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by David Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
In 1975, David Thomson published his Biographical Dictionary of Film, and few film books have enjoyed better press or such steady sales.
Now, thirty-three years later, we have the companion volume, a second book of more than 1,000 pages in one voice—that of our most provocative contemporary...
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
Sixth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
For almost thirty years, David Thomson’s Biographical Dictionary of Film has been not merely “the finest reference book ever written about movies” (Graham Fuller, Interview), not merely the “desert island book” of art critic David Sylvester, not merely “a great, crazy masterpiece” (Geoff...
The Unexpurgated Beaton
The Cecil Beaton Diaries as He Wrote Them, 1970-1980
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Cecil Beaton was one of the great twentieth-century tastemakers. A photographer, artist, writer and designer for more than fifty years, he was at the center of the worlds of fashion, society, theater and film. The Unexpurgated Beaton brings together for the first time the never-before-published diaries...
The New Silk Roads
The Present and Future of the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
From the bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes a new, timely, and visionary book about the dramatic and profound changes our world is undergoing right now--as seen from the perspective of the rising powers of the East.
"All roads used to lead to Rome. Now they lead to Beijing."...
The Catskills
Its History and How It Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
The Catskills (“Cat Creek” in Dutch), America’s original frontier, northwest of New York City, with its seven hundred thousand acres of forest land preserve and its five counties—Delaware, Greene, Sullivan, Ulster, Schoharie; America’s first great vacationland; the subject of the nineteenth-century...
My Twenty-Five Years in Provence
Reflections on Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
From the moment Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, uprooted their lives in England and crossed the Channel permanently, they never looked back. Here the beloved author of A Year in Provence pays tribute to the most endearing and enduring aspects of his life in France—the charming and indelible parade...
Tears of a Clown
Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank takes a fair and balanced look at the unsettling rise of the silly Fox News host Glenn Beck.
Thomas Jefferson famously wrote that “the tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”...
Heirs of the Founders
The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
From New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how, in nineteenth-century America, a new set of political giants battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the future of our democracy
In the early 1800s, three young men strode...
The Oregon Trail
An American Saga
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A major one-volume history of the Oregon Trail from its earliest beginnings to the present, by a prize-winning historian of the American West.
Starting with an overview of Oregon Country in the early 1800s, a vast area then the object of international rivalry among Spain, Britain, Russia, and...
Speak Now Against The Day
The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Speak Now Against the Day is the astonishing, little-known story of the Southerners who, in the generation before the Supreme Court outlawed school segregation and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat on a Montgomery bus, challenged the validity of a white ruling class and a “separate...
Burt Lancaster
An American Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Startlingly handsome, witty, fanatically loyal, charming, scary, and intensely sexual, Burt Lancaster was the quintessential bête du cinéma, one of Hollywood's great stars. He was, as well, an intensely private man, and he authorized no biographies in his lifetime. Kate Buford is the first writer...
by Reinhard Mohn
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
The American businessman has traditionally turned to top American leaders and academics for information on management techniques. But in an increasingly global economy, the lessons to be learned from the experience of foreign business leaders are essential for all American managers. Reinhard Mohn's...
Long Time Leaving
Dispatches from Up South
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
“I left the South in search of the Enlightenment. I’m pro-choice, in favor of gay marriage, and against creationism and the war in Iraq. But both my parents’ people are deep Southern from many generations, and I spent a little over a third of my life, including the presumably most formative...
by Aaron James
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Make America Great Again? Donald Trump is an asshole is a fact widely agreed upon—even by his supporters, who actually like that about him. But his startling political rise makes the question of just what sort of asshole he is, and how his assholedom may help to explain his success, one not just...