4293 results for '"Ian Clark'

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement, this “totally gripping and entirely hilarious” novel (The Wall Street Journal) traces the arc of a Nobel...

The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England We tend to think of the Middle Ages as a dark, backward and unchanging time...

A compelling argument for improving society's mental health through increased services and better policyMental illness is a leading cause of suffering in the modern world. In sheer numbers, it...

This new volume in The Big Idea series evaluates the impact of the increased use of technology in everyday life on society.Modern technology has undoubtedly enhanced our lives in numerous, powerful...

In the wake of Brexit, Ian Morris chronicles the ten-thousand-year history of Britain's relationship to Europe as it has changed in the context of a globalizing world. When Britain voted to leave the...

Winner of the 2025 Gotham Book PrizeIan Frazier’s magnum opus: a love song to New York City’s most heterogeneous and alive borough. Ian Frazier, one of our best observers and describers, has been...

Lorenzetti's frescoes in Siena serve as the starting point of Ian Heywood's critical work, as well as the initial occurrence of the recurring city motif which he utilizes to reveal the connections...

A masterful study of the elusive French composer, on the centenary of his death.Composer, pianist, and writer Erik Satie was one of the great figures of Belle Époque Paris. Known for his unvarying...

The recent coronavirus pandemic proved that the time-old notion seems now truer than ever: that science and politics represent a clash of cultures. But why should scientists simply “stick to the...

A deeply insightful social history of Hitler’s rise to power and the attitudes of the German people during the era of the Third ReichThis book is the culmination of more than three decades of...

A renowned political scientist's searing explanation for the rightward turn of global politics since the end of the Cold War The collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 ushered in an era of tremendous...

Without warning, giant silver ships from deep space appear in the skies above every major city on Earth. Manned by the Overlords, in fifty years, they eliminate ignorance, disease, and poverty. Then...

Environmental pollution stirs much public debate, and there is presently great concern that sealife in particular is endangered by pollutants. Supertanker disasters, radioactive waste disposal, ocean...

A decade ago in the Times Literary Supplement, Roderick Conway Morris claimed that “almost everything that was going to happen in book publishing―from pocket books, instant books and pirated books,...

From a zebra's stripes to a spider's web: an engaging examination of patterns in nature and the mathematics that underlie them.From a zebra's stripes to a spider's web, from sand dunes to snowflakes,...

Reforming the World offers a sophisticated account of how and why, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American missionaries and moral reformers undertook work abroad at an...

Ending violence and creating peace begins with ourselves and our interpersonal encounters in our daily lives.With impeccable wisdom and graceful simplicity, Peace by Peace offers 99 points to provoke...