At the beginning of his career in the 1920s, Adorno sketched a plan to write a major work on the theory of musical reproduction, a task he returned to time and again throughout his career but never co
Thor's hammer is missing again. The thunder god has a disturbing habit of misplacing his weapon--the mightiest force in the Nine Worlds. But this time the hammer isn't just lost, it has fallen into en
At the beginning of his career in the 1920s, Adorno sketched a plan to write a major work on the theory of musical reproduction, a task he returned to time and again throughout his career but never co
Life in Laguna Beach in the early 1970s, a time when being gay started to be celebrated, and for many, a time when relationships bloomed, sometimes faded, and bloomed again. Hal finds himself in his r
For everyone who has said they don’t have enough time or money to travel the world, The Art of World Travel says, “Think again.” Author Justin Troupe has put together an entire guidebook to lead you t
In "Atheism Kills," Barak Lurie exposes the horrors of a world without God. Contrary to the mantra we’ve heard time and time again that religion is responsible for more deaths than anything else
While it has been pointed to time and again by governments and pundits promoting laissez-faire economics, the Wealth of Nations actually shows that Adam Smith viewed capitalism with a deep suspici
Historians have tried time and again to identify the central issues of the conflict which devastated Europe between 1618 and 1648. The Thirty Years War by Ronald G. Asch puts the religious and constit
Albert Camus's lively journals from his eventful visits to the United States and South America in the 1940s, available again in a new translation. In March 1946, the young Albert Camus crossed from Le Havre to New York. Though he was virtually unknown to American audiences at the time, all that was about to change--The Stranger, his first book translated into English, would soon make him a literary star. By 1949, when he set out on a tour of South America, Camus was an international celebrity. Camus's journals offer an intimate glimpse into his daily life during these eventful years and showcase his thinking at its most personal--a form of observational writing that the French call choses vues (things seen). Camus's journals from these travels record his impressions, frustrations, joys, and longings. Here are his unguarded first impressions of his surroundings and his encounters with publishers, critics, and members of the New York intelligentsia. Long unavailable in English, the jou
James Joyce spent the final decade of his life in Paris, struggling to finish his great final work Finnegans Wake amidst personal and financial hardship and just as Europe itself was being engulfed by the rising tide of fascism. Bringing together new archival discoveries and personal accounts, this book explores one of the central relationships of his final years: that with his confidant, friend and business adviser Paul L. Leon. Providing first-hand accounts of Joyce’s Paris circle – which included Samuel Beckett and Vladimir Nabokov – the book makes available again the text of the Leon family’s memoir of the relationship between the two men (published James Joyce and Paul L. Leon: The Story of Friendship ). The book also collects for the first time Leon’s letters to his wife in the 1940s, chronicling his desperate attempts to rescue Joyce’s Paris archives from occupying Nazi forces. While these efforts were successful, they would cost Leon his own life in the Auschwitz-Birkenau ca
A sartorial follow-up to her hilarious memoir in stories, Fat Girl Walking, internet personality Brittany Gibbons once again deep dives into the world of the plus size woman, this time chronicling her
The third book in Theodore Gray's bestselling Elements Trilogy, Reactions continues the journey through the world of chemistry that began with his two previous bestselling books The Elements and Molecules. With The Elements, Gray gave us a never-before-seen, mesmerizing photographic view of the 118 elements in the periodic table. In Molecules, he showed us how the elements combine to form the content that makes up our universe. With Reactions, Gray once again puts his one-of-a-kind photography and storytelling ability to work demonstrating how molecules interact in ways that are essential to our very existence. The book begins with a brief recap of elements and molecules and then goes on to explain important concepts that characterize a chemical reaction, including Energy, Entropy, and Time. It is then organized by type of reaction including chapters such as "Fantastic Reactions and Where to Find Them," "On the Origin of Light and Color," "The Boring Chapter," in which we learn about r
If the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates came to life again today he would not marvel much about the political and social changes the world underwent since his time, but why light bulbs shine and air
You vowed to speak up at work, and then sat silent in the meeting yet again. You told yourself “this time the diet is going to stick,” only to watch the scale inching up. You felt that som
But even if the whole world was against them, it would not matter. They were togetheragain. And this time they would remain together. Until death do them part and, of course, long after that.Wh
In describing his proto-Gothic fiction, The Castle of Otranto (1764), as a translation, Horace Walpole was deliberately playing on national anxieties concerning the importation of war, fashion and literature from France in the aftermath of the Seven Years' War. In the last decade of the eighteenth century, as Britain went to war again with France, this time in the wake of revolution, the continuing connections between Gothic literature and France through the realms of translation, adaptation and unacknowledged borrowing led to strong suspicions of Gothic literature taking on a subversive role in diminishing British patriotism. Angela Wright explores the development of Gothic literature in Britain in the context of the fraught relationship between Britain and France, offering fresh perspectives on the works of Walpole, Radcliffe, 'Monk' Lewis and their contemporaries.
As a serial entrepreneur, Kevin Kruse has seen time and again that the leadership practices that actually work are the opposite of what is commonly taught and implemented. Close Your Open Door Policy
Noted political commentator Michael Reagan, the son of Ronald Reagan and first wife Jane Wyman, has traveled across America, giving speeches and meeting the public. Time and time again, people tell
The dynamo duo responsible for Llama Destroys the World return to their early reader graphic novel series for its hilarious third installment, perfect for fans of the Narwhal & Jelly and Peter & Ernesto series.Happy-go-lucky Cleo and stoic Fitz are back again . . . and they are ready to celebrate (for once, Mr. Boo approves).Follow the most adorable siblings this way of the afterlife as they discover the secrets to throwing a ghoul old-fashioned party! But it’s not all silly hats and confetti. Fitz and Cleo learn a valuable lesson amidst all the festivities: When you are having a bad day, there’s nothing like a good friend and a good time to turn it all around!Jonathan Stutzman and Heather Fox conjure up another delightful collection of silly and heartwarming stories in the Fitz and Cleo universe that are perfect for newly independent readers and comics enthusiasts alike.
This book is Steve Martin’s cinematic legacy―a graphic memoir of his movies, packed with stories from the sets of his classic films, drawn by New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss, the team who brought you A Wealth of Pigeons.Steve opens the book explaining why he left stand-up comedy for the big screen: “I wondered if I could become a comedian in movies. ‘If I could do movies,’ I thought, ‘I could perform a scene again and again until I got it right.’”Filled with anecdotes from his time on set of his beloved films―from Father of the Bride to Roxanne, The Jerk to Three Amigos, and many more, this collection of cartoon strips brings you directly into Steve Martin’s world. Paul McCartney, Diane Keaton, Harrison Ford, Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Carl Reiner, and Mike Nichols - just a few of the book’s cast appearing in charming tales of antics, exploits, and moments of inspiration. Steve details his forty years in the movie biz, as well as his stand-up comedy, banjo playing, writing, and cartoo
