Anchor imprint: 1481 books
Gulag
A History
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost.
The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that...
Guests of the Sheik
An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
A delightful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study, this is an account of Fernea's two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman. This volume gives a unique insight into a part of the Midddle Eastern life seldom seen...
Paul and Me
Fifty-three Years of Adventures and Misadventures with My Pal Paul Newman
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
Bestselling author A. E. Hotchner's intimate account of his 53-year friendship with his pal Paul Newman.
A. E. Hotchner first met Paul Newman in 1955 when the virtually unknown actor assumed the lead role in Hotchner’s first television play, based on an Ernest Hemingway story. The project...
by Germaine Greer
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
Thirty years after the publication of The Female Eunuch, Germaine Greer is back with the sequel she vowed never to write.
"A marvelous performance--. No feminist writer can match her for eloquence or energy; none makes [us] laugh the way she does."--The Washington Post
In this...
Under the Banner of Heaven
A Story of Violent Faith
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2004
This extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities, where some 40,000 people still practice polygamy. Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like...
While Europe Slept
How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2006
The struggle for the soul of Europe today is every bit as dire and consequential as it was in the 1930s. Then, in Weimar, Germany, the center did not hold, and the light of civilization nearly went out. Today, the continent has entered yet another “Weimar moment.” Will Europeans rise to the challenge...
The System
The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year
NCAA football is big business. Every Saturday millions of people file into massive stadiums or tune in on television as "athlete-students" give everything they've got to make their team a success. Billions of dollars now flow into the game....
Ted Williams
The Biography of an American Hero
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2004
The Kid. The Splendid Splinter. Teddy Ballgame. One of the greatest figures of his generation, and arguably the greatest baseball hitter of all time. But what made Ted Williams a legend – and a lightning rod for controversy in life and in death?
Still a gangly teenager when he stepped into...
by Michael MacCambridge
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
It’s difficult to imagine today—when the Super Bowl has virtually become a national holiday and the National Football League is the country’s dominant sports entity—but pro football was once a ramshackle afterthought on the margins of the American sports landscape. In the span of a single...
The Legends Club
Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Valvano, and an Epic College Basketball Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The riveting inside story of college basketball's fiercest rivalry among three coaching legends—University of North Carolina's Dean Smith, Duke's Mike Krzyzewski, and North Carolina State's Jim Valvano—by the king of college basketball writers, #1 New York Times bestseller John Feinstein
On...
The Big Bam
The Life and Times of Babe Ruth
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
National Bestseller
He was the Sultan of Swat. The Caliph of Clout. The Wizard of Whack. The Bambino. And simply, to his teammates, the Big Bam.
Babe Ruth was more than baseball’s original superstar. For eighty-five years, he has remained the sport’s reigning titan. He has been named...
The Last Hero
A Life of Henry Aaron
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
In the thirty-four years since his retirement, Henry Aaron’s reputation has only grown in magnitude: he broke existing records (rbis, total bases, extra-base hits) and set new ones (hitting at least thirty home runs per season fifteen times, becoming the first player in history to hammer five hundred...
The Billion Dollar Game
Behind the Scenes of the Greatest Day In American Sport - Super Bowl Sunday
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
A fascinating portrait of the National Football League, the Super Bowl, and all the position players who come together to create the biggest cultural phenomenon in American sports.
Think the Super Bowl is only about two teams of titans clashing on the field? Think again. The Super Bowl is about...
The Baseball
Stunts, Scandals, and Secrets Beneath the Stitches
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
The Baseball is a salute to the ball, filled with insider trivia, anecdotes, and generations of ball-induced insanity.
Which Hall of Famer once caught a ball dropped from an airplane?
Why do balls get stamped with invisible ink?
What’s the best ticket to buy for catching a foul ball?
Which...