Finkel: 40 books
True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa
Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In the haunting tradition of Joe McGinniss's Fatal Vision and Mikal Gilmore's Shot in the Heart, True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa weaves a spellbinding tale of murder, love, and deceit with a deeply personal inquiry into the slippery nature of truth.
The story begins in February of 2002,...
by David Finkel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Now a Major Motion Picture Directed by American Sniper Writer Jason Hall and Starring Miles Teller
The wars of the past decade have been covered by brave and talented reporters, but none has reckoned with the psychology of these wars as intimately as the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David...
Turkey
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Turkey occupies a strategic position in today's world: the only predominantly Muslim nation to be a member of NATO and an ally of Israel, it straddles both Europe and Asia. Turkey is the link between Islam and Western democracy, between Europe and the Middle East. In this concise introduction, Andrew...
The Ark Before Noah
Decoding the Story of the Flood
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
The recent translation of a Babylonian tablet launches a groundbreaking investigation into one of the most famous stories in the world, challenging the way we look at ancient history.
Since the Victorian period, it has been understood that the story of Noah, iconic in the Book of Genesis, and...
Ordinary Jews
Choice and Survival during the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
How Jewish responses during the Holocaust shed new light on the dynamics of genocide and political violence
Focusing on the choices and actions of Jews during the Holocaust, Ordinary Jews examines the different patterns of behavior of civilians targeted by mass violence. Relying on rich archival...
by David Finkel
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. He called it the surge. "Many listening tonight will ask why this effort will succeed when previous operations to secure Baghdad did not. Well, here are the differences,"...
Scale
Seven Proven Principles to Grow Your Business and Get Your Life Back
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Your concrete road map to rapidly grow your business and get your life back!
Have you ever wanted to grow your business but held back because of fear that it would take over your life? As an owner, it’s all too common to feel you have to choose between your personal life and the success of...
by Ian Finkel
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Three is the Charm is a powerful and brutal account of the dark sides of street life in NYC in 1956, packed with graphic sexual and violent scenes. As the lives of three working girls, Orange Julia, Bongo and Cake and their protector and diner owner Lou, intersects with the likes of Skuz, a wanna...
The All-or-Nothing Marriage
How the Best Marriages Work
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
“After years of debate and inquiry, the key to a great marriage remained shrouded in mystery. Until now...”—Carol Dweck, author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Eli J. Finkel's insightful and ground-breaking investigation of marriage clearly shows that the best marriages today...
El extraño del bosque
La extraordinaria historia del último ermitaño
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 15, 2017
¿Es posible huir del mundo? Esta crónica nos demuestra cómo alguien lo logró durante 30 años. En 1986, el joven Christopher Knight abandonó su casa de Massachussetts para internarse en un bosque. Durante treinta años vivió aislado, sin interactuar con ningún otro ser humano, hasta que lo...
by Robert Finkel, Robert Finkel, David Greising
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Ten Leading private investors share their secrets to maximum profitability
In The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital, the pioneers of the industry share the investing and management wisdom they have gained by investing in and transforming their portfolio companies.
Based on...
Osman's Dream
The History of the Ottoman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
The definitive history of the Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and most influential empires in world history. Its reach extended to three continents and it survived for more than six centuries, but its history is too often colored by the memory of its bloody final throes...
by Alvin Finkel, Clement Leibovitz
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Was Neville Chamberlain merely naïve, a man of peace who was blind to Hitler's warlike intentions in the late 1930s? Or did he, with the backing of much of Britain's ruling elite, positively prefer Nazism to the threat of Communism in a politically charged era?
Alvin Finkel and Clement Leibovitz...
Our Lives: Canada after 1945
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
This book offers a short, comprehensive history of post-war Canada. All the major events and developments in Canadian history are discussed: the evolution of the welfare state; the growth of economic domination by the United States; the halcyon days as a Middle Power; the Quiet Revolution; the First...