ready for the people my most chilling cases as a prosecutor marissa n batt introduction by johnnie l cochran jr now in paperback this 2005 edgar® award finalist is an authentic fast-paced and absorbing publishers weekly account by a veteran female prosecutor of how the criminal justice system really works marissa n batt has handled thousands of violent felony cases during her lengthy tenure as a deputy district attorney in los angeles a phi beta kappa graduate of the university of california she earned her law degree with honors at loyola law school she lives in los angeles for more than 25 years marissa batt has tried cases for the people in every one of the 35 courtrooms at the criminal courts building in downtown los angeles cases ranging from rape and sodomy to armed robbery and murder despite her years immersed in violence and its concomitant pain and suffering batt has never become hardened or jaded she has an unshakable belief that justice prevails whether it happens insid
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swing low a life miriam toews now in paperback from the award-winning author of a complicated kindness a graceful compassionate reconstruction of her father s tragic lifelong struggle with manic depression miriam toews is the award-winning author of a complicated kindness and a boy of good breeding she lives in winnipeg with her husband and two children in the small mennonite community of steinbach manitoba an elementary school teacher husband and father of three is engaged in a no-longer-private battle all his life miriam toews s father has stoically managed to reign in his manic depression taming it through stringent routine and devotion to his work and family now that discipline is coming undone in a masterpiece of literary empathy toews takes on her father s voice creating a fictional memoir of his consciousness his demons and his memories in doing so she imagines the lonely inconceivable path that led to his decision to take his own life we follow him through his last days in the
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mrs freud a novel nicolle rosen this intriguing novel reveals a woman sorely neglected by history sigmund freud s wife martha in this voyage into the depth of memory comparable to that of psychoanalysis martha says more than she had ever intended nicolle rosen is a psychiatrist and the author of three novels she lives in paris how is it possible to have spent my entire life without thinking a single minute for myself how could i have dedicated every moment to the fulfillment of someone else s work and life to the detriment of mine why did i accept being upstaged first by my own sister and later by my daughter these are the gnawing questions martha freud struggles to answer when an american journalist engages her in a long correspondence at the end of her life after sigmund died from their letters the woman whom biographers have painted as perfectly subservient always in the shadow of the great man emerges as a keen and thoughtful observer in her own right drawing on archival document
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the stowaway a novel robert hough now in paperback with the suspense of a thriller and the moral depth of a joseph conrad classic the stowaway is a superb deceptively simple novel hough s compressed lyrical prose traps us aboard the ship boston globe robert hough s first novel the final confession of mabel stark was shortlisted for major prizes in the uk and canada and has been published in a dozen countries he lives in toronto with his wife and two daughters when two romanian stowaways show themselves on the container ship maersk dubai one day into its passage across the atlantic ocean bosun rodolfo miguel escorts them to his captain assuming they ll be fed and put to work to his horror and that of the rest of the crew the officers order the men to be thrown overboard in a flimsy raft which in an instant is sucked under the frigid unforgiving water over the next few weeks the crew becomes divided between those loyal to the officers and those who cannot accept what they have seen
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wise thoughts for every day on god love the human spirit and living a good life leo tolstoy selected and translated by peter sekirin a treasury of timeless wisdom that the great author of war and peace considered to be his most important and lasting contribution to humanity leo tolstoy a giant of world literature devoted his later years to living a spiritual life he died in 1910 during the last years of his life leo tolstoy kept one book invariably on his desk read and reread it to his family and recommended it to all his friends this was his compendium of wise thoughts gathered over the course of a decade from his wide-ranging readings in philosophy and religion and from his own spiritual meditations it was banned under the communists and only one volume a calendar of wisdom drawn largely from the writings of other famous thinkers has been published before in english now for the first time arcade will publish tolstoy s wise thoughts for every day the volume comprising his own most ess
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georges braque a life alex danchev together with picasso and matisse georges braque is unquestionably one of the three great pillars of 20thcentury art here is the first full-length biography of this remarkable figure alex danchev is the author of a number of acclaimed biographies he writes regularly for the times literary supplement and is a contributor to the oxford dictionary of national biography he is a professor at the school of politics at the university of nottingham a pioneer of modern art and founder of cubism georges braque was a creative genius and tireless innovator constantly pushing the boundaries of the possible in this magisterial work alex danchev taps a wide range of new sources to reveal the heart and mind of one who helped usher in the greatest revolution in the ways of seeing since the renaissance danchev interviewed dozens of people for this work and casts an especially brilliant light on the unparalleled relationship between braque and picasso lifelong friends a
