Broadway imprint: 811 books
German Made Simple
Learn to speak and understand German quickly and easily
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Learning German Has Never Been Easier! Whether you are studying the language in school, planning a trip to Germany or Austria, or trying to learn the basics of the language closest to English, German Made Simple is the perfect book for any self-learner. Void of all nonessentials and refreshingly easy...
by Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
Designed for educators by the teacher who nurtured and created the Freedom Writers, this standards-based teachers’ guide includes innovative teaching techniques that will engage, empower, and enlighten.
In response to thousands of letters and e-mails from teachers across the country who learned...
Aftermath
Prepare For and Survive Apocalypse 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
In his celebrated previous book, Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation Into Civilization’s End, Lawrence E. Joseph appraised the likelihood of planet-wide catastrophe in 2012 by presenting convincing scientific evidence of looming chaos and even mass extinction. Now, in AFTERMATH: A Guide to Preparing...
Stealing Your Life
The Ultimate Identity Theft Prevention Plan
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
The charismatic forger immortalized in Catch Me If You Can exposes the astonishing tactics of today’s identity theft criminals and offers powerful strategies to thwart them based on his second career as an acclaimed fraud-fighting consultant.
When Frank Abagnale trains law enforcement officers...
The Quantum and the Lotus
A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
Matthieu Ricard trained as a molecular biologist, working in the lab of a Nobel prize—winning scientist, but when he read some Buddhist philosophy, he became drawn to Buddhism. Eventually he left his life in science to study with Tibetan teachers, and he is now a Buddhist monk and translator for...
The Third Miracle
An Ordinary Man, a Medical Mystery, and a Trial of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Part detective story and part courtroom drama—with a touch of the supernatural—The Third Miracle exposes, for the first time ever, the secret rituals and investigations the CatholicChurch today undertakes in order to determine sainthood.
On a raw January 2001 morning at a Catholic convent deep...
A Walk in the Woods
Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body.
Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia...
by Bill Bryson
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2003
One of the world’s most beloved writers and bestselling author of One Summer takes his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail**—well, most of it. In A Sunburned...
Electric Universe
How Electricity Switched on the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2005
The bestselling author of E=mc2 weaves tales of romance, divine inspiration, and fraud through an account of the invisible force that permeates our universe—electricity—and introduces us to the virtuoso scientists who plumbed its secrets.
For centuries, electricity was seen as little more...
by Rebecca Skloot
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
**Now an HBO® Film starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine,...
by Bill Bryson
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
One of the world’s most beloved writers and bestselling author of One Summer takes his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail**—well, most of it. In A Sunburned...
Finding Everett Ruess
The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
The definitive biography of Everett Ruess, the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age 20 have earned him a large and devoted cult following.
Wandering alone with burros...
Lucy's Legacy
The Quest for Human Origins
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
“Lucy is a 3.2-million-year-old skeleton who has become the spokeswoman for human evolution. She is perhaps the best known and most studied fossil hominid of the twentieth century, the benchmark by which other discoveries of human ancestors are judged.”*–*From Lucy’s Legacy
In his New...
The Island of Lost Maps
A True Story of Cartographic Crime
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
The Island of Lost Maps tells the story of a curious crime spree: the theft of scores of valuable centuries-old maps from some of the most prominent research libraries in the United States and Canada. The perpetrator was Gilbert Joseph Bland, Jr., an enigmatic antiques dealer from South Florida, whose...