Foreedge imprint: 69 books
Death by Cyanide
The Murder of Dr. Autumn Klein
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
At just forty-one years old, Dr. Autumn Klein, a neurologist specializing in seizure disorders in pregnant women, had already been named chief of women’s neurology at Pittsburgh’s largest health system. More than just successful in her field, Dr. Klein was beloved—by her patients, colleagues,...
Needless Suffering
How Society Fails Those with Chronic Pain
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Needless Suffering offers a sociological examination of a complex medical problem: chronic pain and the inability of doctors and other health professionals to understand and manage it in their patients. People in pain, writes Dr. David Nagel, are the poor of the medical world. Like the poor, they...
A Plague on All Our Houses
Medical Intrigue, Hollywood, and the Discovery of AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
A frightening new plague. A medical mystery. A pioneering immunologist. In A Plague on All Our Houses, Dr. Bruce J. Hillman dissects the war of egos, money, academic power, and Hollywood clout that advanced AIDS research even as it compromised the career of the scientist who discovered the disease....
The Lives of Dillon Ripley
Natural Scientist, Wartime Spy, and Pioneering Leader of the Smithsonian Institution
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
A Yale-educated Renaissance man, S. Dillon Ripley was a “courtly, determined, hugely ambitious, energetic, funny, and colorful ornithologist, conservationist, and cultural standard-bearer” who led the Smithsonian Institution for twenty years, during its greatest period of growth. During his watch,...
Hot Hands, Draft Hype, and DiMaggio's Streak
Debunking America's Favorite Sports Myths
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
In sports there are lies, damned lies, and statistics. Joe DiMaggio’s fifty-six-game hitting streak was magical. The three-point shot is an essential part of NBA basketball. Babe Ruth shouldn’t have attempted to steal second base in the ninth inning of the 1926 World Series. Scientist and researcher...
Shortchanged
Height Discrimination and Strategies for Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Would you like to be taller? Many people—except very tall people—would likely answer yes. Why should this be the case, when height has nothing to do with intelligence, talent, fortitude, compassion, or indeed any of the factors that make us human? In her thoughtful and provocative book, Tanya...
by Marc Solomon
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Ten years ago no state allowed same-sex couples to marry, support for gay marriage nationwide hovered around 30 percent, and politicians everywhere thought of it as the third rail of American politics—draw near at your peril. Today, same-sex couples can marry in seventeen states, polls consistently...
Baby You're a Rich Man
Suing the Beatles for Fun and Profit
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
The Beatles, the most popular, influential, and important band of all time, have been the subject of countless books of biography, photography, analysis, history, and conjecture. But this long and winding road has produced nothing like Baby You’re a Rich Man, the first book devoted to the cascade...
That’s Gotta Hurt
The Injuries That Changed Sports Forever
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
In That’s Gotta Hurt, the orthopaedist David Geier shows how sports medicine has had a greater impact on the sports we watch and play than any technique or concept in coaching or training. Injuries among professional and college athletes have forced orthopaedic surgeons and other healthcare providers...
Ice Ship
The Epic Voyages of the Polar Adventurer Fram
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
In the golden age of polar exploration (from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s), many an expedition set out to answer the big question—was the Arctic a continent, an open ocean beyond a barrier of ice, or an ocean covered with ice? No one knew, for the ice had kept its secret well; ships trying to...
Theodore Roosevelt
A Literary Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Of all the many biographies of Theodore Roosevelt, none has presented the twenty-sixth president as he saw himself: as a man of letters. This fascinating account traces Roosevelt’s lifelong engagement with books and discusses his writings from childhood journals to his final editorial, finished...
The Ice Bucket Challenge
Pete Frates and the Fight against ALS
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
While everyone knows of the Ice Bucket Challenge, the viral craze that swept the nation in summer 2014, too few know the truly inspirational story behind it. Pete Frates was a man at war with his own body. A man whose love for others was unshakable. A man who refused to fight alone, and in so doing...
Free as Gods
How the Jazz Age Reinvented Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Among many art, music and literature lovers, particularly devotees of modernism, the expatriate community in France during the Jazz Age represents a remarkable convergence of genius in one place and period—one of the most glorious in history. Drawn by the presence of such avant-garde figures as...