Lawrence: 4086 books
Projecting the Holocaust into the Present
The Changing Focus of Contemporary Holocaust Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Most Holocaust scholars and survivors contend that the event was so catastrophic and unprecedented that it defies authentic representation in feature films. Yet it is precisely the extremity of 'the Final Solution' and the issues it raised that have fueled the cinematic imagination since the end of...
The Italian Cantata in Vienna
Entertainment in the Age of Absolutism
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Lawrence Bennett provides a comprehensive study of the rich repertoire of accompanied vocal chamber music that entertained the imperial family in Vienna and their guests throughout the 17th and early 18th centuries. The cantata became a form of elite entertainment composed to amuse listeners during...
Jack's Book
An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
"A fascinating literary and historical document, the most insightful look at the Beat Generation." —Dan Wakefield, author of New York in the Fifties and Going All the Way
First published in 1978, Jack's Book gives us an intimate look into the life and times of the "King of...
by Lawrence Edge
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
A memoir that is much more than an autobiography, this is a storyteller's recollection of an unlikely life: a landlocked Catskill country kid who surfed the world's best waves; a woodland-roaming farm boy whose employed life occurred on submarines; a northern skeptic who finished his course...
by Caroline Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
"If, as P.K.’s foster mother puts it, ‘a Detective is someone who uncovers the Truth & brings Justice’ then Lawrence…is being the kind of detective all good authors can be."--New York Times Book Review on P.K. Pinkerton and the Deadly Desperados
P.K. Pinkerton’s detective...
Looking for David
Matthew Scudder short stories, #7
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
I began writing about Matthew Scudder in the mid-1970s. The first novel, The Sins of the Fathers, appeared in 1975, and A Drop of the Hard Stuff—the 17th and most recent—was published in 2011. Over the years Scudder has also been featured in 11 short works of fiction. Looking for David is the...
A Smile in the Mind's Eye
An Adventure into Zen Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
The “virtuoso” author’s memoir of his spiritual journey with famed Taoist philosopher Jolan Chang (The New York Times).
Beginning with their first meeting over lunch at Lawrence Durrell’s Provencal home, Durrell and Jolan Chang—renowned Taoist philosopher and expert on Eastern...
USA Noir
Best of the Akashic Noir Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
"All the heavy hitters...came out for USA Noir...an important anthology of stories shrewdly culled by Johnny Temple."
--New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)
One of Zoom Street Magazine's Favorite Books of 2014
Indie Books Roundup #1 Pick, Barnes & Noble Book Blog
Included...
Bold Spirit
Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight children named Helga Estby was behind on taxes and the mortgage when she learned that a mysterious sponsor would pay $10,000 to a woman who walked across America.
Hoping to win the wager and save her family’s farm, Helga and her teenaged daughter...
by Lawrence Block
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
LAWRENCE BLOCK'S FIRST CRIME NOVEL -- LOST FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS!
To escape punishment for a murder he didn't mean to commit, insurance man Don Barshter has to take on a new identity: Nathaniel Crowley, ferocious up-and-comer in the New York mob. But can he find safety in the skin of another man...a worse man...a sinner man...?
by Paul Kennedy, Bernie Lucht, Lister Sinclair
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
An electrifying collection of thought-provoking interviews from recent broadcasts of CBC Radios Ideas. In these remarkable dialogues most of them in the company of Ideas host Paul Kennedy some of the great intellectuals of our time reflect, interject, and project on the course of human civilization,...
Good for You, Great for Me
Finding the Trading Zone and Winning at Win-Win Negotiation
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
You've read the classic on win-win negotiating, Getting to Yes
but so have they, the folks you are now negotiating with. How can you get a leg up
and win?
Win-win” negotiation is an appealing idea on an intellectual level: Find the best way to convince the other side to accept a mutually...
The Forgiven
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
In this haunting novel, journalist and novelist Lawrence Osborne explores the reverberations of a random accident on the lives of Moroccan Muslims and Western visitors who converge on a luxurious desert villa for a decadent weekend-long party.
David and Jo Henniger, a doctor and a children's...
by Lawrence Norman
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
An excellent ready Robbie Amell reference. This book is your ultimate resource for Robbie Amell. Here you will find the most up-to-date 32 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Robbie...