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Beauty Queen: Inside the Reign of Avon's Andrea Jung
Deborrah Himsel · Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Pages: 228
Format: Print book
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Andrea Jung, the glamorous former head of Avon, was arguably the world's most charismatic and effective CEO, credited with the astonishing turnaround of the venerable brand. Avon's board was filled with tough-minded, successful CEOs and other high achievers, but when Jung walked... |
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The Object Parade: Essays
Dinah Lenney · Counterpoint,
Pages: 200
Format: Print book
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This new collection of interconnected essays marches to a provocative premise: what if one way to understand your life was to examine the objects within it? Which objects would you choose? What memories do they hold? And lined up in a row, what stories do they have to tell?In recalling... |
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Madam Ambassador: Three Years of Diplomacy, Dinner Parties, and Democracy in Budapest
Eleni Kounalakis · The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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A helicopter ride to visit troops in the Afghanistan war zone, a tense meeting with the newly elected Prime Minister, and…a wild boar hunt! Eleni Kounalakis was forty-three and a land developer in Sacramento, California, when she was tapped by President Barack Obama to serve as the U.S.... |
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Accidentally Like a Martyr: The Tortured Art of Warren Zevon
Dorothea Salo · Backbeat Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
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(Book) . Warren Zevon songs are like chapters in a great American novel. Its story lies in the heart of his and our psyche. The lines are blurred. We never seem to know if we are looking in a mirror or peering through a window; we only know that when we listen we see something . The music... |
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Between Them: Remembering My Parents
RICHARD FORD · Ecco
Pages: 179
Format: Hardcover
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From American master Richard Ford, a memoir: his first work of nonfiction, a stirring narrative of memory and parental loveHow is it that we come to consider our parents as people with rich and intense lives that include but also exclude us? Richard Ford's parents - Edna, a feisty, pretty... |
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Whitey on Trial: Secrets, Corruption, and the Search for Truth
Margaret McLean · Forge
Pages: 367
Format: Print book
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After sixteen years on the lam, infamous Boston gangster Whitey Bulger was finally captured and brought to trial-and what a trial it was: evidence of nineteen gruesome murders, government secrets, FBI corruption, a dead witness, and an unbelievable tale of love. Whitey's machine guns... |
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The Words and Music of James Taylor
James E Perone · Praeger
Pages: 150
Format: Hardcover
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A valuable resource for James Taylor fans and a fascinating read for anyone interested in autobiographical popular music of the past 50 years.* Pairs critical analysis of every significant composition and recording by James Taylor with historical perspective on the events of his 50-year... |
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The Great Archaeologists
Brian M. Fagan · Thames & Hudson; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The story of how lost civilizations buried cities and ancient scripts were rediscovered for the modern age as seen through the lives and exploits of the great archaeologists who made these phenomenal findsThe Great Archaeologists takes the reader on a journey from the first attempt to establish... |
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Under Lincoln's Hat: 100 Objects That Tell the Story of His Life and Legacy
James M Cornelius · Lyons Press
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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What is the oldest artifact linked to Abraham Lincoln? What does a poem written when he was just a schoolboy say about his character? Taking its cue from The History of the World in 100 Objects, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum have selected 100 items from their extensive... |
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African Heroes and Heroines
Carter Godwin Woodson · Black Classic Press
Pages: 253
Format: Print book
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To Uncle George, who in captivity in America manifested the African spirit of resistance to slavery and died fighting the institution. So reads Woodson s dedication to this text, which provides a historical survey of African leaders and makes in an important contribution to America s cultural... |
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We Have Your Daughter
Paula Woodward · Prospecta Press
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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In We Have Your Daughter:The Unsolved Murder of JonBenét Ramsey Twenty Years Later, Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist Paula Woodward offers an unprecedented insider perspective on the twentieth anniversary of one of the most heinous, sensationalized, unsolved crimes in American... |
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1666: Plague, War, and Hellfire
Rebecca Rideal · Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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1666 was a watershed year for England. An outbreak of the Great Plague, the eruption of the second Dutch War, and the devastating Great Fire of London all struck the country in rapid succession and with devastating repercussions.Shedding light on these dramatic events and their context,... |
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Kitchen Confidential Deluxe Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Anthony Bourdain · Ecco
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
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A new, deluxe edition of Kitchen Confidential to celebrate the life of Anthony Bourdain. The book will feature a brand new introduction, a Q&A with Ecco publisher and Bourdain's long-time editor Daniel Halpern. Interior pages are hand-annotated by Anthony Bourdain himself. The interior... |
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Coming of Age: The Sexual Awakening of Margaret Mead
Deborah Beatriz Blum · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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The startling coming-of-age story of famed anthropologist Margaret Mead whose radical ideas challenged the social and sexual norms of her time. The story begins in 1923, when twenty-two year old Margaret Mead is living in New York City, engaged to her childhood sweetheart and on the verge... |
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