Crown imprint: 1774 books
Golf Freek
One Man's Quest to Play as Many Rounds of Golf as Possible. For Free.
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Steve Eubanks lives on a golf course, spends most of his time with a golf club in his hand, and simply cannot pass a course without playing it. In Golf Freek, he chronicles his travels around the globe for the sole purpose of playing as much free golf—the operative word being free—in as many interesting...
Passionate Minds
Emilie du Chatelet, Voltaire, and the Great Love Affair of the Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
It was 1733 when the poet and philosopher Voltaire met Emilie du Châtelet, a beguiling—and married—aristocrat who would one day popularize Newton’s arcane ideas and pave the way for Einstein’s theories. In an era when women were rarely permitted any serious schooling, this twenty-seven-year-old’s...
The Other 90%
How to Unlock Your Vast Untapped Potential for Leadership and Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
For centuries, it has been assumed that there are vast limits to human capacity. Now, although a host of scientific discoveries prove this wrong, a mindset of limits persists, blocking us from our greatest possibilities and leaving us feeling bombarded by stress, change, and uncertainty. No matter...
Anger Kills
Seventeen Strategies for Controlling Hostility That Can Harm Your Health
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Anger kills. We’re speaking here not about the anger that drives people to shoot, stab, or otherwise wreak havoc on their fellow humans. We mean instead the everyday sort of anger, annoyance, and irritation that courses through the minds and bodies of many perfectly normal people.
• If...
The Untied States of America
Polarization, Fracturing, and Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Can a country be like a marriage that has run out of cash and steam, resulting in the inevitable frank discussions about just who is pulling his or her own weight? Eventually, even those who love each other sometimes conclude they cannot stay together.
Juan Enriquez’s unique insights into...
How America Got It Right
The U.S. March to Military and Political Supremacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
At last, a historian tells the truth about America’s role in the world—refuting the lies of anti-American propagandists.
Left-wing critics—both at home and abroad—relish blasting our country for being the world’s sole superpower, or even an “imperialist” power.
But as acclaimed...
The Secret Magdalene
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Raised like sisters, Mariamne and Salome are indulged with riches, position, and learning-a rare thing for females in Jerusalem. But Mariamne has a further gift: an illness has left her with visions; she has the power of prophecy. It is her prophesying that drives the two girls to flee to Egypt, where...
The Silence We Keep
A Nun's View of the Catholic Priest Scandal
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
In this uplifting and empowering call to action, Karol Jackowski, a nun for more than forty years, speaks out about her life and vocation, women in the Church, the sexual scandal in the priesthood and why the Catholic hierarchy won’t fix it, and how Catholics will take back their Church.
The Book of Eleanor
A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
One of history’s greatest women, celebrated by her contemporaries, descendants, and biographers, now comes to life in this mesmerizing new novel by bestselling author Pamela Kaufman.
In 1137, fifteen-year-old Eleanor became Duchess of Aquitaine, a wealthy and powerful province in the south...
by Shaun Ellis, Penny Junor
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
What would compel a man to place himself in constant danger in order to become a member of a wolf pack? To eat with them, putting his head into a carcass alongside the wolves' gnashing teeth? To play, hunt, and spar with them, suffering bruises and bites? To learn their language so his howl is indistinguishable...
The Book of Hard Choices
How to Make the Right Decisions at Work and Keep Your Self-Respect
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2006
“There are a thousand acts of duplicity and dishonesty every day, some large and some small, some of which undoubtedly take place in your workplace. The question for all of us is, ‘Are we going to resist or just play along the path of least resistance?’ The first hard choice a person of integrity...
Vienna, 1814
How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War, and Peace at the Congress of Vienna
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
“Reads like a novel. A fast-paced page-turner, it has everything: sex, wit, humor, and adventures. But it is an impressively researched and important story.”
—David Fromkin, author of Europe’s Last Summer
Vienna, 1814 is an evocative and brilliantly researched account of the most audacious...
Our First Revolution
The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America's Founding Fathers
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
The ideals of freedom and individual rights that inspired America’s Founding Fathers did not spring from a vacuum. Along with many other defining principles of our national character, they can be traced directly back to one of the most pivotal events in British history—the late-seventeenth-century...
Tiger
A Biography of Tiger Woods
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Record-breaking media sensation Tiger Woods has moved beyond the fairway to take the world by storm. After becoming the first golfer in history to win three straight U.S. Amateur titles, his win at the 1997 Masters Tournament gave him a permanent place in the record book: youngest player to win, lowest...