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Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
Adam Greenfield · Verso
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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A field manual to the technologies that are transforming our livesEverywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider... |
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Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower's Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy
David A Nichols · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 385
Format: Hardcover
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Revealed for the first time, this is the full story of how President Dwight Eisenhower masterminded the downfall of the anti-Communist demagogue Senator Joseph McCarthy.Behind the scenes, Eisenhower loathed McCarthy, the powerful Republican senator notorious for his anti-Communist witch... |
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Oh, Florida!: How America's Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country
CRAIG PITTMAN · Picador
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
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Oh, Florida! To some people, it's a paradise. To others, it's a punch line. As Oh, Florida! shows, it's both of these and, more important, it's a Petri dish, producing trends that end up influencing the rest of the country. Without Florida there would be no NASCAR, no Bettie... |
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Unshackling America: How the War of 1812 Truly Ended the American Revolution
WILLARD STERNE RANDALL · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 452
Format: Hardcover
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Unshackling America challenges the persistent fallacy that Americans fought two separate wars of independence. Willard Sterne Randall documents an unremitting fifty-year-long struggle for economic independence from Britain overlapping two armed conflicts linked by an unacknowledged global... |
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The Kingdom of Happiness: Inside Tony Hsieh's Zapponian Utopia
Aimee Groth · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Fearless gonzo journalism - an insider's look at the enigmatic and successful CEO of Zappos, Tony Hsieh, and his quest to create his own version of utopia in the center of Las Vegas.In 2010 Tony Hsieh was introduced to many as a visionary modern business leader. Under Hsieh's leadership,... |
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American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
Harry R Rubenstein · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith is the companion volume to an exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History that celebrates the bold and radical experiment to test a wholly new form of government. Democracy is still a work in progress, but it is at the core... |
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The Boy Who Loved Too Much: A True Story of Pathological Friendliness
Jennifer Latson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The poignant story of a boy's coming-of-age complicated by Williams syndrome, a genetic disorder that makes people biologically incapable of distrust.What would it be like to see everyone as a friend? Twelve-year-old Eli D'Angelo has a genetic disorder that obliterates social inhibitions,... |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life
ROBERT DALLEK · Viking
Pages: 704
Format: Hardcover
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A one-volume biography of Roosevelt by the #1 New York Times bestselling biographer of JFK, focusing on his career as an incomparable politician, uniter, and deal maker In an era of such great national divisiveness, there could be no more timely biography of one of our greatest presidents... |
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Memories After My Death: The Story of My Father, Joseph "Tommy" Lapid
Yair Lapid · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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From leading political figure and bestselling Hebrew author Yair Lapid comes a mesmerizing portrait of the author's father, one of modern Israel's leading figures.Memories After My Death is the astonishing true story of Tommy Lapid, a well-loved and controversial Israeli figure... |
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The ISIS Hostage: One Man's True Story of Thirteen Months in Captivity
Puk Damsgard · Pegasus Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Danish photographer Daniel Rye was taken capture by the Islamic State for thirteen months -- this is his story. In May 2013, Daniel Rye traveled to Syria for a planned three-day trip to photograph the effects of the war on civilians. While there, he was captured by ISIS and held for a nightmarish... |
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Darling, I'm Going to Charlie: A Memoir
Maryse Wolinski · 37 Ink
Pages: 144
Format: Print book
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An elegant, deeply felt memoir from Maryse Wolinski - journalist and widow of the late cartoonist Georges Wolinski, who died in the terrorist attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo - that is both a beautiful tribute to her late husband and a rallying call to action."Darling,... |
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Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance, and the Struggle to Reform the NSA
Timothy Edgar · Brookings Institution Press
Pages: 166
Format: Hardcover
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Safeguarding Our Privacy and Our Values in an Age of Mass SurveillanceAmerica's mass surveillance programs, once secret, can no longer be ignored. While Edward Snowden began the process in 2013 with his leaks of top secret documents, the Obama administration's own reforms have also helped... |
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Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration—and How to Achieve Real Reform
John F Pfaff · Basic Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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A groundbreaking examination of our system of imprisonment, revealing the true causes of mass incarceration as well as the best path to reformThe United States, home to about 5 percent of the world's population, holds nearly 25 percent of its prisoners. How did we get to this point?In Locked... |
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