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Digital Barbarism
A Writer's Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
“A strange, wondrous, challenging, enriching book….Beautiful and powerful…you will not encounter another book like it.”
—National Review online
In Digital Barbarism, bestselling novelist Mark Helprin (Winter’s Tale, A Soldier of the Great War) offers a ringing Jeffersonian...
1,000 Things to Love About America
Celebrating the Reasons We’re Proud to Call the U.S.A. Home
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
From journalists Agnes Hooper Gottlieb and Henry Gottlieb, and Brent Bowers and Barbara Bowers, the acclaimed co-authors of 1,000 Years, 1,000 People, comes a new book that celebrates the reasons we’re proud to call America home—from jazz and the Gettysburg Address to baseball and the White Castle...
True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa
Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In the haunting tradition of Joe McGinniss's Fatal Vision and Mikal Gilmore's Shot in the Heart, True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa weaves a spellbinding tale of murder, love, and deceit with a deeply personal inquiry into the slippery nature of truth.
The story begins in February of 2002,...
The Language Instinct
How The Mind Creates Language
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
The classic book on the development of human language by the world’s leading expert on language and the mind.
In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes,...
Don't Know Much About Mythology
Everything You Need to Know About the Greatest Stories in Human History but Never Learned
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
The latest installment in the New York Times bestselling Don't Know Much About® series -- a magical journey into the timeless world of mythology
It has been fifteen years since Kenneth C. Davis first dazzled audiences with his instant classic Don't Know Much About® History, vividly bringing...
Who's Writing This?
Fifty-five Writers on Humor, Courage, Self-Loathing, and the Creative Process
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Who is really controlling the pen?
Editor Daniel Halpern was profoundly curious about the creative process—so he asked fifty-five world-renowned writers to briefly muse on "the fictional persona behind the scenes," the alter(ed) ego who takes over when there is true literary work...
Write Away
One Writer's Approach to the Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Bestselling author Elizabeth George has spent years teaching writing, and in Write Away she shares her knowledge of the creative process. George combines clear, intelligent, and functional advice on fiction writing with anecdotes from her own life, the story of her journey to publication, and inside...
Unless It Moves the Human Heart
The Craft and Art of Writing
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Multiple award-winner Roger Rosenblatt has received glowing critical acclaim for his exceptional literary works—from the hilarious novels Lapham Rising and Beet to his poignant, heartbreaking, ultimately inspiring memoir Making Toast. With Unless It Moves the Human Heart, the revered novelist, essayist,...
Freedom
Credos from the Road
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
There are few men who are as quintessentially American as Sonny Barger. He is patriotic—a veteran who loves his country. He is independent—choosing his own path on his motorcycle, living life on his own terms. He is outspoken—he has boldly criticized injustices in American law and society despite...
by Eugene Ehrlich
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Between TV talk shows, radio call-in programs, email and the Internet, spontaneous-talk media has skyrocketed in the '90s. People are interacting more frequently and more fervently than ever before, turning the English language into an indecipherable mess. Now, this unique and concise compendium presents...
Don't Know Much About Anything
Everything You Need to Know but Never Learned About People, Places, Events, and More!
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In his wildly entertaining, winningly irreverent, New York Times bestselling Don't Know Much About® series, author Kenneth C. Davis has amused and edified us with fascinating facts about history, mythology, the Bible, the universe, geography, and the Civil War.
Now, the sky's the limit in...
by Stanley Newman, Daniel Stark
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
The Million Word Crossword Dictionary was hailed by New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz as "the largest, most up-to-date, and most useful" and praised by crossword editors from all over the country. Now, noted crossword experts Stan Newman and Dan Stark provide the next "million...
Living a Jewish Life, Updated and Revised Edition
Jewish Traditions, Customs and Values fo
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Living a Jewish Life describes Judaism as not just a contemplative or abstract system of thought but as a blueprint for living fully and honorably. This new edition builds on the classic guide, which has been a favorite among Jewish educators and students for years. Enriched with additional resources,...
In the Cockpit 2
Inside History-Making Aircraft of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
In the Cockpit II: Inside History-Making Aircraft of World War II provides close-up access to the instrument panels, controls, and crew stations of 34 legendary World War II aircraft in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's impressive collection. Using a high-end digital camera with a wide-angle...