Jim Yardley: 2 books

Brave Dragons

A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing

by Jim Yardley
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012

The wonderfully original story of a struggling Chinese basketball team and its quixotic, often comical attempt to right its fortunes by copying the American stars of the NBA—a season of cultural misunderstanding that transcends sports and reveals China’s ambivalent relationship with the West. When...

Psychos

Serial Killers, Depraved Madmen, and the Criminally Insane

by Neil Gaiman, John Skipp, Lawrence Block
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012

This collection of thirty-eight terrifying tales of serial killers at large, written by the great masters of the genre, plumbs the horrifying depths of a deranged mind and the forces of evil that compel a human being to murder, gruesomely and methodically, over and over again. From Hannibal...