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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Barbara Demick - Spiegel & Grau; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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A National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle finalist, Barbara Demick’s Nothing to Envy is a remarkable view into North Korea, as seen through the lives of six ordinary citizens Award-winning journalist Barbara Demick follows the lives of six North Korean citizens... |
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Classified Woman-The Sibel Edmonds Story: A Memoir
Sibel Edmonds
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In this startling new memoir, Sibel Edmonds - the most classified woman in U.S. history - takes us on a surreal journey that begins with the secretive FBI and down the dark halls of a feckless Congress to a stonewalling judiciary and finally, to the national security whistleblower |
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Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
Bill Browder - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young tax attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the Kremlin's corruption.Bill Browder's journey started on the South Side of Chicago and moved through Stanford... |
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FDR
Jean Edward Smith
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "A model presidential biography... Now, at last, we have a biography that is right for the man" - Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book WorldOne of today's premier biographers has written a modern, comprehensive, indeed ul |
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April Fool's Day
Bryce Courtenay
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In the end, love is more important than everything and it will conquer and overcome anything. Or that's how Damon saw it, anyway. Damon wanted a book that talked a lot about love.Damon Courtenay died on the morning of April Fool's Day. In this tribute to his son, |
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The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
Robert Kanigel - Washington Square Pr
Format: Book
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SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JEREMY IRONS AND DEV PATEL!In 1913, a young unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G H Hardy, begging the preeminent English mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had about numbers. Realizing the letter was the work of a genius, Hardy... |
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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
David McCullough - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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This monumental book tells the enthralling story of one of the greatest accomplishments in our nation's history, the building of what was then the longest suspension bridge in the world. The Brooklyn Bridge rose out of the expansive era following the Civil War, when Americans believed... |
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Paperback
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System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing... |
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Shadows at Dawn: An Apache Massacre and the Violence of History
Karl Jacoby
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A masterful reconstruction of one of the worst Indian massacres in American history In April 1871, a group of Americans, Mexicans, and Tohono O?odham Indians surrounded an Apache village at dawn and murdered nearly 150 men, women, and children in their sleep. In the |
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Alfred Lansing - Basic Books; Anniversary Edition edition
Format: Print book
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The astonishing saga of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's survival for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctic seas, as Time magazine put it, "defined heroism." Alfred Lansing's scrupulously researched and brilliantly narrated book -- with over 200,000 copies sold -- has long... |
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The Informant: A True Story
Kurt Eichenwald
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From an award-winning New York Times investigative reporter comes a gripping account of one of the most captivating and bizarre tales in the history of the FBI and corporate America.It was one of the FBI's biggest secrets: Mark Whitacre, a senior executive at |
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Ron Chernow - Random House
Format: Book
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John D. Rockefeller, Sr.--history's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's most famous dynasty--is an icon whose true nature has eluded three generations of historians. Now Ron Chernow, the National Book Award-winning biographer of the Morgan and Warburg banking families,... |
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The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison
Pete Earley
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A stunning account of life behind bars at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, where the nation's hardest criminals do hard time. "A page-turner, as compelling and evocative as the finest novel. The best book on prison I've ever read.&qu |
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The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics)
Aristotle - Oxford University Press; Revised edition
Format: Paperback
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From the Publisher"Very useful as a cornerstone for our discussion of ethics and the Western moral tradition. The translation is elegant."--Dominic A. Aquila, |
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Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas
Carl L Becker
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The Declaration of IndependenceCarl L. Becker's important study is an analysis of the concepts expressed in the Declaration. Here is a lucid explanation of what the Declaration really is, what views it sets forth, where those views arose, and how they have been accepted or |
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The Mismeasure of Man
Stephen Jay Gould
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The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve. When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits. And y |
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Invisible Frontiers: The Race to Synthesize a Human Gene
Stephen S Hall
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Portraying the many scientists involved, this volume chronicles the race to create the first artificial human gene and the first commercial application of genetic-engineering techniques--the synthesis of human insulin |
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The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
David Deutsch - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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The New York Times bestseller: A provocative, imaginative exploration of the nature and progress of knowledgeIn this groundbreaking book, award-winning physicist David Deutsch argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe - and that improving them is the basic regulating... |
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Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness
Pete Earley
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Former Washington Post reporter Pete Earley had written extensively about the criminal justice system. But it was only when his own son-in the throes of a manic episode-broke into a neighbor's house that he learned what happens to mentally ill people who break a law. |
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