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The Best Minds

A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

By: Jonathan Rosen

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The Best Minds

A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

By: Jonathan Rosen

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • Named a Top 10 Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Slate, and People One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2023 “Brave and nuanced . . . an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” —The New York Times “Immensely emotional and unforgettably haunting.” —The Wall Street Journal Acclaimed author Jonathan Rosen’s haunting investigation of the forces that led his closest childhood friend, Michael Laudor, from the heights of brilliant promise to the forensic psychiatric hospital where he has lived since killing the woman he loved. A story about friendship, love, and the price of self-delusion, The Best Minds explores the ways in which we understand—and fail to understand—mental illness. When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor became inseparable. Both children of college professors, the boys were best friends and keen competitors, and, when they both got into Yale University, seemed set to join the American meritocratic elite. Michael blazed through college in three years, graduating summa cum laude and landing a top-flight consulting job. But all wasn’t as it seemed. One day, Jonathan received the call: Michael had suffered a serious psychotic break and was in the locked ward of a psychiatric hospital. Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, Michael was still battling delusions when he traded his halfway house for Yale Law School. Featured in The New York Times as a role model genius, he sold a memoir, with film rights to Ron Howard. But then Michael, in the grip of an unshakeable paranoid fantasy, stabbed his girlfriend Carrie to death and became a front-page story of an entirely different sort. Tender, funny, and harrowing by turns, The Best Minds is Jonathan Rosen’s magnificent and heartbreaking account of good intentions and tragic outcomes whose significance will echo widely.

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Penguin

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069819652X

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9780698196520

Values, Education and the Human World

By: John Haldane,Bryan Appleyard,David Carr,Mary Midgley,Anthony O'Hear,Richard Pring,Anthony Quinton,Jonathan Sacks,Stewart Sutherland,Mary Warnock

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Values, Education and the Human World

By: John Haldane,Bryan Appleyard,David Carr,Mary Midgley,Anthony O'Hear,Richard Pring,Anthony Quinton,Jonathan Sacks,Stewart Sutherland,Mary Warnock

The essays in this book consist of revised versions of Victor Cook Memorial Lectures delivered in the universities of St. Andrews, London, Cambridge, Aberdeen, Oxford, Glasgow and Leeds.

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Andrews UK Limited

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1845402642

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9781845402648

Kings and Connoisseurs

Collecting Art in Seventeenth-Century Europe

By: Jonathan Brown

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Kings and Connoisseurs

Collecting Art in Seventeenth-Century Europe

By: Jonathan Brown

A vivid and exciting account of royal collectors, art dealers, connoisseurs, and the rise of old master paintings Old master paintings are among the most valuable and prestigious of the visual arts, and the best examples command the highest prices of any luxury commodity. In Kings and Connoisseurs, Jonathan Brown tells the story of how painting rose to this exalted status. The transformation of painting from an inexpensive to a costly art form reached a crucial stage in the royal courts of Europe in the seventeenth century, where rulers and aristocrats assembled huge collections, often in short periods of time. By comparing collecting and collectors at these courts, Brown explains the formation of new attitudes toward pictures, as well as the mechanisms that supported the enterprise of collecting, including the emergence of the art dealer, the development of connoisseurship, and the publication of sumptuous picture books of various collections. The result is an exciting narrative of greed and passion, played out against a background of international politics and intrigue.

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Princeton University Press

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0691252866

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9780691252865

Art as Politics in the Third Reich

By: Jonathan Petropoulos

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Art as Politics in the Third Reich

By: Jonathan Petropoulos

The political elite of Nazi Germany perceived itself as a cultural elite as well. In Art as Politics in the Third Reich, Jonathan Petropoulos explores the elite's cultural aspirations by examining both the formulation of a national aesthetic policy

