Crown imprint: 1774 books
I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works
Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Are we driving off a digital cliff and heading for disaster, unable to focus, maintain concentration, or form the human bonds that make life worth living? Are media and business doomed and about to be replaced by amateur hour?
The world, as Nick Bilton—with tongue-in-cheek—shows, has been...
Social
Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
We are profoundly social creatures--more than we know.
In Social, renowned psychologist Matthew Lieberman explores groundbreaking research in social neuroscience revealing that our need to connect with other people is even more fundamental, more basic, than our need for food or shelter. Because...
The Age of Empathy
Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
In this thought-provoking book, the acclaimed author of Our Inner Ape examines how empathy comes naturally to a great variety of animals, including humans.
Are we our brothers' keepers? Do we have an instinct for compassion? Or are we, as is often assumed, only on earth to serve our own survival...
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
A Love Story . . . with Wings
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill is the inspiring story of how one man found his life’s work—and true love—among a gang of wild parrots roosting in one of America’s most picturesque urban settings.
Mark Bittner was down on his luck. He’d gone to San Francisco at the age of twenty-one...
The Sign and the Seal
The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
A compelling brew of mystery, crime, and science revealing the details behind the search for the lost Ark of the Covenant.
The Lost Ark of the Covenant is one of the great historical mysteries of all time. To believers, the Ark is the legendary vessel holding the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments....
The Mars Mystery
The Secret Connection Between Earth and the Red Planet
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2010
An asteroid transformed Mars from a lush planet with rivers and oceans into a bleak and icy hell. Is Earth condemned to the same fate, or can we protect ourselves and our planet from extinction?
In his most riveting and revealing book yet, Graham Hancock examines the evidence that the barren...
Born Wild
The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Passion for Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Tony Fitzjohn, part missionary, part madman, has been called “one of the world’s most endangered creatures.” An internationally renowned field expert on African wildlife, he is best known for the eighteen years he spent helping Born Free’s George Adamson return more than forty leopards and...
Stolen World
A Tale of Reptiles, Smugglers, and Skulduggery
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Tortoises disappear from a Madagascar reserve and reappear in the Bronx Zoo. A dead iguana floats in a jar, awaiting its unveiling in a Florida court. A viper causes mayhem from Ethiopia to Virginia. In Stolen World, Jennie Erin Smith takes the reader on an unforgettable journey, a dark adventure...
The Divine Life of Animals
One Man's Quest to Discover Whether the Souls of Animals Live On
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
A journey through 20,000 years of history and myth in search of the answer to a single question: Do animals have souls?
Anyone who has ever mourned the loss of a cherished pet has wondered about the animal soul. Do animals survive the death of the body, or are they doomed to disappear completely...
Rain
A Natural and Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive.
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It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world's water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain.
Cynthia Barnett's *Rain begins four billion years ago with...
In the President's Secret Service
Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
After conducting exclusive interviews with more than one hundred current and former Secret Service agents, bestselling author and award-winning reporter Ronald Kessler reveals their secrets for the first time.
Never before has a journalist penetrated the wall of secrecy that surrounds the U.S....
Treason
Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2003
“Liberals’ loyalty to the United States is off-limits as a subject of political debate. Why is the relative patriotism of the two parties the only issue that is out of bounds for rational discussion?”
In a stunning follow-up to her number one bestseller Slander, leading conservative pundit...
Twilight of the Elites
America After Meritocracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
A powerful and original argument that traces the roots of our present crisis of authority to an unlikely source: the meritocracy.
Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another – from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate...
by George W. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
In this candid and gripping memoir, President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions that shaped his presidency and personal life.
George W. Bush served as president of the United States during eight of the most consequential years in American history. The decisions that reached his...