Joseph／許瑞宋: 10167 books
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Der melancholische Weltenbummler. Eine Biografie
Language: German
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Ganz anders als Walt Disney zähmte er die Schwermut, anstatt sie zu vertreiben, thematisierte Angst und Freundschaft, Liebe und Tod. Bis heute begeistert Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ein millionenfaches Publikum mit Werken wie "Südkurier", "Wind, Sand und Sterne", "Flug nach Arras" und "Der kleine...
First Family
Abigail and John Adams
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, best-selling author of Founding Brothers and His Excellency brings America’s preeminent first couple to life in a moving and illuminating narrative that sweeps through the American Revolution and the republic’s tenuous early years.
John and Abigail Adams left an indelible...
His Excellency
George Washington
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2004
National Bestseller
To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric prose that have made him one of the premier historians of the Revolutionary era. Training his lens on a figure who sometimes seems as remote as...
Roosevelt's Centurions
FDR and the Commanders He Led to Victory in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
“FDR’s centurions were my heroes and guides. Now Joe Persico has written the best account of those leaders I've ever read.”—Colin L. Powell
All American presidents are commanders in chief by law. Few perform as such in practice. In Roosevelt’s Centurions, distinguished historian Joseph...
The Triumph & Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson
The White House Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
From Lyndon Johnson’s closest domestic adviser during the White House years comes a book in which “Johnson leaps out of the pages in all his raw and earthy glory” (The New York Times Book Review) that’s been called “a joy to read” (Stephen Ambrose, The Washington Post Book World).
Califano...
by Joseph DiMona, Thomas T. Noguchi, MD
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
America’s most controversial medical examiner explores the unanswered questions surrounding the deaths of Marilyn Monroe, Robert F. Kennedy, Sharon Tate, Janis Joplin, William Holden, Natalie Wood, John Belushi, and many of his other important cases
Now, for the first time, Dr. Noguchi recounts...
As It Was … but Not Now
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
In 1923 in Andalusia, Alabama, twenty-odd miles north of the Florida line, a physician was born. Its a place deep in the piney woods that was an area of sand beds, sand roads, and sandspurs. In As It Was But Not Now, Dr. Joseph Merrill tells his story that began in that little town more than ninety...
The Lives of the Constitution
Ten Exceptional Minds that Shaped America’s Supreme Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
In a fascinating blend of biography and history, Joseph Tartakovsky tells the epic and unexpected story of our Constitution through the eyes of ten extraordinary individuals—some renowned, like Alexander Hamilton and Woodrow Wilson, and some forgotten, like James Wilson and Ida B. Wells-Barnett.
Tartakovsky...
Rebbe
The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
“One of the greatest religious biographies ever written.” – Dennis Prager
In this enlightening biography, Joseph Telushkin offers a captivating portrait of the late Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, a towering figure who saw beyond conventional boundaries to turn his movement, Chabad-Lubavitch,...
Manifesting Michelangelo
The True Story of a Modern-Day Miracle--That May Make All Change Possible
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
“And then it happened . . . a ray of illumination shot straight up and down to the left and the right, forming a pair of axes. My heart began to beat very fast, yet I didn’t blink. I couldn’t have taken my eyes off what I was seeing if I had wanted to.”
At the dawn of the new millennium,...
Kidnapped by the Taliban
A Story of Terror, Hope, and Rescue by SEAL Team Six
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Back Cover Copy:
“Am I About to Die?”
On December 5, 2012, American medical doctor Dilip Joseph and two colleagues are driving back to Kabul, Afghanistan, after serving villagers that morning at a rural clinic. Suddenly a man waving an AK-47 blocks their path. More armed men jump...
Hillel
If Not Now, When?
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Part of the Jewish Encounter series
“What is hateful unto you, do not do unto your neighbor. That is the whole Torah, all the rest is commentary. Now, go and study.”
This is the most famous teaching of Hillel, one of the greatest rabbis of the Talmudic era. What makes it so extraordinary...
by Joseph J. Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 1998
Following Thomas Jefferson from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to his retirement in Monticello, Joseph J. Ellis unravels the contradictions of the Jeffersonian character. He gives us the slaveholding libertarian who was capable of decrying mescegenation while maintaing an intimate...
by Joseph J. Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
From the first shots fired at Lexington to the signing of the Declaration of Independence to the negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase, Joseph J. Ellis guides us through the decisive issues of the nation’s founding, and illuminates the emerging philosophies, shifting alliances, and personal and...