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(0)Jonathan Cowley
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
404 pages : illustrations, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Donald Maclean was one of the most treacherous spies of the Cold War era, a member of the infamous 'Cambridge Five' spy ring. Yet little is known of this shrewd, secretive man. The full extent of his betrayal has never been documented--until now. Drawing on the recent release of previously classified files, A Spy Named Orphan meticulously documents the extraordinary story of a man leading a chilling double life until his exposure and defection to...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
November 1932. With the German economy in ruins and street battles raging between rival political parties, the Weimar Republic is on its last legs. In the halls of the Reichstag, party leaders scramble for power and influence as the elderly president, Paul von Hindenburg, presides over a democracy pushed to the breaking point. Chancellors Franz von Papen and Kurt von Schleicher spin a web of intrigue, vainly hoping to harness the growing popularity...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
ix, 347 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An account of the dramatic turning point in World War II that marked "the dawn of American might and the struggle for supremacy in Southeast Asia" (Times Higher Education).
In far-flung locations around the globe, an unparalleled sequence of international events took place between December 1 and December 12, 1941. In this riveting book, historian Evan Mawdsley explores how the story unfolded . . .
On Monday, December 1, 1941, the Japanese government...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 426 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
We like to imagine that medicine is based on evidence and the results of fair tests. In reality, those tests are often profoundly flawed. We like to imagine that doctors are familiar with the research literature about a drug, when in reality much of the research is hidden from them by drug companies. We like to imagine that doctors are impartially educated, when in reality much of their education is funded by the pharmaceutical industry. We like to...
6) Murmuration
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
151 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
This book is an attempt to create something beautiful from this chaos; to make sense of the things we dare not breathe to life. Focusing on loss, heartbreak, mental health, and the impact of isolation on a tired mind, these poems are the starlings that gather above the water. These pages are the hope that we can learn to heal; that the future can survive the past.
Author
Language
English
Description
A path-breaking autism researcher explores why some people lack empathy and what that absence means for the psychological understanding of evil.
"Borderline personality disorder, autism, narcissism, psychosis, Asperger's: All of these syndromes have one thing in common--lack of empathy. In some cases, this absence can be dangerous, but in others it can simply mean a different way of seeing the world. In The Science of Evil Simon Baron-Cohen, an award-winning...
Author
Publisher
Crossway
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
153 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Is there evidence to believe the Gospels? The Gospels -- Matthew, Mark, Luke, John -- are four accounts of Jesus's life and teachings while on earth. But should we accept them as historically accurate? What evidence is there that the recorded events actually happened? Presenting a case for the historical reliability of the Gospels, New Testament scholar Peter Williams examines evidence from non-Christian sources, assesses how accurately the four biblical...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xvii, 446 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Historian Matthew Parker discusses the history behind one of the greatest power struggles of the 17th to 19th centuries as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and trading in sugar--a commodity so lucrative it became known as "white gold'--in the tiny Caribbean islands of Barbados, Jamaica, and the Leeward Islands.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
While exposing quack doctors and nutritionists, bogus credentialing programs, and biased scientific studies, the author takes the media to task for its willingness to throw facts and proof out the window in its quest to sell more copies. He also teaches you how to evaluate placebo effects, double-blind studies, and sample size, so that you can recognize bad science when you see it.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 252 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Simon Baron-Cohen reveals the surprising answer to two apparently distinct questions: Why are humans so inventive? And why does autism exist? The first question hangs over almost every human endeavor: business people want to know how to innovate. Cognitive psychologists want to understand the nature of creativity. Evolutionary scientists and comparative psychologists want to understand why we are capable of such cultural complexity and diversity,...