-Titulo Original : The Human Web: A Birds-Eye View Of World History-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Why did the first civilizations emerge when and where they did? How did Islam become a unifying force in the world of its birth? What enabled the West to project its goods and power around the world from the fifteenth century on? Why was agriculture invented seven times and the steam engine just once? World-historical questions such as these, the subjects of major works by Jared Diamond, David Landes, and others, are now of great moment as global frictions increase. In a spirited and original contribution to this quickening discussion, two renowned historians, father and son, explore the webs that have drawn humans together in patterns of interaction and exchange, cooperation and competition, since earliest times. Whether small or large, loose or dense, these webs have provided the medium for the movement of ideas, goods, power, and money within and across cultures, societies, and nations. From the thin, localized webs that characterized agricultural communities twelve thousand years ago, through the denser, more interactive metropolitan webs that surrounded ancient Sumer, Athens, and Timbuktu, to the electrified global web that today envelops virtually the entire world in a maelstrom of cooperation and competition, J. R. McNeill and William H. McNeill show human webs to be a key component of world history and a revealing framework of analysis. Avoiding any determinism, environmental or cultural, the McNeills give us a synthesizing picture of the big patterns of world history in a rich, open-ended, concise account. Review A brilliant synthesis of world history...vivid and illuminating. -- Foreign Affairs, May/June 2003 Exhilarating .... If you read The Human Web you will never again look at a globe in the same way. -- Fritz Lanham, Houston Chronicle [An] irresistably readable work of popular history...with colorful material about everything from...Genghis Khan to...global warming. -- Los Angeles Times, 30 April 2003 About the Author J. R. McNeill is a professor of history at Georgetown University. He is the author of award-winning works in world and environmental history. These include The Human Web: A Bird’s-Eye View of World History (co-authored with his father and world history pioneer, William H. McNeill), and Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World, both published by Norton. McNeill is a recent past president of the American Historical Association. William H. McNeill (1917 2016) was emeritus professor of history at the University of Chicago. He is best known for The Rise of the West which won the National Book Award for history and biography in 1963...

-Titulo Original : SPSS For Research Methods: A Basic Guide-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Help students interpret data and analyze results in SPSS. This guide reveals the best ways for students to analyze data and interpret results in SPSS. Georjeanna Wilson-Doenges’s direct writing style, real sample data from her research methods class, integrated APA-style results, and detailed yet clear screenshots ensure that students feel confident using the program. Her exciting revision not only reflects the latest updates to SPSS and APA guidelines, but also includes new engaging step-by-step video tutorials. About the Author Georjeanna Wilson-Doenges is Chair and Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. She received her PhD from the University of California, Irvine. Her research interests involve individuals’ interpretation of sense of community, student engagement in college, experiential learning, and assessment of undergraduate psychology learning outcomes. She has taught research methods and statistics courses with an SPSS lab component for over 25 years. Year after year, she has refined her teaching to help students who are often fearful of data analysis by making her courses engaging, and to promote success in even the most math-insecure students. Throughout her career, Dr. Wilson-Doenges has emphasized teaching and writing about data analysis in clear and accessible ways...

-Titulo Original : Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, And Other Threats Of Toxic Tech-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: “An entertaining romp that tells us where and why the tech industry, once America’s darling, went wrong, and what it might do to recover its good graces.” Tim Wu, author of The Master Switch Buying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we want to do, odds are that we can now do it online. But few of us realize just how many oversights, biases, and downright ethical nightmares are baked inside the tech products we use every day. It’s time we change that. In Technically Wrong, Sara Wachter-Boettcher demystifies the tech industry, leaving those of us on the other side of the screen better prepared to make informed choices about the services we use and to demand more from the companies behind them. A Wired Top Tech Book of the Year A Fast Company Best Business and Leadership Book of the Year Review “Just as the current political climate has inspired many to pick up a sign and head out into the street for the first time, I hope Technically Wrong will inspire newcomers to start thinking more critically about the apps and algorithms around them.” - Anna Lauren Hoffmann, Science “If a book on design in the technology industry ever deserved a standing ovation, this one is it. Sara Wachter-Boettcher has laid out a concise case for digital product makers to work with a broader range of people. And that means working with people unlike themselves as both makers and consumers, and from start to finish.” - John Maeda, author of The Laws of Simplicity “Sara Wachter-Boettcher is exactly the kind of sharp, informed and deeply compassionate critic of the tech industry that we need right now. Technically Wrong makes a strong case for adding basic humanity into the algorithms of the digital products that define the age. Its an invitation for all of us to think more deeply about our connections to others in any medium.” - Sarah Kaufman, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic, author of The Art of Grace “One of the deepest, most thoughtful views on exactly how todays tech is affecting us. Technically Wrong is an essential guide for people who care about ensuring todays tech is humane and ethical.” - Anil Dash, tech entrepreneur, activist, and writer “No matter how we set the preferences, the results turn out the same.… For all of digital technology’s supposed configurability and customization, there’s a cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all quality to the apps and platforms we use, pushing conformity over individuality, and acquiescence over identity. Sara Wachter-Boettcher reveals how none of us can, or should, live up to the image our technology has of us.” - Douglas Rushkoff, author of Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus “The stories [Wachter-Boettcher] tells… are good, as are the examples she provides of corporate failure.” - Sunday Times (UK) “In Technically Wrong, Wachter-Boettcher attacks the sort of techies whose ‘disruption’ seems aimed as much at common sense and decency as anything else.… She urges activism, not passivity: Know your products, demand the best, change brands if need be, complain until the Silicon boys get it right.” - David Luhrssen, Shepherd Express “This is a powerful read reflecting on the prejudices that lurk within a powerful industry.” - IT Pro “Recommended for all readers interested in the intersection of technology and social justice.” - Library Journal “Wachter-Boettcher lays out a convincing and damning argument about the small daily failures and large systemic issues that stem from Silicon Valley’s diversity problem.… This engrossing volume is important for readers of all ages.” - School Library Journal About the Author Sara Wachter-Boettcher runs Rare Union, a consultancy based in Philadelphia, and is the author of Technically Wrong, Design for Real Life, with Eric Meyer, and Content Everywhere. She helps organizations with digital product and content strategy, and speaks at conferences worldwide...

-Titulo Original : The Big Switch: Rewiring The World, From Edison To Google-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: “Magisterial…Draws an elegant and illuminating parallel between the late-19th-century electrification of America and today’s computing world.” Salon Hailed as “the most influential book so far on the cloud computing movement” (Christian Science Monitor), The Big Switch makes a simple and profound statement: Computing is turning into a utility, and the effects of this transition will ultimately change society as completely as the advent of cheap electricity did. In a new chapter for this edition that brings the story up-to-date, Nicholas Carr revisits the dramatic new world being conjured from the circuits of the “World Wide Computer.” Review Future Shock for the Web-apps era…Compulsively readable for nontechies, too as it compellingly weaves together news stories, anecdotes, and data. Fast Company The best read so far about the significance of the shift to cloud computing. Financial Times Mr. Carr’s provocations are destined to influence CEOs and the boards and investors that support them as companies grapple with the constant change of the digital age. Wall Street Journal Exceedingly good. TechWorld The Big Switch is thought-provoking and an enjoyable read, and the history of American electricity that makes up the first half of the book is riveting stuff. New York Post Carr stimulates, provokes and entertains superbly. Information Age About the Author Nicholas Carr is the author of The Shallows, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, The Glass Cage, and Utopia is Creepy. He has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Atlantic, and Wired. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife...

