Kevin: 5344 books
David Lean
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1996
The life and its biographer provide a landmark work on the cinema. Emerging from a childhood of nearly Dickensian darkness, David Lean found his great success as a director of the appropriately titled Great Expectations.
There followed his legendary black-and-white films of the 1940s and his...
1775
A Good Year for Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
The contrarian historian and analyst upends the conventional reading of the American Revolution
In 1775, iconoclastic historian and bestselling author Kevin Phillips punctures the myth that 1776 was the watershed year of the American Revolution. He suggests that the great events and confrontations...
Bookmark Now
Writing in Unreaderly Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
An anthology of original essays from our most intriguing young writers, Bookmark Now boldly addresses the significance of the production of literature in the twenty-first century. Or simply, How do we talk about writing and reading in an age where they both seem almost quaint?”The book features...
Rebranding Rule
The Restoration and Revolution Monarchy, 1660-1714
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
In the climactic part of his three-book series exploring the importance of public image in the Tudor and Stuart monarchies, Kevin Sharpe employs a remarkable interdisciplinary approach that draws on literary studies and art history as well as political, cultural, and social history to show how this preoccupation...
Dublin Voices
An Oral Folk History
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2001
For nearly thirty years, Kevin C. Kearns collected the memories and recollections of Dubliners on tape. These interviews have formed the basis of an extraordinary body of work, one whose subjects have included the life of the Dublin pub and the tenement house. In this ambitious book, he considers...
by Kevin Gutzman
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
The Constitution of the United States created a representative republic marked by federalism and the separation of powers. Yet numerous federal judges--led by the Supreme Court--have used the Constitution as a blank check to substitute their own views on hot-button issues such as abortion, capital...
by Kevin Kling
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Kevin Kling, best known for his popular commentaries on National Public Radio's All Things Considered and his storytelling stage shows like Tales from the Charred Underbelly of the Yule Log, delivers hilarious, often tender stories to readers everywhere with his first book, he Dog Says How. Kling's...
The Footloose American
Following the Hunter S. Thompson Trail Across South America
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
An adventure-filled and thought-provoking travelogue along Hunter S. Thompson's forgotten route through South America
In 1963, twenty-five-year-old Hunter S. Thompson completed a yearlong journey across South America, filing a series of dispatches for an upstart paper called the National...
Blood and Earth
Modern Slavery, Ecocide, and the Secret to Saving the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
For readers of such crusading works of nonfiction as Katherine Boo’s Beyond the Beautiful Forevers and Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains comes a powerful and captivating examination of two entwined global crises: environmental destruction and human trafficking—and an inspiring, bold...
Whistling Past the Graveyard
Prequel to The Saga of Shadows
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
The Prequel to the Saga of Shadows and the Hugo nominee The Dark Between the Stars
Return to the epic universe of Kevin J. Anderson’s breathtaking, bestselling Saga of Seven Suns and Saga of Shadows. Nine years have passed since the end of the titanic Elemental War, and the...
by Kevin J. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2016
A prequel novella to Kevin J. Anderson’s bestselling space opera epic, The Saga of Seven Suns.
It is a time of great beginnings. Set a century before the grand events of the Saga of Seven Suns, Veiled Alliances chronicles the origin of the green priests on Theroc, the first Roamer skymining...
Island in a Sea of Stars
A Tor.Com Original set in the Saga of Shadows: The Dark Between the Stars
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
An adventure from Kevin J. Anderson's The Saga of Shadows: The Dark Between the Stars
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Dead Letters Sent
Queer Literary Transmission
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
Literary texts that address tradition and the transmission of knowledge often seem concerned less with preservation than with loss, recurrently describing scenarios of what author Kevin Ohi terms “thwarted transmission.” Such scenes, however, do not so much concede the impossibility of survival as...
A Camera in the Garden of Eden
The Self-Forging of a Banana Republic
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
In the early twentieth century, the Boston-based United Fruit Company controlled the production, distribution, and marketing of bananas, the most widely consumed fresh fruit in North America. So great was the company's power that it challenged the sovereignty of the Latin American and Caribbean countries...