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Cockpit Confidential
Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers, and Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
A New York Times bestseller
For millions of people, travel by air is a confounding, uncomfortable, and even fearful experience. Patrick Smith, airline pilot and author of the web's popular Ask the Pilot feature, separates the fact from fallacy and tells you everything you need to know...
How...
Freedom's Forge
How American Business Produced Victory in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SELECTED BY THE ECONOMIST AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
“A rambunctious book that is itself alive with the animal spirits of the marketplace.”—The Wall Street Journal
Freedom’s Forge reveals how two extraordinary American businessmen—General...
Ninety Percent of Everything
Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Eye-opening and compelling, the overlooked world of freight shipping, revealed as the foundation of our civilization
On ship-tracking websites, the waters are black with dots. Each dot is a ship; each ship is laden with boxes; each box is laden with goods. In postindustrial economies, we no...
by Gary Taubes
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening exposé that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick.
Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent today...
The Network
The Battle for the Airwaves and the Birth of the Communications Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
The astonishing story of America’s airwaves, the two friends—one a media mogul, the other a famous inventor—who made them available to us, and the government which figured out how to put a price on air.
This is the origin story of the airwaves—the foundational technology of the communications...
Terra Nova
The New World After Oil, Cars, and Suburbs
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
A look at what the American lifestyle has done to the environment—and how to move toward a better future.
In the last century, three powerful forces—oil, cars, and suburbs—buoyed the American dream. Yet now, the quality of life in the United States is declining due to these same three forces....
by John Suscovich
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Inside these pages, you will find step-by-step instructions for a mobile broiler chicken shelter for pastured poultry that is used by farmers and homesteaders all over the country.
Raising chickens on grass provides them with a healthy lifestyle and a delicious flavor. You can raise just enough...
The Heartless Stone
A Journey Through the World of Diamonds, Deceit, and Desire
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
In 2000, Tom Zoellner purchased a diamond engagement ring and proposed. His girlfriend said, "yes" and then, suddenly, walked out of his life making Tom the owner of a used engagement ring. Instead of hitting the self-help shelves of his local bookstore, he hit the road travelling to diamond...
Montréal Chic: A Locational History of Montreal Fashion
A Locational History of Montreal Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Montreal is à la mode. A fashionable city in its own right, it also boasts fashion schools, an industry packed with local designers and manufacturers, and a dynamic scene that exhibits local and international collections. With its vibrant cultural life and affordable cost of living, designers and...
The $11 Billion Year
From Sundance to the Oscars, an Inside Look at the Changing Hollywood System
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
"This chronicle of 2012 is a slice of what happened during a watershed year for the Hollywood movie industry. It's not the whole story, but it's a mosaic of what went on, and why, and of where things are heading."
What changed in one Hollywood year to produce a record-breaking box...
by Marcus X. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Marcus Xavier Taylor, was born on September 18, 1971 in Utica, New York. However his arrival to New York City was a gradual one; a sort of geographical putting of his big toe in the water. First immediately after being released from the Downstate Correctional Facility, he relocated to Poughkeepsie,...
by John Lizzi
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
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by Thomas J. Strang
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Have you ever met anyone who doesn’t like horror movies? Not everyone likes sport, or reading books, or watching TV and some people, apparently, aren’t even all that keen on sex – but everyone loves movies. They seem to be the one thing in the world we all enjoy. Why is that? What is it about...
by Ant Hive Media
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2016
This is a Summary of James Andrew Miller’s New York Times bestseller Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood’s Creative Artists Agency
The movies you watch, the TV shows you adore, the concerts and sporting events you attend—behind the curtain of nearly all of these is an immensely...