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by Gabriel Kolko
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
A radically new interpretation of the Progressive Era which argues that business leaders, and not the reformers, inspired the era’s legislation regarding business.
The Ravaging Tide
Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America's Coastal Cities
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2006
If, like many Americans, you believe the ongoing tragedy of Hurricane Katrina was a once-in-a-lifetime fluke, you need to read this book. In the coming years and decades, the safety of your region, your town, your home may depend on the warnings you'll encounter on these pages. That's because the...
The Woman Who Can't Forget
The Extraordinary Story of Living with the Most Remarkable Memory Known to Science--A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Jill Price has the first diagnosed case of a memory condition called "hyperthymestic syndrome" -- the continuous, automatic, autobiographical recall of every day of her life since she was fourteen. Give her any date from that year on, and she can almost instantly tell you what day of the week it was,...
The Things Between Us
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2006
The Montgomerys of Framingham, Massachusetts, are among the last of a dying breed -- New England WASPs who effortlessly combine repression, flamboyant eccentricity, and alcoholism. Fragmented by drink and dysfunction, the family had avoided assembling under one roof for more than a decade. But when...
The Measure of All Things
The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
In June 1792, amidst the chaos of the French Revolution, two intrepid astronomers set out in opposite directions on an extraordinary journey. Starting in Paris, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre would make his way north to Dunkirk, while Pierre-François-André Méchain voyaged south to Barcelona. Their...
Wildwood
A Journey Through Trees
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
Here, published for the first time in the United States, is the last book by Roger Deakin, famed British nature writer and icon of the environmentalist movement. In Deakin's glorious meditation on wood, the "fifth element" -- as it exists in nature, in our culture, and in our souls -- the reader accompanies...
Primalbranding
Create Zealots for Your Brand, Your Company, and Your Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2006
In one of the most original books of its kind ever written, Patrick Hanlon explains how the most powerful brands create a community of believers around the brand, revealing the seven components that will help every company and marketer capture the public imagination -- and seize a bigger slice of...
by David B. Agus, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Can we live robustly until our last breath?
Do we have to suffer from debilitating conditions and sickness? Is it possible to add more vibrant years to our lives? In the #1 New York Times bestselling The End of Illness, Dr. David Agus tackles these fundamental questions and dismantles misperceptions...
About Time
Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
The Big Bang is all but dead, and we do not yet know what will replace it. Our universe’s “beginning” is at an end. What does this have to do with us here on Earth? Our lives are about to be dramatically shaken again—as altered as they were with the invention of the clock, the steam engine,...
The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Takes On Alzheimer's
A Groundbreaking Look At This Mind-Blowing Disease And Its Effect On Women As Patients, Caregivers, And Advocates
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Takes on Alzheimer’s will be the first comprehensive multi-disciplinary look at these questions at this transformational moment. The Report will digest the current trends in thinking about Alzheimer’s, examine cutting-edge medical research, look at societal...
by Leon R. Kass
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Kass shows how the promise and the peril of our time are inextricably linked with the promise and the peril of modern science.
The relation between the pursuit of knowledge and the conduct of life—between science and ethics, each broadly conceived—has in recent years been greatly complicated...
The Boy on the Bus
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Meg Landry expected it to be a day like any other -- her asthmatic eight-year-old son would step off the bus, home from school. But on this day, the boy on the bus is not Meg's son -- or at least doesn't appear to be. This new boy shares Charlie's copper hair, tea-brown eyes, and slight frame. But...
State of War
The Secret History of the C.I.A. and the Bush Administration
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2006
With relentless media coverage, breathtaking events, and extraordinary congressional and independent investigations, it is hard to believe that we still might not know some of the most significant facts about the presidency of George W. Bush. Yet beneath the surface events of the Bush presidency lies...
Fallout
The True Story of the CIA's Secret War on Nuclear Trafficking
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
More than a high-stakes espionage thriller, Fallout painstakingly examines the huge costs of the CIA’s errors and the lost opportunities to halt the spread of nuclear weapons technology long before it was made available to some of the most dangerous and reckless adversaries of the United States...