Keith: 3326 books
The 103rd Ballot
The Legendary 1924 Democratic Convention That Forever Changed Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
A fascinating political narrative, analyzing the chaotic1924 Democratic Convention that left the Democratic Party divided for years in its wake—with striking parallels to this summer's upcoming Democratic Convention, which will determine the Democratic candidate for the 2016 election for president...
Strange but True Tales of Car Collecting
Drowned Bugattis, Buried Belvederes, Felonious Ferraris and other Wild Stories of Automotive Misadventure
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Most car collectors exhibit a healthy enthusiasm for their favorite hobby, a tendency to dig into their favorite marques, chase parts, swap stories, and generally live the car-guy life. Some, however, step over that fine line between enthusiasm and obsession—and that’s the place from which spring...
by Keith Lane
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Hot, sexy and funny. Enormously entertaining. A profoundly moving novel with intriguing characters. A Phoenix, Arizona man travels to Brasil to start a new career teaching English and find the woman of his dreams. Told in Keith´s honest voice and signature humor. Love and Fun in Brasil is a thrilling...
by Keith Leslie Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Jan Svankmajer enjoys a curious sort of anti-reputation: he is famous for being obscure. Unapologetically surrealist, Svankmajer draws on the traditions and techniques of stop-motion animation, collage, montage, puppetry, and clay to craft bizarre filmscapes. If these creative choices are off-putting...
by Peter B. Mersky; M. T. Wordell; E.N. Seiler; Keith Ayling
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2007
This sixtieth-anniversary edition of the 1943 classic returns to print the exciting story of a U.S. Navy fighter squadron during the invasion of French North Africa in World War II. Lieutenants Wordell and Seiler, with the help of journalist Keith Ayling, vividly recount the exploits of their fellow...
The Ends of Life
Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
How should we live? That question was no less urgent for English men and women who lived between the early sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries than for this book's readers. Keith Thomas's masterly exploration of the ways in which people sought to lead fulfilling lives in those centuries between...
In Pursuit of Civility
Manners and Civilization in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Keith Thomas’s earlier studies in the ethnography of early modern England, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Ends of Life, were all attempts to explore beliefs, values, and social practices in the centuries from 1500 to 1800. In Pursuit of Civility continues this...
God
A Guide for the Perplexed
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In God: A Guide for the Perplexed, bestselling author Keith Ward has crafted a unique, perceptive, witty, and informative introduction to the mysteries of the divine.
From the essential truths presented in ancient Greek mythology via the stories about Olympian gods, through the key ideas of...
A Terrible Country
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
**A New York Times Editors' Choice
Named a Best Book of 2018 by Bookforum, Nylon, Esquire, and Vulture
"This artful and autumnal novel, published in high summer, is a gift to those who wish to receive it."
—Dwight Garner, The New York Times**
"Hilarious, heartbreaking...
by Keith Crook
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Jonathan Swift's moral and political satires astonished his contemporaries and still have the power to disturb, with their compelling images and unsettling turns of argument, and to delight, with their charm and inventive wit. A Preface to Swift examines the complex appeal of this fierce critic of...
Once in Kazakhstan
The Snow Leopard Emerges
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2005
Soon after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Keith Rosten leaves the United States to be a Fulbright Lecturer in newly-independent Kazakhstan. In Once in Kazakhstan, Rosten draws a sometimes humorous portrait of a critical period in the emergence of this Central Asian country, interweaving the...
The Architect
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Frank Clevenger returns with another frightening journey into the mind of a killer ...
West Crosse is a stunningly brilliant, strikingly handsome architect with a love of ideal beauty and a commitment to achieving it at any cost. But the rich, powerful families who...
Out Of America
A Black Man Confronts Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Nothing in Keith Richburg's long and respected journalistic career at the Washington Post prepared him for what he would encounter as the paper's correspondent in Africa. He found a continent where brutal murder had become routine, where dictators and warlords silenced dissent with machine guns and...
by Keith K Abbott, Erik Weber
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. In Downstream From Trout Fishing In America: A Memoir of Richard Brautigan, Keith Abbott paints a portrait of Richard Brautigan as a lovable and whimsical friend. Abbott explains the writer's dedication to the art of fiction and his quest to break beyond the pop culture,...