Scribner: 1672 books
Company Man
Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
The “revealing” (The New Yorker) insider history of the CIA from a lawyer with a “front-row seat on the hidden world of intelligence” (The Washington Post). Former CIA director George J. Tenet called Company Man a “must read.”
Over the course of a thirty-four-year (1976-2009) career,...
by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
On Life and Living
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D., is the woman who has transformed the way the world thinks about death and dying. Beginning with the groundbreaking publication of the classic psychological study On Death and Dying and continuing through her many books and her years working with terminally...
Riding Rockets
The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2006
On February 1, 1978, the first group of space shuttle astronauts, twenty-nine men and six women, were introduced to the world. Among them would be history makers, including the first American woman and the first African American in space. This assembly of astronauts would carry NASA through the most...
An Epidemic of Absence
A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
A brilliant, cutting-edge exploration of the dramatic rise of allergic and autoimmune diseases and the controversial, potentially groundbreaking therapies that scientists are developing to correct these disorders
Whether it is asthma, food or pollen allergies, type-1 diabetes, lupus, multiple...
Attending
Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
With his “deeply informed and compassionate book…Dr. Epstein tells us that it is a ‘moral imperative’ [for doctors] to do right by their patients” (New York Journal of Books).
The first book for the general public about the importance of mindfulness in medical practice, Attending...
by Echo Heron
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Chilling, revelatory, and compassionate, Echo Heron’s bestselling memoir offers a brutally honest account of her time as an idealistic nursing student, her entry into the workforce, and her rude awakening to the gritty realities of practice. Devoted to helping the most trying patients in some of...
Saddam's Bombmaker
The Terrifiying Inside Story of the Iraqi Nuclear and Biological Weapons
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2001
The Iraqi scientist who designed Baghdad's nuclear bomb tells how he did it in secret with the cynical help of U.S., French, German, and British suppliers and experts, and kept it hidden from U.N. inspectors after the Gulf War. Today, he says, Saddam Hussein is only months away from making a workable...
The Victoria's Secret Catalog Never Stops Coming
And Other Lessons I Learned From Breast Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2002
Breast cancer made Jennie Nash a wise old woman at the age of thirty-six. She learned, among other things, that her instincts are good, her kids are really resilient, and that, in the fight against breast cancer, the journey for patients, family, and friends can be a surprisingly positive, life-changing...
Into the Gray Zone
A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
In this “riveting read, meshing memoir with scientific explication” (Nature), a world-renowned neuroscientist reveals how he learned to communicate with patients in vegetative or “gray zone” states and, more importantly, he explains what those interactions tell us about the working of our...
The Broken and the Whole
Discovering Joy after Heartbreak
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
A wise, uplifting memoir about a rabbi’s search for understanding and his discovery of hope and joy after his young son suffered a catastrophic brain-stem stroke: “Deeply moving, extraordinarily thought-provoking, and entirely humane” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
As a young, ambitious...
by Tad Szulc
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
A comprehensive and exclusive biography on one of the most pivotal figures of the 20th century: Pope John Paul II.
As the spiritual head of more than one billion Catholics and a world statesman of immense stature and influence, Pope John Paul II was a major international figure. Yet he remained...
Misty
Digging Deep in Volleyball and Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
The passionate, poignant, and triumphant story of two-time Olympic gold medal–winning beach volleyball icon Misty May-Treanor.
More than any Olympics in history, the 2008 Beijing Summer Games captured the world’s imagination, and Misty May-Treanor became one of the biggest U.S. stars on...
Chamique
On Family, Focus, and Basketball
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2001
She has been called the best woman basketball player ever, the player with the power to decide the direction of the WNBA. But the popularity of twenty-three-year-old Chamique Holdsclaw is rooted not only in her basketball status but also in her remarkable and inspiring life. Here, Chamique takes us...
The Pine Tar Game
The Kansas City Royals, the New York Yankees, and Baseball's Most Absurd and Entertaining Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
The New York Times bestseller—“a rollicking account” (The Kansas City Star) of the infamous baseball game between the Yankees and Royals in which a game-winning home run was overturned and set off one of sports history’s most absurd and entertaining controversies.
On July 24, 1983,...