-Titulo Original : The Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction: “Nicholas Carr has written a Silent Spring for the literary mind.” Michael Agger, Slate Finalist for the 2011 PEN Center USA Literary Award “Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the Net’s bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply? Now, Carr expands his argument into the most compelling exploration of the Internet’s intellectual and cultural consequences yet published. As he describes how human thought has been shaped through the centuries by “tools of the mind” from the alphabet to maps, to the printing press, the clock, and the computer Carr interweaves a fascinating account of recent discoveries in neuroscience by such pioneers as Michael Merzenich and Eric Kandel. Our brains, the historical and scientific evidence reveals, change in response to our experiences. The technologies we use to find, store, and share information can literally reroute our neural pathways. Building on the insights of thinkers from Plato to McLuhan, Carr makes a convincing case that every information technology carries an intellectual ethic a set of assumptions about the nature of knowledge and intelligence. He explains how the printed book served to focus our attention, promoting deep and creative thought. In stark contrast, the Internet encourages the rapid, distracted sampling of small bits of information from many sources. Its ethic is that of the industrialist, an ethic of speed and efficiency, of optimized production and consumption and now the Net is remaking us in its own image. We are becoming ever more adept at scanning and skimming, but what we are losing is our capacity for concentration, contemplation, and reflection. Part intellectual history, part popular science, and part cultural criticism, The Shallows sparkles with memorable vignettes Friedrich Nietzsche wrestling with a typewriter, Sigmund Freud dissecting the brains of sea creatures, Nathaniel Hawthorne contemplating the thunderous approach of a steam locomotive even as it plumbs profound questions about the state of our modern psyche. This is a book that will forever alter the way we think about media and our minds. From Bookmarks Magazine One of the major issues dividing the critics was whether Carrs claim that the Internet has shortchanged our brain power is, essentially, correct. Many bought into his argument about the neurological effects of the Internet, but the more expert among them (Jonah Lehrer, for one) cited scientific evidence that such technologies actually benefit the mind. Still, as Lehrer, in the New York Times Book Review, points out, Carr is no Luddite, and he fully recognizes the usefulness of the Internet. Other criticism was more trivial, such as the value of Carrs historical and cultural digressions--from Plato to HAL. In the end, Carr offers a thought-provoking investigation into our relationship with technology--even if he offers no easy answers. From Booklist Carr-author of The Big Switch (2007) and the much-discussed Atlantic Monthly story “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”-is an astute critic of the information technology revolution. Here he looks to neurological science to gauge the organic impact of computers, citing fascinating experiments that contrast the neural pathways built by reading books versus those forged by surfing the hypnotic Internet, where portals lead us on from one text, image, or video to another while we’re being bombarded by messages, alerts, and feeds. This glimmering realm of interruption and distraction impedes the sort of comprehension and retention “deep reading” engenders, Carr explains. And not only are we reconfiguring our brains, we are also forging a “new in...

-Titulo Original : A Clockwork Orange-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: “A brilliant novel.… [A] savage satire on the distortions of the single and collective minds.” New York Times In Anthony Burgess’s influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders his and his friends’ intense reaction against their society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom. This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition, and Burgess’s introduction, “A Clockwork Orange Resucked.” 6 illustrations Review Looks like a nasty little shocker, but is really that rare thing in English letters: a philosophical novel. Time A Clockwork Orange… is a book that can still be read with steady pleasure, continuous amusement and at times incredulous admiration. Martin Amis, New York Times Book Review A terrifying and marvelous book. Roald Dahl A very funny book. William S. Burroughs A fine farrago of outrageousness.… If you don’t take to it all, then I can’t resist calling you a starry ptitsa who can’t viddy a horrorshow veshch when it’s in front of your glazzies. And yarbles to you. Kingsley Amis One of the most groundbreaking and influential novels of all time8#212and one of the best. Irvine Welsh A nasty little shocker. Times Literary Supplement All Mr. Burgess’s powers as a comic writer, which are considerable, have gone into the rich language of his inverted Utopia. Malcolm Bradbury Extraordinary technical feat. New Statesman About the Author Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) is the author of many works, including The Wanting Seed, Nothing Like the Sun, and Re Joyce. A Clockwork Orange is one of the 100 best novels of both Time magazine and Modern Library and is on David Bowies Book List...

-Titulo Original : Every Grain Of Rice Simple Chinese Home Cooking-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: A James Beard Award Winner A must-have for anyone who wants to cook Chinese food at home, home cooks and professionals alike. David Chang, Momofuku Fuchsia Dunlop trained as a chef in China’s leading Sichuan cooking school and possesses the rare ability to write recipes for authentic Chinese food that you can make at home. Following her two seminal volumes on Sichuan and Hunan cooking, Every Grain of Rice is inspired by the vibrant everyday cooking of southern China, in which vegetables play the starring role, with small portions of meat and fish. Try your hand at stir-fried potato slivers with chili pepper, vegetarian Gong Bao Chicken, sour-and-hot mushroom soup, or, if you’re ever in need of a quick fix, Fuchsia’s emergency late-night noodles. Many of the recipes require few ingredients and are ridiculously easy to make. Fuchsia also includes a comprehensive introduction to the key seasonings and techniques of the Chinese kitchen. With stunning photography and clear instructions, this is an essential cookbook for everyone, beginner and connoisseur alike, eager to introduce Chinese dishes into their daily cooking repertoire. 150 color photographs Review “A home cooks cookbook…[ Every Grain of Rice] shows how with some good produce, a decent pantry, and some basic technique, Chinese cooking is no harder or more foreign than making a plate of pasta or building a salad.” - Max Falkowitz, Serious Eats “[A] workhorse of a book for everyday Chinese cooking...There are so many treasures in here, you can hardly go wrong.” - T. Susan Chang, Boston Globe “The diversity of the dishes and their simplicity makes this a remarkable book.” - Jenn Garbee, LA Weekly “Masterly…a non-stop parade of easy-to-execute dishes.” - William Grimes, New York Times Book Review “Fascinating…brimming with important information…. Trust me, this is gold!” - Mission Food “Rare is the cookbook that straddles scholarship and ease, and to convey it with clarity makes Dunlop the preeminent English-language authority on Chinese cooking, maybe ever.” - Kevin Pang, AV Club “Fuchsia has a rare ability to convey an encyclopedia knowledge of Chinese cuisine in a compelling and totally delicious way.” - Heston Blumenthal, author of The Fat Duck Cookbook and Heston Blumenthal at Home About the Author Fuchsia Dunlop is the author of Land of Fish and Rice, among other books. She has won four James Beard awards for her writing and lives in London...