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UNC Press Books

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0807848093

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9780807848098

Improbable Destinies

Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution

By: Jonathan B. Losos

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Improbable Destinies

Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution

By: Jonathan B. Losos

A major new book overturning our assumptions about how evolution works Earth’s natural history is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards that have evolved independently, multiple times. But evolutionary biologists also point out many examples of contingency, cases where the tiniest change—a random mutation or an ancient butterfly sneeze—caused evolution to take a completely different course. What role does each force really play in the constantly changing natural world? Are the plants and animals that exist today, and we humans ourselves, inevitabilities or evolutionary flukes? And what does that say about life on other planets? Jonathan Losos reveals what the latest breakthroughs in evolutionary biology can tell us about one of the greatest ongoing debates in science. He takes us around the globe to meet the researchers who are solving the deepest mysteries of life on Earth through their work in experimental evolutionary science. Losos himself is one of the leaders in this exciting new field, and he illustrates how experiments with guppies, fruit flies, bacteria, foxes, and field mice, along with his own work with anole lizards on Caribbean islands, are rewinding the tape of life to reveal just how rapid and predictable evolution can be. Improbable Destinies will change the way we think and talk about evolution. Losos's insights into natural selection and evolutionary change have far-reaching applications for protecting ecosystems, securing our food supply, and fighting off harmful viruses and bacteria. This compelling narrative offers a new understanding of ourselves and our role in the natural world and the cosmos.

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Penguin

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0399184937

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9780399184932

Mirrors of Heaven or Worldly Theaters?

Venetian Nunneries and Their Music

By: Jonathan E. Glixon

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Mirrors of Heaven or Worldly Theaters?

Venetian Nunneries and Their Music

By: Jonathan E. Glixon

Mirrors of Heaven or Worldly Theaters? Venetian Nunneries and Their Music explores the dynamic role of music performance and patronage in the convents of Venice and its lagoon from the sixteenth century to the fall of Venice around 1800. Examining sacred music performed by the nuns themselves and by professional musicians they employed, author Jonathan E. Glixon considers the nuns as collective patrons, of both musical performances by professionals in their external churches-primarily for the annual feast of the patron saint, a notable attraction for both Venetians and foreign visitors-and of musical instruments, namely organs and bells. The book explores the rituals and accompanying music for the transitions in a nun's life, most importantly the ceremonies through which she moved from the outside world to the cloister, as well as liturgical music within the cloister, performed by the nuns themselves, from chant to simple polyphony, and the rare occasions where more elaborate music can be documented. Also considered are the teaching of music to both nuns and girls resident in convents as boarding students, and entertainment-musical and theatrical-by and for the nuns. Mirrors of Heaven, the first large-scale study of its kind, contains richly detailed appendices featuring a calendar of musical events at Venetian nunneries, details on nunnery organs, lists of teachers, and inventories of musical and ceremonial books, both manuscript and printed. A companion website supplements the book's musical examples with editions of complete musical works, which are brought to life with accompanying audio files.

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Oxford University Press

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0190259132

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9780190259136

To Change China

Western Advisers in China

By: Jonathan D. Spence

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To Change China

Western Advisers in China

By: Jonathan D. Spence

From “the best known and most talented historian of China writing in English today” (Los Angeles Times), an examination of a diverse collection of Western foreigners who attempted “to change China” "To change China" was the goal of foreign missionaries, soldiers, doctors, teachers, engineers, and revolutionaries for more than three hundred years. But the Chinese, while eagerly accepting Western technical advice, clung steadfastly to their own religious and cultural traditions. As a new era of relations between China and the United States begins, the tales in this volume will serve as cautionary histories for businessmen, diplomats, students, or any other foreigners who foolishly believe that they can transform this vast, enigmatic country.

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Penguin

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0140055282

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9780140055283

A Poverty of Objects

The Prose Poem and the Politics of Genre

By: Jonathan Monroe

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A Poverty of Objects

The Prose Poem and the Politics of Genre

By: Jonathan Monroe

The prose poem, Jonathan Monroe asserts, is the genre that does not want to be itself. In his view, the dominant literary historical role of the prose poem has been to test the limits of generic constraints. Monroe here undertakes a comparative and historical investigation of the problematic relationship between prose and poetry and of the development of the prose poem over the past two centuries.

