Abrams: 1969 books
Circles Around the Sun
In Search of a Lost Brother
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Within a few years, his world had begun to fall apart. By the time Molly was old enough to begin to know him, Mike was heavily medicated and frequently delusional, living in hospitals or care homes or on the road. Years later, through reading an astonishing archive of letters preserved by her mother...
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Design Like You Give a Damn [2]
Building Change from the Ground Up
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Design Like You Give a Damn [2] is the indispensable handbook for anyone committed to building a more sustainable future. Following the success of their first book, Architecture for Humanity brings readers the next edition, with more than 100 projects from around the world. Packed with practical and...
How Not To Be A Doctor
And Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Doctor and medical columnist John Launer has written on the practice and teaching of medicine for many years. Now, more than fifty of his essays have been collected in How Not to Be A Doctor. Taken together, they set out an argument that being a doctor—a real doctor—should mean being able to draw...
Deception in War
Art Bluff Value Deceit Most Thrilling Episodes Cunning mil hist from The Trojan
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2003
While the battle for air supremacy is being waged in the skies, the coalition forces pull off a stunning, and ultimately decisive, deception. Later dubbed the “Hail Mary Pass,? it consists of the abrupt relocation of the coalition ground forces hundreds of miles to the West. Meanwhile, as inflatable...
A Piece of the Sun
The Quest for Fusion Energy
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
The solution, says Daniel Clery in this deeply revelatory book, is to be found in the original energy source: the Sun itself. There, at its center, the fusion of 620 million tons of hydrogen every second generates an unfathomable amount of energy. By replicating even a tiny piece of the Sun’s power...
by Barbara Calamari, Sandra DiPasqua
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
A treasury of the devotional art that has comforted and inspired millions of Catholics—portraying a remarkable gallery of saints.
Often used in daily rituals or given out at significant life events such as wakes and funerals, communions and confirmations, the holy card can be appreciated...
Marijuanamerica
One Man's Quest to Understand America's Dysfunctional Love Affair with Weed
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Alfred Ryan Nerz is a Yale-educated author, journalist, and TV producer. He’s also a longtime marijuana enthusiast who has made it his mission to better understand America’s long-standing love-hate relationship with our favorite (sometimes) illegal drug. His cross-country investigation started...
The Ballad of Blind Tom, Slave Pianist
America's Lost Musical Genius
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2009
This biography of a musical genius who went from slavery to international stardom is a “vivid, carefully researched narrative reflects the tenor of the” (Publishers Weekly).
Born into slavery in Georgia, Tom Wiggins died an international celebrity in New York in 1908. His life was one of the...
Inside Central Asia
A Political and Cultural History of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz stan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Iran
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
In this comprehensive new treatment, renowned political writer and historian Dilip Hiro places the politics, peoples, and cultural background of this critical region firmly into the context of current international focus.
On 1984
The Story of George Orwell's Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
**From the author of the definitive biography of George Orwell, a captivating account of the origin and enduring power of his landmark dystopian novel **
Since its publication nearly 70 years ago, George Orwell’s 1984 has been regarded as one of the most influential novels of the modern...
Scapegoat
A History of Blaming Other People
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
A “brief and vital account” of humanity’s long history of playing the blame game, from Adam and Eve to modern politics—“a relevant and timely subject” (The Daily Telegraph).
We may have come a long way from the days when a goat was symbolically saddled with all the iniquities of...
Home Is a Roof Over a Pig
An American Family's Journey in China
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
“[A] down-to-earth memoir chronicling her family’s stint in the Chinese province of Shandong on the eve of the Beijing Olympics” (Publishers Weekly).
When Aminta Arrington moves with her husband and three young children (including a daughter adopted from China) from suburban Georgia to Tai’an,...
by Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
The Russian oil mogul and activist offers reflections on his decades-long incarceration under Putin in this “illuminating and brave” prison memoir (The Washington Post).
Mikhail Khodorkovsky was Russia’s most successful businessman—and an outspoken critic of the Kremlin. As his oil...
by Todd Selby
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Photographer Todd Selby is back, this time focusing his lens on the kitchens, gardens, homes, and restaurants of more than 40 of the most creative and dynamic figures working in the culinary world today. He takes us behind the scenes with Noma chef René Redzepi in Copenhagen; to Tokyo to have a slice...