73 results for '"MAGEE,A"'

"Hossain’s giddy new novel, another inventive blend of mythology and cyberpunk gizmology... puts a clever spin on both high fantasy and hard science tropes as ancient djinns wield futuristic...

A finalist for the 2014 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction "Impressive. Magee's terse style, cross-cutting between the narratives of Katharina and Peter, generates its own tension and momentum."--New...

Nature is a topic in many Indian and Tibetan philosophical texts, although its meaning varies considerably in both Hindu and Buddhist scriptures. The discussion of nature pursued in this book begins...

If Benny Goodman was the "King of Swing," then Fletcher Henderson was the power behind the throne. Now Jeffrey Magee offers a fascinating account of Henderson's musical career, throwing new light on...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE“Luminous.” ―Jonathan Myerson, The Guardian“Vivid, thought-provoking.” ―Malcolm Forbes, Star TribuneIn 1979, as violence erupts all over Ireland, two outsiders travel...

“Michael Magee’s dead-on debut novel is universal.” ―The New York Times Book ReviewWhile growing up in West Belfast, Sean does everything he’s supposed to do. He works hard, he studies, and...

Beginning with the death of Socrates in 399 BC, and following the strand of philosophical inquiry through the centuries to recent figures such as Bertrand Russell and Wittgenstein, Bryan Magee's...

How to live meaningfully in the face of the unknowableWe human beings had no say in existing―we just opened our eyes and found ourselves here. We have a fundamental need to understand who we are and...

Bryan Magee discusses the greatest Western philosophers with fifteen leading contemporary writers and thinkers. The book begins with the death of Socrates in 399 BC and the writings of Plato, and...

A powerful and path-breaking expose of America's Medical Industrial Complex--the network of mutually beneficial relationships between big business, academic medicine, patient advocacy organizations,...

“Illuminates the very heart of social justice and how it might be approached and nurtured through mindfulness practices in community and through the discernment and new degrees of freedom these...

A Newbery Medal winning modern classic about a racially divided small town and a boy who runs.Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee might have lived a normal life if a freak accident hadn't made him an...

Sixteen of today's greatest unsolved mathematical puzzles in a story-driven, illustrated volume that invites readers to peek over the edge of the unknown.Most people think of mathematics as a set of...

In this first book of an epic debut middle grade fantasy graphic novel duology by Kara Bodegón-Hikino, Mage and her shark best friend, Squalo, set off on a wild adventure filled with mythical and...

A perspective on the rise to power of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the importance of his New Deal and his political acumen as he attempts to lead the nation out of the Great Depression.

A rediscovered classic, and the only known novel by Black abolitionist and political exile Louis Timagène Houat, The Maroons is a fervid account of slavery and escape on nineteenth-century Réunion...

This edited volume deals with an important but neglected topic--the ways in which power is experienced by individuals, as agents as well as objects of the exercise of power. Each contributor presents...

Peter H. Denton explores Bertrand Russell's attempt to articulate the kind of world he thought possible and the world he feared in the aftermath of World War I. Two concerns were fundamental to...

A frightening but necessary assessment of the threat posed by nuclear weapons in the twenty-first century, edited by the world's leading antinuclear activistWith the world's attention focused on...