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Author: DONALD R. PROTHERO
After the mass extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, mammals became the dominant terrestrial life form on our planet. Roaming the earth were spectacular beasts such as saber-toothed cats, giant mastodonts, immense ground sloths, and gigantic giraffe-like rhinoceroses.
Here is the ultimate illustrated field guide to the lost world of these weird and wonderful prehistoric creatures.
Author: David Damrosch
Literary studies are being transformed today by the expansive and disruptive forces of globalization. More works than ever circulate worldwide in English and in translation, and even national traditions are increasingly seen in transnational terms.
In “Comparing the Literatures,” David Damrosch integrates comparative, postcolonial, and world-literary perspectives to offer a comprehensive overview of comparative studies and its prospects in a time of great upheaval and great opportunity.
In “Negotiation: The Game Has Changed,” legendary Harvard Business School professor Max Bazerman, a pioneer in the field of negotiation, shows you how to negotiate successfully today by adapting proven negotiation principles and strategies to the challenging new contexts you face—from negotiating across cultural and political differences to trying to reach
an agreement over Zoom or during a supply chain crisis.
Author: Amor Towles
“A Gentleman in Moscow” is a work of historical fiction by American author Amor Towles and set in Russia in the 1920s.
The story follows Count Alexander Rostov, a Russian aristocrat placed under house arrest in Moscow’s Hotel Metropol after the Bolshevik Revolution.
Despite his confinement, Rostov adapts to his surroundings with dignity and determination.
Towles, known for his bestselling novels “Rules of Civility” and “The Lincoln Highway,” published “A Gentleman in Moscow” in 2016. He drew inspiration from his experiences in luxury hotels, particularly one in Geneva in which some guests were permanent residents.
One of the book’s strengths is Towles’ exploration of the human experience. Through Rostov’s eyes, readers witness the changes in Russia that shaped social life.
Towles keeps the story centered on Rostov’s journey, highlighting the challenges of life under house arrest.
The author’s vivid descriptions bring the Hotel Metropol to life, with its ornate interiors and hidden corners serving as the backdrop for Rostov’s daily adventures. He maintains his aristocratic lifestyle while engaging with the world beyond his confinement.
While many have rated the novel as worthy of four stars, some critics have found it slow-paced. Reviewer Rohan Singh Jora said: “This book is eloquently written with the author’s sophisticated knowledge of a true gentleman. Although well-written, some chapters are monotonous and slow-paced.”
However, the book offers a profound look into human psychology, resilience, and hope. Towles’ writing makes the story captivating and leaves a lasting impression on readers.
“Scars and Stripes” shows us how wars leave a legacy of human suffering. It’s hard to describe Eugene Red McDaniel’s struggle in enduring the horrors of being one of the most brutalized prisoners of war.
When his plane was shot down over the skies of Vietnam, McDaniel would be captured and spend six agonizing years as an inmate in Hanoi Hilton.
His captors used barbaric and sadistic torture techniques on him, but McDaniel remained a source of hope and strength for his fellow prisoners.
In this book, a whole new generation of Americans will come to understand the power of prayer, belief, and devotion to God had in sustaining McDaniel during his six years as an inmate in Vietnam.
Author: Priyasha Mukhopadhyay
In Required Reading, Priyasha Mukhopadhyay offers a new and provocative history of reading that centers archives of everyday writing from the British empire. Mukhopadhyay rummages in the drawers of bureaucratic offices and the cupboards of publishers in search of how historical readers in colonial South Asia responded to texts ranging from licenses to manuals, how they made sense of them, and what this can tell us about their experiences living in the shadow of a vast imperial power.
Taking these engagements seriously, she argues, is the first step to challenging conventional notions of what it means to read.
Mukhopadhyay’s account is populated by a cast of characters that spans the ranks of colonial society, from bored soldiers to frustrated bureaucrats. These readers formed close, even intimate relationships with everyday texts. She presents four case studies: a soldier’s manual, a cache of bureaucratic documents, a collection of astrological almanacs, and a women’s literary magazine. Tracking moments in which readers refused to read, were unable to read, and read in part, she uncovers the dizzying array of material, textual, and aural practices these texts elicited.