-Titulo Original : Bravetart Iconic American Desserts-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Winner of the 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award (Baking and Desserts) A New York Times bestseller and named a Best Baking Book of the Year by the Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, Bon Appetit, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Mother Jones, the Boston Globe and more The most groundbreaking book on baking in years. Full stop.-Saveur From One-Bowl Devil’s Food Layer Cake to a flawless Cherry Pie that’s crisp even on the very bottom, BraveTart is a celebration of classic American desserts. Whether down-home delights like Blueberry Muffins and Glossy Fudge Brownies or supermarket mainstays such as Vanilla Wafers and Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream, your favorites are all here. These meticulously tested recipes bring an award-winning pastry chef’s expertise into your kitchen, along with advice on how to “mix it up” with over 200 customizable variations-in short, exactly what you’d expect from a cookbook penned by a senior editor at Serious Eats. Yet BraveTart is much more than a cookbook, as Stella Parks delves into the surprising stories of how our favorite desserts came to be, from chocolate chip cookies that predate the Tollhouse Inn to the prohibition-era origins of ice cream sodas and floats. With a foreword by The Food Lab’s J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, vintage advertisements for these historical desserts, and breathtaking photography from Penny De Los Santos, BraveTart is sure to become an American classic. Review Why is BraveTart my new go-to? Because joy leaps off every page of it. . . . [Parks] insists on precision with her recipes, but she never forgets that sugary treats make people happy. . . . BraveTart made me excited to bake, and then backed up that excitement with researched recipes that work. I’m not sure there’s higher praise you can give a cookbook. Food52 [ BraveTart] is both a terrific showcase of those quintessential desserts and a case for the American dessert itself. . . Parks writing is as engaging as her recipes. Los Angeles Times Few recipe writers are as precise as Stella Parks, a former pastry chef whose instructions always fill me with a sense of clearheaded confidence. Tejal Rao, New York Times Magazine I was consumed by all the information on its pages. I read it like a book, absorbing the information, some of it new to me, and much of it debunking commonly held beliefs about cooking and baking. David Lebovitz If you want to emerge from lockdown a better baker, start with Stella Parks’s excellent book. Eater One of the most engaging baking books to be published in years… Parks adds a remarkable new voice to the world of baking books. Combine smarts with whimsy and you get delicious results. Washington Post As if it’s not impressive enough that Stella Parks whips up her own Twinkies and animal crackers, Snickers and sprinkles, she can also tell us who invented them, when, why and how. Food & Wine Parks uses [food science] to give people new tools to become better bakers, a better understanding of baking, and an emphatic reminder of why every one loved these cookies, cakes, and other sweets in the first place. GrubStreet Lushly illustrated recipes. . . Parks is a serious cook, interested in the history of how those desserts became iconic, and one who applies her serious culinary education to what others might consider frivolous ends. The Atlantic Wonderful fun to read. A coveted gift for anyone whose ears prick up at the jingle of an ice cream truck. Bon Appetit Stella Parks has completely converted a heretofore-resolute non-baker. How’s that for an achievement? . . . [ BraveTart] speaks to my food-soul in a very special way. Tim Gunn [ Bravetart] will join the ranks of the timeless and transformative. Stella Park’s knowledge is formidable and her baked goods are brilliant, exactly the type of things we crave. Southern Living About the Author Stell...

-Titulo Original : These Truths A History Of The United States-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: “Nothing short of a masterpiece.” NPR Books A New York Times Bestseller and a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation.Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review), Jill Lepore’s one-volume history of America places truth itself a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence at the center of the nation’s history. The American experiment rests on three ideas “these truths,” Jefferson called them political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. But has the nation, and democracy itself, delivered on that promise?These Truths tells this uniquely American story, beginning in 1492, asking whether the course of events over more than five centuries has proven the nation’s truths, or belied them. To answer that question, Lepore wrestles with the state of American politics, the legacy of slavery, the persistence of inequality, and the nature of technological change. “A nation born in contradiction… will fight, forever, over the meaning of its history,” Lepore writes, but engaging in that struggle by studying the past is part of the work of citizenship. With These Truths, Lepore has produced a book that will shape our view of American history for decades to come. 70 illustrations Review An Amazon Best Book of September 2018:: It takes an ambitious historian to write a single volume history of the United States: Enter Jill Lepore, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer. These Truths sets out first to remind people how the United States got its start. The “truths,” as Thomas Jefferson called them, were political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. But Lepore also notes that history is a form of inquiry, something to be questioned, discussed, disputed. Has this country lived up to These Truths? she asks. The answer, as you might expect, is yes and no (though more yes than no). And the book itself is engrossing and even-handed, examining our contradictions-like a land of liberty supporting slavery-and singling out important historical figures, some well-known-like Benjamin Franklin-as well as others who were key voices in their time, but have since been left on history’s curb-like Mary Lease, leading voice of the People’s Party. As the book traces wars, policy decisions, and national debates, one can’t help but feel that the arguments we are seeing today have been carried out all throughout our history. When the final chapter (America, Disrupted) brings us to Obama, and then Trump, the narrative has lost no steam-rather, it has coalesced into a national story approaching coherence, something resembling the Founding Fathers’ more perfect union, though never actually perfect. --Chris Schluep, Amazon Book Review Review Lepore has written the most honest accounting of our country’s history that I’ve ever read. Bill GatesIt isn’t until you start reading it that you realize how much we need a book like this one at this particular moment.… Brilliant. Andrew Sullivan, New York Times Book Review[These Truths] captures the fullness of the past, where hope rises out of despair, renewal out of destruction, and forward momentum out of setbacks. Jack E. Davis, Chicago TribuneIt is the story of a nation, multiracial at its founding, and those who sought to find ways to realize ‘these truths.’ John S. Gardner, GuardianThis sweeping, sobering account of the American past is a story not of relentless progress but of conflict and contradiction, with crosscurrents of reason and faith, black and white, immigrant and native, industry and agriculture rippling through a narrative that is far from completion. New York Times Book Review[Lepore’s] one-volume history is elegant, readable, sobering; it extends a steadying ...

