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by John Howard
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
John Howard spent decades under media scrutiny, and while his credentials as a political leader, devoted family man and sports tragic are beyond dispute, in this autobiography he reveals much more about himself. In Lazarus Rising, Howard traces his personal and political journey, from childhood in...
I Didn't Do It for You
How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Scarred by decades of conflict and occupation, the craggy African nation of Eritrea has weathered the world's longest-running guerrilla war. The dogged determination that secured victory against Ethiopia, its giant neighbor, is woven into the national psyche, the product of cynical foreign interventions....
American Evita
Hillary Clinton's Path to Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
"I don't quit. I keep going."
–Hillary Rodham Clinton
She is, quite simply, the most famous, most complex, most loved/hated/admired/reviled woman -- perhaps person -- in America. And, whether she fulfills her life's ambition or not, she can already lay claim to being the first woman...
Government Girl
Young and Female in the White House
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
**"A delightful page-turner…that will put the lucky reader within the feverish excitement of a hopeful and tragic time.”
—Andrei Codrescu, NPR commentator and author of The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess**
A memoir of being young and female in the Clinton...
by Con Coughlin
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Insightful, penetrating, and shocking, the defining biography of Iraq's deposed tyrant
Drawing on an unparalleled network of sources, contacts, and firsthand testimonies, Con Coughlin takes us to the center of Saddam Hussein's complex, bewildering regime -- and beyond. Fully updated and revised,...
Tour of Duty
John Kerry and the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Covering more than four decades, Tour of Duty is the definitive account of John Kerry's journey from war to peace. Written by acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley, this is the first full-scale, intimate account of Kerry's naval career. In writing this riveting narrative, Brinkley has drawn on extensive...
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,...
by Homer Hickam
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Las memorias best seller que inspiraron la película Cielo de Octubre, Rocket Boys es una autobiografía poderosa y una historia luminosa de la vida en la década de 1960, del amor de una madre y del temor de un padre, de un grupo de jóvenes que soñaban con lanzar cohetes al espacio… y de hacer...
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...