Gross: 466 books

We use addition on a daily basis—yet how many of us stop to truly consider the enormous and remarkable ramifications of this mathematical activity? Summing It Up uses addition as a springboard to present a fascinating and accessible look at numbers and number theory, and how we apply beautiful numerical...

Americans today choose from a dizzying array of schools, loosely lumped into categories of "public" and "private." How did these distinctions emerge in the first place, and what do they tell us about the more general relationship in the United States between public authority and private enterprise?...

In today’s tough economy, cutting prices and providing good service aren’t enough. To be truly successful, innovative businesspeople must learn the art of Positively Outrageous Service (POS)—doing the unexpected unexpectedly and giving the customer more than he or she could hope for. POS put...

This provocative book by the leading historian of the National Labor Relations Board offers a reexamination of the NLRB and the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) by applying internationally accepted human rights principles as standards for judgment. These new standards challenge every orthodoxy...

"Tiny Slivers From A Silver Horn" is a fable or legend if you will, about Unicorns, mankind and the stars. It presents a message of hope though it forces upon those who dare to hope even during the darkest of times, a choice which will have dire consequences no matter which road they choose...

‘De saboteur’ van Andrew Gross is een thriller waarin de Tweede Wereldoorlog een grote rol speelt, net als in zijn bestseller ‘Alleen hij’ (‘The One Man’). Wanneer het Noorse verzet er in 1943 achter komt dat de nazi’s in het geheim bezig zijn met het bouwen van een atoomwapen,...

Andrew Gross heeft met ‘Alleen hij’(The One Man)een bloedstollende en aangrijpende thriller geschreven waarin de gruwelen van de Tweede Wereldoorlog in het algemeen en die van Auschwitz in het bijzonder centraal staan. Terwijl in Europa de Tweede Wereldoorlog voortduurt, werken de Amerikanen...

What happens when man and arch-angel meet and are forced to take action without any command to do so? What decisions must they arrive at despite the eons old silence of the One who rules them? How do they react to evil and good in their own way? How do they interpret the silence of the heavens? Man...

"Reverieing" is a story of the slow descent into depression, loneliness and sorrow by one man who has been destined by luck or fate to experience the purgatory of existence. From the lap of luxury into the mundane, with sorrow upon sorrow heaped upon him, war and death always at his heels, Aaron slowly...

"The Sunflower" is a story of the effects that terrorism can have upon those that have been touched by it. It uses imagery and allusion to portray the seed of hate which propagates itself endlessly. An innocent man is killed. A bomb is placed in revenge. Does hate & destruction end there?If...

"Elijah's Coins" is a historical fiction story in which the biblical Elijah appears in more recent times to grant those who wish the ability to change the course of their lives. A beggar sits on a street in Warsaw with his hand out for coins. Two people answer the request. Then fate intervenes...

Benjamin was called "Simply Benjy" though he was anything but simple. When he spoke he did so with forethought and purpose. Yet, he could not silence the voice within his heart and mind which spoke all the time with impunity. "The Heretic" is about faith and the questions it imposes upon the believer....

“This thoroughly absorbing narrative dazzles with the most profound investigation and research. Focus is an enthralling and riveting read.” —Tim Gunn “Smart, well-researched…engaging…canny” (New York Times Book Review), Focus is a “fast-paced—and clearly insider—look at...

On his death in 2007, Richard Rorty was heralded by the New York Times as “one of the world’s most influential contemporary thinkers.” Controversial on the left and the right for his critiques of objectivity and political radicalism, Rorty experienced a renown denied to all but a handful of...