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Dogtown
Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
The area known as Dogtown -- an isolated colonial ruin and surrounding 3,000-acre woodland in storied seaside Gloucester, Massachusetts -- has long exerted a powerful influence over artists, writers, eccentrics, and nature lovers. But its history is also woven through with tales of witches, supernatural...
The 188th Crybaby Brigade
A Skinny Jewish Kid from Chicago Fights Hezbollah--A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Look at me. Do you see me? Do you see me in my olive-green uniform, beret, and shiny black boots? Do you see the assault rifle slung across my chest? Finally! I am the badass Israeli soldier at the side of the road, in sunglasses, forearms like bricks. And honestly -- have you ever seen anything quite...
Obama on the Couch
Inside the Mind of the President
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Even though he’s three years into his term as President, many Americans feel like they don’t know the “real” Barack Obama. From the idealistic campaigner who seemed to share our dreams, and who promised to fulfill our lofty expectations, to pragmatic politician who has repeatedly compromised...
by Sally Ooms
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2013
When people find themselves displaced, what do they do to re-create, their homes? And what does home mean to them? The lives in this book span a wealth of definitions. Finding Home: How Americans Prevail is about people who have become dislodged from their center, the place they call home, and about...
The Triple Whammy Cure
The Breakthrough Women's Health Program for Feeling Good Again in 3 Weeks
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2006
Is this your life? You've been feeling just plain awful for far too long -- depressed, exhausted, achy, stressed-out, bloated, and forgetful. In fact, you're beginning to find it hard to remember the last time you felt really well -- or even just okay. So you go to the doctor -- perhaps even a series...
by Andrew Bushard
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Goals, goals, goals. Life is all about goals! Goals are the meaning of life and you can use the First Amendment to achieve your goals. This book shows you how to use different types of free speech to achieve your goals.
by Stephen F. Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
As America’s need for productive workers increases, Hamilton explains how apprenticeship would exploit workplaces as learning environments, helping young people to make the crucial connections between school learning, community participation, and a satisfying, constructive life’s work.
World Wide Mind
The Coming Integration of Humanity, Machines, and the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
What if digital communication felt as real as being touched?
This question led Michael Chorost to explore profound new ideas triggered by lab research around the world, and the result is the book you now hold. Marvelous and momentous, World Wide Mind takes mind-to-mind communication out of...
by Anthony Storr
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Why does music have such a powerful effect on our minds and bodies? It is the most mysterious and most tangible of all forms of art. Yet, Anthony Storr believes, music today is a deeply significant experience for a greater number of people than ever before. In this book, he explores why this should...
by Anthony Storr
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Originally published in 1988, Anthony Storr's bestselling meditation on the creative individual's need for solitude has become a classic.
A pre-eminent work in self-help and popular psychology literature, Solitude was seminal in challenging the psychological paradigm that “interpersonal relationships...
My Fathers' Daughter
A Story of Family and Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
What do you wear to meet your father for the first time?
In 2004, Hannah Pool knew more about next season's lipstick colors than she did about Africa: a beauty editor for The Guardian newspaper, she juggled lattes and cocktails, handbags and hangouts through her twenties just like any other...
Three Empires on the Nile
The Victorian Jihad, 1869-1899
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2007
A secular regime is toppled by Western intervention, but an Islamic backlash turns the liberators into occupiers. Caught between interventionists at home and fundamentalists abroad, a prime minister flounders as his ministers betray him, alliances fall apart, and a runaway general makes policy in...
The Rules of Sociological Method
And Selected Texts on Sociology and its Method
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Revised for the first time in over thirty years, this edition of Emile Durkheim’s masterful work on the nature and scope of sociology is updated with a new introduction and improved translation by leading scholar Steven Lukes that puts Durkheim’s work into context for the twenty-first century...
In the Belly of the Green Bird
The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2006
Nir Rosen has been hailed by The New York Review of Books as the reporter who managed to get inside Fallujah "at a time when it was a death trap for Western reporters," and as one of the few Western reporters able to report the truth from Iraq. Still in his twenties, a freelancer who has written for...