-Titulo Original : Go Back To Where You Came From And Other Helpful Recommendations On How To Become American-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review Wajahat Ali’s deeply personal and keenly perceptive memoir is a clear-eyed account of his American immigrant experience.… We are all fortunate to be on the receiving end of not only his intellect, but his humanity and heart. Katie Couric, Emmy Award-winning journalistThis is the book I’ve been hoping Wajahat Ali would write for ten years hilarious, stylistically fearless, deeply humane. Dave Eggers, author of The EveryWajahat Ali has already proven that he is the fastest mind on TV. Now his fans can sample his brilliance on the page. Ishmael Reed, author of The Terrible FoursThis book is a tour de force equal parts tragedy and laugh-out-loud comedy. With brazen wit, rigorous analysis, and searing insight, Wajahat Ali speaks to the first-generation American’s dilemma of being both ‘us’ and ‘them.’ Suleika Jaouad, author of Between Two KingdomsA hilarious and heartwarming treatise on what it truly means to be American in the twenty-first century. You’ll be laughing so hard you won’t even notice the inevitable Islamic takeover of America! Oops, I’ve said too much. Reza Aslan, author of God: A Human HistoryWajahat Ali brilliantly and lovingly unpacks the complicated history and urgent lived experience of being otherized in America.… [A] rich feast for all the senses a must-read. S. E. Cupp, author of Losing Our ReligionThis powerful and moving book is, at its heart, a love story. The beloved, flawed and tragic -- so flawed, so tragic -- is America. The lovers hope is always undermined. And yet his hope somehow endures. Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit WestFind a place on your bookshelf between Mark Twain and James Baldwin. Read this book before putting it there. Timothy Snyder, author of On TyrannyWith wit and charm, Ali has delivered a masterful meditation on growing up brown in America...An intoxicating rejection of cynicism in the face of existential threats to multiracial democracy, and a clear-eyed call to arms against the forces seeking to stop the expansion of American democracy. An affirmation of the country America could be. Mara Gay, editorial board, New York TimesIn prose at times hilarious and at other times deeply moving, Wajahat Ali chronicles a uniquely American experience. All will benefit from reading his story. Representative Ilhan OmarFull of wisdom and compassion, not to mention Ali’s signature humor. As educational as it is entertaining. I wish my nine-year-old immigrant self had this book when the playground kids were telling me to go back where I came from.” Gary Shteyngart, author of Our Country FriendsA tender knife-sharp analysis of racism . . . personal, painful, familial, and global Juan Felipe Herrera, United States Poet Laureate Emeritus “Go back to where you came from, you terrorist!”This is just one of the many warm, lovely, and helpful tips that Wajahat Ali and other children of immigrants receive on a daily basis. Go back where, exactly? Fremont, California, where he grew up, but is now an unaffordable place to live? Or Pakistan, the country his parents left behind a half-century ago?Growing up living the suburban American dream, young Wajahat devoured comic books (devoid of brown superheroes) and fielded well-intentioned advice from uncles and aunties. (“Become a doctor!”) He had turmeric stains under his fingernails, was accident-prone, suffered from OCD, and wore Husky pants, but he was as American as his neighbors, with roots all over the world. Then, while Ali was studying at University of California, Berkeley, 9/11 happened. Muslims replaced communists as America’s enemy #1, and he became an accidental spokesman and ambassador of all ordinary, unthreatening things Muslim-y.Now a middle-aged dad, Ali has become one of the foremost and funniest public intellectuals in America. In Go Back to Where You Came From, he tackles the dangers of Islamophobia, white supremacy, and chocolate hummus, peppering personal...

-Titulo Original : Damascus Station A Novel-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review A truly sensational read! In fact, Damascus Station is the best spy novel I have ever read. David McCloskey experienced Syria firsthand as a CIA analyst, and he delivers a thrilling, graphic, gripping, and realistic albeit fictional portrayal of the CIA and the bloody, tragic Syrian uprising. I lived this extraordinarily frustrating episode in Agency history, and I could not put this book down. General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret.), former director of the CIA, and former commander of the Surge in Iraq, US Central Command, and International and US Forces in AfghanistanThe nightmare of the Syrian civil war is vividly portrayed by David McCloskey in Damascus Station. He captures the places and people and most of all, the sickening feeling in the gut of this war that shattered poor Syria while America mostly watched. As a former CIA officer, McCloskey gets the details right not just the little ones about mistimed clocks on the wall at Headquarters but the big ones about trying to keep faith with people in a faithless business. This isn’t just a realistic spy novel, it’s real life. David Ignatius, columnist for the Washington Post and author of The PaladinDamascus Station tells the tragic story of Syrias descent into chaos and the price paid by its people during the Assad regimes brutal crackdown. The power of this book is that it tells this devastating story through the eyes of those who suffered and survived because of love, the human relationship, and the power of what makes life worth living. Leon E. Panetta, former Director of the CIA and former secretary of defense[A] gripping, well-written page turner that is part-thriller, part-love story, part-spy tale, and part-historical fiction concerning Syria and the Arab Spring. Any one of those elements on their own makes it well worth reading; the combination makes it compelling. Foreign Policy[An] exciting spy thriller. Washington PostDamascus Station is simply marvellous storytelling...a stand-out thriller and essential reading for fans of the genre. Financial Times[T]his propulsive thriller is at once a master class in spy craft and a poignant story of forbidden love set during the brutal Syrian civil war. PeopleIm a fan of spy thrillers, and I just read the best one Ive consumed in decades …. I’ve never known a writer as good at the spy novel as John LeCarre, but McCloskey approaches. Were watching the emergence of a remarkable talent. Nick Kristof, On the Trail with Nick Kristof[T]ruly one of the finest entries into the modern spy thriller genre. In a field groaning with ludicrous plots, absurd characters, and laughable “espionage,” McCloskey a former CIA analyst has crafted a book that goes back to the roots of what makes a spy thriller great, the spying. Diplomatic Courier[A] swift dive into the lethal, nebulous world of CIA operations in the Middle East…Damascus Station is a breathless ride. SpyTalkAn extremely effective modern espionage novel, filled with action and incident but also a profound knowledge of the people and factions of Syria, the complex maneuvers of spycraft, the gray areas, competing egos and overlapping priorities that make every day a journey through the minefield….[A] dazzling debut. Neil Nyren, BooktribA volatile mix of traditional espionage plotlines intertwined with a modern level of violence that had me flipping pages until the early morning hours. Best Thriller Books[A]n uncommonly gripping first novel....Damascus Station combines an insider’s account of tradecraft detailed enough to satisfy the most demanding geeks with compassion for the Syrian people, outrage at the Assad regime, and an up-to-the-minute old-fashioned love story. First ThingsDamascus Station is a great espionage novel. The Cipher BriefThe most realistic and authentic depiction of modern-day tradecraft in nonpermissive and hostile environments you will find in print. I am shocked the CIA’s Publication Revi...

