Mariner Books imprint: 1531 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
For twenty-five years, The Best American Sports Writing has built a solid reputation by showcasing the greatest sports journalism of the past year, culled from hundreds of national, regional, and specialty print and digital publications. Wright Thompson, many times included in this volume over the...
POPism
The Warhol Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Anecdotal, funny, frank, POPism is Warhol’s personal view of the Pop phenomenon in New York in the 1960s and a look back at the relationships that made up the scene at the Factory, including his relationship with Edie Sedgewick, focus of the film Factory Girl. In the detached, back-fence gossip...
The Monkey in the Mirror
Essays on the Science of What Makes Us Human
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Nothing fascinates us more than explorations of human origins, and nobody tells the story better than Ian Tattersall.
What makes us so different? How did we get this way? How do we know? And what exactly are we? These questions are what make human evolution a subject of general fascination....
Split
A Counterculture Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 1999
In Split, Lisa Michaels offers a strikingly textured portrait of her days of communes and road trips, of antiwar protests and rallies --- and of what came after, for her parents and herself --- as the radicalism of the 1960s and '70s gave way to conservative times. As a young child, Michaels visited...
A Star Is Found
Our Adventures Casting Some of Hollywood's Biggest Movies
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2007
For anyone who’s ever walked out of a movie and said, "That guy was all wrong for the part," comes this first-of-its-kind look at how actors are chosen and careers are born. Two of the top casting directors in the business, who recently cast the much-lauded choice of Daniel Craig as the...
City of Dreams
The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
**"Told brilliantly, even unforgettably ... An American story, one that belongs to all of us." — Boston Globe
“A richly textured guide to the history of our immigrant nation’s pinnacle immigrant city has managed to enter the stage during an election season that has resurrected...
The Coming of the New Deal
1933-1935, The Age of Roosevelt, Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2003
The Coming of the New Deal, 1933-1935, volume two of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.’s Age of Roosevelt series, describes Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first tumultuous years in the White House. Coming into office at the bottom of the Great Depression,...
by Richard Dawkins
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2008
A preeminent scientist—and the world's most prominent atheist—asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society, from the Crusades to 9/11.
With rigor and wit, Dawkins examines God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old...
by Jonathan Moore
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
“An electrifying read . . . I haven’t read anything so terrifying since Red Dragon.” — Stephen King
“Magnificent, thoroughly unnerving . . . I dare you to look away.” — Justin Cronin
Caleb Maddox is a San Francisco toxicologist studying the chemical effects of pain. He’s...
by Alexander Chee
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
National Bestseller
New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice | An Indie Next Pick
A Best Book of the Year from NPR, Boston Globe, Buzzfeed, Esquire, San Francisco Chronicle,Time Out, Self, Jezebel, The Portland Mercury, Electric Literature, and Entropy Magazine
**“It just sounds terrific....
by Monica Wood
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
The story of your life never starts at the beginning. Don't they teach you anything at school?
So says 104-year-old Ona to the 11-year-old boy who's been sent to help her out every Saturday morning. As he refills the bird feeders and tidies the garden shed, Ona tells him about her long life,...
Extortion
How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
“Schweizer names guilty parties . . . He exposes powerful figures in politics, law firms, and corporations.” — Forbes
Washington is no longer about lawmaking, it’s about moneymaking
Conventional wisdom holds that Washington is broken because outside special interests bribe politicians....
by Arthur M. Schlesinger , Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
“An absorbing and vividly written study of a gallant and tragic man.”—Boston Globe
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., chronicles the short life of the Kennedy family’s second presidential hopeful in “a story that leaves the reader aching for what cannot be recaptured” (Miami Herald). Schlesinger’s...
To Pixar and Beyond
My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
“Lovely and surprising . . . This delightful book is about finance, creative genius, workplace harmony, and luck.”—Fortune
”Enchanting,”—New York Times
“I love this book! I think it is brilliant.”—Ed Catmull, cofounder and president of Pixar Animation, president of...