Simon Schuster: 4797 books
Monkey Mind
A Memoir of Anxiety
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Daniel Smith’s Monkey Mind is the stunning articulation of what it is like to live with anxiety. As he travels through anxiety’s demonic layers, Smith defangs the disorder with great humor and evocatively expresses its self-destructive absurdities and painful internal coherence. Aaron Beck, the...
by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The New York Times bestselling book from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg—“a comprehensive look inside her brilliantly analytical, entertainingly wry mind, revealing the fascinating life of one of our generation's most influential voices in both law and public opinion” (Harper’s Bazaar).
My...
Tuxedo Park
A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
The untold story of an eccentric Wall Street tycoon and the circle of scientific geniuses he assembled before World War II to develop the science for radar and the atomic bomb. Together they changed the course of history.
Legendary financier, philanthropist, and society figure Alfred Lee Loomis...
Failure Is Not an Option
Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2001
This memoir of a veteran NASA flight director tells riveting stories from the early days of the Mercury program through Apollo 11 (the moon landing) and Apollo 13, for both of which Kranz was flight director.
Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America’s manned space program and was...
Brilliant Blunders
From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Drawing on the lives of five great scientists, this “scholarly, insightful, and beautifully written book” (Martin Rees, author of From Here to Infinity) illuminates the path to scientific discovery.
Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle, and Albert Einstein...
A Mind at Play
How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Winner of the Neumann Prize for the History of Mathematics
**Named a best book of the year by Bloomberg and Nature**
**'Best of 2017' by The Morning Sun**
"We owe Claude Shannon a lot, and Soni & Goodman’s book takes a big first step in paying that debt." —San...
The Bright Hour
A Memoir of Living and Dying
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
* INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *
“Stunning…heartrending…this year’s When Breath Becomes Air.” —Nora Krug, The Washington Post
“Beautiful and haunting.” —Matt McCarthy, MD, USA TODAY
“Deeply affecting…simultaneously heartbreaking and funny.” —People...
by Sylvia Nasar
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
In this powerful and dramatic biography Sylvia Nasar vividly recreates the life of a mathematical genius whose career was cut short by schizophrenia and who, after three decades of devastating mental illness, miraculously recovered and was honored with a Nobel Prize.
“How could you, a mathematician,...
What I Learned When I Almost Died
How a Maniac TV Producer Put Down His BlackBerry and Started to Live His Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
What do you learn when your brain goes pop?
Chris Licht had always been ambitious. When he was only nine years old, he tracked down an NBC correspondent while on vacation to solicit advice for a career in television. At eleven, he began filming himself as he delivered the news. And by the time...
Noble Savages
My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes -- the Yanomamo and the Anthropologists
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC MEMOIRS OF OUR TIME
When Napoleon Chagnon arrived in Venezuela’s Amazon region in 1964 to study the Yanomamö Indians, one of the last large tribal groups still living in isolation, he expected to find Rousseau’s “noble savages,” so-called primitive...
The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov
The Story of Stalin's Persecution of One of the Great Scientists of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
In The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov, acclaimed journalist and author Peter Pringle recreates the extraordinary life and tragic end of one of the great scientists of the twentieth century.
In a drama of love, revolution, and war that rivals Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago, Pringle tells the story of a...
The Humor Code
A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Part road-trip comedy and part social science experiment, a scientist and a journalist “shed fascinating light on what makes us laugh and why” (New York Post).
Two guys. Nineteen experiments. Five continents. 91,000 miles. The Humor Code follows the madcap adventures and oddball experiments...
Man of the Hour
James B. Conant, Warrior Scientist
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
“Gripping…an outstanding portrait” (The Wall Street Journal) of one of the most influential men of the greatest generation, James B. Conant—a savvy architect of the nuclear age and the Cold War—told by his granddaughter, New York Times bestselling author Jennet Conant.
James Bryant...
A Stitch of Time
The Year a Brain Injury Changed My Language and Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
“Readers will be compelled by this illuminating debut memoir…a captivating” (Kirkus Reviews) account of one woman’s journey to regain her language and identity after a brain aneurysm steals her ability to communicate.
Lauren Marks was twenty-seven, touring a show in Scotland with her...