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The Adventures of Henry Thoreau
A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Henry David Thoreau has long been an intellectual icon and folk hero. In this strikingly original profile, Michael Sims reveals how the bookish, quirky young man who kept quitting jobs evolved into the patron saint of environmentalism and nonviolent activism.
Working from nineteenth-century...
Philip Larkin
Life, Art and Love
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
A revelatory, intimate, and sympathetic study of Philip Larkin, an iconic poet and a much misunderstood man, offering fresh understanding of the interplay of his life and work.
Philip Larkin (1922-1985) is one of the most beloved poets in English. Yet after his death a largely negative image...
The Gentle Barbarian
The Life and Work of Turgenev
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
'A gentle giant', as the Goncourts called him, Turgenev emerged from the barbarous yet doting rules of a terrible mother, whose cruelties to her serfs are at the heart of his hatred of serfdom. He was saturated in femininity and could not write unless he was in love. When he freed himself from his...
Longitude
The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem."
Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was...
Milton
Poet, Pamphleteer, and Patriot
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
John Milton (1608-1674) is best known as the author of the masterful epic retelling of fall of man, Paradise Lost. But he was more than just the 17th century voice of Satan. Wise and witty scholar Anna Beer traces his literary roots to a youthful passion for ancient verse, especially Ovid. She also...
Solon the Thinker
Political Thought in Archaic Athens
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In Solon the Thinker, John Lewis presents the hypothesis that Solon saw Athens as a self-governing, self-supporting system akin to the early Greek conceptions of the cosmos. Solon's polis functions not through divine intervention but by its own internal energy, which is founded on the intellectual...
Everybody Matters
My Life Giving Voice
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
One of the most inspiring women of our age, Mary Robinson has spent her life in pursuit of a fairer world, becoming a powerful and influential voice for human rights around the globe. Displaying a gift for storytelling and remembrance, Robinson reveals, in Everybody Matters, what lies behind the vision,...
Buckley
William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
"This is an insightful book that will please anyone interested in midcentury American history and politics. Anyone serious about political philosophy will learn from it. Highly recommended.†? -Library Journal (starred review)
William F. Buckley Jr. was the foremost architect of the conservative...
The Crusades of Cesar Chavez
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
Winner of the California Book Award
A searching portrait of an iconic figure long shrouded in myth by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of an acclaimed history of Chavez's movement.
Cesar Chavez founded a labor union, launched...
by John Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
From the author of All the Money in the World, now a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott, comes an extraordinary biography of Winston Churchill, a lion of a man who helped shape the course of this century with his relentless ambition and fierce political instincts.
Few have matched...
Mr. Churchill's Profession
The Statesman as Author and the Book That Defined the "Special Relationship"
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
In 1953, Winston Churchill received the Nobel Prize-for Literature. In fact, Churchill was a professional writer before he was a politician, and published a stream of books and articles over the course of two intertwined careers. Now historian Peter Clarke traces the writing of the magisterial work...
An American Voter
My Love Affair with Presidential Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
When Joan Sullivan was sixteen, her sister got married on their sprawling farm in New Jersey. Bill Bradley, the senator and former NBA player, was among the guests. Suddenly, magically, Joan found herself on the basketball court with him. An athlete herself, awed by his dedication to both sports and...
by Roy Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
First published in 1964, Asquith was one of the most crucial and controversial of modern Prime Ministers. He was opposed with a bitterness and a violence that English politicians have not subsequently known, yet he enjoyed eight and a half years of unbroken power, and for at least the first six years...
Starman
The Truth Behind the Legend of Yuri Gagarin
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first person in history to leave the Earth's atmosphere and venture into space. His flight aboard a Russian Vostok rocket lasted only 108 minutes, but at the end of it he had become the most famous man in the world. Back on the ground, his smiling face captured...