3469 results for '"Quinn, G. P.'

"A history of industry and technology, this book analyzes five workplace disasters in the southwestern United States during the half century after World War II. These disasters occurred in growing...

There is a growing conflict between modern and postmodern social theorists. The latter reject modern approaches as economistic, essentialist and often leading to authoritarian policies. Modernists...

A pet-themed title in this best-selling seriesFive beautifully illustrated spreads show a series of pets, including a goldfish, a dog, a guinea pig, and a cat hiding behind bright felt flaps. With a...

Why evolution is like a network, not a family tree—and why it matters for understanding the health of all living thingsIn The Network of Life, David Mindell explains why the conventional narrative of...

An essential exploration of the engineering aesthetics of celebrated structures from long-span bridges to high-rise buildingsWhat do structures such as the Eiffel Tower, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the...

Profiles three ordinary people--a German SS officer, a nineteenth-century lifeguard, and a contemporary therapist working with ex-convicts--who lit a candle in the darkness

An immersive dive into the meaning and mystique of shipwrecks The sea is the largest museum on earth, with more than a million lost ships resting in its depths. Those shipwrecks date back thousands...

With his latest national best seller, Peace Kills, P.J. O'Rourke casts his ever-shrewd and mordant eye on America's latest adventures in warfare. Imperialism has never been more fun. To unravel the...

"The author examines actor Clint Eastwood's influence on the Western film as a genre, as well as how that genre continues to operate into the twenty-first century as an ideological channel for ideas...

A major synthesis of homology, written by a top researcher in the field Homology--a similar trait shared by different species and derived from common ancestry, such as a seal's fin and a bird's...

Philosophical Logic is a clear and concise critical survey of nonclassical logics of philosophical interest written by one of the world's leading authorities on the subject. After giving an overview...

The mystery writer and a police historian draw on original research to reconstruct the crimes known as the Radcliffe Highway murders, a series of particularly brutal murders that shocked Regency...

This long-awaited book teaches how harm reduction can be a safety net for people with substance use disorders that our current addiction treatment rejects, abandons, and leaves behind.Harm reduction...

Over twenty years ago, P.J. O'Rourke published Holidays in Hell, the classic travelogue that found him searching for excitement in places like Warsaw, Managua, and Belfast. In Holidays in Heck, the...

P.J. O'Rourke began writing funny things in 1960s "underground" newspapers, became editor-in-chief of National Lampoon, then spent 20 years reporting for Rolling Stone and The Atlantic Monthly as the...