Abrams Press imprint: 299 books
Circles Around the Sun
In Search of a Lost Brother
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Within a few years, his world had begun to fall apart. By the time Molly was old enough to begin to know him, Mike was heavily medicated and frequently delusional, living in hospitals or care homes or on the road. Years later, through reading an astonishing archive of letters preserved by her mother...
How Not To Be A Doctor
And Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Doctor and medical columnist John Launer has written on the practice and teaching of medicine for many years. Now, more than fifty of his essays have been collected in How Not to Be A Doctor. Taken together, they set out an argument that being a doctor—a real doctor—should mean being able to draw...
Deception in War
Art Bluff Value Deceit Most Thrilling Episodes Cunning mil hist from The Trojan
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2003
While the battle for air supremacy is being waged in the skies, the coalition forces pull off a stunning, and ultimately decisive, deception. Later dubbed the “Hail Mary Pass,? it consists of the abrupt relocation of the coalition ground forces hundreds of miles to the West. Meanwhile, as inflatable...
A Piece of the Sun
The Quest for Fusion Energy
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
The solution, says Daniel Clery in this deeply revelatory book, is to be found in the original energy source: the Sun itself. There, at its center, the fusion of 620 million tons of hydrogen every second generates an unfathomable amount of energy. By replicating even a tiny piece of the Sun’s power...
The Ballad of Blind Tom, Slave Pianist
America's Lost Musical Genius
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2009
This biography of a musical genius who went from slavery to international stardom is a “vivid, carefully researched narrative reflects the tenor of the” (Publishers Weekly).
Born into slavery in Georgia, Tom Wiggins died an international celebrity in New York in 1908. His life was one of the...
Inside Central Asia
A Political and Cultural History of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz stan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Iran
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
In this comprehensive new treatment, renowned political writer and historian Dilip Hiro places the politics, peoples, and cultural background of this critical region firmly into the context of current international focus.
On 1984
The Story of George Orwell's Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
**From the author of the definitive biography of George Orwell, a captivating account of the origin and enduring power of his landmark dystopian novel **
Since its publication nearly 70 years ago, George Orwell’s 1984 has been regarded as one of the most influential novels of the modern...
Scapegoat
A History of Blaming Other People
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
A “brief and vital account” of humanity’s long history of playing the blame game, from Adam and Eve to modern politics—“a relevant and timely subject” (The Daily Telegraph).
We may have come a long way from the days when a goat was symbolically saddled with all the iniquities of...
Home Is a Roof Over a Pig
An American Family's Journey in China
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
“[A] down-to-earth memoir chronicling her family’s stint in the Chinese province of Shandong on the eve of the Beijing Olympics” (Publishers Weekly).
When Aminta Arrington moves with her husband and three young children (including a daughter adopted from China) from suburban Georgia to Tai’an,...
by Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
The Russian oil mogul and activist offers reflections on his decades-long incarceration under Putin in this “illuminating and brave” prison memoir (The Washington Post).
Mikhail Khodorkovsky was Russia’s most successful businessman—and an outspoken critic of the Kremlin. As his oil...
The Spartacus Road
A Personal Journey Through Ancient Italy
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Its success was something no one before had ever known. The Spartacus Road is the route along which this rebel army outfought the world's finest military forces between 73and 71 BC, bringing both fears and hopes that have never wholly left the modern mind. Sweepingly erudite and strikingly personal,...
by Alan Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Alan Palmer traces the history of the Baltic region from its early Viking days and its time under the Byzantine Empire through its medieval prime when the Baltic Sea served as one of Europe’s central trading grounds. Palmer addresses both the strong nationalist sentiments that have driven Baltic...
by Robert Edelstein
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
“A book that should be required reading for everyone who considers themselves to be a NASCAR fan” from the author of Full Throttle (SB Nation).
NASCAR Legends traces the story of stock car racing through the courageous, record-breaking drivers who made it the number one spectator sport in America....
The Secret Lives of Sports Fans
The Science of Sports Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
What is happening in our brains and bodies when we feel strong emotion while watching a game? How do sports fans resemble political junkies, and why do we form such a strong attachment to a sports team? Journalist Eric Simons presents in-depth research in an accessible and brilliant way, sure to interest...