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The Huntress
The Adventures, Escapades, and Triumphs of Alicia Patterson: Aviatrix, Sportswoman, Journalist, Publisher
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
From National Book Award–winner Michael J. Arlen and screenwriter Alice Arlen, here is the fascinating, adventurous life of Alicia Patterson, who became, at age thirty-four, one of the youngest and most successful newspaper publishers in America when she founded Newsday.
With The Huntress,...
by Michael Oakeshott
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
From the 1920s to the 1980s Oakeshott filled dozens of notebooks with his private reflections, both personal and intellectual. Their contents range from aphorisms to miniature essays, forming a unique record of his intellectual trajectory over his entire career. This volume makes them accessible in print...
Schirrmacher
Ein Portrait
Language: German
Release Date: May 18, 2018
Das Spiel mit der Macht. Frank Schirrmachers Biographie ist vielleicht die letzte, die man exemplarisch nennen muss: Michael Angele hat das erste Porträt des großen Journalisten, Herausgebers der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung und Bestsellerautors geschrieben. Er zeichnet ein detailreiches Bild...
Playing to the Edge
American Intelligence in the Age of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
An unprecedented high-level master narrative of America's intelligence wars, demonstrating in a time of new threats that espionage and the search for facts are essential to our democracy
For General Michael Hayden, playing to the edge means playing so close to the line that you get chalk dust...
Ulysses S. Grant
The Unlikely Hero
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
A lavishly illustrated edition of Michael Korda's acclaimed biography of the man who ended the Civil War, served two terms as president, and wrote one of the most successful military memoirs in American literature
Ulysses S. Grant was the first officer since George Washington to become a four-star...
Deshaciendo errores
Kahneman, Tversky y la amistad que nos enseñó cómo funciona la mente
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Michael Lewis examina en este brillante libro cómo la amistad entre David Kahneman y Amos Tversky revolucionó radicalmente nuestra manera de entender el funcionamiento de la mente humana.
Hace más de cuarenta años, una serie de experimentos totalmente originales de dos jóvenes psicólogos,...
Free Radicals
The Secret Anarchy of Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
“An exuberant tour through the world of scientists behaving badly” (The New York Times).
They may have a public image as cool, logical, levelheaded types. But in reality, scientists will do pretty much anything—take drugs, follow mystical visions, lie, and even cheat—to make a discovery.
In...
by Michael Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Barely Breathing is an unforgettable memoir of a son’s love, sacrifice, and devotion to get to his dying father and to fulfill his final with against all odds.
When word comes that his father collapsed while on vacation in Salzburg, Austria, and was not expected to survive the night, Michael...
by Michael Dolkowski
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2018
In this heartfelt vivid memoir, Michael K. Dolkowski tells the gripping, true story of his life. He faced and overcame challenges most people never have to endure, with courage, tenacity and a never-failing belief that misfortune can be turned into opportunity. Dolkowski has survived child molestation,...
Secret Lives of the Tsars
Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
“Michael Farquhar doesn’t write about history the way, say, Doris Kearns Goodwin does. He writes about history the way Doris Kearns Goodwin’s smart-ass, reprobate kid brother might. I, for one, prefer it.”—Gene Weingarten, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and Washington Post columnist
Scandal!...
The King's Grave
The Discovery of Richard III’s Lost Burial Place and the Clues It Holds
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
The first full-length book about the discovery of Richard III's remains, by the person who led the archaeology team and the historian whose book spurred her on
The mystery of who Richard III really was has fascinated historians, readers and audiences familiar with Shakespeare's dastardly portrait...
by Michael Bamberger
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
The instant New York Times bestseller from acclaimed Sports Illustrated writer Michael Bamberger—a warm, nostalgic, intimately reported account of golf’s greatest generation, and “maybe the best golf book I’ve ever read” (Bill Reynolds, The Providence Journal).
With “exceptional...
The Smart Money
How the World's Best Sports Bettors Beat the Bookies Out of Millions
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2006
A riveting inside look at the lucrative world of professional high-stakes sports betting by a journalist who lived a secret life as a key operative in the world's most successful sports gambling ring.
When journalist Michael Konik landed an interview with Rick "Big Daddy" Matthews,...
Wake Up Happy
The Dream Big, Win Big Guide to Transforming Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
From America’s favorite football player turned New York Times bestselling author and morning talk show host here are 18 rules of motivational advice that will inspire you to turn up the heat and go from good to great in pursuit of your personal ambitions.
Pulling from his own life experiences,...