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beckett remembering remembering beckett a centenary celebration edited by james and elizabeth knowlson celebrating the centenary of samuel beckett s birth this book offers fresh insights into one of the 20th century s greatest most enigmatic writers samuel beckett was born in ireland in 1906 he spent most of his adult life in france his most famous dramatic works waiting for godot and endgame revolutionized modern theater he received the nobel prize for literature in 1969 he died in paris on december 22 1989 in life samuel beckett was one of the most private and reticent of men in this volume he reveals for the first time many of his inner thoughts his honest opinions about life his own work and his friends and colleagues in interviews that could not appear in his lifetime and are published here for the first time also included are dozens of pieces written about him by those who knew him best worked with him most closely and admired him for his enduring influence among them j m coetzee
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my love affair with modern art behind the scenes with a legendary curator katharine kuh edited by avis berman a unique look at the evolution of modern art in america from art historian and eminent former curator of the chicago art institute katharine kuh a key figure in opening america s eyes to contemporary art katharine kuh was born in 1904 and founded her own chicago gallery in 1927 her two-and-a-half decades as curator of the chicago art institute coincided with that institution s emergence as one of the world s great museums she died in 1998 any artist worth his salt is in advance of his time writes katharine kuh picasso duchamp léger miró braque chagall klee calder davis hopper weston rothko arensberg dale philips these are just a few of the artists photographers and collectors katharine kuh knew and worked with during her long career one of america s pivotal forces in the arts for over four decades she began with her own gallery in chicago in the early 1930s to sell contempora
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the garlic ballads a novel mo yan translated from the chinese by howard goldblatt now back in print this epic novel of beauty and brutality set in a landscape at once strange and alluring paints a portrait of a people whose fierce passions break the rigid confines of their ancient traditions mo yan was born in 1955 to a peasant family in shandong he is the author of red sorghum the republic of wine shifu you ll do anything for a laugh and big breasts wide hips the last three of which were published by arcade he and his family live in beijing the farmers of paradise county have been leading a hardscrabble life unchanged for generations the communist government has encouraged them to plant garlic but selling the crop is not as simple as they believed warehouses fill up taxes skyrocket and government officials maltreat even those who have traveled for days to sell their harvest a surplus on the garlic market ensues and the farmers watch in horror as their crops wither and rot in the fiel
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murmurs from the deep scientific adventure in the caribbean gilles fonteneau preface by admiral françois bellec a scientific expedition into unknown parts of the caribbean to study the tectonic plates of the region answers the intriguing question is there a language of fish gilles fonteneau started life as a marine explorer then for 30 years worked as a business executive before returning to his first love the sea he divides his time between la rochelle france and miami florida gilles fonteneau a longtime colleague of the legendary jacques cousteau s calypso team fulfilled a lifelong dream when in 2001 he launched his own exploration aboard the 45-foot catamaran prince de vendée into the silent world of the sea little did he know when he set out that his efforts to better understand the dynamics of the tectonic plates of the region would have such worldwide significance as shown by the tsunami disaster of southeast asia in december 2004 his second goal sponsored by nasa and the bacardi
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the woman who waited a novel andreï makine translated from the french by geoffrey strachan a moving utterly captivating love story romeo and juliet as if told by chekhov or dostoevsky andreï makine is the author of eight critically acclaimed novels all published by arcade including the international bestsellers dreams of my russian summers and requiem for a lost empire he lives in paris and a village in southwestern france in the remote russian village of mirnoje a woman waits as she has waited for almost three decades for the man she loves to return near the end of world war ii 19-year-old boris koptek leaves the village to join the russian army swearing to the 16-year-old love of his life vera that as soon as he returns they will marry young boris who with his engineering battalion fights his way almost to berlin is reported killed in action crossing the spree river but vera refuses to believe he is dead and each day all these years later faithfully awaits his return then one day the
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