Gideon: 219 books
Easternization
Asia's Rise and America's Decline From Obama to Trump and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
****NAMED NPR "BEST BOOKS OF 2017""**
From the winner of the 2016 Orwell Prize and the European Press Prize for Commentator of the Year, a provocative analysis of how a new era of global instability has begun, as the flow of wealth and power turns from West to East.**
Easternization...
Certain Admissions
A Beach, a Body and a Lifetime of Secrets
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
Who killed Beth Williams?
On a warm evening in December 1949, two young people met by chance under the clocks at Flinders Street railway station. They decided to have a night on the town. The next morning, one of them, twenty-year-old typist Beth Williams, was found dead on Middle Park Beach. When...
End of the Road?: Penguin Special
Penguin Special
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Australia is one of just thirteen countries in the world equipped to take a car from design concept all the way to a showroom - a remarkable achievement in a market so small. Yet the industry has few friends, and many vociferous critics who argue that the country should not make cars at all. �In...
A Sense of Direction
Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
In medieval times, a pilgrimage gave the average Joe his only break from the daily grind. For Gideon Lewis-Kraus, it promises a different kind of escape. Determined to avoid the kind of constraint that kept his father, a gay rabbi, closeted until midlife, he has moved to anything-goes Berlin. But...
The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon
The Complete Translation
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
The first complete and annotated English translation of Maimon’s influential and delightfully entertaining memoir
Solomon Maimon's autobiography has delighted readers for more than two hundred years, from Goethe, Schiller, and George Eliot to Walter Benjamin and Hannah Arendt. The American...
How Wars End
Why We Always Fight the Last Battle
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
IN 1991 THE UNITED STATES trounced the Iraqi army in battle only to stumble blindly into postwar turmoil. Then in 2003 the United States did it again. How could this happen? How could the strongest power in modern history fight two wars against the same opponent in just over a decade, win lightning...
Brain Tumours: Living low grade
The patient guide to life with a slow growing brain tumour
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Slow growing brain tumours change lives forever.
This readable and moving non-technical guide is about living with a low grade tumour, a diagnosis given to thousands of people every year.
Featuring dozens of personal testimonies from those dealing daily with the impact...
Mystery Spinner
Text Classics
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
‘[An] unconventional journey…brilliantly documented.’ Courier Mail
‘So you want to know something about this funny old bowling of mine. Well, there’s nothing to it. It’s really very simple—in fact, at times, I do not know much about it myself.’
In 1950, aged in his mid-thirties,...
Engineering Culture
Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
Engineering Culture is an award-winning ethnography of the engineering division of a large American high-tech corporation. Now, this influential book—which has been translated into Japanese, Italian, and Hebrew—has been revised to bring it up to date. In Engineering Culture, Gideon Kunda offers...
by Joshua Palmatier, Troy Carrol Bucher, Blake Jessop
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
One man’s insurgent is another man’s freedom fighter…
From The Moon is a Harsh Mistress to The Hunger Games, everyone enjoys a good rebellion. There is something compelling about a group (or individual) who throws caution to the wind and rises up in armed defiance against oppression,...
by Joshua Palmatier, David B. Coe, Faith Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2019
What does it mean to be “temporally deactivated?”
Experience a historical moment through the intervention of a time travel agency. Be trapped inside a time bubble—willingly—so that you can save the universe from Darkness over and over again. Step outside of time at the order of your...
by Gideon Defoe
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
In Gideon Defoe’s fifth Pirates! adventure, the dashing Pirate Captain and his intrepid crew encounter perhaps the most swashbuckling poets in history: Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Shelley’s fiancée, Mary Godwin.
While visiting the shores of Lake Geneva to restore their spirits...
by Melanie Gideon
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
Thomas Quicksilver, known to his classmates as "Pucker," has always been an outsider. His crazy mother, the secret of his family’s strange origins, and above all, the terrible scars on his face from a childhood fire—these things have kept Thomas isolated and alone.
Now, at seventeen,...
by Gideon Onuh
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Queen Amina of Zazzau (Zaria kingdom), popularly known as the warrior queen from (1533 – 1610), expanded the territory of the Hausa people in Northern Africa to the largest borders and landscape in history. She is renowned for her military prowess and exploits so many years ago. The brick walls...