinct animal evokes a greater feeling of loss than any painting ever could. Often black and white or tinted sepia, these remarkable images have been taken mainly in zoos or...

"Americans of late have taken to waving the Constitution in the air and proclaiming, 'The founders were on MY side! See, it's all right here!' But these phantom constitutions bear little relation to...

Confessing that he may be acting "with more boldness than wisdom," Jefferson in November 1803 drafts a bill to create Orleans Territory, which he entrusts to John Breckinridge for introduction in the...

*Winner of the 2019 Shirley Jackson Awards for Novel *The Believer Book Awards, 2019: Editors' Longlists in Fiction *The Northern California 'Golden Poppy' Book Awards 2019, Fiction longlist *2020...

From the bestselling author of The Rum Diary and king of “Gonzo” journalism Hunter S. Thompson, comes the definitive collection of the journalist’s finest work from Rolling Stone. Fear and Loathing...

This New York Times bestseller "elegantly weaves evidence and insights...into a single, accessible historical narrative" (Bill Gates) and presents a captivating history of the universe -- from the...

With the verve and bite of Ottessa Moshfegh and the barbed charm of Nancy Mitford, this stunning debut about a young ingénue in the big city is “as refreshing as gin fizz . . . a wild careening...