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On the Edge of Survival
A Shipwreck, a Raging Storm, and the Harrowing Alaskan Rescue That Became a Legend
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
From the acclaimed author whose beloved books inspired the hit television show, The Deadliest Catch, comes a thrilling true adventure tale in the Alaskan seas
A Malaysian cargo ship on its way from Seattle, Washington to China ran aground off the coast of western Alaska's Aleutian Islands on...
The New York Times Presents Smarter by Sunday
52 Weekends of Essential Knowledge for the Curious Mind
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
A handy, smaller, and more focused version of our popular New York Times knowledge books—organized by weekends and topic
Fell asleep during history class in high school when World War II was covered? Learned the table of elements at one time but have forgotten it since*?* Always wondered...
Islamic Exceptionalism
How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
In Islamic Exceptionalism, Brookings Institution scholar and acclaimed author Shadi Hamid offers a novel and provocative argument on how Islam is, in fact, "exceptional" in how it relates to politics, with profound implications for how we understand the future of the Middle East. Divides...
Win Your Case
How to Present, Persuade, and Prevail--Every Place, Every Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Gerry Spence is perhaps America's most renowned and successful trial lawyer, a man known for his deep convictions and his powerful courtroom presentations when he argues on behalf of ordinary people. Frequently pitted against teams of lawyers thrown against him by major corporate or government interests,...
by Barrie Wilson, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
In How Jesus Became Christian, Barrie Wilson Ph.D. confronts one of the simplest—yet undiscovered—questions of religious history: How did a young, well-respected rabbi become the head of a cult that bore his name, espoused a philosophy he wouldn't wholly understand, and possessed a clear streak...
The Last Man on the Moon
Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
The basis of the 2014 award-winning feature-length documentary! A revealing and dramatic look at the inside of the American Space Program from one of its pioneers.
Eugene Cernan was a unique American who came of age as an astronaut during the most exciting and dangerous decade of spaceflight....
The Physics of Life
The Evolution of Everything
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
The Physics of Life explores the roots of the big question by examining the deepest urges and properties of living things, both animate and inanimate: how to live longer, with food, warmth, power, movement and free access to other people and surroundings. Bejan explores controversial and relevant...
Trident K9 Warriors
My Tale from the Training Ground to the Battlefield with Elite Navy SEAL Canines
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
As Seen on "60 Minutes"!
As a Navy SEAL during a combat deployment in Iraq, Mike Ritland saw a military working dog in action and instantly knew he'd found his true calling. Ritland started his own company training and supplying dogs for the SEAL teams, U.S. Government, and Department...
Undeniable
Evolution and the Science of Creation
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
"Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. The science of evolution is as expansive as nature itself. It is also the most meaningful creation story...
Ten Hours Until Dawn
The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
In the midst of the Blizzard of 1978, the tanker Global Hope floundered on the shoals in Salem Sound off the Massachusetts coast. The Coast Guard heard the Mayday calls and immediately dispatched a patrol boat. Within an hour, the Coast Guard boat was in as much trouble as the tanker, having lost...
Surviving the Extremes
A Doctor's Journey to the Limits of Human Endurance
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2004
Physiological constraints confine our bodies to less than one-fifth of the earth's surface. Beyond that fraction lie the extremes. What happens when we go to them?
Dr. Kenneth Kamler has spent years observing exactly what happens. A vice president of the legendary Explorers Club, he has climbed,...
Dominion
The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2003
"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." --Genesis 1:24-26
In this crucial...
Beneath the Surface
Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
*Now a New York Times Best Seller*
Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different whales on two continents and at two of SeaWorld's U.S. facilities. For Hargrove, becoming an orca trainer fulfilled a childhood dream. However, as his experience with the whales deepened,...
Less Than Human
Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Winner of the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction
A revelatory look at why we dehumanize each other, with stunning examples from world history as well as today's headlines
"Brute." "Cockroach." "Lice." "Vermin." "Dog." "Beast."...