New Releases by James Fox

A funny, sensitive, moving and gripping story of a family grappling with the real world vs the online one, covering relatable issues of parents splitting up, elderly grandparents and bullying.

A kaleidoscopic exploration that traverses history, literature, art, and science to reveal humans' unique and vibrant relationship with color. We have an extraordinary connection to color—we give it meanings, associations, and properties that last millennia and span cultures, continents, and languages. In The World According to Color, James Fox takes seven elemental colors—black, red, yellow, blue, white, purple, and green—and uncovers behind each a root idea, based on visual resemblances and common symbolism throughout history. Through a series of stories and vignettes, the book then traces these meanings to show how they morphed and multiplied and, ultimately, how they reveal a great deal about the societies that produced them: reflecting and shaping their hopes, fears, prejudices, and preoccupations. Fox also examines the science of how our eyes and brains interpret light and color, and shows how this is inherently linked with the meanings we give to hue. And using his background as an art historian, he explores many of the milestones in the history of art—from Bronze Age gold-work to Turner, Titian to Yves Klein—in a fresh way. Fox also weaves in literature, philosophy, cinema, archaeology, and art—moving from Monet to Marco Polo, early Japanese ink artists to Shakespeare and Goethe to James Bond. By creating a new history of color, Fox reveals a new story about humans and our place in the universe: second only to language, color is the greatest carrier of cultural meaning in our world.

Accessibly written, yet analytically rich, Extreme Killing, Fourth Edition gives a comprehensive and concise overview of multiple homicide, including both serial and mass murder. Filled with contemporary and classic case studies, this fully updated Fourth Edition illustrates the many violent expressions of power, revenge, terror, greed, and loyalty.

Dead men tell no tales or do they? In New York City, a body has been found floating in the frozen Hudson River. Devoid of any identification, the medical examiner has determined by autopsy that in all probability, a crime has been committed that took place more than fifty years ago. The body, that of a male is missing a left ear and the inside pocket of a pea coat contains black and white photographs along with a pack of 1952 Topps baseball cards. A classic textbook cold case, is this fact based on fiction or fiction based on fact?

The author of the bestseller White Mischief tells the story of the beautiful Langhorne sisters, who lived at the Pinnacle of high and powerful society from the end of the Civil War through the Second World War. Making their way across two continents, they left in their wakes rich husbands, fame, adoration, and scandal. Lizzie, Irene, Nancy, Phyllis, and Nora were born in Virginia to a family impoverished by the Civil War. Their father remade his fortune by collaborating with the Yankees and building rail-roads; the sisters became southern belles and northern debutantes. James Fox draws on unpublished correspondence between the sisters and their husbands, lovers, children, and the powerful and glamorous of their day to construct a plural topography with the scope of a grand novel and the pace of a historical thriller. At its center is the most famous sister, Nancy, who married Waldorf Astor, one of the richest men in the world. Heroic, hilarious, magnetically charming, and a bully, Lady Astor became Britain's first female MP, championing women's rights and the poor. The beautiful Irene married Charles Dana Gibson and was the model for the Gibson Girl. The author's grandmother, Phyllis, married a famous economist, one of the architects of modern Europe. Fox has written an absorbing and spirited, intimate and sweeping account of extraordinary women at the highest reaches of society, their adventures set against the background of a tumultuous century.

Told in their own intimate voices, selected from thousands of letters and journals, the book charts the attempts of two extraordinary women to transform themselves and to build new lives, and the chain of events that would destroy their family lives and happiness.

Part of Dunstable was transferred to New Hampshire in 1741 when the boundary line was established.

Tooke lost the 1790 election for Westminster to Fox; his petition to H of C regarding the election was found to be "frivolous & vexatious," making him, according to a new law, responsible for the costs incurred, for which Fox brought this action against him; heard before Lord Kenyon, Westminster-Hall, April 30, 1792; determined for the plaintiff