-Titulo Original : The Latinist: A Novel-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review Ingenious.... a superb literary suspense novel that calls to mind an earlier such debut, Donna Tartt’s The Secret History.... Like the classics that inspire it, The Latinist is an inventive wedding of the elegant and the barbaric. Maureen Corrigan, Washington PostSmart and fast-paced.... [A] sparkling debut.... A contemporary classic. Clea Simon, Boston GlobePrins’s confident, engrossing debut novel.... contains more than enough twists to keep you turning the page until the very end. Chris Murphy, Vanity FairWithin the first few pages of this book, I knew I was in the hands of a masterful storyteller. The Latinist is imaginative, propulsive, and wildly intelligent. What a joy to encounter a thrilling and singular new voice in fiction. Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, author of The Nest and Good CompanyA devilishly clever and terrifically entertaining campus novel/philological whodunnit that also happens to be a brilliantly sly riff on Ovid’s Apollo & Daphne.... A remarkably polished and skillful first novel. Daniel MendelsohnAn engrossing psychological thriller.... an absorbing drama about obsession, abuse of power and intimate violence. Sharmila Mukherjee, Minneapolis Star TribuneBrilliant.... Delves deep to question the blurring line between love and obsession, between a yearning for truth and a desire of power. Jianan Qian, The MillionsPropulsive.... a campus novel turned psychological thriller.... The novel invites us to see Tessa as Daphne, manipulated by but ultimately escaping Eccles’s Apollo, yet it also asks us: what happens to her humanity along the way? Ayelet Haimson Lushkov, Los Angeles Review of BooksThis cerebral thriller will keep you on the edge of your seat.... Prins’ analysis of the toxic relationship between advisor and student is nuanced and thoughtful.... The Latinist succeeds as both literary fiction and thriller; it is every bit as suspenseful as it is intellectually intriguing, with many of the features of A.S. Byatt’s Possession. Hannah Joyner, Washington Independent Review of BooksA novel about love and scholarship, ego and obsession, coercion and consent a brilliant, marvelously infuriating puzzle of a book that combines the globe-trotting exploits of The Da Vinci Code with the smarts and literary gifts of A. S. Byatt. A terrific debut! Julie Schumacher, author of Dear Committee Members and The Shakespeare RequirementDarkly disturbing and luminously told.… Every twist is delicious and every turn breathtaking as Mark Prins’s devilish debut revels in a scholarly world of cunning, ruthlessness, and dangerous obsession. Funny, erudite, and utterly absorbing, this is a merciless tale to be relished like a guilty pleasure. Christopher J. Yates, author of Black Chalk and Grist Mill RoadBrainy and deftly plotted, The Latinist enchants with its deft inversions of power, its witty poetic inventions, and its passion for languages old and new. A lovely debut. Andrea Barrett, author of Archangel and The Air We BreatheMark Prins weaves together an extremely contemporary plot an American academic caught up in the machinations of her advisor at Oxford with a much older plot the discovery of a second-century Roman poet. The two thrillingly intertwine and the result is a wonderfully suspenseful novel. The Latinist is a brilliant debut. Margot Livesey, author of The Boy in the Field The Latinist is a whip-smart tale of obsession that teeters on the knife-edge of suspense and literary fiction; Mark Prins is a worthy successor to Patricia Highsmith, Donna Tartt, and Ian McEwan. Alexandra Andrews, author of Who Is Maud Dixon?With its ambitious young scholar, an ancient tomb, and a scheming advisor, The Latinist is a twisty and memorable new addition to the campus-novel genre. Mark Prins propels you through his tale of breakthroughs and retribution while delivering a sharp commentary on power dynamics in academia. A cunning and insightful read I couldn’t put it...

-Titulo Original : The Apocalypse Factory Plutonium And The Making Of The Atomic Age-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: A thrilling narrative of scientific triumph, decades of secrecy, and the unimaginable destruction wrought by the creation of the atomic bomb.It began with plutonium, the first element ever manufactured in quantity by humans. Fearing that the Germans would be the first to weaponize the atom, the United States marshaled brilliant minds and seemingly inexhaustible bodies to find a way to create a nuclear chain reaction of inconceivable explosive power. In a matter of months, the Hanford nuclear facility was built to produce and weaponize the enigmatic and deadly new material that would fuel atomic bombs. In the desert of eastern Washington State, far from prying eyes, scientists Glenn Seaborg, Enrico Fermi, and many thousands of others the physicists, engineers, laborers, and support staff at the facility manufactured plutonium for the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, and for the bombs in the current American nuclear arsenal, enabling the construction of weapons with the potential to end human civilization.With his characteristic blend of scientific clarity and storytelling, Steve Olson asks why Hanford has been largely overlooked in histories of the Manhattan Project and the Cold War. Olson, who grew up just twenty miles from Hanford’s B Reactor, recounts how a small Washington town played host to some of the most influential scientists and engineers in American history as they sought to create the substance at the core of the most destructive weapons ever created. The Apocalypse Factory offers a new generation this dramatic story of human achievement and, ultimately, of lethal hubris. 32 illustrations Review Olson is a crisp writer who brings clarity to complex subject matter...[he offers] hope based on his faith in human brilliance, tenacity and ingenuity to meet our challenges the kind of traits and talents that made the Manhattan Project possible in the first place. Denise Kiernan, New York TimesHanford, the vast complex that bred plutonium for the first atomic bombs on the banks of the mighty Columbia River in eastern Washington, has never had its full story told. Steve Olson now meets that challenge in a lively, dramatic, thrilling narrative of wartime crisis and scientific brilliance. Richard Rhodes, author of The Making of the Atomic BombA captivating, unnerving history...A riveting history of a lesser-known Manhattan Project triumph that, like so many wartime triumphs, has lost its luster. Kirkus (starred review)Olson writes lucidly, making even the most recondite details of the science involved clear to a nonscientist. And he’s eloquent in his chronicling of the lives affected and sometimes destroyed by the invention and use of the world’s most deadly weapon… [A] deft, informative, sometimes terrifying book. Michael Upchurch, Seattle TimesScience writer Olson (Eruption) delivers a lucid, fast-paced chronicle of the discovery and weaponization of plutonium and the unforeseen consequences of the nuclear arms race... This comprehensively researched and compulsively readable account deserves a large audience. Publishers Weekly[F]ascinating and thought provoking. Library JournalA gripping story of a time when the fate of the world lay on the line as the United States and Germany raced to translate scientific discoveries into decisive weapons of war. Anyone who has questioned whether investment in science matters must read this book. Anyone who hasn’t will want to. Marcia McNutt, president of the National Academy of SciencesThe Apocalypse Factory traces the pathway from the discovery of plutonium to the rise of immense production facilities in Washington State to fuel the US nuclear arsenal, with riveting details about the nearly aborted mission to bomb Nagasaki…Steve Olson leaves much to ponder, and he calls on our collective ingenuity to address the threat that nuclear weapons pose today. Cynthia C. Kelly, president of the Atomic Heritage FoundationA compu...

