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Fierce Patriot
The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • William Tecumseh Sherman was more than just one of our greatest generals. Fierce Patriot is a bold, revisionist portrait of how this iconic and enigmatic figure exerted an outsize impact on the American landscape—and the American character.
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America’s first “celebrity”...
Wahoo
The Patrols of America's Most Famous World War II Submarine
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
The career of the USS Wahoo in sinking Japanese ships in the farthest reaches of the Empire is legendary in submarine circles.
Christened three months after Pearl Harbor, Wahoo was commanded by the astonishing Dudley W. “Mush” Morton, whose originality and daring new techniques led to results...
Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs
The Unknown Story of the Men and Women of World War II's OSS
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2004
The battles of World War II were won not only by the soldiers on the front lines, and not only by the generals and admirals, but also by the shadow warriors whose work is captured for the first time in Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs. Thanks to the interviews and narrative skills of Patrick O'Donnell...
by Francis A. O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
When V Amphibious Corps were preparing for the invasion of the Marianas Islands—Saipan, Guam, and Tinian—they were expecting a relatively easy fight. The Japanese appeared to be on the run. As D day for Saipan (the first of the three islands scheduled for conquest) loomed, V Corps planners felt...
by Patrick O'Brian
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 1994
"The best biography of Picasso."—Kenneth Clark
Patrick O'Brian's outstanding biography of Picasso is here available in paperback for the first time. It is the most comprehensive yet written, and the only biography fully to appreciate the distinctly Mediterranean origins of Picasso's...
by Edna O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
“How long it’s taken for these two mad, bad and dangerous writers to get together!”—Alan Cheuse, San Francisco Chronicle
Acclaimed biographer of James Joyce, Edna O’Brien has written a “jaunty” (The New Yorker) biography that suits her fiery and charismatic subject. She follows...
Playing with Fire
The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
From the host of MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, an important and enthralling new account of the presidential election that changed everything, the race that created American politics as we know it today
The 1968 U.S. Presidential election was the young Lawrence O’Donnell’s...
The Close Encounters Man
How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOs
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
The wildly entertaining and eye-opening biography of J. Allen Hynek, the astronomer who invented the concept of "Close Encounters" with alien life, inspired Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster classic science fiction epic film and is the subject of History Channel's Project Blue Book, and made...
by JOAN- ROS ARAGONES, Edward O. Wilson
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Los sabios y apasionados consejos de E.O. Wilson a las nuevas generaciones de científicos.
Querido amigo:
Después de medio siglo de enseñar a estudiantes y a jóvenes profesionales de la ciencia, he tenido el privilegio y la suerte de haber aconsejado a muchos cientos de jóvenes...
by Teresia Renata Posselt, O.C.D., Suzanne M. Batzdorff
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
Teresa Renata Posselt, O.C.D. was the Novice Director, then Mother Prioress of the Cologne Carmel when Edith Stein lived there. This is Posselt’s tribute to Saint Edith Stein, a wreath of recollections, lovingly woven together. It is also the first-ever biography published about that “Great Woman...
The Feeling of Greatness
The Moe Norman Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
In The Feeling of Greatness, second edition, golf coach Tim O’Connor updates his previous biography of the late great, Canadian golfer Moe Norman, who was famous for introducing the single plane golf swing. This edition includes new anecdotes about Moe both on and off the course by golfers, journalists,...
Weapons of Math Destruction
How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
**Longlisted for the National Book Award
New York Times Bestseller
A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life — and threaten to rip apart our social fabric**
We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect...
Enough Is Enough
Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
It’s time for a new kind of economy We’re overusing the earth’s finite resources, and yet excessive consumption is failing to improve our lives. In Enough Is Enough, Rob Dietz and Dan O’Neill lay out a visionary but realistic alternative to the perpetual pursuit of economic growth—an economy...
by William O'Neil
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
A BUSINESSWEEK BESTSELLER!
Anyone can learn to invest wisely with this bestselling investment system!
Through every type of market, William J. O’Neil’s national bestseller, How to Make Money in Stocks, has shown over 2 million investors the secrets to building wealth. O’Neil’s...