Scribner imprint: 1661 books
Letitia Baldrige's More Than Manners
Raising Today's Kids to Have Kind Manners and Good
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
American families are sick of rudeness, aggression, and unruly behavior. They are searching for ways to cool down society -- and bring up kids who win at life by peaceful, compassionate, and rational means, rather than the opposite. This is the book that casts out a new lifeline to them and speaks...
Two Nations
Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Why, despite continued efforts to increase understanding and expand opportunities, do black and white Americans still lead separate lives, continually marked by tension and hostility? In his much-lauded classic, newly updated to reflect the changing realities of race in our nation, Andrew Hacker explains...
Green Gone Wrong
How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
In Green Gone Wrong environmental writer Heather Rogers blasts through the marketing buzz of big corporations and asks a simple question: Do today’s much-touted "green" products—carbon offsets, organic food, biofuels, and eco-friendly cars and homes—really work? Implicit in efforts to go green...
You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!
The Classic Self-Help Book for Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2006
An updated edition of the classic self-help book for people with Attention Deficit Disorder!
With over a quarter million copies in print, You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?! is one of the bestselling books on attention deficit disorder (ADD) ever written. There is a great deal of literature...
The Ruler's Guide
China's Greatest Emperor and His Timeless Secrets of Success
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
In the classic tradition of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, here for the first time in English is the timeless wisdom of China’s greatest emperor Tang Taizong (598-649 AD), which is still being studied more than 1300 years later as an invaluable guide to leading and managing.
Tang Taizong is...
The Character Code
Developing Character to Enhance Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2000
Develop your character -- and powerfully improve the quality of your life
In The Color Code, Taylor Hartman defined the characteristics of the four basic personality types and assigned a color to each. In this exciting sequel, he builds on his groundbreaking research, showing you how to use...
The Rough Patch
Marriage and the Art of Living Together
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
“Anyone grappling with the bewilderment of midlife…will be at once provoked and comforted by this enormously wise book” (Dani Shapiro, New York Times bestselling author of Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage), from a psychologist who has worked for decades with people struggling to preserve and...
Emergence
The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's heart" (The Village Voice), takes readers on an eye-opening journey through emergence theory and its applications.
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
A VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENT...
The Unmaking of the President 2016
How FBI Director James Comey Cost Hillary Clinton the Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
The first comprehensive account that proves that James Comey threw the 2016 election to Donald Trump. “Compelling criticism…lapsed Trump supporters might well open their minds to this attorney’s scholarly, entirely convincing proof of the damage done” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
During...
YOU: The Owner's Manual for Teens
A Guide to a Healthy Body and Happy Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
A few years ago, we wrote YOU: The Owner’s Manual, which taught people about the inner workings of their bodies—and how to keep them running strong. But you know what? There’s a big difference between an adult’s body and your body, between adults’ health mysteries and your health mysteries,...
The Other America
Poverty in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1997
In the fifty years since it was published, The Other America has been established as a seminal work of sociology. This anniversary edition includes Michael Harrington’s essays on poverty in the 1970s and ’80s as well as a new introduction by Harrington’s biographer, Maurice Isserman. This illuminating,...
Planet India
How the Fastest Growing Democracy Is Transforming America and the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2007
India is everywhere: on magazine covers and cinema marquees, at the gym and in the kitchen, in corporate boardrooms and on Capitol Hill. Through incisive reportage and illuminating analysis, Mira Kamdar explores India's astonishing transformation from a developing country into a global powerhouse....
by Dan Sinker
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Primary Colors for the social media era, the wildly profane, viral phenomenon that resulted from a fake Twitter account deftly satirizing Rahm Emanuel is the first significant Twitter epic in today’s digital age.
Primary Colors for the social media era, the wildly profane, viral phenomenon...
America, 1908
The Dawn of Flight, the Race to the Pole, the Invention of the Model T and the Making of a Modern Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2006
“An entertaining survey” (Publishers Weekly) through the highs and lows of a spectacular, pivotal year in American history—1908.
A captivating look at a bygone era through the lens of a single, surprisingly momentous American year one century ago. 1908 was the year Henry Ford launched...