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Lawrence Wright
AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * From the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author, a hilarious, sharply drawn send-up of local politics * A novel about a dark-horse…
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Lawrence Wright at the height of his powers. Centers around the newfound-and forced-relationship between a Palestinian American FBI agent and a hard-line Israeli cop, working together uneasily to solve the…
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Tells the story of Al Qaeda from its roots up to 9/11. This title investigates the extraordinary group of idealogues behind this organization - and those who tried to stop…
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Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2014 –Title page verso.
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A New York Times Notable Book for 1998Critical acclaim for Lawrence Wright’s
A Rhone-Poulenc Science Prize Finalist
This is a book about far more than twins: it is about what…
Honoring the medical professionals around the country who’ve risked their lives to fight the virus, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author provides essential information–and fascinating historical parallels–examining the medical, economic, political, and…
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The Terror Years is a collection of ten powerful pieces by Pulitzer Prize-winner Lawrence Wright, first published in The New Yorker, charting the path of terror in the Middle East…
Scientology presents itself as a scientific approach to spiritual enlightenment, but its practices have long been shrouded in mystery. Now Lawrence Wright - armed with his investigative talents, years of…
At once a true psychological detective story, a family tragedy and a mordant comedy about what happens when modern psychiatry succumbs to hysterias as old as Salem. This is the…
Texas just on its own is one of the world’s biggest and fastest-growing economies - God Save Texas is a superb, very personal portrait of a very odd place
God…
The New York Times bestselling investigation into Scientology by Pulitzer Prize-Winner Lawrence Wright now published for the first time in the UK and Australia
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Originally published in 1983, this book is about the way we see things - or think we do, which is by no means the same - and about the ways…
In this fascinating work of historical fiction, Pulitzer Prize – winning author Lawrence Wright captures all the gripping drama and black humor of Panama during the final, nerve-racking days of…
We first meet Larry Wright in 1960. He is thirteen and moving with his family to Dallas, the essential city of the New World just beginning to rise across the…
The Fascinating History Of The Bathroom And The Water Closet And Of Sundry Habits, Fashions And Accessories Of The Toilet, Principally In Great Britain, France And America.
An up-close account of the experience of inner city New York kids–black and Latino, from ghettos and projects–who spent a summer in an Amish and Mennonite farm community in Central…
A gripping account of the Camp David summit and the first peace treaty in the modern Middle East
Que se esconde detras de la Iglesia de la Cienciologia? Como ha logrado convertirse en una de las organizaciones mas ricas y poderosas del planeta, y ser reconocida como religion…
When Dr Henry Parsons - microbiologist and epidemiologist - travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will soon have staggering repercussions across the…
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…
An Instant New York Times Bestseller
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower-a riveting thriller and all-too-convincing chronicle of science, espionage, action and speculation (The Wall Street Journal)
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This national bestseller and award-winning book is now available in paperback. A gripping narrative that spans five decades, The Looming Tower explains in unprecedented detail the rise of al-Qaeda and…
Veinte anos despues del 11-S, y diez de la muerte de Osama bin Laden, La torre elevada sigue siendo la mejor obra escrito sobre el auge del fundamentalismo islamico, la…
Un thriller medico escrito antes de la pandemia sobre la llegada de un virus letal que arrasa con la poblacion mundial, de la mano del ganador del Premio Pulitzer, Lawrence…
Daniel Luzadder
The Manchurian Journalist documents for readers that their concerns about American journalism are justified. It shows that as the watchdog of democracy journalism has, since the Cold War, been compromised…
Amina Wright
A fascinating record of the early years of Thomas Lawrence: the story of an exceptional young portraitist and future president of the Royal Academy.
Roberta Volkmann
In 1902 Susan Lawrence commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to remodel her deceased father’s home in Springfield, Illinois. The project grew and became a blonde Roman brick mansion with 35 rooms…
Lawrence Goldstone
From acclaimed historian Lawrence Goldstone comes a thrilling narrative of courage, determination, and competition: the story of the intense rivalry that fueled the rise of American aviation.
The feud between…
T. R. Wright (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
The Bible, as this book demonstrates, plays a key role in nearly all D. H. Lawrence’s work. It supplies not only the inspiration but on occasion the target for his…
Wright’s book demonstrates how the Bible plays a key role in D. H. Lawrence’s work. Wright engages in an exploration of the textual dynamics of Lawrence’s writing. Lawrence’s work reveals…
Thomas Wright
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
Tobias Schnettler
12 Million Black Voices und The Migration of the Negro befassen sich in unterschiedlicher Form mit der Great Migration als Fotodokumentation und als Gemaldezyklus. Dennoch ist ein Vergleich dieser Bild-Text-Kombinationen…
Henry B Wright
Mark Lardas
A fully illustrated study that investigates the clash between British and US sloops-of-war on the inland lakes of North America during the War of 1812. It will appeal to all…
The notion that wisdom and apocalypticism represent fundamentally different and mutually exclusive categories of genre and worldview in early Jewish and Christian literature still persists. This book aims to challenge…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
