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High Society
How Substance Abuse Ravages America and What to Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
The individual who reaches age twenty-one without smoking, using illegal drugs, or abusing alcohol is virtually certain never to do so. As Joseph Califano points out in his searing indictment of America's irresponsible attitude towards drug abuse, by failing to act on this lesson, we have lost untold...
What Dying People Want
Practical Wisdom For The End Of Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2003
Facing death results in more fear and anxiety than any other human experience. Though much has been done to address the physical pain suffered by those with a terminal illness, Western medicine has been slow to understand and alleviate the psychological and spiritual distress that comes with the knowledge...
The Crash of 2008 and What it Means
The New Paradigm for Financial Markets
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
In the midst of one of the most serious financial upheavals since the Great Depression, George Soros, the legendary financier and philanthropist, writes about the origins of the crisis and proposes a set of policies that should be adopted to confront it. Soros, whose breadth of experience in financial...
by Robert Service
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
The Cold War had seemed like a permanent fixture in global politics, and until its denouement, no Western or Soviet politician had foreseen that an epoch defined by games of irreconcilable one-upmanship between the world's most heavily armed superpowers would end in their lifetimes. Under the long,...
We Are As Gods
Back to the Land in the 1970s on the Quest for a New America
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Between 1970 and 1974 ten million Americans abandoned the city, and the commercialism, and all the inauthentic bourgeois comforts of the Eisenhower-era America of their parents. Instead, they went back to the land. It was the only time in modern history that urbanization has gone into reverse.
Kate...
Fallout
Conspiracy, Cover-Up, and the Deceitful Case for the Atom Bomb
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
The justification for the atomic bomb was simple: it would defeat Hitler and end the Second World War faster, saving lives. The reality was different.
Fallout dismantles the conventional story of why the atom bomb was built. Peter Watson has found new documents showing that long before the...
Bolt Of Fate
Benjamin Franklin And His Fabulous Kite
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
Every schoolchild in America knows that Benjamin Franklin flew a kite during a thunderstorm in the summer of 1752. Electricity from the clouds above traveled down the kite's twine and threw a spark from a key that Franklin had attached to the string. He thereby proved that lightning and electricity...
The Jedburghs
The Secret History of the Allied Special Forces, France 1944
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
The story of the Special Forces in World War II has never fully been told before. Information about them began to be declassified only in the 1980s. Known as the Jedburghs, these Special Forces were selected from members of the British, American, and Free French armies to be dropped in teams of three...
The First and Final Nightmare of Sonia Reich
A Son's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
On the evening of February 15, 2001, Sonia Reich, Howard Reich's mother, packed some clothes into two brown shopping bags, put on her gray winter coat, locked the door to her home in Skokie, Illinois and fled. Someone was trying to kill her, "to put a bullet in my head," Sonia told anyone...
The Case for Books
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
The era of the printed book is at a crossroad. E-readers are flooding the market, books are available to read on cell phones, and companies such as Google, Amazon, and Apple are competing to command near monopolistic positions as sellers and dispensers of digital information. Already, more books have...
by Martin Van Creveld
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Airpower, more than any other factor, has shaped war in the twentieth century. In this fascinating narrative history, Martin van Creveld vividly portrays the rise of the plane as a tool of war and the evolution of both technology and strategy. He documents seminal battles and turning points, and relates...
by Rene Denfeld
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
James Daniel Nelson first hit the streets as a teenager in 1992. He joined a clutch of runaways and misfits who camped out together in a squat under a Portland bridge. Within a few months the group-they called themselves a "family"-was arrested for a string of violent murders.
While...
Daughters of the Declaration
How Women Social Entrepreneurs Built the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
America's founding fathers established an idealistic framework for a bold experiment in democratic governance. The new nation would be built on the belief that all men are created equal, and are endowed...with a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” The challenge of turning these...
by Ryan Knighton
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2007
On his 18th birthday, Ryan Knighton was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), a congenital, progressive disease marked by night-blindness, tunnel vision and, eventually, total blindness. In this penetrating, nervy memoir, which ricochets between meditation and black comedy, Knighton tells the...