Jeffrey Kluger: 10 books
Simplexity
Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple)
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Why are the instruction manuals for cell phones incomprehensible?
Why is a truck driver's job as hard as a CEO's?
How can 10 percent of every medical dollar cure 90 percent of the world's disease?
Why do bad teams win so many games?
Complexity, as any scientist will tell you, is a slippery...
The Narcissist Next Door
Understanding the Monster in Your Family, in Your Office, in Your Bed-in Your World
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
A timely and provocative exploration of narcissism, from Donald Trump to Kanye West to Lance Armstrong, that shows us how to recognize and handle the narcissists we encounter every day.
Narcissists are everywhere. There are millions of them in the United States alone: politicians, entertainers,...
Disaster Strikes!
The Most Dangerous Space Missions of All Time
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Twelve thrilling and terrifying space-mission failures, told by the bestselling author of Apollo 13!
There are so many amazing, daring, and exciting missions to outer space that have succeeded. But for every success, there are mistakes, surprises, and flat-out failures that happen along the...
The Sibling Effect
What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
A senior writer at Time magazine explores what scientists and researchers are discovering about sibling bonds, the longest- lasting relationships we have in our lives.
Nobody affects us as deeply as our brothers and sisters-not parents, not children, not friends. From the time we-and they-are...
by Jeffrey Kluger
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2007
What Nacky Patcher and Teedie Flinn discover in the owl light and blackberry water of Yole Lake causes them to suspect they are losing their wits. Polished wood as far as the eye can see—an entire ship comes unbuttoned! Yet they see something else, too, something far more important: a way out from...
Apollo 8
The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
The untold story of the historic voyage to the moon that closed out one of our darkest years with a nearly unimaginable triumph
In August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind’s first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three...
by James Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2006
In April 1970, during the glory days of the Apollo space program, NASA sent Navy Captain Jim Lovell and two other astronauts on America's fifth mission to the moon. Only fifty-five hours into the flight of Apollo 13, disaster struck: a mysterious explosion rocked the ship, and soon its oxygen and...
by Jeffrey Kluger
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2006
In medical school when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was diagnosed with the disease shortly before assuming the Presidency, Salk was given an impetus to conduct studies on polio. His progress in combating the virus was hindered by the politics of medicine and by a rival researcher determined to discredit...
To the Moon!
The True Story of the American Heroes on the Apollo 8 Spaceship
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
The exciting and inspiring true story of Apollo 8, the first crewed spaceship to break free of the Earth's orbit and reach the moon, by the best-selling author of Apollo 13.
What's more exciting than spaceships and astronauts? How about a spaceship carrying the first astronauts ever to see...
by Jeffrey Kluger
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Lillie's papa believed in freedom-for him, his family, and all the slaves on the Greenfog plantation. So when the Confederate Army promised freedom to the family of every slave who served in the Civil War-whether they came home or not-Lillie's papa decided he had to take the chance.
But when...