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Cornell University Press

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1501746111

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9781501746116

Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Product Design

By: Jonathan Chapman

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Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Product Design

By: Jonathan Chapman

As a cultivated form of invention, product design is a deeply human phenomenon that enables us to shape, modify and alter the world around us – for better or worse. The recent emergence of the sustainability imperative in product design compels us to recalibrate the parameters of good design in an unsustainable age. Written by designers, for designers, the Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Product Design presents the first systematic overview of the burgeoning field of sustainable product design. Brimming with intelligent viewpoints, critical propositions, practical examples and rich theoretical analyses, this book provides an essential point of reference for scholars and practitioners at the intersection of product design and sustainability. The book takes readers to the depth of our engagements with the designed world to advance the social and ecological purpose of product design as a critical twenty-first-century practice. Comprising 35 chapters across 6 thematic parts, the book’s contributors include the most significant international thinkers in this dynamic and evolving field.

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Taylor & Francis

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1317435931

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9781317435938

Base Instincts

What Makes Killers Kill?

By: Jonathan H. Pincus

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Base Instincts

What Makes Killers Kill?

By: Jonathan H. Pincus

Investigates the family backgrounds and medical history of serial killers Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy, and concludes that serial killers may be a product of a genetic predisposition to violence and an abusive environment.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393323234

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9780393323238

Flesh & Bone

By: Jonathan Maberry

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Flesh & Bone

By: Jonathan Maberry

Benny, Nix, Lou, and Lilah journey through a fierce wilderness that was once America searching for the jet they saw months ago, while evading fierce animals and a new kind of zombie. "The third time's the charm with even more adventureNand goreNas the Rot & Ruin series continues."N"Kirkus Reviews.

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Simon and Schuster

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1442439904

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9781442439900

The Ten-Word Game

By: Jonathan Gash

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The Ten-Word Game

By: Jonathan Gash

Lovejoy finds himself shanghaied aboard a luxurious cruise ship en route to Russia and a prisoner of a group of schemers who hope to use his talents to steal Russia's legendary "amber room" and ransom it back in Great Britain.

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Macmillan

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0312323476

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9780312323479

The Assumptions Economists Make

By: Jonathan Schlefer

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The Assumptions Economists Make

By: Jonathan Schlefer

Economists make confident assertions in op-ed columns and on cable news—so why are their explanations at odds with equally confident assertions from other economists? And why are all economic predictions so rarely borne out? Harnessing his frustration with this contradiction, Schlefer set out to investigate how economists arrive at their opinions.

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Harvard University Press

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0674065522

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9780674065529

Show Sold Separately

Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts

By: Jonathan Gray

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Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts

By: Jonathan Gray

This work examines the world of film and television that exists before and after the show. It may rewrite the rules of what we look at when we want to understand how audiences make meaning of media franchises as profoundly as Tony Bennett and Janet Woollcott's 'Bond and Beyond' did for a previous generation.

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NYU Press

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0814731953

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9780814731956

The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ

By: Jonathan Dabney

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The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ

By: Jonathan Dabney

Reprint of the original, first published in 1837.

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3385609429

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9783385609426

Book's by Jonathan Gant

The Best Minds

The Best Minds

Values, Education and the Human World

Values, Education and the Human World

Kings and Connoisseurs

Kings and Connoisseurs

Art as Politics in the Third Reich

Art as Politics in the Third Reich

Improbable Destinies

Improbable Destinies

Mirrors of Heaven or Worldly Theaters?

Mirrors of Heaven or Worldly Theaters?

To Change China

To Change China

A Poverty of Objects

A Poverty of Objects

Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Product Design

Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Product Design

Base Instincts

Base Instincts

Flesh & Bone

Flesh & Bone

The Ten-Word Game

The Ten-Word Game

The Assumptions Economists Make

The Assumptions Economists Make

Show Sold Separately

Show Sold Separately

The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ

The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ

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