40 results for 'galant damon'

From the Thurber Prize-winning author of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker comes a pioneering collection of Black humor from some of the most acclaimed writers and performers at work today •...

WINNER OF THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZEA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICEA modern family saga written in gorgeous prose by three-time Booker Prize-shortlisted author Damon Galgut.Haunted by an unmet promise,...

For thousands of years, religious messages have been used to either uphold the status quo or upend it. And while we are all very familiar with the kind of conservative Christianity that suppresses...

"From the joyous communal connections fostered through shared auditory experience to the devastating impact of noise pollution in the deep sea, musician and author Damon Krukowski urges readers to...

A new, counterintuitive theory for how social networks influence the spread of behaviorNew social movements, technologies, and public-health initiatives often struggle to take off, yet many diseases...

Stop searching for purpose and start being present. "Pursue your calling." "Become the best version of yourself." "Make your life count." These messages inundate us at work, in our churches, in...

Damon Galgut is one of South Africa's most exciting new literary voices. In The Impostor, his first novel since The Good Doctor, Galgut leads his readers into the developing heart of postapartheid...

Busting the myth of "groupthink," a powerful look at how our ability to influence one another can accelerate individual and collective intelligence. A leading expert on social networks and behavior...

Taut, spare, and compellingly readable, The Good Doctor is a brilliant literary high-wire act short enough to be devoured in one or two sittings. When Laurence Waters arrives at the small rural...

On her deathbed, Rachel Swart makes a promise to Salome, the family's Black maid. This promise will divide the family--especially her children: Anton, the golden boy; Astrid, whose beauty is her...

""Emancipation War" chronicles the great military, political, and legal struggle that amended the U.S. Constitution to outlaw slavery once and for all"-- Provided by publisher.

A gripping, claustrophobic novel of guilty secrets, obsession and self-reinvention on the African Savannah from the twice Man Booker-shortlisted author.

In 1912, the SS Birmingham approaches India. On board is Morgan Forster, novelist and man of letters, who is embarking on a journey of discovery. As Morgan stands on deck, the promise of a strange...

“A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White’s California Exposures.”—Kirkus ReviewsRewriting the history of California as Indigenous.Before there was such a thing as...

A collection of previously unpublished postcards from the former Eastern Bloc - sinister, funny, poignant and surreal, they depict the social and architectural values of the period.Brutal concrete...

Civil wars, more than other wars, sear themselves into the memory of societies that suffer them. This is particularly true at Rome, where in a period of 150 years the Romans fought four epochal wars...

Blue lost one boy to the streets and is determined that this time will be different. And Damon knows that even though he's the "man of the house," there's room for a friend like Blue in his life. At...

Damon Galgut established himself as a writer of international caliber with the publication of The Good Doctor, which was sold in sixteen countries and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and the...

The complete screenplay of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is a mythic action epic shot using brand new IMAX(R) film technology. The film stars Matt Damon, Tom...