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On the Move: A Life
Oliver Sacks · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: "Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far." It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move... |
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The Rain in Portugal: Poems
Billy Collins · Random House
Pages: 108
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins comes a twelfth collection of poetry offering nearly fifty new poems that showcase the generosity, wit, and imaginative play that prompted The Wall Street Journal to call him "America's favorite poet." The Rain... |
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Ojibwa: People of Forests and Prairies
Michael Johnson · Firefly Books
Pages: 160
Format: Print book
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Ojibwa describes the history and culture of the people, and introduces their most important figures. It offers the most up-to-date and essential facts on identity, kinships, locations, populations and cultural characteristics. It presents extensive visual coverage of tribal dress and cultural... |
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Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human
Daniel J Siegel · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 378
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller. A scientist's exploration into the mysteries of the human mind. What is the mind? What is the experience of the self truly made of? How does the mind differ from the brain? Though the mind's contents -- its emotions, thoughts, and memories -- are often described,... |
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An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America
Nick Bunker · Knopf; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Written from a strikingly fresh perspective, this new account of the Boston Tea Party and the origins of the American Revolution shows how a lethal blend of politics, personalities, and economics led to a war that few people welcomed but nobody could prevent. In this powerful but fair-minded... |
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The Unmade Bed: The Messy Truth about Men and Women in the 21st Century
Stephen Marche · Simon and Schuster
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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A candid work of nonfiction from provocative Esquire columnist Stephen Marche - with interjections from his wife, writer Sarah Fulford - exploring the complicated, changing relationship between men and women in today's society.We are in the middle of a revolution of everyday life, one that... |
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How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
Rosa Brooks · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 438
Format: Print book
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A former top Pentagon official, daughter of anti-war activists, wife of an Army Green Beret and human rights activist presents a scholarly examination of how a constant state of war is contrary to America's founding values, undermines international rules and compromises future security.... |
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Powered by Girl: A Field Guide for Supporting Youth Activists
Lyn Mikel Brown · Beacon Press
Pages: 216
Format: Print book
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A playbook for working with and training girls to be activists of their own social movementsArmed with a rich array of online media platforms, seemingly endless reserves of creativity, and a keen sense of justice, girl activists are getting things done. But scholar and activist Lyn Mikel... |
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Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart
Mimi Swartz · Crown
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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It wasn't supposed to be this hard. If America could send a man to the moon, shouldn't the best surgeons in the world be able to build an artificial heart? In Ticker, Texas Monthly executive editor and two time National Magazine Award winner Mimi Swartz shows just how complex and difficult... |
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Gone 'til november
Lil Wayne. · Penguin Books
Pages: 176
Format: Print book
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From rap superstar Lil Wayne comes the long-awaited GONE 'TIL NOVEMBER, a deeply personal and revealing account of his time spent incarcerated on Rikers Island for eight months in 2010. |
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Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Sven Beckert · Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZEPULITZER PRIZE FINALISTThe epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism. Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding... |
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A First-Class Catastrophe: The Road to Black Monday, the Worst Day in Wall Street History
DIANA B HENRIQUES · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive account of the crash of 1987, a cautionary tale of how the U.S. financial system nearly collapsed--from the bestselling author of The Wizard of LiesMonday, October 19, 1987, was by far the worst day in Wall Street history. The market fell 22.6 percent - almost twice as bad as the worst... |
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Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein
John Nixon · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 242
Format: Print book
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Set for release on the 10th anniversary of Saddam Hussein's execution, a riveting, revealing and newsmaking account of the CIA's interrogation of Saddam, written by the CIA agent who conducted the questioning. In December 2003, after one of the largest, most aggressive manhunts in history,... |
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Common People: In Pursuit of My Ancestors
Alison Light · University of Chicago Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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"Family history begins with missing persons," Alison Light writes in Common People. We wonder about those we've lost, and those we never knew, about the long skein that led to us, and to here, and to now. So we start exploring. Most of us, however, give up a few generations... |
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