In this thrilling and utterly unique work of narrative non-fiction, Katherine Dunn explores the acute vulnerability of the GPS satellite system - in a book that lifts the lid on the invisible connections of the globe, from the space race to the phone in our pocketsThis is the story of the Global Positioning System, the network of U.
The French drink, smoke and eat more fat than anyone in the world, yet they live longer and have fewer heart problems than the English and the Americans.
Celebrity Culture and the American Dream, Third Edition, considers how major economic and historical factors shaped the nature of celebrity culture as we know it today.
The story of extraordinarily ordinary life on Lampedusa, an island in the Mediterranean and the southernmost frontier of undocumented migration to EuropeHope amid Despair tells the story of life on Lampedusa, a small island in the central Mediterranean and the southernmost frontier of irregular and undocumented migration to Europe, or what is often referred to as Europe's "e;refugee crisis.
Lion Heart is the bold and uplifting memoir of Cam Whitnall, a man whose life has been defined by extraordinary bonds with wildlife and a dramatic warzone rescue that brought five lions to safety in the UK.
DISCOVER THE THRILLER EVERYONE CAN T PUT DOWN This is a book that sticks in your head long after the last page LISA JEWELL'An extraordinary double-whammy of a novel' LINWOOD BARCLAY'An attention-commanding thriller.
A New York Public Library Best Nonfiction Book of 2025 A New York Times Book Review Critics' Pick A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2025 Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature ';A thrilling work of history that's wilder than fiction.
Despite all the controversy and hype that climate change has generated, there now exists an overwhelming body of scientific evidence that the problem is real and that its effects are already being felt on a global scale.
From the veteran US legal analyst and leading Robert Mueller prosecutor, Andrew Weissmann issues an urgent summons to tackle the scourge of political lies - and prevent a figure like Donald Trump from ever rising again"e;The 2020 election was a total FRAUD!
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe renowned author returns with a timely book about his journeys to three sites of conflict - Dakar, South Carolina, and Palestine - exploring how the stories we tell, and the ones we don t, shape our realities.
El presente libro analiza los múltiples sentidos y significados que se produjeron, transmitieron, interpelaron, objetaron y pusieron en circulación a la hora de describir, narrar e interpretar la muerte, el funeral y/o la biografía póstuma de algunos de los deportistas argentinos más populares de los últimos cien años.
A bold framework for successfully navigating complicated interactions at work, at home and in all of our relationships by one of the first leadership coaches to infuse her work with an equity lens and create spaces for connection that require both accountability and generosity.
How a fascination with animal consciousness, perception, and intelligence shaped American fiction in the twentieth centuryAnimal Minds, Other Minds upends a common assumption: that the minds encountered in fiction are always in some sense fundamentally human.
La revolución sexual de los años sesenta apeló a un cambio radical de las relaciones entre los sexos en pos de la equidad, la abolición de la heterosexualidad obligatoria, la separación del sexo y la reproducción.
A somatic psychotherapist's guide to building authentic and loving connectionsAre your closest relationships often a source of stress rather than security?
Originally published in 1989, Jail Journeys was a contemporary history of the English prison system in the words of those who had endured it as prisoners or who had worked within it.
'Conscious Intelligence' presents a structured approach to understanding spiritual awakening as a defined and measurable process rather than an isolated or misunderstood experience.
Common Ground, Common Future: Moral Agency in Public Administration, Professions, and Citizenship examines the public and private roles of the citizen as a moral agent.
An illuminating new essay collection from one of the most distinctive, exciting and acclaimed writers of her generation, Zadie Smith Zadie Smith is a wonderful essayist.
In August 2017, violence erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia, during two days of demonstrations by white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and counterprotesters, including members of antifa and Black Lives Matter.
Diverging from the studies of southern African migrant labor that focus on particular workplaces and points of origin, Bound for Work looks at the multitude of forms and locales of migrant labor that individuals-under more or less coercive circumstances-engaged in over the course of their lives.
A survey of the main behavioural characteristics or symptoms of aphasia, which presents a series of essays on the history and current developments in this field of neuropsychological research.
