Jeffrey: 3395 books
Creepy Crawling
Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
"Creepy crawling" was the Manson Family's practice of secretly entering someone's home and, without harming anyone, leaving only a trace of evidence that they had been there, some reminder that the sanctity of the private home had been breached. Now, author Jeffrey Melnick reveals just how much the...
by Jeffrey Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"Mr. Brown seems to understand perfectly the day-to-day rhythms of the modern 'young adult' relationship. Unlikely, like his first book Clumsy, is pretty much impossible to put down." -- Daniel Clowes, creator of Ghost World, Art School Confidential, and Eightball"A million little brilliant and honest...
A Prisoner of Birth
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
International bestseller and master storyteller Jeffrey Archer is at the very top of his game in a story of fate and fortune, redemption and revenge.
If Danny Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson the day before, or the day after, he would not have been arrested and charged with the murder...
The PK Man
A True Story of Mind Over Matter
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
So begins Jeffrey Mishlove's The PK Man, the true and strange story of Ted Owens, whose claims of powerful psychokinetic abilities given to him by "Space Intelligences" were too bizarre and extreme for many to believe. When these claims were ignored or challenged, he purportedly used his...
Major Conflict
One Gay Man's Life in the Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell Military
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A book that will move hearts and open minds, Jeffrey McGowan’s memoir is the first personal account of a gay man’s silent struggle in the don’t-ask-don’t-tell military, from a cadet who rose to the rank of major, left as a decorated Persian Gulf hero, and whose same-sex marriage was the first...
Love, Africa
A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
From Jeffrey Gettleman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist, comes a passionate, revealing story about finding love and finding a calling, set against one of the most turbulent regions in the world.
A seasoned war correspondent, Jeffrey Gettleman has covered every major conflict...
Abolitionists Remember
Antislavery Autobiographies and the Unfinished Work of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
In Abolitionists Remember, Julie Roy Jeffrey illuminates a second, little-noted antislavery struggle as abolitionists in the postwar period attempted to counter the nation's growing inclination to forget why the war was fought, what slavery was really like, and why the abolitionist cause was so important.
In...
Eight Juxtapositions
China Through Imperfect Analogies: Penguin Specials
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
What do Pope Francis and Xi Jinping have in common? More than you think. Approaching the red Rubik's Cube from a new angle, Jeffrey Wasserstrom challenges conventional commentary on China through eight experimental analogies, finding fresh and surprising ways to look at the Asian superpower. 'Wasserstrom's...
by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
As a child growing up in the Hollywood Hills during the 1950s, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson thought it was perfectly normal that a guru named Paul Brunton lived with his family and dictated everything about their daily rituals, from their diet to their travel plans to his parents' sex life. But in this...
States and Power in Africa
Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control - Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2014
Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa. There, the interaction of power and space is dramatically different from what occurred in Europe. In States and Power in Africa, Jeffrey Herbst places the African state-building...
Too Close to Call
The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2001
From the best-selling author of A Vast Conspiracy and The Run of His Life comes Too Close to Call--the definitive story of the Bush-Gore presidential recount. A political and legal analyst of unparalleled journalistic skill, Jeffrey Toobin is the ideal writer to distill the events of the thirty-six...
Slipping into Paradise
Why I Live in New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008
In the tradition of Under the Tuscan Sun and A Year in Provence, here is Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson’s ode to his personal paradise–his adopted home, New Zealand. After living in California, why did Masson settle– out of all the places on earth–in such a faraway land? It turns out that while...
The Naked Crowd
Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2004
In The Naked Crowd, acclaimed author Jeffrey Rosen makes an impassioned argument about how to preserve freedom, privacy, and security in a post-9/11 world. How we use emerging technologies, he insists, will be crucial to the preservation of essential American ideals.
In our zeal to catch terrorists...
Divided Loyalties
The Liberal Party of Canada, 1984-2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2010
The Liberal Party has governed Canada for much of the country's history. Yet over the past two decades, the 'natural governing party' has seen a decrease in traditional support, finding itself in opposition for nearly half of that time. In Divided Loyalties, Brooke Jeffrey draws on her own experience...