J.J. Abrams: A Study in Genius
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J.J. Abrams is one of the most successful director-writer-producers working in Hollywood, and now...
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
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Diarmaid MacCulloch's epic, acclaimed history A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand...
The Death of a Prophet: The End of Muhammad's Life and the Beginnings of Islam
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The oldest Islamic biography of Muhammad, written in the mid-eighth century, relates that the...
The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians
Michael Watkins, Bo Beolens and Michael Grayson
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New species of animal and plant are being discovered all the time. When this happens, the new...
Ten Physicists Who Transformed Our Understanding of Reality
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Acclaimed popular-science writer Brian Clegg and popular TV and radio astronomer Rhodri Evans give...
Rebel: My Life Outside the Lines
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“I had become an actor because real life was hard for me. Sometimes it was really rough. Acting...
biography films
Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character
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In this magisterial study of the relationship between illness and art, the best-selling author of An...
biography
The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables
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'Never mind those self-help manuals urging that some classic novel may change your life; in this...
History & Criticism
America's Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live by
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Despite its venerated place atop American law and politics, our written Constitution does not...
Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director
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"The cinema is Nicholas Ray". (Jean-Luc Godard). The visionary filmmaker Nicholas Ray spent his...