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And a Bottle of Rum, Revised and Updated
A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Now revised, updated, and with new recipes, And a Bottle of Rum tells the raucously entertaining story of this most American of liquors
From the grog sailors drank on the high seas in the 1700s to the mojitos of Havana bar hoppers, spirits and cocktail columnist Wayne Curtis offers a history...
Quiet
The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
The book that started the Quiet Revolution
At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over working in teams. It is to introverts—Rosa Parks,...
The United States of Arugula
The Sun Dried, Cold Pressed, Dark Roasted, Extra Virgin Story of the American Food Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
The wickedly entertaining, hunger-inducing, behind-the-scenes story of the revolution in American food that has made exotic ingredients, celebrity chefs, rarefied cooking tools, and destination restaurants familiar aspects of our everyday lives.
Amazingly enough, just twenty years ago eating...
Female Nomad and Friends
Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In 1987, Rita, newly divorced, set out to live her dream. She sold all her possessions and became a nomad. She wrote a book about her ongoing journey and, in 2001, insisted on putting her personal e-mail address in the last chapter—against all advice. It turned out to be a fortuitous decision. She...
Why We Make Mistakes
How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
We forget our passwords. We pay too much to go to the gym. We think we’d be happier if we lived in California (we wouldn’t), and we think we should stick with our first answer on tests (we shouldn’t). Why do we make mistakes? And could we do a little better?
We human beings have design...
Better Than Before
What I Learned About Making and Breaking Habits--to Sleep More, Quit Sugar, Procrastinate Less, and Generally Build a Happier Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
New York Times Bestseller | Washington Post Bestseller
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**The author of the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers, The Happiness Project and Happier at Home, tackles the critical question: How do we change? **
Gretchen Rubin's answer: through habits. Habits are the invisible architecture...
by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“A brilliant book, wise and nuanced.”
—Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
“Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly timely.”
—New York Times Book Review
“Cool and persuasive... How Democracies Die comes at exactly the right moment.”
—The Washington...
Double Cross
The True Story of the D-Day Spies
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
In Double Cross, New York Times bestselling author Ben Macintyre returns with the untold story of one of the greatest deceptions of World War II, and of the extraordinary spies who achieved it.
On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly...
Manhunt
The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
The gripping account of the decade-long hunt for the world's most wanted man.
It was only a week before 9/11 that Peter Bergen turned in the manuscript of Holy War, Inc., the story of Osama bin Laden--whom Bergen had once interviewed in a mud hut in Afghanistan--and his declaration of war on...
Lost to the West
The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Filled with unforgettable stories of emperors, generals, and religious patriarchs, as well as fascinating glimpses into the life of the ordinary citizen, Lost to the West reveals how much we owe to the Byzantine Empire that was the equal of any in its achievements, appetites, and enduring legacy.
For...
American Wolf
A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The enthralling true story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrated Yellowstone wolf, and the people who loved or feared her.
Before men ruled the earth, there were wolves. Once abundant in North America, these majestic creatures were hunted to near extinction...
by Giles Whittell
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
The dramatic events behind the Oscar-winning film, Bridge of Spies, tracing the paths leading to the first and most legendary prisoner exchange between East and West at Berlin's Glienicke Bridge and Checkpoint Charlie on February 10, 1962.
Bridge of Spies is the true story of three extraordinary...
Operation Family Secrets
How a Mobster's Son and the FBI Brought Down Chicago's Murderous Crime Family
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
The chilling true story of how the son of the most violent mobster in Chicago helped bring down the last great American crime syndicate: the one-hundred-year-old Chicago Outfit.
In Operation Family Secrets, Frank Calabrese, Jr. reveals for the first time the outfit’s “made” ceremony and...
How the Scots Invented the Modern World
The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Ever ything in It
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
An exciting account of the origins of the modern world
Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions...