Jeffrey: 3395 books
Are You Anybody?
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
You know him from his breakout role as Hank Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show, his outrageous turn as George and Oscar Bluth on Arrested Development, and his Emmy Award-winning performance as Maura Pfefferman on Transparent. A Broadway star, a television legend, an accomplished screen actor whose...
Acting Up
Staging the Subject in Enlightenment France
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Acting concentrated both the aspirations and anxieties of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France, where theater was a defining element of urban sociability. In Acting Up: Staging the Subject in Enlightenment France, Jeffrey M. Leichman argues for a new understanding of the relationship between...
It Can't be October Already
A Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
#1 New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Archer demonstrates his mastery of the short story in It Can’t Be October Already. In this engaging and funny episode, Pat O’Flynn returns once again for his annual internment in the London jail system. Along the way, he’ll reconnect with the staff...
by Jeffrey Archer
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Fourth Estate
Jeffrey Archer
Richard Armstrong narrowly escaped Hitler's atrocities in Eastern Europe on his courage and his wits—skills that served him well in peacetime. Having turned a struggling Berlin newspaper into a success story seemingly overnight, Armstrong made a name for...
by Jeffrey Archer
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Why was an elegant lady brutally murdered the night before 9/11?
Why was a successful New York banker not surprised to receive a woman's left ear in the morning mail?
Why did a top Manhattan lawyer work only for one client, but never charge a fee?
Why did a young woman with a...
Theater Enough
American Culture and the Metaphor of the World Stage, 1607–1789
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 1991
The early settlers in America had a special relationship to the theater. Though largely without a theater of their own, they developed an ideology of theater that expressed their sense of history, as well as their version of life in the New World. Theater Enough provides an innovative analysis of...
Beasts
What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Bestselling author Jeffrey Masson shows us what the animals at the top of the food chain-orca whales, big cats, etc.-can teach us about the origins of good and evil in ourselves.
In his previous bestsellers, Masson has showed us that animals can teach us much about our own emotions-love (dogs),...
The Secret Legacy of Jesus
The Judaic Teachings That Passed from James the Just to the Founding Fathers
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Shows how the true teachings of Jesus were passed down through the centuries and shaped the vision of the Founding Fathers
• Reveals for the first time the hidden link that connects James the Brother, Islam, the Cathars, the Knights Templar, and Freemasonry
• Shows how the Founding...
Top Trails: Yosemite
Must-Do Hikes for Everyone
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
Jeffrey Schaffer has selected 46 "must-do" Yosemite hikes. Whether you're looking for a scenic stroll, a full-day adventure, or even a spectacular backpacking trip, you'll find it here. And with at-a-glance information for each hike, visitors can determine which hikes are most suitable to...
by Jeffrey Toobin, Otto Penzler, Thomas H. Cook
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Edited by Jeffrey Toobin, CNN’s senior legal analyst and New York Times bestselling author of The Nine, The Best American Crime Reporting 2009 is a must-have for the true crime reader, complete with the most gripping, suspenseful, and brilliant stories of the year by the masters of crime reporting....
The Pledge
A History of the Pledge of Allegiance
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
The cultural and political history of the Pledge of Allegiance, how it came to be, what it means to Americans, and why we have battled over it for generations
For more than a century, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance has been a central part of the American Experience. And perhaps because of...
Joseph Conrad
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2001
In Joseph Conrad: A Biography, acclaimed writer Jeffrey Meyers presents the definitive account of the life of Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), author of Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Nostromo, and many other landmarks in modern literature. Meyers' biography, published for the first time in paperback by Cooper...
Samuel Johnson
The Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Jeffrey Meyers tells the extraordinary story of Samuel Johnson one of the most illustrious figures of English literary tradition. Johnson was famous as a poet, novelist, biographer, essayist, critic, editor, lexicographer, conversationalist and larger than life personality. After nine years of work...
Modigliani
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
A biographer explores the artist’s tragic life, and transcendent work, in early twentieth-century Paris—“a vibrant portrait of a deeply unhappy man” (Publishers Weekly).
In 1920, at the age of thirty-five, Amedeo Modigliani died in poverty and neglect in Paris, much like a figure out of...