Lawrence: 4086 books
Our Kind of People
Inside America's Black Upper Class
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Debutante cotillions. Million-dollar homes. Summers in Martha's Vineyard. Membership in the Links, Jack & Jill, Deltas, Boule, and AKAs. An obsession with the right schools, families, social clubs, and skin complexion. This is the world of the black upper class and the focus of the first book...
Mathematics Minus Fear
How to Make Math Fun and Beneficial to Your Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Forget your classroom nightmares and discover how numbers can enhance and illuminate your world!
How can math help you bet on horses or win in Vegas? What’s the foolproof way to solve Sudoku? How can probability teach you to calculate your chances of survival in Russian roulette?
In...
by Lawrence Block
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Characters refusing to talk? Plot plodding along? Where do good ideas come from anyway? In this wonderfully practical volume, two-time Edgar Award-winning novelist Lawrence Block takes an inside look at writing as a craft and as a career.
From studying the market, to mastering self-discipline...
Aftermath
Prepare For and Survive Apocalypse 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
In his celebrated previous book, Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation Into Civilization’s End, Lawrence E. Joseph appraised the likelihood of planet-wide catastrophe in 2012 by presenting convincing scientific evidence of looming chaos and even mass extinction. Now, in AFTERMATH: A Guide to Preparing...
by Lawrence R. Jacobs, Theda Skocpol
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in March 2010 is a landmark in U.S. social legislation. The new law extends health insurance to nearly all Americans, fulfilling a century-long quest and bringing the United States to parity with other industrial nations. Affordable...
Spider, Spin Me A Web
A Handbook For Fiction Writers
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The craft of writing is a lot like spinning a web: You take threads and weave them skillfully together, and only you know where this intricate network of twists and turns begin and how it will end. Now, with Lawrence Bloock's expert advice, you can learn this art of entrapping your reader in a maze...
by Lawrence M. Principe
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed such fervent investigations of the natural world that the period has been called the 'Scientific Revolution.' New ideas and discoveries not only redefined what human beings believed, knew, and could do, but also forced them to redefine themselves with...
The Elephant Whisperer
My Life with the Herd in the African Wild
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
When South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony was asked to accept a herd of "rogue" wild elephants on his Thula Thula game reserve in Zululand, his common sense told him to refuse. But he was the herd's last chance of survival: they would be killed if he wouldn't take them.
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A Universe from Nothing
Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Bestselling author and acclaimed physicist Lawrence Krauss offers a paradigm-shifting view of how everything that exists came to be in the first place.
“Where did the universe come from? What was there before it? What will the future bring? And finally, why is there something rather than...
Kennedy's Wars : Berlin Cuba Laos and Vietnam
Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2000
In his thousand-day presidency John F. Kennedy led America through one of its most difficult and potentially explosive eras. With the Cold War at its height and the threat of communist advances in Europe and the Third World Kennedy had the unenviable task of maintaining U.S. solidarity without leading...
The Last Rhinos
My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
When Lawrence Anthony learned that the northern white rhino, living in the war-ravaged Congo, was on the very brink of extinction, he knew he had to act. If the world lost the sub-species, it would be the largest land mammal since the woolly mammoth to go extinct. In The Last Rhinos, Anthony recounts...
God Save Texas
A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
**A New York Times Notable Book
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist**
An NPR Best Book of the Year
God Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state in America. It is a red state, but the cities are blue and among the most diverse in the nation. Oil is still...
by Lawrence Wright
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2006
This Pulitzer Prize winner is the basis for the upcoming Hulu series starring Peter Sarsgaard, Jeff Daniels, and Tahar Rahim.
A gripping narrative that spans five decades,The Looming Tower explains in unprecedented detail the growth of Islamic fundamentalism, the rise of al-Qaeda, and the intelligence...
by D. H. Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
Twilight in Italy by D. H Lawrence is a brilliantly written travelogue based on his journal. He embarked South to Italy on foot with his German wife Frieda and has described all his thrilling and interesting experiences. Leaving out the famous and the historical he visits the suburbs and the people of Italy and beautifully reflects on their lifestyles. Fascinating!