3197 results for '"Gertler, Mark'

From hunting and gathering to GMOs and ultra-processed foods, this expansive tour of human history rewrites the story of our species and points the way to a better future. The history of Homo...

This Los Angeles Times bestseller takes a riveting look at the life and times of depression-era golf legend Bobby Jones.In the wake of the stock market crash and the dawn of the Great Depression, a...

A witty and provocative reappraisal of the impact of the cultural upheavals of the sixties on American religious lifeWhat happened to American religion during the cultural revolution of the 1960s and...

Standing at the crossroads--the Mississippi crossroads of Robert Johnson and the devil's infamous meeting--Mark Radcliffe found himself facing his own personal crunch point. Aged sixty, he had just...

Maps with the News is a lively assessment of the role of cartography in American journalism. Tracing the use of maps in American news reporting from the eighteenth century to the 1980s, Mark...

This is one case Detective Miller won't want to open . . .The second rip-roaring mystery from multi-award-winning international bestseller Mark Billingham starring Detective Miller: unique,...

A bold new history of the global class war A thrilling and vivid work of history, Class War weaves together literature and politics to chart the making and unmaking of social class through...

New York Times Bestseller!A School Library Journal Best Book of the YearA never-before-published, previously unfinished Mark Twain children’s story is brought to life by Philip and Erin Stead,...

“Kann's latest tour de force explores the ambivalence, during the founding of our nation, about whether political freedom should augur sexual freedom. Tracing the roots of patriarchal sexual...

The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the gulags to become Russia's much-feared crime class: the vory v zakone Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in...

A groundbreaking history of early America that shows how Boston built and sustained an independent city-state in New England before being folded into the United StatesIn the vaunted annals of...

Two distinctive killers, two detectives with distinctly different styles―Thorne and Tanner again end up joining forces in the new thriller from internationally bestselling author Mark BillinghamFrom...

Already a classic of war reporting and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback, Black Hawk Down is Mark Bowden's brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since...

Few reptiles command more respect than the mighty boas and pythons. Prized for their size, relative docility, and spectacular coloration and patterning, they are the most dramatic snakes in the world...

A compelling evolutionary narrative that reveals how human civilization follows the same ecological rules that shape all life on Earth Offering a bold new understanding of who we are, where we...

Two distinctive killers, two detectives with distinctly different styles--Thorne and Tanner again end up joining forces in the new thriller from internationally bestselling author Mark Billingham...

From British thriller master Mark Billingham, a recent finalist for the Crime Writers' Association Dagger in the Library, Die of Shame is a chilling story of addiction, subterfuge, and murder. Every...

The must-have companion to the million-copy bestseller, a comprehensive guide to understanding and transforming the impact of traumatic family legacies on our daily livesDepression. Anxiety. Chronic...

The first new series in two decades from multi-award-winning international bestseller Mark Billingham that introduces Detective Miller: a man who's unique, unconventional, and criminally...

When we think of folk music, most of us picture Pete Seeger singing "This Land is My Land" or Joan Baez singing "Barbara Allen." But this stimulating Very Short Introduction throws open the doors on...