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Master Mind
The Rise and Fall of Fritz Haber, the Nobel Laureate Who Launched the Age of Chemical Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
FRITZ HABER -- a Nobel laureate in chemistry, a friend of Albert Einstein, a German Jew and World War I hero -- may be the most important scientist you have never heard of. The Haber-Bosch process, which he invented at the turn of the twentieth century, revolutionized agriculture by converting nitrogen...
Evolution's Captain
NF abt Capt. FitzRoy & Chas Darwin
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
This is the story of the man without whom the name Charles Darwin might be unknown to us today. That man was Captain Robert FitzRoy, who invited the 22-year-old Darwin to be his companion on board the Beagle .
This is the remarkable story of how a misguided decision by Robert FitzRoy, captain...
Happy Hour Is for Amateurs
Work Sucks. Life Doesn't Have To.
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
For some people, happy hour is never enough
This is a book about escape. It's also about laughing gas. And bourbon and dope and sex and mushrooms and every other vice millions of us indulge in to forget our jobs, the office, and the stifling, corporate caricatures we're forced to become for...
by Peter Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In 1968, nine sailors set off on the most daring race ever held: to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe nonstop. It was a feat that had never been accomplished and one that would forever change the face of sailing. Ten months later, only one of the nine men would cross the finish line and earn...
Giants of Enterprise
Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Seven business innovators and the empires they built.
The pre-eminent business historian of our time, Richard S. Tedlow, examines seven great CEOs who successfully managed cutting-edge technology and formed enduring corporate empires.
With the depth and clarity of a master, Tedlow illuminates...
Better Off
Flipping the Switch on Technology
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
What happens when a graduate of MIT, the bastion of technological advancement, and his bride move to a community so primitive in its technology that even Amish groups consider it antiquated?
Eric Brende conceives a real-life experiment: to see if, in fact, all our cell phones, wide-screen TVs,...
Mirage
Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Two hundred years ago, only the most reckless or eccentric Europeans had dared to traverse the unmapped territory of the modern-day Middle East. But in 1798, more than 150 French engineers, artists, doctors, and scientists—even a poet and a musicologist—traveled to the Nile Valley under the command...
The Autism Sourcebook
Everything You Need to Know About Diagnosis, Treatment, Coping, and Healing--from a Mother Whose Child Recovered
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Practical advice and information from the world's foremost experts on autism -- and a mother's own hard-won lessons from helping her son recover from the disorder
When Karen Siff Exkorn's son, Jake, was diagnosed with autism, she struggled to pull together comprehensive information about the...
China Dawn
Culture and Conflict in China's Business Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Imagine living through the breakthrough moments of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and the other icons of today's new economy. The kind of technological revolution that they led in Silicon Valley is now sweeping through China, but with much more dramatic implications. The dynamic entrepreneurs who are using...
Girls Like Us
Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale, an Activist Finds Her Calling and Heals Herself
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
**"Powerfully raw, deeply moving, and utterly authentic. Rachel Lloyd has turned a personal atrocity into triumph and is nothing less than a true hero.... Never again will you look at young girls on the street as one of 'those' women—you will only see little girls that are girls just like...
Diana
A Portrait In Her Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
In between her fairy-tale wedding and her premature death, there lived the most beloved royal presence of our century, surely as multifaceted as any celebrity of our time. The radical twists and turns in her brief life drew the fascination of millions. Yet the most photographed woman in the world...
Mistress of the Elgin Marbles
A Biography of Mary Nisbet, Countess of Elgin
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
The remarkable Mary Nisbet was the Countess of Elgin in Romantic-era Scotland and the wife of the seventh Earl of Elgin. When Mary accompanied her husband to diplomatic duty in Turkey, she changed history. She helped bring the smallpox vaccine to the Middle East, struck a seemingly impossible deal...
The Wicked Game
Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, and the Business of Modern Golf
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Golf is sometimes referred to as "the wicked game" because it is fiendishly difficult to play well. Yet in the parlance of the Tiger Woods generation, it's also a wickedly good game -- rich, glamorous, and more popular than ever.
When we think about golf -- as it is played at its...
The Last Boy
Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Award-winning sports writer Jane Leavy follows her New York Times runaway bestseller Sandy Koufax with the definitive biography of baseball icon Mickey Mantle.
The legendary Hall-of-Fame outfielder was a national hero during his record-setting career with the New York Yankees, but public revelations...