Abrams imprint: 1041 books
Anything Goes
A Biography of the Roaring Twenties
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
The glitter of 1920s America was seductive, from jazz, flappers, and wild all- night parties to the birth of Hollywood and a glamorous gangster-led crime scene flourishing under Prohibition. But the period was also punctuated by momentous events-the political show trials of Sacco and Vanzetti, the...
The Fry Chronicles
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
But when he arrived at Cambridge he was a convicted thief, an addict, and a failed suicide, convinced that he would be expelled. Instead, university life offered him love and the chance to entertain. He befriended bright young things like Hugh Laurie, now the star of House, and Emma Thompson. This...
Draplin Design Co.
Pretty Much Everything
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Esquire. Ford Motors. Burton Snowboards. The Obama Administration. While all of these brands are vastly different, they share at least one thing in common: a teeny, little bit of Aaron James Draplin. Draplin is one of the new school of influential graphic designers who combine the power of design,...
Barefoot to Billionaire
Reflections on a Life's Work and a Promise to Cure Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The company he founded in 1970, the Huntsman Corporation, is now one of the largest petrochemical manufacturers in the world, employing more than 12,000 people and generating over 10 billion in revenue each year. Success in business, though, has always been a means to an end—never an end in itself. ...
The War at the Shore
Donald Trump, Steve Wynn, and the Epic Battle to Save Atlantic City
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
“With Trump and Wynn, Skip Bronson nails the drama and muscle of a Super Bowl Sunday . . . A manual of strategy and tactics, smeared with sweat and blood” **(**Steve Tisch, chairman of the New York Giants).
From 1995 to 2000, two of the world’s best-known companies―Mirage Resorts and...
Like My Father Always Said . . .
Gruff Advice, Sweet Wisdom, and Half-Baked Instructions on How to Fix Your Stuff and Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
A collection of crowd-sourced quips and quotes from real-life dads—from the profound to the hilarious.
The author of Like My Mother Always Said . . . presents a new volume that focuses on fatherly advice—gathered from contributors around the world. Dads may come from different places and...
Spaceport Earth
The Reinvention of Spaceflight
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
It’s the 21st-century and everything about the space industry is changing, and leading that charge are private sector companies including Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, which are building a dizzying array of new spacecraft and rockets, not just for government use, but for any...
Portrait of Camelot
A Thousand Days in the Kennedy White House
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s election as president of the United States, this book is a revealing and intimate portrait of a leader, husband, and father as seen through the lens of Cecil Stoughton, the first official White House photographer. Stoughton’s close...
by Paul Sahre
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
In Two-Dimensional Man, Paul Sahre shares deeply revealing stories that serve as the unlikely inspiration behind his extraordinary thirty-year design career. Sahre explores his mostly vain attempts to escape his "suburban Addams Family" upbringing and the death of his elephant-trainer brother....
Empire of Secrets
British Intelligence, the Cold War, and the Twilight of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
The renowned espionage historian offers “a gripping account of British intelligence during the last days of empire” (The Daily Telegraph).
Drawing on a wealth of newly declassified records and hitherto overlooked personal papers, intelligence expert Calder Walton offers a compelling and authoritative...
The Fourth of July and the Founding of America
The Startling Truth Behind the Birth of Our Country
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
A history of the holiday and an “elegant, ironic, brief but deeply researched meditation on what makes America America” (Financial Times).
Holidays of all sorts are celebrated in the United States, many rooted in the country’s great diversity of ethnicities, religions, and cultures. But...
Norman Foster
A Life in Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Amongst many other buildings, Norman Foster is responsible for the design of Beijing's new airport, one of the world's largest, for the Rossiya tower in Moscow, in contention to be the tallest skyscraper in Europe until the credit crunch killed it, for one of the towers at Ground Zero in Manhattan,...
Best White Wine on Earth
The Riesling Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
A celebrated wine journalist presents a comprehensive, entertaining primer on one of the most beloved wines of our time: Riesling.
Diverse, drinkable, aromatic, and refreshing, Riesling is a chameleon among white wines. From its food-friendly flavor and favorable price point to its ability...
Facing Frederick
The Life of Frederick Douglass, a Monumental American Man
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) is best known for the telling of his own emancipation. But there is much more to Douglass’s story than his time spent enslaved and his famous autobiography. Facing Frederick captures the whole complicated, and at times perplexing, person that he was. Statesman, suffragist,...