Malcolm: 1208 books
by Janet Malcolm
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
A seminal work and examination of the psychopathology of journalism. Using a strange and unprecedented lawsuit as her larger-than-life example -- the lawsuit of Jeffrey MacDonald, a convicted murderer, against Joe McGinniss, the author of Fatal Vision, a book about the crime -- she delves into the...
by Malcolm Barnard
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
What is the point of graphic design? Is it advertising or is it art? What purpose does it serve in our society and culture? Malcolm Barnard explores how meaning and identity are at the core of every graphic design project and argues that the role and function of graphic design is, and always has been,...
David and Goliath
Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Malcolm Gladwell, the #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and What the Dog Saw, offers his most provocative---and dazzling---book yet.
Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a stone...
Fighting Nazi Occupation
British Resistance 1939–1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
“Everyone knows about the Home Guard but what about the other Secret Intelligence Services (SIS and M16)? You can read about them in [this book].” —This England
When Winston Churchill made his “we shall never surrender” speech in 1940, he was speaking in the knowledge that Britain’s...
What the Dog Saw
And Other Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century?
In the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell...
Supermarket Monsters
The Price of Coles and Woolworths' Dominance
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Down, down …
In hardware, petrol, general merchandise and liquor, and above all in groceries, Coles and Woolworths jointly rule Australia’s retail landscape. On average, every man, woman and child in this country spends $100 a week across their many outlets.
What does such dominance...
Best Served Cold
The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Malcolm Walker - CEO of Iceland Foods
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
This is the dramatic story of the ups and downs of a born entrepreneur. Malcolm Walker was born in the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1946. With fellow Woolworth’s trainee manager Peter Hinchcliffe, Walker opened a small frozen food shop called Iceland in the Shropshire town of Oswestry in 1970. Iceland...
Reading Chekhov
A Critical Journey
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
To illuminate the mysterious greatness of Anton Chekhov’s writings, Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer, and journalist. Her close readings of the stories and plays are interwoven with episodes from Chekhov’s life and framed by an account of Malcolm’s journey to St....
The Last Narco
Inside the Hunt for El Chapo, the World's Most Wanted Drug Lord
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
“Malcolm Beith risked life and limb to tell the inside story of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Loera, Mexico’s notorious drug capo.” —George W. Grayson, author of Mexico: Narco-Violence and a Failed State?
The dense hills of Sinaloa, Mexico, were home to the most powerful drug lord...
Hacking ISIS
How to Destroy the Cyber Jihad
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
This book is written by two of the leading terrorist experts in the world - Malcolm Nance, NBC News/MSNBC terrorism analyst and Christopher Sampson, cyber-terrorist expert. Malcolm Nance is a 35 year practitioner in Middle East Special Operations and terrorism intelligence activities. Chris Sampson...
by Joyce Lee Malcolm
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
**A vivid and timely re-examination of one of young America’s most complicated figures: the war hero turned infamous traitor, Benedict Arnold. **
Proud and talented, history now remembers this conflicted man solely through the lens of his last desperate act of treason. Yet the fall of Benedict...
Street Warrior
The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
He has a record that commands respect and a temper that should never be challenged. In the ring, on the streets, and in jail, men who have dared to challenge him find they have made a mistake-a grave one. Malcolm Price was born to fight. As a child his father made him go and box in the gym. At first...
Mariner
A Theological Voyage with Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is often regarded as having heralded the beginning of the Romantic era in British literature. The poem narrates the story of a sailor who has returned home...
The Silent Woman
Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
In an astonishing feat of literary detection, one of the most provocative critics of our time and the author of In the Freud Archives and The Purloined Clinic offers an elegantly reasoned meditation on the art of biography. In The Silent Woman, Janet Malcolm examines the biographies of Sylvia Plath...