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  • Stanley Kubrick, Director: A Visual Analysis

    Ulrich Ruchti, Sybil Taylor, Alexander Walker

    Paperback

    Alexander Walker's Stanley Kubrick, Director is the only book ever written with Kubrick's cooperation.

  • Hemingway: The Final Years

    Michael Reynolds

    Paperback

    Hemingway's triumphs as a writer during the 1940s and 1950s accompanied a life of risk and danger.

  • Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics

    John Archibald Wheeler, Kenneth Ford

    Paperback

    Winner of the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award

    "This delightful account is packed with insights…[Wheeler] is a consummately American physicist whose wide-ranging career spans much of a disturbing century." —Michael Riordan, New York Times Book Review

  • Harvest Son: Planting Roots in American Soil

    David Mas Masumoto

    Paperback

    "[E]vocative and lyrical. . . . Masumoto writes with a keen sense of indebtedness and gratitude to the many individuals who make up the entity he calls his family."—Publishers Weekly, starred review

  • Hemingway: The Paris Years

    Michael Reynolds

    Paperback

    "Excellent…Reynolds is as good on the Paris writing as he is on the Paris life." —Times Literary Supplement