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Your Inner Skinny
Four Steps to Thin Forever
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
It's time to start listening to Your Inner Skinny
Losing weight isn't just about shedding pounds. The reality is you're battling obstacles way fatter than fat, stronger than muscle, and heavier than any other part of your body. You're up against roadblocks including low energy, little time,...
by Art Carey
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
The all-new official guide to the Body-for-LIFE Challenge, with success secrets and tips to help you win your own personal Body-for-LIFE Challenge, by Body-for-LIFE Challengers and Champions from the past 10 years.
Champions Body-for-LIFE is not just another diet or fitness book—it's a book...
by Frances Gies, Joseph Gies
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
From acclaimed historians Frances and Joseph Gies comes the reissue of their classic book on day-to-day life in medieval cities, which was a source for George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones series.
Evoking every aspect of city life in the Middle Ages, Life in a Medieval City depicts in detail...
The Weight of a Mustard Seed
The Intimate Story of an Iraqi General and His Family During Thirty Years of Tyranny
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
“A masterly and elegantly told story that weaves together the Iraqi past and present.”
—New York Times Book Review
“A first-class investigation…that tells the reader more about the tensions of living close to power in Saddam’s dictatorship.”
—Washington...
Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel
Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
An illuminating look at the monumental inventions of the Middle Ages, by the authors of Life in a Medieval Castle.
The German Genius
Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
The German Genius is a virtuoso cultural history of German ideas and influence, from 1750 to the present day, by acclaimed historian Peter Watson (Making of the Modern Mind, Ideas). From Bach, Goethe, and Schopenhauer to Nietzsche, Freud, and Einstein, from the arts and humanities to science and philosophy,...
by Theodore H. White
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
“White unites a novelist's knack of dramatization and a historian's sense of significance with a synthesizing skill that grasps the reader by the lapels.” —Newsweek
The third book in Theodore H. White's landmark series, The Making of the President 1968 is the compelling account of the...
Founding Mothers
The Women Who Raised Our Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Cokie Roberts's number one New York Times bestseller, We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, examined the nature of women's roles throughout history and led USA Today to praise her as a "custodian of time-honored values." Her second bestseller, From This Day Forward, written with her husband, Steve...
No Bone Unturned
Inside the World of a Top Forensic Scientist and His Work on America's Most Notorious Crimes and Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A curator for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Doug Owsley painstakingly rebuilds skeletons, helping to identify them and determine their cause of death. He has worked on several notorious cases -- from mass graves uncovered in Croatia to the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon -- and has...
Bound for Canaan
The Epic Story of the Underground Railro
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
An important book of epic scope on America's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for change
The civil war brought to a climax the country's bitter division. But the beginnings of slavery's denouement can be traced to a courageous band of ordinary Americans, black and white,...
Flying Cloud
The True Story of America's Most Famous Clipper Ship and the Woman Who Guided Her
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Flying Cloud is the riveting and thoroughly researched tale of a truly unforgettable sea voyage during the days of the California gold rush. In 1851, navigator Eleanor Creesy set sail on the maiden voyage of the clipper ship Flying Cloud, traveling from New York to San Francisco in only 89 days. This...
Duty
A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
When Bob Greene went home to central Ohio to be with his dying father, it set off a chain of events that led him to knowing his dad in a way he never had before—thanks to a quiet man who lived just a few miles away, a man who had changed the history of the world.
Greene's father—a soldier...
The Storm of War
A New History of the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
"Roberts'spopulist approach makes for a rollicking good read and never comes at theexpense of accuracy. His mastery of the huge variety of subjects is trulyimpressive and his ability to marshal these subjects into a single compellingnarrative stunning." —The Daily Telegraph
Hailedby...
Washington
How Slaves, Idealists, and Scoundrels Created the Nation's Capital
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Washington, D.C., is home to the most influential power brokers in the world. But how did we come to call D.C.—a place once described as a mere swamp "producing nothing except myriads of toads and frogs (of enormous size)," and which was strategically indefensible, captive to the politics...