-Titulo Original : The Lost Cafe Schindler One Family, Two Wars, And The Search For Truth-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review Affecting.... Ms. Schindler’s insight-filled reckoning with the past can’t help but leave behind a bitter taste that no amount of Sacher torte can disguise. Diane Cole, Wall Street JournalIntimate and often moving. Glenn C. Altschuler, Jerusalem PostAn extraordinary and compelling book of reckonings a journey across a long, complex, and deeply painful arc of history, grippingly told a wonderful melding of the personal and the political, the family and the historical. Philippe Sands, author of East West Street and The RatlineMeriel Schindler takes us on a journey that spans 150 years and threads across countries and continents as she uncovers her family’s history. Weaving her relatives’ personal lives into the turbulent frame of European history, Schindler moves back and forth between the public and the private realms. Lovingly written and astutely observed, The Lost Cafe Schindler is a meditation on loss: personal loss and loss of historic significance. Deborah Dwork, coauthor of Flight from the Reich: Refugee Jews, 1933-1946This almost unbearably touching book traces an extraordinarily diligent and sensitive process of family rediscovery. Meriel Schindler shows us how short the window of opportunity for Central European Jews was and how lasting an imprint they nonetheless left behind. Peter Hayes, author of Why? Explaining the HolocaustMeriel Schindler’s research is prodigious, her writing compelling, and her discoveries large and small reunite her with her far-flung family and with the community that exploited them, impoverished them, persecuted them, and even murdered some of them. Through the history of one family, the entire history of the Holocaust and the struggle to rebuild after the Holocaust unfolds.…I was moved to take this journey with her. Michael Berenbaum, professor of Jewish studies and director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust, American Jewish University, Los AngelesAn extraordinary story so cadenced and so moving. Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber EyesThe Lost Cafe Schindler seamlessly melds two riveting histories, the tumultuous story of Jewish life in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the gripping tale of a remarkable family. Meriel Schindler’s account is a powerful personal journey of discovery. This extremely well-researched and beautifully written story is one that will linger long after the last page. Gerald L. Posner, coauthor of Mengele: The Complete StoryPowerful.... Beyond the compelling personal details, the author chillingly documents how the livelihoods of Austrian Jews were destroyed, ‘systematically stripped of their assets, at bargain-basement prices’.... Throughout, Schindler writes vividly about representation, memory, and the aftermath of atrocity. A significant addition to the literature on the Holocaust. Kirkus, starred reviewSkillfully crafted.... reads like a novel.... A must-read work of narrative nonfiction thats highly recommended for readers of memoirs or 20th-century European history. Library Journal, starred reviewVividly rendered.... Schindler seamlessly weaves together the historical and personal, offering fresh revelations. BooklistRigorously researched, The Lost Cafe Schindler successfully weaves together a compelling and at times deeply moving memoir and family history that also chronicles the wider story of the Jews of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.…It distinguishes itself through its combination of mystery and reconciliation. Anne Joseph, The Times (UK)The most fascinating and devastating family history.… not just a genealogical exploration.… it sets out the wider experiences of the Jewish population of the Austro-Hungarian empire, weaving in the story of how antisemitism took root.… The stories could scarcely be more powerful. The Sunday Times (UK) An extraordinary memoir of a Jewish family spanning two worl...

-Titulo Original : The Norton Field Guide To Writing: With Handbook, MLA 2021 And APA 2020 Update Edition-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: About the Author Richard Bullock is emeritus professor of English at Wright State University, where he directed the writing programs for 28 years and designed the universitys writing across the curriculum program and Introduction to College Writing Workshop. In 2012, he was awarded the Trustees Award for Faculty Excellence, Wright States highest honor. In addition to The Norton Field Guide to Writing, he is a coauthor of The Little Seagull Handbook.Maureen Daly Goggin is Professor of English and former associate chair of the English Department at Arizona State University, where she has also directed several of the writing programs and the Ph.D. program in Rhetoric, Composition, and Linguistics and received the ASU Alumni Association Faculty Teaching Award. She is the author of several scholarly books, including Authoring a Discipline: Scholarly Journals and thePost-World War II Emergence of Rhetoric and Composition (2000).Francine Weinberg is an author and editor who has worked for more than 30 years on college and high school English textbooks. She is the author of the handbook in The Norton Field Guide to Writing and a coauthor of The Little Seagull Handbook. The best-selling, most flexible rhetoric now with advice for reading and writing across disciplinesThe Norton Field Guide lets you teach the way you want to teach. Short chapters with just enough detail can be assigned in any order. Color-coded links send students to more detail if they need it. Menus, directories, and a glossary/index all make the book easy to navigate. This flexibility makes it work for first-year writing, stretch, ALP, co-req, dual-enrollment, and integrated reading-writing courses.The Norton Field Guide MLA and APA Update Edition features the latest documentation guidelines from the ninth edition of the MLA Handbook (2021) and the seventh edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (2020). Book Description with Ebook, The Little Seagull Handbook Ebook, and InQuizitive for Writer...

-Titulo Original : Utilitarianism (The Norton Library)-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: About Utilitarianism Edited by Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer, “the acknowledged heirs of the founders of utilitarianism” (Jeff McMahan), the Norton Library edition of Utilitarianism features the complete text of the seventh (1879) edition, preceded by a thorough introduction to the work’s historical and intellectual contexts. Extensive endnotes clarify obscure terms and provide detailed analysis of the most philosophically significant passages, helping students to understand and critically engage with “the most famous defense of the utilitarian view ever written” (Geoffrey Scarre). About the Author Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek is Assistant Professor in the Institute of Philosophy, University of Lodz, Poland. A hedonistic utilitarian, she focuses her research on the philosophy of Henry Sidgwick and Derek Parfit, as well as on the concepts of well-being and pleasure. Together with Peter Singer she has written The Point of View of the Universe (Oxford University Press, 2014) and Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2017). Apart from academic work, she is keen to convey philosophical ideas to a wider audience, giving lectures and writing for popular magazines on how to live a good life. Peter Singer, an Australian philosopher, is currently Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. He is best known for Animal Liberation, first published in 1975 and widely considered to be the founding statement of the animal rights movement; and for The Life You Can Save, which led him to found the charity of the same name. His other books include Practical Ethics, The Most Good You Can Do, and the two books co-authored with Katarzyna de Lazari- Radek. In 2005, Time magazine named him one of the World’s 100 Most Influential People...

-Titulo Original : How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: A fascinating and genuinely accessible guide....Educating, enjoyable, and delightfully unscary. Classical Music What if Bach and Mozart heard richer, more dramatic chords than we hear in music today? What sonorities and moods have we lost in playing music in equal temperament the equal division of the octave into twelve notes that has become our standard tuning method? Thanks to How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony, we may soon be able to hear for ourselves what Beethoven really meant when he called B minor black ( Wall Street Journal).In this comprehensive plea for more variety in tuning methods ( Kirkus Reviews), Ross W. Duffin presents a serious and well-argued case ( Goldberg Magazine) that should make any contemporary musician think differently about tuning ( Saturday Guardian). 48 illustrations Review A delightfully informative and provocative argument that we should rethink our common musical habits at the most basic level. -- Wall Street Journal About the Author Ross W. Duffin, the Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music at Case Western Reserve University, is the author of the award-winning Shakespeares Songbook. He lives in Shaker Heights, Ohio...

