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A Land So Strange
The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2007
The extraordinary tale of a shipwrecked Spaniard who walked across America in the sixteenth century
In 1527, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong: delayed by a hurricane and knocked off course by a colossal error of navigation, the mission...
Creatures of a Day
And Other Tales of Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
"The publication of Creatures of a Day is reason to celebrate." --Steven Pinker
In this stunning collection of stories, renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom describes his patients' struggles--as well as his own--to come to terms with the two great challenges of existence: how to have a meaningful...
by Irvin D. Yalom
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
"Something heavy is going on
the past is erupting
my two lives, night and day, are joining. I need to talk." Irv Yalom's old medical school friend was making a plea for help. In their fifty years of friendship, Bob Berger had never divulged his nocturnal terrors to his close comrade. Now, finally,...
Every Day Gets a Little Closer
A Twice-Told Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
The many thousands of readers of the best-selling Love's Executioner will welcome this paperback edition of an earlier work by Dr. Irvin Yalom, written with Ginny Elkin, a pseudonymous patient whom he treated-the first book to share the dual reflections of psychiatrist and patient.Ginny Elkin was...
Momma And The Meaning Of Life
Tales From Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
As the public grows disillusioned with therapeutic quick fixes, people are looking for a deeper psychotherapeutic experience to make life more meaningful and satisfying. What really happens in therapy? What promises and perils does it hold for them?No one writes about therapy - or indeed the dilemmas...
The Interloper
Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination of President Kennedy in 1963 remains one of the most horrifying and hotly debated crimes in American history. Just as perplexing as the assassination is the assassin himself; the 24-year-old Oswald's hazy background and motivations-and his subsequent murder at the...
The Soft Cage
Surveillance in America, From Slavery to the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
On a typical day, you might make a call on a cell phone, withdraw money at an ATM, visit the mall, and make a purchase with a credit card. Each of these routine transactions leaves a digital trail for government agencies and businesses to access. As cutting-edge historian and journalist Christian...
Spymaster
My Thirty-two Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
Oleg Kalugin oversaw the work of American spies, matched wits with the CIA, and became one of the youngest generals in KGB history. Even so, he grew increasingly disillusioned with the Soviet system. In 1990, he went public, exposing the intelligence agency's shadowy methods. Revised and updated in...
Carrying the Flag
The Story of Private Charles Whilden, the Confederacy's Most Unlikely Hero
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2009
For forty years, Charles Whilden lived a life most noteworthy for a series of near misses. Repeatedly turned down for service in the Confederate Army, he did not enlist until the desperate days when anyone capable of locomotion was brought in to fill the ranks. He was subsequently plunged into the...
Spooked
Espionage In Corporate America
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2008
Imagine your main business competitor building a satellite-equipped "war room" to secretly monitor your new ventures. Imagine your classified product prototype mysteriously landing on the market under the brand name belonging to your archrival. Impossible? This isn't a story line from the...
Ever Is a Long Time
A Journey Into Mississippi's Dark Past A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2007
In June of 1957, Governor James Coleman stepped before the cameras of "Meet the Press" and was asked whether the public schools would ever be integrated. "Well, ever is a long time," he replied, "[but] I would say that a baby born in Mississippi today will never live long...
Play Anything
The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
How filling life with play-whether soccer or lawn mowing, counting sheep or tossing Angry Birds-forges a new path for creativity and joy in our impatient age
Life is boring: filled with meetings and traffic, errands and emails. Nothing we'd ever call fun. But what if we've gotten fun wrong?...
How Art Made the World
A Journey to the Origins of Human Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2006
In the late nineteenth century, the first discoveries of prehistoric painting were greeted with incredulity. How could there have been such deft and skillful artists in the world over 30,000 years ago? Noted art historian Nigel Spivey begins with this puzzle to explore the record of humanity's artistic...
Why Information Grows
The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
"Hidalgo has made a bold attempt to synthesize a large body of cutting-edge work into a readable, slender volume. This is the future of growth theory." --Financial Times
What is economic growth? And why, historically, has it occurred in only a few places? Previous efforts to answer these questions...