The American Cinema: Directors and Directions, 1929-1968
10 best books like The American Cinema: Directors and Directions, 1929-1968 (Andrew Sarris): Akin, The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir, Master and Commander, The Forever War, A Quiet Flame, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, God Emperor of Dune, The Day It Finally Happens: Alien Contact, Dinosaur Parks, Immortal Humans—and Other Possible Phenomena, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
| Author | Emma Donoghue |
| ISBN | 0316491993 |
A retired New York professor's life is thrown into chaos when he takes a young great-nephew to the French Riviera, in hopes of uncovering his own mother's wartime secrets in the next masterpiece from New York Times bestselling author Emma Donoghue.
Noah Selvaggio is a retired chemistry professor...
The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir
| Author | Samantha Power |
| ISBN | 0062820710 |
Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Power, widely known as a relentless advocate for promoting human rights, has been heralded by President Barack Obama as one of America's "foremost thinkers on foreign policy."
In her memoir, Power offers an urgent response to the question "What can one person...
| Author | Patrick O'Brian |
| ISBN | 0393307050 |
As the Royal Navy takes part in the wars against Napoleonic France, young Jack Aubrey receives his first command, the small, old, and slow HMS Sophie. Accompanied by his eccentric new friend, the physician and naturalist Stephen Maturin, Aubrey does battle with the naval hierarchy, with his own tendency...
| Author | Dexter Filkins |
| ISBN | 0307266397 |
From the front lines of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, unforgettable book that captures the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time.
Through the eyes of Dexter Filkins, the prizewinning New York Times correspondent whose work was hailed by David Halberstam...
| Author | Philip Kerr |
| ISBN | 1847243576 |
Philip Kerr returns with his best-loved character, Bernie Gunther, in the fifth novel in what is now a series: a tight, twisting, compelling thriller that is firmly rooted in history.
A Quiet Flame opens in 1950. Falsely fingered a war criminal, Bernie Gunther has booked passage to Buenos...
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
| Author | Rebecca Solnit |
| ISBN | 0143037242 |
Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the past two hundred years (Wanderlust), or using the life of photographer Eadweard Muybridge as a lens to discuss the transformations of space and time in late nineteenth-century America (River of Shadows),...
| Author | Peter Biskind |
| ISBN | 0684857081 |
However much is true, however much really happened that way, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How The Sex 'N' Drugs 'N' Rock 'N' Generation Saved Hollywood by Peter Biskind remains one of my favorite non-fiction reads. For those who hear "film history" and think Titanic, in 1967, the major American film studios...
| Author | Frank Herbert |
| ISBN | 0593098250 |
Book four in Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune Chronicles--one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction.
Millennia have passed on Arrakis, and the once-desert planet is green with life. Leto Atreides, the son of the world's savior, the Emperor Paul Muad'Dib,...
The Day It Finally Happens: Alien Contact, Dinosaur Parks, Immortal Humans—and Other Possible Phenomena
| Author | Mike Pearl |
| ISBN | 1501194135 |
From a Vice magazine columnist whose beat is “the future,” here is entertaining speculation featuring both authoritative research and a bit of mischief: a look at how humanity is likely to weather such happenings as the day nuclear war occurs, the day the global internet goes down, the day we run...
The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
| Author | Elaine N. Aron |
| ISBN | 0553062182 |
Do you have a keen imagination and vivid dreams? Is time alone each day as essential to you as food and water? Are you "too shy" or "too sensitive" according to others? Do noise and confusion quickly overwhelm you? If your answers are yes, you may be a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP).
Most of us feel...
| Author | Yōko Ogawa |
| ISBN | 2742788298 |
L’île où se déroule cette histoire est depuis toujours soumise à un étrange phénomène : les choses et les êtres semblent promis à une sorte d’effacement diaboliquement orchestré. Quand un matin les oiseaux disparaissent à jamais, la jeune narratrice de ce livre ne s’épanche pas...
