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The Zoo on the Road to Nablus
A Story of Survival from the West Bank
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2008
The last Palestinian zoo stands on a dusty, dead-end street in the once prosperous farming town of Qalqilya, on the very edge of the West Bank.
The zoo's bars are rusting; peacocks wander quiet avenues shaded by broad plane trees; a teenage baboon broods in solitary confinement; walls bear...
Obscene in the Extreme
The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Few books have caused as big a stir as John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, when it was published in April 1939. By May, it was the nation's No. 1 bestseller, flying off store shelves at a rate of 10,000 copies a week. But in Kern County, California-the Joads' newfound home-the book was burned publicly...
The Great Railroad Revolution
The History of Trains in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line––the first American railroad––in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Promoted by visionaries and built through heroic effort,...
The Millionaires' Unit
The Aristocratic Flyboys Who Fought the Great War and Invented American Air Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
The Millionaires' Unit is the story of a gilded generation of young men from the zenith of privilege: a Rockefeller, the son of the head of the Union Pacific Railroad, several who counted friends and relatives among presidents and statesmen of the day. They had it all and, remarkably by modern standards,...
by Benjamin Roth
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
When the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he decided to set down his impressions in his diary.
This collection of those entries reveals another side of the...
What Would Jesus Buy?
Reverend Billy's Fabulous Prayers in the Face of the Shopocalypse
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Reverend Billy's revival tour across America is the subject of the upcoming Morgan Spurlock film What Would Jesus Buy?, his first movie since the national hit Super Size Me! The book is an inspiring-love-a-lujah!-compendium of the reverend in full flow, from his exhortations from the pulpit to his...
The Other Barack
The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama's Father
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
The life story of the father of the most powerful elected leader in the world is an epic tale, one as daring as it was improbable.
The father of the U.S. president, the first Barack Hussein Obama, was born in rural poverty in Kenya. His own father was a dominating figure who worked as a cook...
Peter Jennings
A Reporter's Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2007
Peter Jennings was the sole anchor of ABC's World News Tonight from 1983 until his death from cancer in 2005. For many Americans, he was the voice and face that gave shape and meaning to every day's news. But who was Peter Jennings really? In this absorbing biography, readers will get to know Jennings...
Give Smart
Philanthropy that Gets Results
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
In the first half of the twenty-first century, giving to family and community foundations alone will be ten times in today's dollars what it was throughout the entire twentieth century. Yet despite tremendous innovation in the social sector, philanthropy's natural state is under-performance. Not since...
The Test
Why Our Schools are Obsessed with Standardized TestingBut You Don't Have to Be
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
"[The anti-testing] movement now has a guidebook. . . . Kamenetz shows how fundamentally American it would be to move toward a more holistic system." -New York Times Book Review
The Test is an essential and critically acclaimed book for any parent confounded by our national obsession with standardized...
Mistreated
Why We Think We're Getting Good Health Care-and Why We're Usually Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
A WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER
The biggest problem in American health care is us
Do you know how to tell good health care from bad health care? Guess again. As patients, we wrongly assume the "best" care is dependent mainly on the newest medications, the most complex treatments,...
Disrupt Aging
A Bold New Path to Living Your Best Life at Every Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Discover the inspiring national bestseller about aging and health that "will help us all live each year to the fullest" (Sheryl Sandberg).
We've all seen the ads on TV and in magazines--"50 is the new 30!" or "60 is the new 40!" A nice sentiment to be sure, but...
The Vendetta
Special Agent Melvin Purvis, John Dillinger, and Hoover's FBI in the Age of Gangsters
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
In The Vendetta, author Alston Purvis recounts the story of his father, Melvin Purvis, the iconic G-man and public hero made famous by his remarkable sweep of the great Public Enemies of the American Depression—John Dillinger; Pretty Boy Floyd, and Baby Face Nelson. Purvis’s successes led FBI...
The Dawn of Innovation
The First American Industrial Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
In the thirty years after the Civil War, the United States blew by Great Britain to become the greatest economic power in world history. That is a well-known period in history, when titans like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan walked the earth.
But as Charles R. Morris...