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The Thirteenth Turn
A History of the Noose
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
The story of a rope, a symbol, and rough justice in America.
The hangman's knot is a simple thing to tie, just a rope carefully coiled around itself up to thirteen times. But in those thirteen turns lie a powerful symbol, one that is all too deeply connected to America's past-and present.
The...
The Trade
My Journey into the Labyrinth of Political Kidnapping
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
A former hostage in the tribal areas of Pakistan returns to meet his kidnappers and uncover how political kidnappings and ransomings take place in the shadows of the world's most lawless territories.
In 2014, Jere Van Dyk traveled to Afghanistan to try to discover the motives behind a kidnapping...
WikiLeaks
Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
A team of journalists with unparalleled inside access provides the first full, in-depth account of WikiLeaks, its founder Julian Assange, and the ethical, legal, and political controversies it has both uncovered and provoked.
The Best Practice
How the New Quality Movement is Transforming Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
In the late 1990s, treatment-related deaths or complications” were the fifth leading cause of death for Americans. Spurred by the crisis, a group of dedicated physicians like Paul Batalden and Don Berwick made it their goal to study the concepts of quality improvement” used at Toyota and NASA,...
The Gashouse Gang
How Dizzy Dean, Leo Durocher, Branch Rickey, Pepper Martin, and Their Colorful, Come-from-Behind Ball Club Won the World Series-and Americas Heart-During the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2007
With The Gashouse Gang, John Heidenry delivers the definitive account of one the greatest and most colorful baseball teams of all times, the 1934 St. Louis Cardinals, filled with larger-than-life baseball personalities like Branch Rickey, Leo Durocher, Pepper Martin, Casey Stengel, Satchel Paige,...
by Robert K. Brigham
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2008
Since the first days of the Iraqi invasion, supporters of the war have cautioned the public not to view this conflict as another Vietnam. They rightfully point to many important distinctions. There is no unified resistance in Iraq. No political or religious leader has been able to galvanize opposition...
Elephant Destiny
Biography Of An Endangered Species In Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
For thousands of years, the majestic elephant has roamed the African continent, as beloved by man as it has been preyed upon. But centuries of exploitation and ivory hunting have taken their toll: now, as wars and poachers continue to ravage its habitat, as disease and political strife deflect attention...
The Greatest Day in History
How, on the Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month, the First World War Finally Cam
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Unlike 1945, the First World War did not end neatly with the unconditional surrender of the Germans. After a dramatic week of negotiations, military offensives and the beginning of a Communist revolution, the German Imperial regime collapsed. The Allies eventually granted an armistice to a new German...
Death Penalty on Trial
Crisis in American Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Bill Kurtis, anchor of the wildly popular true-crime TV series Cold Case Files and American Justice, used to support the death penalty. But after observing the machinations of the justice system for thirty years, he came to a stunning realization that changed his life: Capital punishment is wrong....
Being a Black Man
At the Corner of Progress and Peril
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Over the last 100 years, perhaps no segment of the American population has been more analyzed than black males. The subject of myriad studies and dozens of government boards and commissions, black men have been variously depicted as the progenitors of pop culture and the menaces of society, their...
Perfect Strangers
A Story of Love, Strength, and Recovery After the 2013 Boston Marathon
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Four lives brought together in a deadly moment prove that being in the wrong place at the worst time can lead to life's biggest adventures and most important relationships
As Roseann Sdoia waited to watch her friend cross the finish line of the Boston Marathon in 2013, she had no idea her life...
The Longevity Revolution
The Benefits and Challenges of Living a Long Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Dr. Robert N. Butler coined the term ageism” and made Alzheimer's” a familiar word. Now he brings his formidable knowledge to a recent and unprecedented achievement: the extension of human life expectancy by thirty years, and the growing number of people over age sixty-five.
Alarmingly,...
Horse Of A Different Color
A Tale of Breeding Geniuses, Dominant Females, and the Fastest Derby Winner Since Secretariat
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Everybody in the thoroughbred horse business wants to win the Kentucky Derby, but the odds on making it to the winner's circle at Churchill Downs are about 35,000-to-1. How did a former Chicago newspaper editor bring together the stallion and mare and breed the winner of the world's most famous and...
Not By a Long Shot
A Season at a Hard Luck Horse Track
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2007
The great myth of horse racing is that the game is the regal and royal Sport of Kings. It isn't. Not by a long shot.
Anyone who doubts this need look no further than Suffolk Downs, a once-proud racecourse graced in its glory years by boisterous throngs and champions such as Seabiscuit. Now...