-Titulo Original : Reel Music Exploring 100 Years Of Film Music-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: The #1 film music text, now with more attention to international films. Reel Music, revised for a new generation of movie lovers, tells the story of film music through iconic scenes. The Second Edition features more in-depth exploration of international films from classics like Seven Samurai to more recent works like Run Lola Run as well as new suggestions for activities and classroom discussion, and even more Viewer Guides, which show how film music functions moment-by-moment. About the Author Roger Hickman, professor of music at California State University, Long Beach, has served as music director for the Los Angeles Classical Ballet, the Four Seasons Orchestra, and the Hollywood Classical Symphony, with whom he has toured internationally. Professor Hickman teaches courses in film music, music history, and music appreciation...

-Titulo Original : Saving Italy The Race To Rescue A Nations Treasures From The Nazis-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Monuments Men An astonishing account of a little-known American effort to save Italys…art during World War II. Tom Brokaw When Hitler’s armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind’s greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterpieces of the Renaissance, the treasures of the Vatican, and the antiquities of the Roman Empire. On the eve of the Allied invasion, General Dwight Eisenhower empowered a new kind of soldier to protect these historic riches. In May 1944 two unlikely American heroes artist Deane Keller and scholar Fred Hartt embarked from Naples on the treasure hunt of a lifetime, tracking billions of dollars of missing art, including works by Michelangelo, Donatello, Titian, Caravaggio, and Botticelli. With the German army retreating up the Italian peninsula, orders came from the highest levels of the Nazi government to transport truckloads of art north across the border into the Reich. Standing in the way was General Karl Wolff, a top-level Nazi officer. As German forces blew up the magnificent bridges of Florence, General Wolff commandeered the great collections of the Uffizi Gallery and Pitti Palace, later risking his life to negotiate a secret Nazi surrender with American spymaster Allen Dulles. Brilliantly researched and vividly written, the New York Times bestselling Saving Italy brings readers from Milan and the near destruction of The Last Supper to the inner sanctum of the Vatican and behind closed doors with the preeminent Allied and Axis leaders: Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and Churchill; Hitler, Goring, and Himmler. An unforgettable story of epic thievery and political intrigue, Saving Italy is a testament to heroism on behalf of art, culture, and history. 61 illustrations; 3 maps Review A suspenseful tale worthy of an Indiana Jones plot. He pulls you into a dangerous web of intrigue in which the Vatican, top German SS generals, American OSS operatives and Italian officials are entwined in top-secret negotiations to end the war. A must read for any WWII history enthusiast. --Gordon H. Nick Mueller, President/CEO, The National WWII Museum A teeming work by an author passionate about his subject. --Matthew Price An absorbing, thoroughly researched gallop of a history book. --Noah Charney An amazing story, superbly told. --Carlo D Este, bestselling author of Patton: A Genius For War Dramatic lively narrative. --Andrew Nagorski Edsel s recovery of the history of the Monuments Men makes for a remarkable and fascinating story. As more recent conflicts have shown, the havoc that war can wreak upon our artistic heritage has unfortunately not diminished and there are important lessons in this book for policy makers and all who care about the preservation of the world s artistic legacy for future generations. --Timothy Potts, Director, the J. Paul Getty Museum Revealing That the Monuments Men were able to do as much as they did, amid a war with more urgent priorities is remarkable. --Hugh Eakin Riveting narrative history. Dramatic lively narrative. --Andrew Nagorski Dramatic...lively narrative. --Andrew Nagorski Revealing...That the Monuments Men were able to do as much as they did, amid a war with more urgent priorities is remarkable. --Hugh Eakin A teeming work...by an author passionate about his subject. --Matthew Price Dramatic . . . lively narrative. --Andrew Nagorski Revealing.... That the Monuments Men were able to do as much as they did, amid a war with more urgent priorities is remarkable. --Hugh Eakin Riveting narrative history. What a dramatic story! --Andrew Nagorski Edsel is very good on how the officers charged with identifying what had happened to Italys art went about their work. He gives a vivid flavor of what life must have been like as they searched among the ruins. --Alsadair Palmer Saving Italy is a t...

-Titulo Original : So Much Things To Say The Oral History Of Bob Marley-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: A revelatory, myth-shattering history of one of the most influential musicians of all time, told in the words of those who knew him best. Roger Steffens is one of the world’s leading Bob Marley experts. He toured with the Wailers in the 1970s and was closely acquainted with Bunny Wailer, Peter Tosh and the rest of the band members. Over several decades he has interviewed more than seventy-five friends, business managers, relatives and confidants many speaking publicly for the first time. Forty years in the making, So Much Things to Say weaves this rich testimony into a definitive telling of the life of the reggae king the full, inside account of how a boy from the slums of Kingston, Jamaica, became a cultural icon and inspiration to millions around the world. The intimacy of the voices and the frankness of their revelations will astonish even longtime Marley fans. Readers see the intense bonds of teenage friendship among Peter, Bunny and Bob, the vibrant early sessions with the original Wailers (as witnessed by members Junior Braithwaite, Beverley Kelso and Cherry Green) and the tumultuous relationships with Rita Marley and Cindy Breakspeare. With unprecedented candor, these interviews tell dramatic, little-known stories, from the writing of some of Marley’s most beloved songs to the Wailers’ violent confrontation involving producer Lee “Scratch” Perry, Bob’s intensive musical training with star singer Johnny Nash and the harrowing assassination attempt at 56 Hope Road in Kingston, which led to Marley’s defiant performance two nights later with a bullet lodged in his arm. Readers witness Marley’s rise to international fame in London, his triumphant visit to Zimbabwe to sing for freedom fighters inspired by his anthems and the devastating moment of his collapse while jogging in New York’s Central Park. Steffens masterfully conducts the story of Marley’s last months, as Marley poignantly sings “Another One Bites the Dust” during the sound check before his final concert in Pittsburgh, followed by his tragic death at the age of thirty-six. So Much Things to Say explores major controversies, examining who actually ordered the shooting attack on Hope Road, scrutinizing claims of CIA involvement and investigating why Marley’s fatal cancer wasn’t diagnosed sooner. Featuring Steffens’s own candid photographs of Marley and his circle, this magisterial work preserves an invaluable, transformative slice of music history: the life of the legendary performer who brought reggae to the international stage. 40 photographs Review So Much Things to Say is a fascinating page-turner which leaves conclusions to the reader. Gleaner This sprawling but gripping biography is a fitting tribute to Jamaica’s favourite son. The Guardian There has never been and will never be anything quite like this: Reggaes chief eyewitness, dropping testimony on Reggaes chief prophet with truth, blood, and fire. Marlon James, Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings [So Much Things to Say] narrates the life of Marley from cradle to grave… Steffens has been on the Marley case for decades, and he’s a crucial voice in this epic chorus….Illuminating. Toure, New York Times What emerges [from So Much Things to Say] isn’t a different Marley so much as one who feels a bit more human. Hua Hsu, The New Yorker If Bob Marley is Jesus in these times, Roger Steffens is Peter. Carlos Santana So Much Things to Say is by far the most important and definitive book written about Bob Marley, therefore in my opinion the best book about Jamaican music. It ranks with Mezz Mezzrows Really the Blues masterpiece, Mike Gerbers Jazz Jews and Keith Richards Life. Its beyond a book about music, its a major ethnology study. Just like the best Mandela or Gandhi or Lennon biographies, its about mankind on an anthropologic level. Its about identity, culture, pride, spirituality it helps u...

