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1st edition thus, 2020. A Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo., 210 pp., bound in publishers burgundy cloth with illustrated dust jacket. Minor signs of shelf wear only, text unmarked. Jacket now protected in mylar sleeve.

Canadian artist David Blackwood has been telling stories about Newfoundland in the form of epic visual narratives for the past 30 years. His stories draw on childhood memories, dreams, superstitions, the oral tradition and the political realities of the community on Bonavista Bay, where he was born and raised. His collection of works has created an iconography of Newfoundland that is as universal as it is personal, as mythic as it is rooted in reality, and as timeless as it is linked to specific events.A comprehensive and sumptuously illustrated retrospective, Black Ice features over 70 prints, accompanied by essays from various disciplines - geology, history, folklore and literature. It features an insightful interview with David Blackwood by Globe and Mail art critic Gary Michael Gault and contributions by pre-eminent scholars and writers in Canada and Ireland. Award-winning author Michael Crummey writes a beautiful personal piece about outport Newfoundland; Sean Cadigan, head of Memorial University's Department of History, writes about Newfoundland history; geologists Martin Feely and Derek Wilton describe the province's unique landscape; folklorist Caoimhe Ní Shúilleabháin the tradition of mummering; and the AGO's Dr. Katharine Lochnan contextualizes Blackwood's work in an elegant piece about his artistic development.

Canadian artist David Blackwood has been telling stories about Newfoundland in the form of epic visual narratives for the past 30 years. His stories draw on childhood memories, dreams, superstitions, the oral tradition and the political realities of the community on Bonavista Bay, where he was born and raised. His collection of works has created an iconography of Newfoundland that is as universal as it is personal, as mythic as it is rooted in reality, and as timeless as it is linked to specific events.A comprehensive and sumptuously illustrated retrospective, Black Ice features over 70 prints, accompanied by essays from various disciplines - geology, history, folklore and literature. It features an insightful interview with David Blackwood by Globe and Mail art critic Gary Michael Gault and contributions by pre-eminent scholars and writers in Canada and Ireland. Award-winning author Michael Crummey writes a beautiful personal piece about outport Newfoundland; Sean Cadigan, head of Memorial University's Department of History, writes about Newfoundland history; geologists Martin Feely and Derek Wilton describe the province's unique landscape; folklorist Caoimhe Ní Shúilleabháin the tradition of mummering; and the AGO's Dr. Katharine Lochnan contextualizes Blackwood's work in an elegant piece about his artistic development.

Essays on ten United States presidents include Doris Kearns Goodwin on FDR, David McCullough on Truman, Stephen Ambrose on Eisenhower, Richard Reeves on Kennedy, and Peggy Noonan on Reagan. 35,000 first printing.

A series of incisive essays on ten United States presidents encompasses Doris Kearns Goodwin on FDR, David McCullough on Truman, Richard Reeves on Kennedy, Stephen Ambrose on Eisenhower, and Peggy Noonan on Reagan. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Speculative essays on military history by Stephen Ambrose, John Keegan, David McCullough, James M McPherson, Ceclia Holland and others. Includes a few b&w illustrations and maps.

In The Improbability Principle, the renowned statistician David J. Hand argues that extraordinarily rare events are anything but. In fact, they're commonplace. Not only that, we should all expect to experience a miracle roughly once every month. But Hand is no believer in superstitions, prophecies, or the paranormal. His definition of "miracle" is thoroughly rational. No mystical or supernatural explanation is necessary to understand why someone is lucky enough to win the lottery twice, or is destined to be hit by lightning three times and still survive. All we need, Hand argues, is a firm grounding in a powerful set of laws: the laws of inevitability, of truly large numbers, of selection, of the probability lever, and of near enough. Together, these constitute Hand's groundbreaking Improbability Principle. And together, they explain why we should not be so surprised to bump into a friend in a foreign country, or to come across the same unfamiliar word four times in one day. Hand wrestles with seemingly less explicable questions as well: what the Bible and Shakespeare have in common, why financial crashes are par for the course, and why lightning does strike the same place (and the same person) twice. Along the way, he teaches us how to use the Improbability Principle in our own lives―including how to cash in at a casino and how to recognize when a medicine is truly effective. An irresistible adventure into the laws behind "chance" moments and a trusty guide for understanding the world and universe we live in, The Improbability Principle will transform how you think about serendipity and luck, whether it's in the world of business and finance or you're merely sitting in your backyard, tossing a ball into the air and wondering where it will land.

Ripper David L. GolemonIn 1887, the British Empire contracted brilliant American professor Lawrence Ambrose to create a mutant gene―and turn an ordinary man into an aggressive fighting machine. But all too quickly, Ambrose was found to be behind a streak of vicious murders, and in a cover-up of massive proportions, Queen Victoria gave an order to have the project, and Ambrose, terminated. Thus the legend of Jack the Ripper was born...The killings stopped as suddenly as they had begun, though not because Ambrose was caught. Instead, he escaped and returned to America, where he and his work faded into history...until 2012, when a raid against a Mexican drug lord uncovers a small cache of antiquated notebooks that appear to have belonged to the mad genius. Enter Col. Jack Collins and the Event Group, who are desperate to put a stop to one of history's most notorious enemies. Or die trying...