Times Books imprint: 208 books

Blue Dixie

Awakening the South's Democratic Majority

by Bob Moser
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2008

A powerful case for a new Southern strategy for the Democrats, from an award-winning reporter and native Southerner In 2000 and 2004, the Democratic Party decided not to challenge George W. Bush in the South, a disastrous strategy that effectively handed Bush more than half of the electoral...

Invisible Men

Men's Inner Lives and the Consequences of Silence

by Michael Addis
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011

Award-winning research psychologist Michael E. Addis identifies and provides answers surrounding the long-unspoken epidemic of silence and vulnerability in men Drawing on scientific research, as well as his own personal and clinical experience, award-winning research psychologist Michael E....

The Courage of Our Convictions

A Manifesto for Democrats

by Gary Hart
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014

An impassioned call to arms for Democrats to embrace the principles that made the party and the country great—a true moral vision for leadership at home and abroad In this powerful and provocative manifesto, a cri de coeur for Democrats who have grown increasingly frustrated with their party's...

Thomas Jefferson

The American Presidents Series: The 3rd President, 1801-1809

by Joyce Appleby
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013

An illuminating analysis of the man whose name is synonymous with American democracy Few presidents have embodied the American spirit as fully as Thomas Jefferson. He was the originator of so many of the founding principles of American democracy. Politically, he shuffled off the centralized...

Cousins and Strangers

America, Britain, and Europe in a New Century

by Chris Patten
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013

A frank and controversial assessment of the United States, Great Britain, and Europe, and the stakes for all three if the West breaks apart Despite the efforts of President Woodrow Wilson, America washed its hands of Europe after the First World War. After the Second World War, it stayed involved,...

The Next Attack

The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting it Right

by Daniel Benjamin, Steven Simon
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2006

The authors of the bestseller The Age of Sacred Terror show how the United States is losing the war on terror and what we need to do if we're serious about winning it. We are losing. Four years and two wars after September 11, 2001, the United States is no closer to victory in the "war...

Squandered Victory

The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq

by Larry Diamond
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007

America's leading expert on democracy delivers the first insider's account of the U.S. occupation of Iraq-a sobering and critical assessment of America's effort to implant democracy In the fall of 2003, Stanford professor Larry Diamond received a call from Condoleezza Rice, asking if he would...

Rutherford B. Hayes

The American Presidents Series: The 19th President, 1877-1881

by Hans Trefousse
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014

A leader of the Reconstruction era, whose contested election eerily parallels the election debacle of 2000 The disputed election of 1876 between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden, in which Congress set up a special electoral commission, handing the disputed electoral votes to Hayes, brings...

How to Ace Calculus

The Streetwise Guide

by Colin Adams, Abigail Thompson, Joel Hass
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015

Written by three gifted-and funny-teachers, How to Ace Calculus provides humorous and readable explanations of the key topics of calculus without the technical details and fine print that would be found in a more formal text. Capturing the tone of students exchanging ideas among themselves, this unique...

How to Ace the Rest of Calculus

The Streetwise Guide, Including MultiVariable Calculus

by Colin Adams, Abigail Thompson, Joel Hass
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015

The sequel to How to Ace Calculus, How to Ace the Rest of Calculus provides humorous and highly readable explanations of the key topics of second and third semester calculus-such as sequences and series, polor coordinates, and multivariable calculus-without the technical details and fine print that would be found in a formal text.

In Our Hands

A Hand Surgeon's Tales of the Body's Most Exquisite Instrument

by Dr. Arnold Arem, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004

The hand and its relationship to human identity Over the twenty years that Arnold Arem has worked as a reconstructive hand surgeon, he has reflected on the impact of living with pain and questions of psychic well-being in the face of crippling injury and physical deformity. He has helped many...

The Stuff of Life

Profiles of the Molecules That Make Us Tick

by Eric P. Widmaier
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003

In The Stuff of Life , Eric P. Widmaier deconstructs the fundamental processes of the human body and focuses on those vital biological substances that aren't particularly well understood. By examining the blueprints that dictate what we are, Widmaier answers questions, including: - Why are...
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