Henry: 2809 books
Manifest Injustice
The True Story of a Convicted Murderer and the Lawyers Who Fought for His Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
In this remarkable legal page-turner, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Barry Siegel recounts the dramatic, decades-long saga of Bill Macumber, imprisoned for thirty-eight years for a double homicide he denies committing. In the spring of 1962, a school bus full of students stumbled across a mysterious...
by Siri Hustvedt
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
In this unique neurological memoir Siri Hustvedt attempts to solve her own mysterious condition
While speaking at a memorial event for her father in 2006, Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. Despite her flapping arms and shaking legs, she continued to speak clearly...
Panda Math
Learning About Subtraction from Hua Mei and Mei Sheng
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Learn about subtraction with the San Diego Zoo's famous baby pandas in Panda Math
Hua Mei was the first giant panda cub born in the United States that survived more than a few days. She was born at the San Diego Zoo, and four years later her mother had another baby, Mei Sheng. Hua Mei and her...
Beer and Circus
How Big-Time College Sports Has Crippled Undergraduate Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
A no-holds-barred examination of the troubled relationship between college sports and higher education from a leading authority on the subject
Murray Sperber turns common perceptions about big-time college athletics inside out. He shows, for instance, that contrary to popular belief the money...
The Good Psychologist
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
"Noam Shpancer portrays the oft-hidden world of psychotherapy with unparalleled authenticity, compassion, and wit . . . An astonishing debut."—Jonathan Kellerman
Noam Shpancer's stunning debut novel opens as a psychologist reluctantly takes on a new client—an exotic dancer whose...
Voyage of the Turtle
In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
The story of an ancient sea turtle and what its survival says about our future, from the award-winning writer and naturalist
Though nature is indifferent to the struggles of her creatures, the human effect on them is often premeditated. The distressing decline of sea turtles in Pacific waters...
The View from Lazy Point
A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
An exhilarating journey of natural renewal through a year with MacArthur fellow Carl Safina
Beginning in his kayak in his home waters of eastern Long Island, Carl Safina's The View from Lazy Point takes us through the four seasons to the four points of the compass, from the high Arctic south...
Eye of the Albatross
Visions of Hope and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
"One of the most delightful natural history studies in decades." —The Boston Globe
Eye of the Albatross takes us soaring to locales where whales, sea turtles, penguins, and shearwaters flourish in their own quotidian rhythms. Carl Safina's guide and inspiration is an albatross he...
by Henry Emili
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
For emphasis, this awareness campaign became necessary due to an experience of a close colleague. It was a black October 13. Whenever that date draws near, I get further saddened by the level of ignorance among the populace, as the main reason of my friend’s death begs for attention.
by Jeffrey Max Henry
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
The Westford Knight of Westford, MA, has a long and convoluted history since its first published mention in the late nineteenth century. The rock face’s punch carving has no known published records on its origin. For more than a century, imagination and pseudoscience built the modern mythology associated...
Conversations with RBG
Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
In her own words, Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers an intimate look at her life and career, though an extraordinary series of conversations with the head of the National Constitution Center.
Conversations with RBG is a remarkable and unique book, an informal portrait of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,...
by Henry Fields
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2017
Toenail fungus is definitely is a health issue but much more than that, it is a social problem for the person that has it. Toenail fungus keeps you from wearing open toe sandals, it keeps you from joining your family and friends at the beach and it even becomes a self-conscious issue in a personal...
If I Get to Five
What Children Can Teach Us About Courage and Character
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
A world-renowned pediatric neurosurgeon shares the lessons of courage, compassion, and resilience that he's learned from his exceptional young patients
If I Get to Five is a one-of-a-kind book by a one-of-a-kind human being. The medical world knows him as Fred Epstein, M.D., the neurosurgeon...
The Triumph of Evolution
and the Failure of Creationism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
Eldredge presents the most up-to-date examination of the creation-evolution confrontation available.