Broadway imprint: 811 books
Full Body Burden
Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Both a memoir and a brilliant work of investigative journalism, Full Body Burden is a detailed, shocking account of the government's sustained attempt to conceal the effects of the toxic and radioactive waste released by Rocky Flats, and of local residents' vain search for justice.
Kristen...
See No Evil
The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War Against Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2002
In See No Evil, one of the CIA’s top field officers of the past quarter century recounts his career running agents in the back alleys of the Middle East. In the process, Robert Baer paints a chilling picture of how terrorism works on the inside and provides compelling evidence about how Washington...
Renegade
The Making of a President
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Before the White House and Air Force One, before the TV ads and the enormous rallies, there was the real Barack Obama: a man wrestling with the momentous decision to run for the presidency, feeling torn about leaving behind a young family, and figuring out how to win the biggest prize in politics.
This...
The Tunnels
Escapes Under the Berlin Wall and the Historic Films the JFK White House Tried to Kill
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
A thrilling Cold War narrative of superpower showdowns, media suppression, and two escape tunnels beneath the Berlin Wall.
In the summer of 1962, the year after the rise of the Berlin Wall, a group of young West Germans risked prison, Stasi torture, and even death to liberate friends, lovers,...
Revival
The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Revival is the dramatic inside story of the defining period of the Obama White House. It is an epic tale that follows the president and his inner circle from the crisis of defeat to historic success.
Over the span of an extraordinary two months in the life of a young presidency, Obama and his...
He Wanted the Moon
The Madness and Medical Genius of Dr. Perry Baird, and His Daughter's Quest to Know Him
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
**Soon to be a major motion picture, from Brad Pitt and Tony Kushner
A Washington Post Best Book of 2015
A mid-century doctor's raw, unvarnished account of his own descent into madness, and his daughter's attempt to piece his life back together and make sense of her own.**
Texas-born...
The Wizard of Menlo Park
How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2007
Thomas Edison’s greatest invention? His own fame.
At the height of his fame Thomas Alva Edison was hailed as “the Napoleon of invention” and blazed in the public imagination as a virtual demigod. Starting with the first public demonstrations of the phonograph in 1878 and extending through...
A Walk on the Beach
Tales of Wisdom From an Unconventional Woman
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
From the author of the bestselling A Year By the Sea, comes the inspiring story about how her and Joan Erikson's friendship pushed them to remember the importance of transformation and sustained them through their unique challenges.
Shortly after arriving on Cape Cod to spend a year by herself,...
Dead Men Do Tell Tales
The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
From a skeleton, a skull, a mere fragment of burnt thighbone, prominent forensic anthropologist Dr. William Maples can deduce the age, gender, and ethnicity of a murder victim, the manner in which the person was dispatched, and, ultimately, the identity of the killer. In Dead Men Do Tell Tales, Dr....
The Philosophical Breakfast Club
Four Remarkable Friends Who Transformed Science and Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
“[A] fascinating book...about the way four geniuses at Cambridge University revolutionized modern science.“ *—Newsweek
The* Philosophical Breakfast Club recounts the life and work of four men who met as students at Cambridge University: Charles Babbage, John Herschel, William Whewell,...
Ticker
The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
It wasn’t supposed to be this hard. If America could send a man to the moon, shouldn’t the best surgeons in the world be able to build an artificial heart? In Ticker, Texas Monthly executive editor and two time National Magazine Award winner Mimi Swartz shows just how complex and difficult...
by Donna Shirley
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Donna Shirley's 35-year career as an aerospace engineer reached a jubilant pinnacle in July 1997 when Sojourner--the solar-powered, self-guided, microwave-oven-sized rover--was seen exploring the Martian landscape in Pathfinder's spectacular images from the surface of the red planet. The event marked...
Taking the Stand
My Life in the Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
America's most prominent legal mind and the #1 bestselling author of Chutzpah and The Best Defense, Alan Dershowitz, recounts his legal autobiography, describing how he came to the law, as well as the cases that have changed American jurisprudence over the past 50 years, most of which he has personally...
Measuring Eternity
The Search for the Beginning of Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2002
The untold story of the religious figures, philosophers, astronomers, geologists, physicists, and mathematicians who, for more than four hundred years, have pursued the answer to a fundamental question at the intersection of science and religion: When did the universe begin?
The moment of the...