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Skunk Works
A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, the never-before-told story behind America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies Skunk Works is the true story of America's most secret and successful aerospace operation. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation's brilliant boss for nearly...
How Music Works
The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
What makes a musical note different from any other sound? How can you tell if you have perfect pitch? Why do 10 violins sound only twice as loud as one? Do your Bob Dylan albums sound better on CD or vinyl? John Powell, a scientist and musician, answers these questions and many more in HOW MUSIC WORKS,...
The Black Hole War
My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2008
What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed it did-and in doing so put at risk everything we know about physics and the fundamental laws of the universe. Most scientists didn't recognize the import of...
Atom
An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth...and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2001
The story of matter and the history of the cosmos from the perspective of a single oxygen atom, told with the insight and wit of one of the most dynamic physicists and writers working today. Through this astonishing work, he manages to stoke wonder at the powers and unlikely events that conspired to create our solar system, our ecosystem, and us.
Origin Story
A Big History of Everything
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
This New York Times bestseller "elegantly weaves evidence and insights...into a single, accessible historical narrative" (Bill Gates) and presents a captivating history of the universe -- from the Big Bang to dinosaurs to mass globalization and beyond.
Most historians study the smallest...
The Water Will Come
Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
"An immersive, mildly gonzo and depressingly well-timed book about the drenching effects of global warming, and a powerful reminder that we can bury our heads in the sand about climate change for only so long before the sand itself disappears." (Jennifer Senior, New York Times)
A New York Times...
Chaos
Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history.
Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people,...
Utopia for Realists
How We Can Build the Ideal World
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of Europe's leading young thinkers shows how we can build an ideal world today.
"A more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell." --New York Times
After working all day at jobs we often dislike,...
The Outpost
An Untold Story of American Valor
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
The heartbreaking and inspiring story of one of America's deadliest battles during the war in Afghanistan, acclaimed by critics everywhere as a classic.
*Soon to be a major motion picture from Millennium Films*
At 5:58 AM on October 3rd, 2009, Combat Outpost Keating, located in frighteningly...
One Drop
My Father's Hidden Life--A Story of Race and Family Secrets
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2007
In this acclaimed memoir, Bliss Broyard, daughter of the literary critic Anatole Broyard, examines her father's choice to hide his racial identity, and the impact of this revelation on her own life.
Two months before he died, renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard called his grown son and daughter...
by Arianna Huffington
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2006
Author, syndicated columnist, occasional actress, and businesswoman Ariana Huffington examines the ways in which fear affects the lives of women, and the steps anyone can take to conquer fear.
Observing that her own teenage daughters were beginning to experience some of the same fears that...
Eating on the Wild Side
The Missing Link to Optimum Health
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Winner of the 2014 IACP Cookbook Award in the category of "Food Matters."
The next stage in the food revolution--a radical way to select fruits and vegetables and reclaim the flavor and nutrients we've lost.
Ever since farmers first planted seeds 10,000 years ago, humans have...
House of Rain
Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2007
The greatest "unsolved mystery" of the American Southwest is the fate of the Anasazi, the native peoples who in the eleventh century converged on Chaco Canyon (in today's southwestern New Mexico) and built what has been called the Las Vegas of its day, a flourishing cultural center that...
The Age of the Unthinkable
Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
Today the very ideas that made America great imperil its future. Our plans go awry and policies fail. History's grandest war against terrorism creates more terrorists. Global capitalism, intended to improve lives, increases the gap between rich and poor. Decisions made to stem a financial crisis guarantee...