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Your Idea Starts Here: 77 Mind-Expanding Ways to Unleash Your Creativity
Carolyn Eckert · Storey Publishing
Pages: 224
Format: Print book |
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With change happening faster and faster in our tech-ruled world, being able to think creatively, flexibly, and quickly is more important than ever. In Your Idea Starts Here, graphic designer Carolyn Eckert offers 77 specific questions, techniques, and exercises - cleverly combined with... |
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Evil Men
James Dawes · Harvard University Press
Format: Print book |
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Presented with accounts of genocide and torture, we ask how people could bring themselves to commit such horrendous acts. A searching meditation on our all-too-human capacity for inhumanity, Evil Men confronts atrocity head-on—how it looks and feels, what motivates it, how it can be stopped.... |
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Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity
Emily Matchar · Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition
Format: Print book |
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Emily Matchar offers a smart, measured investigation into the cultural, social, and economic implications of a return to domesticity in this fascinating book “chock-full of historical context, strong research and compelling personal stories” (Christian Science Montor).Amid today’s... |
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American Philosophy: A Love Story
John J Kaag · FSG
Pages: 272
Format: Print book |
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The epic wisdom contained in a lost library helps the author turn his life aroundIn American Philosophy, John Kaag--a disillusioned philosopher at sea in his marriage and career--stumbles upon a treasure trove of rare books on an old estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that once... |
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Left Brain, Right Stuff: How Leaders Make Winning Decisions
Phil Rosenzweig · PublicAffairs
Pages: 315
Format: Hardcover |
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Left Brain, Right Stuff takes up where other books about decision making leave off. For many routine choices, from shopping to investing, we can make good decisions simply by avoiding common errors, such as searching only for confirming information or avoiding the hindsight bias. But as Phil... |
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Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939
Volker Ullrich · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 1008
Format: Print book |
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A landmark biography that gives us an unprecedented understanding of the man who has become the personification of evil. Volker Ullrich draws on previously unseen papers and recent scholarly research to shed new light on the man behind the public persona: from Hitler's childhood and his failures... |
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Fortune's Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth
Terry Alford · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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With a single shot from a pistol small enough to conceal in his hand, John Wilkes Booth catapulted into history on the night of April 14, 1865. The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln stunned a nation that was just emerging from the chaos and calamity of the Civil War, and the president's... |
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Homefront 911: How Families of Veterans Are Wounded by Our Wars
Stacy Bannerman · Arcade Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover |
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The hallmarks of America's War on Terror have been repeated long deployments and a high percentage of troops returning with psychological problems. Family members of combat veterans are at a higher risk of potentially lethal domestic violence than almost any other demographic; it's... |
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