Twelve imprint: 146 books
Ah-Choo!
The Uncommon Life of Your Common Cold
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Some colds are like mice, timid and annoying; others like dragons, accompanied by body aches and deep misery. In AH-CHOO!, Jennifer Ackerman explains what, exactly, a cold is, how it works, and whether it's really possible to "fight one off." Scientists call this the Golden Age of the Common...
Twenty-Six Seconds
A Personal History of the Zapruder Film
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The moving, untold family story behind Abraham Zapruder's film footage of the Kennedy assassination and its lasting impact on our world.
Abraham Zapruder didn't know when he ran home to grab his video camera on November 22, 1963 that this single spontaneous decision would change his family's...
by Elizabeth Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
APOLOGIZE, APOLOGIZE! takes us into the perversely charmed world of the Flanagans and their son, Collie (who has the questionable good fortune to be named after a breed of dog). Coming of age on Martha's Vineyard, he struggles to find his place within his wildly wealthy, hyper-articulate, resolutely...
Supernormal
The Untold Story of Adversity and Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Clinical psychologist and author of The Defining Decade, Meg Jay takes us into the world of the supernormal: those who soar to unexpected heights after childhood adversity.
Whether it is the loss of a parent to death or divorce; bullying; alcoholism or drug abuse in the home; mental illness...
Drinking in America
Our Secret History
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
In DRINKING IN AMERICA, bestselling author Susan Cheever chronicles our national love affair with liquor, taking a long, thoughtful look at the way alcohol has changed our nation's history. This is the often-overlooked story of how alcohol has shaped American events and the American character from...
Why Be Jewish?
A Testament
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Edgar M. Bronfman's clarion call to a generation of secular, disaffected, and unaffiliated Jews, this book addresses the most critical question confronting Judaism worldwide.
Completed in December 2013, just weeks before he passed away, WHY BE JEWISH? expresses Edgar Bronfman's awe, respect,...
God and Sex
What the Bible Really Says
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
For several decades, Michael Coogan's introductory course on the Old Testament has been a perennial favorite among students at Harvard University. In God and Sex, Coogan examines one of the most controversial aspects of the Hebrew Scripture: What the Old Testament really says about sex, and how contemporary...
So Here's the Thing . . .
Notes on Growing Up, Getting Older, and Trusting Your Gut
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
From the New York Times bestselling author of Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? comes a fun, frank book of reflections, essays, and interviews on topics important to young women, ranging from politics and career to motherhood, sisterhood, and making and sustaining relationships of all kinds in the...
Often I Am Happy
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
This elegant and nuanced literary gem explores the intricacies of friendship, secrets, and two marriages, for fans of The Dinner and Dept. of Speculation.
"Often I am happy and yet I want to cry; / For no heart fully shares my joy." -B.S. Ingemann
Ellinor is seventy. Her husband...
The Defining Decade
Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Our "thirty-is-the-new-twenty" culture tells us the twentysomething years don't matter. Some say they are a second adolescence. Others call them an emerging adulthood. Dr. Meg Jay, a clinical psychologist, argues that twentysomethings have been caught in a swirl of hype and misinformation, much of...
Glass Jaw
A Manifesto for Defending Fragile Reputations in an Age of Instant Scandal
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
In an age when scandal can destroy a company's brand or anyone's reputation in an instant-GLASS JAW is an Art of War guide to modern crisis management.
In boxing terms, a tough-looking fighter who can't take a punch is said to have a "glass jaw," and so it is these days with targets...
Republic, Lost
Version 2.0
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Revised and updated for the 2016 election with 75% new material.
In an era when special interests funnel huge amounts of money into our government-driven by shifts in campaign-finance rules and brought to new levels by the Supreme Court in *Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission-*trust...
Political Risk
How Businesses and Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
From New York Times bestselling author and former U.S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and Stanford University professor Amy B. Zegart comes an examination of the rapidly evolving state of political risk, and how to navigate it.
The world is changing fast. Political risk-the probability...
The Pivot
The Future of American Statecraft in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
From former assistant secretary of state Kurt M. Campbell comes the definitive analysis and explanation of the new major shift in American foreign policy, its interests and assets, to Asia.
There is a quiet drama playing out in American foreign policy far from the dark contours of upheaval...