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Spring Awakening
A Play
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
First performed in Germany in 1906, Frank Wedekind's controversial play Spring Awakening closed after one night in New York in 1917 amid charges of obscenity and public outrage. For the better part of the twentieth century Wedekind's intense body of work was largely unpublished and rarely performed....
Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me & Cheryl to the Mall
A Parent's Guide to the New Teenager
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2002
Beleaguered parents will breath sighs of relief and gratitude over this bestselling guide to raising teenagers
In this revised edition, Dr. Anthony E. Wolf tackles the changes in recent years with the same wit and compassion as the original edition. Dr. Wolf points out that while the basic...
by John McPhee
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and orange juice, but the author kept encountering so much irresistible information that he eventually found that he had in fact written a book. It contains sketches of orange growers, orange botanists, orange...
The Wisdom of Psychopaths
What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
In this engrossing journey into the lives of psychopaths and their infamously crafty behaviors, the renowned psychologist Kevin Dutton reveals that there is a scale of "madness" along which we all sit. Incorporating the latest advances in brain scanning and neuroscience, Dutton demonstrates...
The Antidote
Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Self-help books don't seem to work. Few of the many advantages of modern life seem capable of lifting our collective mood. Wealth—even if you can get it—doesn't necessarily lead to happiness. Romance, family life, and work often bring as much stress as joy. We can't even agree on what "happiness"...
by Thomas L. Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
This revised edition of the number-one bestseller and winner of the 1989 National Book Award includes the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's new, updated epilogue.
One of the most thought-provoking books ever written about the Middle East, From Beirut to Jerusalem remains vital to our understanding...
Worldmaking
The Art and Science of American Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
A new intellectual history of U.S. foreign policy from the late nineteenth century to the present
Worldmaking is a compelling new take on the history of American diplomacy. Rather than retelling the story of realism versus idealism, David Milne suggests that U.S. foreign policy has also been...
Deep Down Dark
The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
When the San José mine collapsed outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days. The entire world watched what transpired above-ground during the grueling and protracted rescue, but the saga of the...
The Secret Life of Words
How English Became English
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Words are essential to our everyday lives. An average person spends his or her day enveloped in conversations, e-mails, phone calls, text messages, directions, headlines, and more. But how often do we stop to think about the origins of the words we use? Have you ever thought about which words in English...
Justice
What's the Right Thing to Do?
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
What are our obligations to others as people in a free society? Should government tax the rich to help the poor? Is the free market fair? Is it sometimes wrong to tell the truth? Is killing sometimes morally required? Is it possible, or desirable, to legislate morality? Do individual rights and the...
by John McPhee
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2000
The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion years
Twenty years ago, when John McPhee began his journeys back and forth across the United States, he planned to describe a cross section of North America at about the fortieth parallel...
No Impact Man
The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
A guilty liberal finally snaps, swears off plastic, goes organic, becomes a bicycle nut, turns off his power, and generally becomes a tree-hugging lunatic who tries to save the polar bears and the rest of the planet from environmental catastrophe while dragging his baby daughter and Prada-wearing,...
The Coming Plague
Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1994
"Here is a volume that should be required reading for policy makers and health professionals." - Kirkus Reviews
After four decades of assuming that the conquest of all infectous diseases was imminent, people on all continents now find themselves besieged by AIDS, drug-resistant tuberculosis,...
Frankenstein's Cat
Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Winner of 2014 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Best Young Adult Science Book
Longlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
One of Nature's Summer Book Picks
One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Spring 2013 Science Books
For centuries, we've toyed with our creature companions,...