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The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son

10 best books like The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son (Ian Brown): Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness, The Promise, Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods, The Gift of Asher Lev, Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives, A Green History of the World: The Environment & the Collapse of Great Civilizations, A Bad Idea I'm About to Do: True Tales of Seriously Poor Judgment and Stunningly Awkward Adventure, Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude, Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time, The Book of Lights

Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness
AuthorFrank Brady
ISBN0307463907
Endgame is acclaimed biographer Frank Brady’s decades-in-the-making tracing of the meteoric ascent—and confounding descent—of enigmatic genius Bobby Fischer.  Only Brady, who met Fischer when the prodigy was only 10 and shared with him some of his most dramatic triumphs, could have written...
The Promise
AuthorChaim Potok
ISBN1400095417
“A superb mirror of a place, a time, and a group of people who capture our immediate interest and hold it tightly.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer

Young Reuven Malter is unsure of himself and his place in life. An unconventional scholar, he struggles for recognition from his teachers. With...
Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods
AuthorMichael Wex
ISBN0061132179
A delightful excursion through the Yiddish language, the culture it defines and serves, and the fine art of complaint

Throughout history, Jews around the world have had plenty of reasons to lament. And for a thousand years, they've had the perfect language for it. Rich in color, expressiveness,...
The Gift of Asher Lev
AuthorChaim Potok
ISBN0449001156
"Rivals anything Chaim Potok has ever produced. It is a book written with passion about passion. You're not likely to read anything better this year."
THE DETROIT NEWS
Twenty years have passed for Asher Lev. He is a world-renowned artist living in France, still uncertain of his artistic direction....
Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives
AuthorMichael Specter
ISBN1594202303
In this provocative and headline-making book, Michael Specter confronts the widespread fear of science and its terrible toll on individuals and the planet.

In Denialism, New Yorker staff writer Michael Specter reveals that Americans have come to mistrust institutions and especially...
A Green History of the World: The Environment & the Collapse of Great Civilizations
AuthorClive Ponting
ISBN0140176608
A study of world civilizations, from Sumeria to Ancient Egypt to the Roman Empire of pre-Columbian North America and tiny Easter Island, that argues that over and over again, human beings have built societies that have grown and prospered by exploiting the Earth's resources, only to expand to the point...
A Bad Idea I'm About to Do: True Tales of Seriously Poor Judgment and Stunningly Awkward Adventure
AuthorChris Gethard
ISBN0306820307
Chris Gethard has often found himself in awkward situations most people, including you, probably would have safely avoided. The good news is now, thanks to this book, you can enjoy the painfully funny consequences of his unfortunate decisions at a safe distance. A Bad Idea I'm About to Do invites...
Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
AuthorMichael Wood
ISBN0521316928
One Hundred Years of Solitude is perhaps the most important landmark of the so-called Boom in contemporary Latin American fiction. Published in 1967, the novel was an instant success, running to hundreds of editions, winning four international prizes and being translated into 27 languages. In 1982,...
Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time
AuthorDavid Edmonds
ISBN0060510242
In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point, two men - the Soviet world chess champion Boris Spassky and his American challenger Bobby Fischer - met in the most notorious chess match of all time. Their showdown in Reykjavik, Iceland,...
The Book of Lights
AuthorChaim Potok
ISBN0449001148
Mysticism Demystified

Anarchism is a visionary politics
Mysticism is the anarchism of religion
Mystics don't rely on structure
- William Everson

Mystics, as William Everson suggests in his poem, are anarchists. This does not mean that they throw bombs, at least any...
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