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Backstory
Inside the Business of News
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2004
It is said that journalism is a vital public service as well as a business, but more and more it is also said that big media consolidation; noisy, instant opinions on cable and the Internet; and political “bias” are making a mockery of such high-minded ideals. In Backstory, Ken Auletta explores...
Poking a Dead Frog
Conversations with Today's Top Comedy Writers
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
A NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR
Amy Poehler, Mel Brooks, Adam McKay, George Saunders, Bill Hader, Patton Oswalt, and many more take us deep inside the mysterious world of comedy in this fascinating, laugh-out-loud-funny book. Packed with behind-the-scenes stories—from...
Post-Soul Nation
The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, and Tragic 1980s as Experienced by Afr ican Americans (Previously Known as Blacks and Before That Negroes)
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2005
One of the foremost chroniclers of the contemporary black experience offers an undeluded perspective on the 1980s. Here are crack, AIDS, and the Reagan rollback of the major advances of the civil rights movement. But Nelson George also shows how black performers, athletes, and activists made increasing...
by Roger Fisher, Danny Ertel
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1995
This companion volume to the negotiation classic Getting to Yes explores the negotiation process in depth and presents case studies, charts, and worksheets for blueprinting and personalized negotiating strategy.
by Colin Calloway
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2007
With the courage and resilience embodied by their legendary leader Tecumseh, the Shawnees waged a war of territorial and cultural resistance for half a century. Noted historian Colin G. Calloway details the political and legal battles and the bloody fighting on both sides for possession of the Shawnees?...
by William Trevor
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
A marvelous collection from "the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language" (The New Yorker).
Four-time winner of the O. Henry Prize, three-time winner of the Whitbread Prize, and five-time finalist for the Man Booker Prize, William Trevor is one of the most...
Looking Beyond the Ivy League
Finding the College That's Right for You
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The celebrated book that revolutionized the way Americans choose colleges-now fully revised and updated
An invaluable guide with virtually no competition, this book helped to establish Loren Pope as one of the nation's most respected experts on the college application process. Now fully revised...
Something for Nothing
Luck in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2004
Jackson Lears has won accolades for his skill in identifying the rich and unexpected layers of meaning beneath the familiar and mundane in our lives. Now, he challenges the conventional wisdom that the Protestant ethic of perseverance, industry, and disciplined achievement is what made America great....
by Mario Giordano
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
A charming, thought-provoking, hand-lettered book for fans of The Book of Awesome and Wreck This Journal from the author of Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions**
They amaze us and hurt us, bring us to tears and make us laugh, delight us and keep us up at night: feelings that we know only too...
Tales of Two Americas
Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Thirty-six major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided America—including Anthony Doerr, Ann Patchett, Roxane Gay, Rebecca Solnit, Hector Tobar, Joyce Carol Oates, Edwidge Danticat, Richard Russo, Eula Bliss, Karen Russell, and many more
America is broken. You don’t need...
Work and Other Sins
Life in New York City and Thereabouts
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2005
**From the New York Times bestselling author of Detroit: An American Autopsy
"Except for a few drinks, nothing is free in Charlie LeDuff's blunt and touching Work and Other Sins. The laughter and wisdom are hard won, the lessons are often painful... the sad tales and wit from the bar rail...
¡Obamanos!
The Birth of a New Political Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
"Hertzberg has a novelist's control of metaphor and a comedian's gift for the one-liner."
-The New York Times Book Review
¡Obámanos! is powered by celebrated political essayist Hendrik Hertzberg's "Comments" for The New Yorker's "The Talk of the Town" and the...
Not Working
People Talk About Losing a Job and Finding Their Way in Today's Changing Economy
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Poignant true stories of resilience, determination, and the search for fulfillment
Inspired by Studs Terkel's Working and by James Agee and Walker Evans' Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, DW Gibson sets off on a journey across the United States to interview Americans who have lost their jobs....
Jane Austen's England
Daily Life in the Georgian and Regency Periods
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
An authoritative account of everyday life in Regency England, the backdrop of Austen’s beloved novels, from the authors of the forthcoming Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History (March 2018)
Jane Austen, arguably the greatest novelist of the English language, wrote brilliantly about...