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Edison
The Man Who Made the Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
It is almost a century since Thomas Alva Edison, the world's greatest inventor, gave the world electric light - and exactly one hundred years since he built the first successful phonograph (forerunner of the gramophone). The man who declared that "genius is 1 per cent inspiration and 99 per cent...
The Hundred Dresses
The Most Iconic Styles of Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
The dress is the last bit of femininity in our closets; it's the only item of clothing which (most) men and women don't share. Wearing a dress is a powerful way for women to express themselves--and every style conveys a different message. Inspired by the Eleanor Estes' children's classic The Hundred...
High Noon
The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
**From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Searchers, the revelatory story behind the classic movie High Noon and the toxic political climate in which it was created.
It's one of the most revered movies of Hollywood's golden era. Starring screen legend Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly in...
Steam Titans
Cunard, Collins, and the Epic Battle for Commerce on the North Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Winner of the Brewington Book Prize for Maritime History
The story of the epic contest between shipping magnates Samuel Cunard and Edward Collins for mid-19th century control of the Atlantic.
Between 1815 and the American Civil War, the greatest invention of the Industrial Revolution...
More Powerful Than Dynamite
Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
In the year that saw the start of World War I, the United States was itself on the verge of revolution: industrial depression in the east, striking coal miners in Colorado, and increasingly tense relations with Mexico. "There was blood in the air that year," a witness later recalled, "there truly...
Committed
Men Tell Stories of Love, Commitment, and Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
"Committed gives women a rare insight into what the other half really thinks."-Candace Bushnell
In these original essays, seventeen celebrated authors give a private tour of the male psyche and discuss the journey to lasting love. Exploring aspects of themselves that they've never revealed...
The Best Time to do Everything
Expert Advice on How to Live Cooler, Smarter, Faster, Better
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
The Best Time to Do Everything is really just that-a guide to the best time to do everything in life. From buying shoes to cleaning a murder scene, each entry is built around the well-informed advice of an expert in that particular field: Donald Trump on the best time to haggle, Johnny Ramone on the...
The Next American Economy
Blueprint for a Real Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
At a time when debate is raging about how to create jobs and revive
the American economy, veteran business writer William J. Holstein
argues that the best way for us to recover our economic footing is to do
what Americans do best-innovate and create new industries. Contrary to
the perception that...
by Miles Young
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
From Miles Young, worldwide non-executive chairman of Ogilvy & Mather, comes a sequel to David Ogilvy's bestselling advertising handbook featuring essential strategies for the digital age.
In this must-have sequel to the bestselling Ogilvy On Advertising, Ogilvy chairman Miles Young provides...
The New Frugality
How to Consume Less, Save More, and Live Better
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
As the recession deepens, with a downturn in spending, rise in defaulting mortgages and throttling of credit, a Go-Go economy has transitioned to a Uh-Oh economy. How did we get here and what does it mean for individuals and families? The New Frugality lays out how Americans have overspent-and offers...
The Kevin Show
An Olympic Athlete’s Battle with Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
From the NYT bestselling author of The Monopolists, the "fascinating" (People) story of Olympian Kevin Hall and the syndrome that makes him believe he stars in a television show of his life.
Meet Kevin Hall: brother, son, husband, father, and Olympic sailor. Kevin has an Ivy League...
Publishing
A Writer’s Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Publishing is a personal story of a writer's hunger to be published, the pursuit of that goal, and then the long haul--for Gail Godwin, forty-five years of being a published writer and all that goes with it. A student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1958, Godwin met with Knopf...
The Shadow Scholar
How I Made a Living Helping College Kids Cheat
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
"[A] stunning tale of academic fraud . . . shocking and compelling.†?-The Washington Post
Dave Tomar wrote term papers for a living. Technically, the papers were "study guides,†? and the companies he wrote for-there are quite a few-are completely aboveboard and easily found with a quick...
by Jordan Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
From a Los Angeles hospital bed, equipped with little more than a laptop and a stack of records, James "J Dilla†? Yancey crafted a set of tracks that would forever change the way beatmakers viewed their artform. The songs on Donuts are not hip hop music as "hip hop music†? is typically...