Jeffrey: 3395 books
by Jeffrey Archer
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2004
Spring 1994, Washington, D.C. - While the Clinton Administration grapples with its domestic policies, a sinister plot is being masterminded six thousand miles away in Baghdad. By using $100 million as bait and spinning a deadly web of corruption, forgery, and terror, Saddam Hussein seeks to embarrass...
by Jeffrey Archer
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
Some people have dreams that are so magnificent that if they were to achieve them, their place in history would be guaranteed. Francis Drake, Robert Scott, Charles Lindbergh, Amy Johnson, Edmund Hilary, Neil Armstrong, and Lewis and Clark are among such individuals.
But what if one man had...
by Jeffrey Archer
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Innocent or guilty? You decide.
Jeffrey Archer's play, The Accused, is a tense courtroom drama with a difference. The audience will act as the jury, as if they were in the Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey. You will have to decide... Did Dr Sherwood murder his wife? Was Jennifer Mitchell...
A Quiver Full of Arrows
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2006
Ordinary Heros,
Extraordinary Deeds
The bestselling author of Kane & Abel, The Prodigal Daughter and Honor Among Theives once again astonishes, delights, and electrifies his legions of fans.
From London to China, and New York to Nigeria, Jeffrey Archer takes the reader on a tour...
Living with Schizophrenia
A Family Guide to Making a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
An estimated 51 million people worldwide have schizophrenia, 2.2 million of them in the United States. While early diagnosis and appropriate treatment improve the long-term prognosis, schizophrenia is a disease that is difficult to manage.
In Living with Schizophrenia, Drs. Jeffrey Rado and...
Scare Tactics
Supernatural Fiction by American Women, With a new Preface
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Scare Tactics identifies an important but overlooked tradition of supernatural writing by American women. Jeffrey Weinstock analyzes this tradition as an essentially feminist attempt to imagine alternatives to a world of limited possibilities. In the process, he recovers the lives and works of authors...
by Jeffrey Magee
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
From patriotic "God Bless America" to wistful "White Christmas," Irving Berlin's songs have long accompanied Americans as they fall in love, go to war, and come home for the holidays. Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater is the first book to fully consider this songwriter's...
How to Travel without Seeing
Dispatches from the New Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
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A dizzying, fast-paced tour of Latin America from one of the Spanish-speaking world’s most outstanding writers. Lamenting not having more time to get to know each of the nineteen countries he visits after winning the prestigious Premio Alfaguara, Andrés Neuman concludes that...
Adventures in the French Trade
Fragments Toward a Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
This memoir is less a chronicle of the life of a leading scholar and critic of matters French than a series of differently angled fragments, each with its attendant surprise, in what one commentator has called Jeffrey Mehlman's amour vache—his injured and occasionally injurious love—for France...
by Jeffrey C. Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Performativity has emerged as a critical new idea across the humanities and social sciences, from literary and cultural studies to the study of gender and the philosophy of action. In this volume, Jeffrey Alexander demonstrates how performance can reorient our study of politics and society.
Alexander...
The Quest for Shakespeare
The Peculiar History and Surprising Legacy of the New Shakspere Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2016
This book traces the formation and impact of the New Shakspere Society, created in 1873, which dedicated itself to solving the mysteries of Shakespeare’s authorship by way of science. This promise, however, was undermined not only by the antics of its director, Frederick J. Furnivall, but also by...
The Super Natural
Why the Unexplained Is Real
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Two of today's maverick authors on anomalous experience present a perception-altering and intellectually thrilling analysis of why the paranormal is real, but radically different from what is conventionally understood.
Whitley Strieber (Communion) and Jeffrey J. Kripal (J. Newton Rayzor professor...
Authors of the Impossible
The Paranormal and the Sacred
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Most scholars dismiss research into the paranormal as pseudoscience, a frivolous pursuit for the paranoid or gullible. Even historians of religion, whose work naturally attends to events beyond the realm of empirical science, have shown scant interest in the subject. But the history of psychical phenomena,...
China in the 21st Century
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
In this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to urgent questions regarding the world's newest superpower and offer a framework for understanding China's meteoric...