Anchor imprint: 1481 books
Mountain Music Fills the Air: Banjos and Dulcimers
The Foxfire Americana Libray (11)
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Banjos and dulcimers have always been an essential part of Appalachian music, shared and enjoyed throughout the generations. Here, musicians share the history of the instruments and show how they are constructed, piece by piece, with photos and diagrams.
Foxfire has brought the philosophy...
There Are No Children Here
The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
This is the moving and powerful account of two remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes, a public housing complex disfigured by crime and neglect.
The Oath
The Obama White House and The Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
From the prizewinning author of The Nine, a gripping insider's account of the momentous ideological war between the John Roberts Supreme Court and the Obama administration.
From the moment John Roberts, the chief justice of the United States, blundered through the Oath of Office at Barack Obama's...
Bird by Bird
Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
"A warm, generous and hilarious guide through the writer's world and its treacherous swamps." --Los Angeles Times
Advice on writing and on life from an acclaimed bestselling author:
"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report...
How to Be a Person in the World
Ask Polly's Guide Through the Paradoxes of Modern Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
***A New York Times Love and Relationships bestseller*
For readers of Cheryl Strayed and Anne Lamott, a collection of brand new, impassioned, and inspiring letters by the author of the beloved advice column Ask Polly, featured weekly on New York Magazine's The Cut**
Should you quit your...
The Teacher Wars
A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
In her groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education, Dana Goldstein finds answers in the past to the controversies that plague our public schools today.
Teaching is a wildly contentious profession in America, one attacked and admired in equal measure. In The Teacher Wars, a rich,...
Planting By the Signs: Mountain Gardening
The Foxfire Americana Library (10)
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
An Appalachian farmer’s almanac, “Planting by the Signs” is a valuable resource for the gardener looking for time-honored tips for clearing land and growing vegetables from the people who originally pioneered the art through hard work (and a little bit of luck). In the spirit of the Foxfire...
by Harold S. Kushner
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
In this bestselling work of spiritual advice, the beloved author shows how even our smallest daily actions can become stepping steps toward integrity.
Drawing on the stories of his own congregants, on literature, current events and, above all, on the Biblical story of Jacob (the worldly trickster...
Assholes
A Theory
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
In the spirit of the mega-selling On Bullshit, philosopher Aaron James presents a theory of the asshole that is both intellectually provocative and existentially necessary.
What does it mean for someone to be an asshole? The answer is not obvious, despite the fact that we are often personally...
Parallel Worlds
A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2006
In this thrilling journey into the mysteries of our cosmos, bestselling author Michio Kaku takes us on a dizzying ride to explore black holes and time machines, multidimensional space and, most tantalizing of all, the possibility that parallel universes may lay alongside our own.
Kaku skillfully...
Fermat's Enigma
The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
xn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, ...no solution
"I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain."
With these words, the seventeenth-century French mathematician Pierre de Fermat threw down the gauntlet...
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...
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can...
The Primal Teen
What the New Discoveries about the Teenage Brain Tell Us about Our Kids
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A groundbreaking look at the teenage brain for anyone who has puzzled over the mysterious and often infuriating behavior of a teenager.
While many members of the scientific community have long held that the growing pains of adolescence are primarily psychological, Barbara Strauch highlights...