Crown imprint: 1774 books
Still - In the Storm
How to manage your stress and achieve balance in life
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 1999
Accessibility is the aim of this book, matching a clear layout with amusing cartoon illustrations and a reader-friendly tone. But, as well as being fun, it offers a serious message and comes with the weighty assurance of the author's twenty-five years experience in helping people handle anxiety and manage stress
Black Fire
The True Story of the Original Tom Sawyer--and of the Mysterious Fires That Baptized Gold Rush-Era San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
The first biography of the little-known real-life Tom Sawyer (a friend of Mark Twain during his brief tenure as a California newspaper reporter), told through a harrowing account of Sawyer's involvement in the hunt for a serial arsonist who terrorized mid-nineteenth century San Francisco.
When...
May and Amy
A True Story of Family, Forbidden Love, and the Secret Lives of May Gaskell, Her Daughter Amy, and Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A chance encounter at a summer party sent writer Josceline Dimbleby on a quest to uncover a mystery in her family’s past. After talking with Andrew Lloyd Webber about a beautiful, dark portrait in his art collection, she decided to find out more about the subject of the painting: her great-aunt...
Immortality
The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
A fascinating work of popular philosophy and history that both enlightens and entertains, Stephen Cave’s Immortality investigates whether it just might be possible to live forever and whether we should want to. But it also makes a powerful argument, which is that it’s our very preoccupation with...
by Ted Rueter
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
A hilarious bipartisan collection of rants, malapropisms, doublespeak, and just plain idiocy from lifelong politicians and Washington wannabes.
Whether it's a Republican mayor on crime -- "The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe (Frank Rizzo) --...
Don't Tread on Me
A 400-Year History of America at War, from Indian Fighting to Terrorist Hunting
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2006
• Did America win its independence because British generals were too busy canoodling with their mistresses?
• Should America have annexed Mexico—all of it—and Cuba too?
• Did 1776 justify Southern secession in the nineteenth century?
• Should Patton have been promoted...
The Point of It All
A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Created and compiled by Charles Krauthammer before his death, The Point of It All is an intimate collection of the influential columnist’s most important works. Spanning the personal, political and philosophical—including never-before-published speeches and a major new essay about the effect...
Godless
The Church of Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2006
"If a martian landed in America and set out to determine the nation's official state religion, he would have to conclude it is liberalism, while Christianity and Judaism are prohibited by law.
Many Americans are outraged by liberal hostility to traditional religion. But as Ann Coulter reveals...
Foundryside
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
"The exciting beginning of a promising new epic fantasy series. Prepare for ancient mysteries, innovative magic, and heart-pounding heists."—Brandon Sanderson
“Complex characters, magic that is tech and vice versa, a world bound by warring trade dynasties: Bennett will leave you...
Rogue Justice
The Making of the Security State
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
The definitive account of how America’s War on Terror sparked a decade-long assault on the rule of law, weakening our courts and our Constitution in the name of national security.
The day after September 11, President Bush tasked the attorney general with preventing another terrorist attack...
On the Hunt
How to Wake Up Washington and Win the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
So says Fox News military analyst Colonel David Hunt in a book that cuts like a buzz saw through the half-measures and half-truths, the dangerous timidity, and the outright stupidity that—if left unchecked—will lead America to lose the War on Terror.
In the hard-hitting On the Hunt, Colonel...
We the People
The Modern-Day Figures Who Have Reshaped and Affirmed the Founding Fathers' Vision of America
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
What would the Founding Fathers think about America today? Over 200 years ago the Founders broke away from the tyranny of the British Empire to build a nation based on the principles of freedom, equal rights, and opportunity for all men. But life in the United States today is vastly different from...
Right Turns
Unconventional Lessons from a Controversial Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2004
Nationally syndicated talk-radio host and noted film critic Michael Medved has taken an extraordinary journey from liberal activist to outspoken conservative. Along the way he has earned millions of admirers—and more than his share of enemies—by advancing controversial, often counterintuitive...
Rogues and Redeemers
When Politics Was King in Irish Boston
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
From the bestselling coauthor of Black Mass, a behind-the-scenes portrait of the Irish power brokers who forged and fractured twentieth-century Boston.
Rogues and Redeemers tells the hidden story of Boston politics--the cold-blooded ward bosses, the smoke-filled rooms, the larger-than-life pols...