Abrams Press imprint: 299 books
In Search of the Miraculous
Or, One Thing Leads to Another
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
The iconic graphic designer presents “a self-analysis of his creative process . . . [in] arguably his proudest accomplishment” (The Atlantic).
Milton Glaser is perhaps the most celebrated graphic designer in the world. As a young man, he read a phrase that stayed with him through his life:...
With Nails
The Film Diaries of Richard E. Grant
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1999
The star of the cult classic Withnail and I offers “a refreshing combination of comedy, confession, and coruscation” in this memoir of the movie business (Kirkus Reviews).
Richard E. Grant’s acting career has included memorable roles in some of Hollywood’s most critically acclaimed...
Splendidly Unreasonable Inventors
The Lives, Loves, and Deaths of 30 Pioneers Who Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
Jeremy Coller, a pioneer in the world of private equity, argues that there are three basic personality types in the arena of invention. The Principal, Broker, and Consultant each display certain traits that dictate the potential for success, but few people have the full package. Failure results when...
Return to the Little Kingdom
Steve Jobs and the Creation of Apple
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Now Moritz revisits his classic biography in light of what Apple has become, offering for the first time in paperback the only from the ground up account of Apple's early years.
Anything Goes
A Biography of the Roaring Twenties
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
The glitter of 1920s America was seductive, from jazz, flappers, and wild all- night parties to the birth of Hollywood and a glamorous gangster-led crime scene flourishing under Prohibition. But the period was also punctuated by momentous events-the political show trials of Sacco and Vanzetti, the...
The Fry Chronicles
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
But when he arrived at Cambridge he was a convicted thief, an addict, and a failed suicide, convinced that he would be expelled. Instead, university life offered him love and the chance to entertain. He befriended bright young things like Hugh Laurie, now the star of House, and Emma Thompson. This...
Barefoot to Billionaire
Reflections on a Life's Work and a Promise to Cure Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The company he founded in 1970, the Huntsman Corporation, is now one of the largest petrochemical manufacturers in the world, employing more than 12,000 people and generating over 10 billion in revenue each year. Success in business, though, has always been a means to an end—never an end in itself. ...
The War at the Shore
Donald Trump, Steve Wynn, and the Epic Battle to Save Atlantic City
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
“With Trump and Wynn, Skip Bronson nails the drama and muscle of a Super Bowl Sunday . . . A manual of strategy and tactics, smeared with sweat and blood” **(**Steve Tisch, chairman of the New York Giants).
From 1995 to 2000, two of the world’s best-known companies―Mirage Resorts and...
Spaceport Earth
The Reinvention of Spaceflight
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
It’s the 21st-century and everything about the space industry is changing, and leading that charge are private sector companies including Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, which are building a dizzying array of new spacecraft and rockets, not just for government use, but for any...
by Paul Sahre
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
In Two-Dimensional Man, Paul Sahre shares deeply revealing stories that serve as the unlikely inspiration behind his extraordinary thirty-year design career. Sahre explores his mostly vain attempts to escape his "suburban Addams Family" upbringing and the death of his elephant-trainer brother....
Empire of Secrets
British Intelligence, the Cold War, and the Twilight of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
The renowned espionage historian offers “a gripping account of British intelligence during the last days of empire” (The Daily Telegraph).
Drawing on a wealth of newly declassified records and hitherto overlooked personal papers, intelligence expert Calder Walton offers a compelling and authoritative...
The Fourth of July and the Founding of America
The Startling Truth Behind the Birth of Our Country
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
A history of the holiday and an “elegant, ironic, brief but deeply researched meditation on what makes America America” (Financial Times).
Holidays of all sorts are celebrated in the United States, many rooted in the country’s great diversity of ethnicities, religions, and cultures. But...
Norman Foster
A Life in Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Amongst many other buildings, Norman Foster is responsible for the design of Beijing's new airport, one of the world's largest, for the Rossiya tower in Moscow, in contention to be the tallest skyscraper in Europe until the credit crunch killed it, for one of the towers at Ground Zero in Manhattan,...
The War Within
Israel's Ultra-Orthodox
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
For many Israelis, it is the internecine conflict with the ultra-orthodox Haredim that impacts their lives the most. The majority of Haredim -- raised with an intense focus on religion at the expense of all else -- are unemployable in a modern economy. Many choose to pursue religious studies, which...