425 results for '"Ryan, Jake'

1989, oversize hardcover edition, Bound in full purple cloth, stamped on the spine in silver. 288 pages, filled with remarkable paintings, full-color illustrations, maps, etc. Co-written by a...

A gripping and deeply researched exploration of the hidden influence of organized crime on the global economy that reveals the mafia as an uncredited architect of modern society.In Mafia: A Global...

"Adam Smith is best known today as the founder of modern economics, but he was also an uncommonly brilliant philosopher who was especially interested in the perennial question of how to live a good...

How race and capitalism shape educationSchool choice programs―such as vouchers, education savings accounts, and tax credit scholarships―are surrounded by controversy, raising questions about their...

“Gripping, meticulously researched, and smartly plotted, I devoured this brilliant novel over the course of a weekend.” ―Paula Hawkins, author of Into the Water“Fascinating, moving, and so very, very...

Sandwich meets The Wedding People in this irresistible comedy of manners as three generations of a family—a snail scientist, a soon-to-be divorcee, her teenage daughter, a hapless conman, and their...

A transformative exploration of the animal kingdom that will fill you with wonder, revealing Earth's wild civilizations as you've never seen them beforeIn The Hidden Nations of Animals, Ryan Huling...

Nancy Drew meets Yellowjackets in We Had a Hunch--a dark and suspenseful thriller from USA Today bestseller Tom Ryan that asks a simple question: what happens to your favorite teenage detectives when...

A brand-new Penelope Rex book from Ryan T. Higgins, the #1 New York Times best-selling author-illustrator ofWe Don’t Eat Our Classmates and Mother Bruce! Just when she has gotten used to being the...

A narrative-driven exploration of policing and the punishment of disadvantage in Chicago, and a new vision for repairing urban neighborhoodsFor people of color who live in segregated urban...

Flappers, flag-pole sitting, and the Ford Model T--these are just a few of the things that instantly conjure up a unique era--the Roaring Twenties.It was the bees' knees, the cat's meow. If you're...

A brilliant counter-narrative for restoring humanity to the bottom-line, numbers-obsessed culture of the modern, 21st century workplace. In a time of unusual stress, with a pandemic raging and...

The work of a visionary and iconoclastic feminist cartoonist—available in English for the first timeThe Sky is Blue with a Single Cloud collects the best short stories from Kuniko Tsurita’s...

In the end, we're all the same...we just want to be smothered like babies against anotherhuman's beating heartThrough a cracked door, heartsick Emi hears a playful growl. Cautiously, she lets her...

Queer Approaches in Musical Theatre introduces readers to a facet of musicals often assumed but misunderstood: how queer approaches in musical theatre extend deeper than fabulosity. Queerness in...

Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is an unflinching dissection of the racial biases built into the American prison system. Named after the laws...

An accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the concepts and tools of theoretical ecologyTheoretical ecology explores the mechanisms that structure ecological communities using a variety of...