Tom: 6300 books
Following Atticus
Forty-Eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
After a close friend died of cancer, middle-aged, overweight, acrophobic newspaperman Tom Ryan decided to pay tribute to her in a most unorthodox manner. Ryan and his friend, miniature schnauzer Atticus M. Finch, would attempt to climb all forty-eight of New Hampshire’s four-thousand-foot peaks...
The Corvette in the Barn: More Great Stories of Automotive Archaeology
More Great Stories of Automotive Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2010
It's every car-guy's fantasy-to casually peer into a long-forgotten garage or barn or warehouse and find the car he has searched for his whole life. Corvette in the Barn is a collection of true, often amazing, stories and essays about car collectors and enthusiasts who have discovered unusual and...
by Tom Whistler
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2018
Marijuana or weed to some people, has been the subject of debates for years. So many talks have been going around because some states have legalized the use of recreational marijuana. There are some quarters that are pushing for marijuana to be legalized for medical use.
With this development,...
by Tom Vanderbilt
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
A New York Times Notable Book
One of the Best Books of the Year
The Washington Post • The Cleveland Plain-Dealer • Rocky Mountain News
In this brilliant, lively, and eye-opening investigation, Tom Vanderbilt examines the perceptual limits and cognitive underpinnings that make us...
Gun Button to Fire: A Hurricane Pilots Dramatic Story of the Battle of Britain
A Hurricane Pilot's Dramatic Story of the Battle of Britain
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
This is a fighter pilot's story of eight memorable months from May to December 1940. When the Germans were blitzing their way across France, Pilot Officer Tom Neil had just received his first posting to 249 Squadron.
Nineteen years old, fresh from training at Montrose on Hawker Audax biplanes...
by Tom Wolfe
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong.
"A whooping, joy-filled and hyperbolic raid on, of all things, the theory of evolution." (Dwight Garner, New York Times)
Tom Wolfe, whose legend began...
Blur
How to Know What's True in the Age of Information Overload
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Amid the hand-wringing over the death of "true journalism" in the Internet Age-the din of bloggers, the echo chamber of Twitter, the predominance of Wikipedia-veteran journalists and media critics Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel have written a pragmatic guide to navigating the twenty-first...
Submarine
A Guided Tour Inside a Nuclear Warship
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2003
Only the author of The Hunt for Red October could capture the reality of life aboard a nuclear submarine. Only a writer of Mr. Clancy's magnitude could obtain security clearance for information, diagrams, and photographs never before available to the public. Now, every civilian can enter this top...
Uranium
War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
The fascinating story of the most powerful source of energy the earth can yield
Uranium is a common element in the earth's crust and the only naturally occurring mineral with the power to end all life on the planet. After World War II, it reshaped the global order-whoever could master uranium...
UFOs
Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Foreword by Jacques F. Vallee
Introduction by Burt Rutan
Commentary by Tom Clancy
A never-before-heard firsthand account of a government insider's experience on the cutting edge of UFO exploration
While still on active duty in the U.S. Army during the 1980s, Colonel John...
by Tom Davis, Martin Frost, Richard E. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
During their combined 40 years in Congress, Martin Frost and Tom Davis were the field generals for their respective parties, each serving two terms as chair of the Democratic and Republican House Campaign Committees, respectively. Now they have joined forces—along with columnist Richard Cohen—in...
Chaos
Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history.
Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people,...
by Tom Burrell
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
“Black people are not dark-skinned white people,” says advertising visionary Tom Burrell. In fact, they are a lot more. They are survivors of the Middle Passage and centuries of humiliation and deprivation, who have excelled against the odds, constantly making a way out of “no way!” At this...
The Death of Expertise
The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Today, everyone...