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Turn Away Thy Son
Little Rock, the Crisis That Shocked the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
In September 1957, the nation was transfixed by nine black students attempting to integrate Central High School in Little Rock in the wake of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision. Governor Orval Faubus had defied the city's integration plan by calling out the Arkansas National...
by Paul Martin
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Here at last is the indispensable resource that has helped the writers and editors of The Wall Street Journal earn a reputation for the most authoritative business writing anywhere. Originally written exclusively for the paper's staff, The Wall Street Journal Guide to Business Style and Usage is a...
The Writing on the Wall
Why We Must Embrace China as a Partner or Face It as an Enemy
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2006
The prevailing view of China is that the country is an economic juggernaut sure to become the dominant power of the twenty-first century. In this provocative and stimulating book critically acclaimed author Will Hutton warns instead that China is running up against a set of daunting challenges from...
by Henry Mintzberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1994
In this definitive and revealing history, Henry Mintzberg, the iconoclastic former president of the Strategic Management Society, unmasks the press that has mesmerized so many organizations since 1965: strategic planning. One of our most brilliant and original management thinkers, Mintzberg concludes...
by Janet H. Murray
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Stories define how we think, the way we play, and the way we understand our lives. And just as Gutenberg made possible the stories that ushered in the Modem Era, so is the computer having a profound effect on the stories of the late 20th century. Today we are confronting the limits of books themselves...
Vietnam
The Necessary War
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
A quarter century after its end, the Vietnam War still divides Americans. Some, mostly on the left, claim that Indochina was of no strategic value to the United States and was not worth an American war. Others, mostly on the right, argue that timid civilian leaders and defeatists within the media...
Fire & Roses
The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2000
In the midst of a deadly heat wave during the summer of 1834, a woman clawed her way over the wall of a Roman Catholic convent near Boston, Massachusetts and escaped to the home of a neighbor, pleading for protection. When the bishop, Benedict Fenwick, persuaded her to return, rumors began swirling...
by Milton K. Munitz
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
The theoretical physicist shares his latest thoughts on the nature of space and time in this anthology of selections from Princeton University Press. Along with eminent colleagues, Hawking extends theoretical frontiers by speculating on the big questions of modern cosmology.
Tearing Down the Walls
How Sandy Weill Fought His Way to the Top of the Financial World. . .and Then Nearly Lost It All
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2003
The very night that Sanford "Sandy" Weill, the chairman and chief executive officer of Citigroup, was being feted on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange as CEO of the Year, the television screens above the floor were flashing danger: A congressional panel was tearing into Jack Grubman,...
One Last Great Thing
A Story of a Father and a Son, a Story of a Life and a Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
A powerful, honest, and inspiring tribute to the incredible life of Richard Burke, the founder of Trek Bicycle Corporation, written by his son John.
Richard Burke, known to many as “The Big Guy,” was a legend. With his friend Bevil Hogg, he founded the Trek Bicycle Corporation in 1976 and...
Gentleman Revolutionary
Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Since 1996, Richard Brookhiser has devoted himself to recovering the Founding for modern Americans. The creators of our democracy had both the temptations and the shortcomings of all men, combined with the talents and idealism of the truly great. Among them, no Founding Father demonstrates the combination...
Thelonious Monk
The Life and Times of an American Original
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
The first full biography of legendary jazz musician Thelonious Monk, written by a brilliant historian, with full access to the family's archives and with dozens of interviews. Now updated with an afterword for Monk’s 2017 centennial.
Thelonious Monk is the critically acclaimed, gripping saga...
Will You Take Me As I Am
Joni Mitchell's Blue Period
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
Joni Mitchell is one of the most celebrated artists of the last half century, and her landmark 1971 album, Blue, is one of her most beloved and revered works. Generations of people have come of age listening to the album, inspired by the way it clarified their own difficult emotions. Critics and musicians...
Crazy Enough
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Yes,Storm Large is her real name, though she’s been called many things. As a performer, the majority of descriptions have led with “Amazon,” “powerhouse,” “a six-foot Vargas pinup come to life.” Playboy called her a “punk goddess.” You’d never know she used to be called “Little...