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Hiding in the Bathroom: An Introvert's Roadmap to Getting Out There
MORRA AARONS-MELE · Dey Street Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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From the marketing guru and host of the popular Forbes.com podcast Hiding in the Bathroom, a breakthrough introverts' guide that broadens the conversation sparked by Quiet and moves away from the "Lean In" approach, offering wisdom and practical tips to help readers build strong... |
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Gorbachev: His Life and Times
WILLIAM TAUBMAN · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 852
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of the transformational world leader by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev.When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR was one of the world's two superpowers. By 1989, his liberal policies of perestroika and glasnost... |
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Victoria & Abdul
Shrabani Basu · Vintage
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
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Soon to be a Major Motion Picture starring Dame Judi Dench from director Stephen Frears, releasing September 22, 2017. Tall and handsome Abdul was just twenty-four years old when he arrived in England from Agra to wait at tables for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. Within a year, Abdul... |
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The Origin of Others
TONI MORRISON · Harvard University Press
Pages: 136
Format: Hardcover
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America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct... |
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Bugged: The Insects Who Rule the World and the People Obsessed with Them
David MacNeal · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Insects have been shaping our ecological world and plant life for over 400 million years. In fact, our world is essentially run by bugs -- there are 1.4 billion for every human on the planet. In Bugged, journalist David MacNeal takes us on an off-beat scientific journey that weaves together... |
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Man of the Hour: James B. Conant, Warrior Scientist
Jennet Conant · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable life of one of the most influential men of the greatest generation, James B. Conant - a savvy architect of the nuclear age and the Cold War - told by his granddaughter, New York Times bestselling author Jennet Conant.James Bryant Conant was a towering figure. He was at the center... |
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The Choice: Embrace the Possible
Edith Eger · Scribner
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful, moving memoir - and a practical guide to healing - written by Dr. Edith Eva Eger, an eminent psychologist whose own experiences as a Holocaust survivor help her treat patients and allow them to escape the prisons of their own minds.Edith Eger was sixteen years old when the Nazis... |
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A Rift in the Earth: Art, Memory, and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial
James Reston, Jr. · Arcade Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A Distinguished and Bestselling Historian and Army Veteran Revisits the Culture War that Raged around the Selection of Maya Lin's Design for the Vietnam Memorial A Rift in the Earth tells the remarkable story of the ferocious "art war" that raged between 1979 and 1984 over what... |
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