Spence: 275 books
The Next Convergence
The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011
With the British Industrial Revolution, part of the world's population started to experience extraordinary economic growth—leading to enormous gaps in wealth and living standards between the industrialized West and the rest of the world....
Gastrophysics
The New Science of Eating
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
The science behind a good meal: all the sounds, sights, and tastes that make us like what we're eating—and want to eat more.
Why do we consume 35 percent more food when eating with one other person, and 75 percent more when dining with three? How do we explain the fact that people who like...
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Force Six, The Annihilators, #3
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Force Six, The Annihilators 03 Bullets and BladesThe fiery Fire mixes with the cogent Kojin as The Annihilators pay a visit to Redder Coltrane and his corrupt crew of criminal cronies. It's bullets and blades. It's episode 3 of Force Six, The Annihilators. Drew Spence's graphic comic continues...
by Louie Spence
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Still Got It, Never Lost It! tells the story of Louie Spence, star of Pineapple Dance Studios and ruthless judge on Dancing on Ice. ‘I did everything my sisters did, that’s how my dancing days started – they went dancing, I went dancing and I just kept on dancing.’ - Louie Spence From a very...
Return to Dragon Mountain
Memories of a Late Ming Man
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2007
“Splendid . . . One could not imagine a better subject than Zhan Dai for Spence.” (The New Republic)
Celebrated China scholar Jonathan Spence vividly brings to life seventeenth-century China through this biography of Zhang Dai, recognized as one of the finest historians and essayists of...
Secret Agent 666
Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Aleister Crowley is best known today as a founding father of modern occultism. His wide, hypnotic eyes peer at us from the cover of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and his influence can be found everywhere in popular culture.Crowley, also known as the Great Beast, has...
Stare in the Darkness
The Limits of Hip-hop and Black Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Rap’s critique of police brutality in the 1980s. The Hip Hop Political Convention. The rise (and fall) of Kwame Kilpatrick, the “hip-hop mayor” of Detroit. Barack Obama echoing the body language of Jay-Z on the campaign trail. A growing number of black activists and artists claim that rap and hip-hop...
Mao Zedong
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2006
“Spence draws upon his extensive knowledge of Chinese politics and culture to create an illuminating picture of Mao. . . . Superb.” (Chicago Tribune)
From humble origins in the provinces, Mao Zedong rose to absolute power, unifying with an iron fist a vast country torn apart by years of...
A Boy's Summer
Fathers and Sons Together
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Gerry Spence, father to six, grandfather to ten, is a man who knows intimately the joys of fatherhood and who writes beautifully and lyrically about how fatherhood allows a man to rediscover the boy within himself, while simultaneously assuming true adult responsibility for the first time. This is...
The Gate of Heavenly Peace
The Chinese and Their Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1982
“A milestone in Western studies of China.” (John K. Fairbank)
In this masterful, highly original approach to modern Chinese history, Jonathan D. Spence shows us the Chinese revolution through the eyes of its most articulate participants—the writers, historians, philosophers, and insurrectionists...
Bloodthirsty Bitches and Pious Pimps of Power
The Rise and Risks of the New Conservative Hate Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
Ann Coulter. Laura Ingraham. Nancy Grace. Bill O'Reilly. Sean Hannity. Pat Robertson.
Their faces and voices are ubiquitous: the shrill shrieks and strident bellowings that drown out all debate and set every listener on edge, using God's and Jesus's names to justify oppression and ignorance, and spread...
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Renegade Assassin Heroes Outcast Legends
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Action and astounding rounds abound! It's a rapid wrap of rounds. We reach the prerequisite requiem for a rampaging robot. Team Annihilator digs in and digs out. It's The Hammer of God and the Anvil of Saints. Drew Spence's graphic comic Force Six, The Annihilators continues with the Redder Coltrane...
by Lewis Spence
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
"Let us walk in the gloom of the pyramids, in the cool shadows of ruined temples, aye, through the tortuous labyrinth of the Egyptian mind itself, trusting that by virtue of the light we carry we shall succeed in unravelling to some extent the age-long enigma of this mystic land." — from...
by Spence Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Spence Kennedy starts work at a busy seaside ambulance station, and under the guidance of Frank, a paramedic coming up to retirement, works his way through a succession of incidents, comic and tragic.Based on the long-running, real-life blog ‘Siren Voices’, 'Frank’s Last Call'...