-Titulo Original : Concise History Of Western Music-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: An anthology and media update for the most student-friendly music history text This update to Barbara Hanning’s concise survey aligns it with the Eighth Edition of the Norton Anthology of Western Music and supports your students with a more robust media package. New resources include Audio Timelines, tutorials to help build music history skills, and adaptive activities to reinforce concepts. Book Description with Total Access registration code About the Author Barbara Russano Hanning (Professor of Music, The City College and Graduate Center, CUNY) taught music history to undergraduate and graduate students for forty years and is the author of a book on early opera. She has served as president of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music and chaired the Music Department at City College for fifteen years...

-Titulo Original : Johann Sebastian Bach The Learned Musician-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Biography, this landmark book was revised in 2013 to include new knowledge discovered after its initial publication. Although we have heard the music of J. S. Bach in countless performances and recordings, the composer himself still comes across only as an enigmatic figure in a single familiar portrait. As we mark the 250th anniversary of Bachs death, author Christoph Wolff presents a new picture that brings to life this towering figure of the Baroque era. This engaging new biography portrays Bach as the living, breathing, and sometimes imperfect human being that he was, while bringing to bear all the advances of the last half-century of Bach scholarship. Wolff demonstrates the intimate connection between the composers life and his music, showing how Bachs superb inventiveness pervaded his career as musician, composer, performer, scholar, and teacher. And throughout, we see Bach in the broader context of his time: its institutions, traditions, and influences. With this highly readable book, Wolff sets a new standard for Bach biography. 42 black and white illustrations Review A monumental work that must find its way into the library of every musician and every dedicated lover of music. Isaac Stern Its unlikely that anyone will fashion a finer tribute to [Bachs] genius. Los Angeles Times Book Review A magisterial biographical portrait…necessarily learned, but also user-friendly, helpful and entertainingly informative. Chicago Tribune Likely to be the standard one-volume Bach biography for some time to come. New York Review of Books A work of clarity worthy of its subject and his music. Wall Street Journal Undoubtedly the most important Bach biography since Phillipp Spittas life written over a century ago. The New Republic About the Author Christoph Wolff is Adams University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, where he taught from 1976 to 2012. A former director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig, Germany, he is the author of numerous works of music history including Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography, and Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune: Serving the Emperor, 1788-1791, winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. Wolff lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts...

-Titulo Original : Funny Weather Art In An Emergency-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: One of the finest writers of the new nonfiction (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in our tumultuous modern era. In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty-first century. Funny Weather brings together a career’s worth of Laing’s writing about art and culture, examining their role in our political and emotional lives. She profiles Jean-Michel Basquiat and Georgia O’Keeffe, reads Maggie Nelson and Sally Rooney, writes love letters to David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, and explores loneliness and technology, women and alcohol, sex and the body. With characteristic originality and compassion, she celebrates art as a force of resistance and repair, an antidote to a frightening political time. We’re often told that art can’t change anything. Laing argues that it can. Art changes how we see the world. It makes plain inequalities and it offers fertile new ways of living. Review These essays showcase Laing as an imaginative and empathetic critic of the arts. She gets at texture, technique, feeling, and politics all at once... Its a pleasure to follow Laing as she pokes around companionably, examining the things that interest her. Annalisa Quinn, NPR [Olivia Laing is] a kind of cultural sage...an accidental literary grande dame of the emotional havoc wrought by late capitalism and digital disconnect... Laing is radically empathetic, a writer-activist. Hillary Kelly, Vulture Laing’s arts writing is sharp-minded, and her manner is generous toward both subject and reader. John Glassie, Washington Post Laing writes of her creative subjects in a winning, passionate voice that proves both soothing and galvanizing, especially amid a panic... It’s not just art we need in an emergency, but writers, like Laing, who gently guide our eyes to what’s out there. Alina Cohen, Observer As exterior life shuts temporarily down, Funny Weather is an immensely useful reminder that new space can be intellectual as well as physical... Laing is a tremendously gifted genre-mixer... Funny Weather is an invitation to Laing’s imaginary museum, where minds if not bodies meet, and where true hospitality resides. Lily Meyer, Hyperallergic Laing opens each piece with a deceptive ease [and] alights upon poetic insights... [H]er light touch throughout these essays makes room for some stunning perceptions. A. V. Club Like all great critics, Olivia Laing combines formidable intelligence with boundless curiosity and fabulous taste, but she also has a rare quality of intimacy; an ability to connect the reader to a work of art or literature (or for that matter a facet of life itself) with a directness that lights it up like nothing else. It’s why I read her. James Lasdun, author of Afternoon of a Faun A fine writer’s embrace of the artists who preceded her, friendly visits with their lives, and loving acknowledgement of their foundational contributions. A work of joy in recognition. Sarah Schulman, author of Conflict Is Not Abuse I yield to absolutely no one in my admiration of Olivia Laing; her essays are magical liberations of words and ideas, art and love; they’re the essence of great twenty-first century literature: brilliantly expressed, wildly uncontained, willful, and wonderfully unbound. Philip Hoare, author of RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR About the Author Olivia Laing is the author of five acclaimed works of nonfiction, including The Lonely City and Funny Weather. Her first novel, Crudo, won the 2019 James Tait Black Prize. The recipient of the 2018 Windham-Campbell Prize in nonfiction, Laing lives in Suffolk, United Kingdom...

-Titulo Original : From So Simple A Beginning Darwins Four Great Books (voyage Of The Beagle, The Origin Of Species, The Descent Of Man, The Expression Of Emotions In Man And Animals)-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Hailed as superior by Nature, this landmark volume is available in a collectible, boxed edition. Never before have the four great works of Charles Darwin Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle (1845), The Origin of Species (1859), The Descent of Man (1871), and The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) been collected under one cover. Undertaking this challenging endeavor 123 years after Darwins death, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Edward O. Wilson has written an introductory essay for the occasion, while providing new, insightful introductions to each of the four volumes and an afterword that examines the fate of evolutionary theory in an era of religious resistance. In addition, Wilson has crafted a creative new index to accompany these four texts, which links the nineteenth-century, Darwinian evolutionary concepts to contemporary biological thought. Beautifully slipcased, and including restored versions of the original illustrations, From So Simple a Beginning turns our attention to the astounding power of the natural creative process and the magnificence of its products. 101 illustrations About the Author Naturalist Charles Darwin (1809-1882) is the father of evolution. His groundbreaking The Origin of Species argued that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection. As much as anyone in the modern era, Darwin has changed the course of human thought. Edward O. Wilson (1929-2021) was the author of more than thirty books, including Anthill, Letters to a Young Scientist, and The Conquest of Nature. The winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, Wilson was a professor emeritus at Harvard University and lived with his wife in Lexington, Massachusetts...