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The Library: A World History
James W. P. Campbell · University Of Chicago Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A library is not just a collection of books, but also the buildings that house them. As varied and inventive as the volumes they hold, such buildings can be much more than the dusty, dark wooden shelves found in mystery stories or the catacombs of stacks in the basements of academia. From... |
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Whitney and Bobbi Kristina
Ian Halperin · Gallery Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Shocking new revelations emerge about superstar Whitney Houston and her only daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, in #1 New York Times bestselling author Ian Halperin's account of their tumultuous lives.On July 26, 2015, after nearly six months in a coma, Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of musical... |
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October 31, 1517: Martin Luther and the Day that Changed the World
Martin E Marty · Paraclete Press
Pages: 114
Format: Print book
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Released in time for the 500th Anniversary of Martin Luther's 95 Theses, and the Protestant Reformation. "This is an invitation to a party, one which commemorates events that began five hundred years ago in Europe and have consequences throughout the world today. My title suggests... |
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Fitness Food: Delicious recipes for peak performance at any level
Christian Coates · Jacqui Small
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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Fitness Food's straight-talking approach, combined with nutritional expertise, has been successfully used with elite athletes and professional sportspeople. Its unique system of creating tailored menus for people with a wide range of different fitness goals is now available to everyone.... |
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Eat Live Love Die: Selected Essays
Betty Fussell · Counterpoint
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Betty Fussell is an inspiring badass. She's not just the award-winning author of numerous books ranging from biography and memoir to cookbooks and food history; not just a winner of the James Beard Foundation's Journalism Award who was inducted into their "Who's Who of American Food... |
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Traveling with Ghosts: A Memoir
Shannon Leone Fowler · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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From grief to reckoning to reflection to solace, a marine biologist shares the solo journey she took - through war-ravaged Eastern Europe, Israel, and beyond - to find peace after her fiancé suffered a fatal attack by a box jellyfish in Thailand.In the summer of 2002, Shannon Leone Fowler,... |
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Havana: A Subtropical Delirium
Mark Kurlansky · Bloomsbury
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he has come to know over more than thirty years. Part cultural history, part travelogue, with recipes, historic engravings, photographs, and Kurlansky's own pen-and-ink drawings... |
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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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Kill the Silence: A Survivor's Life Reclaimed
Monika Korra · Harmony
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In 2009, college sophomore and track star Monika Kørra was grabbed by three men on her way home from a party and brutally raped. Within hours of being released, Monika resolved that she would not be a victim - she was going to be a survivor. Monika had traveled from her home in Norway... |
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Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves
James Nestor · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 266
Format: Hardcover
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An Amazon Best Book of 2014 While on assignment in Greece, journalist James Nestor witnessed something that confounded him: a man diving 300 feet below the ocean's surface on a single breath of air and returning four minutes later, unharmed and smiling. This man was a freediver, and his amphibious... |
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