Timothy: 2930 books

A book about ecology without information dumping, guilt inducing, or preaching to the choir. Don't care about ecology? You think you don't, but you might all the same. Don't read ecology books? This book is for you. Ecology books can be confusing information dumps that are out of date by the...

“Ferris is a master analogist who conveys his insights on the history of cosmology with a lyrical flair.” —The New York Times Book Review In The Science of Liberty, award-winning author Timothy Ferris—called “the best popular science writer in the English language today” by the...

Having set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the possibility of ecological catastrophe. But the environmental emergency is also a crisis for our philosophical habits of thought, confronting us with a problem that seems to defy not only our control but also our understanding. Global...

What makes someone a Christian? The way of life we call Christian is lived in relationships to others. Christian faith, understood as practical piety, calls for a life opened to the world at large, concerned for the “stranger” as well as for the neighbor. This exploration of morality...

«No som més savis que els europeus que van veure com la democràcia cedia al feixisme, al nazisme o al comunisme al segle xx. L’únic avantatge que tenim és que podem aprendre de la seva experiència. I ara és un bon moment per fer-ho». Timothy Snyder, un dels intel·lectuals més prestigiosos...

◆已故歷史學家東尼‧賈德：史奈德是我一九八九年之後一直期待的那類人的典範：研究東歐的一代美國學人。…… ◆史奈德的敘事功力，令人想起同樣任教於耶魯大學歷史系的中國史學家史景遷（Jonathan Spence）教授。 這是歷史的幽靈徘徊不去的亂世 大濫殺、強制滅絕、滅種、滅族再度上演？！當今世界現況已和希特勒所處的世界愈來越像！ 地球人口爆炸、乾淨水源短缺、糧食危機，外加全球氣候變異、天災人禍頻傳…… 一直以來我們誤會大屠殺的真正成因：生態恐慌和國家毀滅！ 原來，人人都可能是滅絕的幫凶！！ ★全球東歐史研究領域最著名的重量級歷史學專家 ★耶魯大學開授東歐史課程，選修人數動輒逾兩百人的知名教授 ★《紐約時報》年度暢銷書＆編輯選書...

“No one who enjoys mystery can fail to savor this study of a classic case of detection.” —TONY HILLERMAN On the night of September 14, 1935, George Conniff, a town marshal in Pend Oreille County in the state of Washington, was shot to death. A lawman had been killed, yet there seemed...

A fantastic book! Timothy Egan describes his journeys in the Pacific Northwest through visits to salmon fisheries, redwood forests and the manicured English gardens of Vancouver. Here is a blend of history, anthropology and politics.

The compiler Timothy Jenkins in his 1883 book "The Ten Tribes of Israel" gathers together a vast array of different facts, stories, legends, anecdotes, archaeological discoveries, language comparisons, etc., from a vast array of different sources to support the claim first propounded by...

Mr. Bennet died when Elizabeth was but fifteen. There was little money. Her mother was desperate. Mr. Collins was an awful, ugly man who mistreated the servants. But, he would marry Jane, and Jane - Jane would do what Mama begged her to. Elizabeth would never let her dear Jane marry him. Never....

**The first two novels in the epic sci-fi series from the #1 New York Times–bestselling and Hugo Award–winning author of Star Wars: Thrawn. Decades after the Earth and the Terran Democratic Empire were conquered by the hostile, reptilian Ryqril, one man must find and resurrect the only...

An action-packed novel that ushers in a new age of adventure in the critically acclaimed StarCraft series from Blizzard Entertainment Award-winning author Timothy Zahn pens the latest chapter in the stunning StarCraft saga, building on the game’s rich legacy to create an unforgettable new...

Timothy Zahn’s upcoming novel Scoundrels, starring Han Solo, Chewbacca, and Lando Calrissian, returns to the excitement of the classic Star Wars films. In this thrilling prequel eBook novella, Winner Lose All, Lando and a pair of unlikely allies find themselves involved in a dangerous game. Fortunately,...

Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn makes his triumphant return to the Star Wars(r) universe in this first of an epic new two-volume series in which the New Republic must face its most dangerous enemy yet--a dead Imperial warlord. The Empire stands at the brink of total collapse. But they...