Steven: 5874 books
The Ghost Map
The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
A National Bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book, and an Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year
From Steven Johnson, the dynamic thinker routinely compared to James Gleick, Dava Sobel, and Malcolm Gladwell, The Ghost Map is a riveting page-turner about a real-life historical hero, Dr....
The Dental Diet
The Surprising Link between Your Teeth, Real Food, and Life-Changing Natural Health
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Throughout the years, dental health has often been characterized as a reflection of our overall health, where bad oral health results from issues with other parts of our body. But what if we flipped the paradigm? What if we thought about dental health as the foundation for our physical health as a...
Ebony and Ivy
Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
A groundbreaking exploration of the intertwined histories of slavery, racism, and higher education in America, from a leading African American historian.
A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that institution's complex and contested involvement in slavery--setting off a controversy...
by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“A brilliant book, wise and nuanced.”
—Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
“Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly timely.”
—New York Times Book Review
“Cool and persuasive... How Democracies Die comes at exactly the right moment.”
—The Washington...
Hitler in Los Angeles
How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
A 2018 FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE
The chilling, little-known story of the rise of Nazism in Los Angeles, and the Jewish leaders and spies they recruited who stopped it.
No American city was more important to the Nazis than Los Angeles, home to Hollywood, the greatest propaganda...
The Kremlin's Nuclear Sword
The Rise and Fall of Russia's Strategic Nuclear Forces 1945-2000
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
The prevailing Western view of Russia’s Cold War strategic nuclear weapons policy is that it resulted from a two-part interplay between the leaders of the Communist Party and the military. Steven J. Zaloga has found that a third contributor—the Russian defense industry—also played a vital role.
Drawing...
by Scott M Fishman, MD, Srinivasa N. Raja
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Accessible, concise, and clinically focused, Essentials of Pain Medicine, 4th Edition, by Drs. Honorio T. Benzon, Srinivasa N. Raja, Scott M. Fishman, Spencer S. Liu, and Steven P. Cohen, presents a complete, full-color overview of today’s theory and practice of pain medicine and regional anesthesia....
Left of Bang
How the Marine Corps' Combat Hunter Program Can Save Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
"At a time when we must adapt to the changing character of conflict, this is a serious book on a serious issue that can give us the edge we need.”
—General James Mattis, USMC, Ret.
"Left of Bang offers a crisp lesson in survival in which Van Horne and...
Come Back, Como
Winning the Heart of a Reluctant Dog
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Based on a beloved ten-part series in the San Francisco Chronicle, Come Back, Comois Steven Winn’s tender and hilarious memoir of his uncommonly rich experience with a dog who wanted nothing whatsoever to do with him. With humor and pathos, Winn describes the exasperating but ultimately rewarding...
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - 10th anniversary edition
A Year of Food Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
A beautiful deluxe trade paperback edition celebrating the 10th anniversary of Barbara Kingsolver's New York Times bestseller, which describes her family's adventure as they move to a farm in southern Appalachia and realign their lives with the local food chain.
Since its publication in 2007,...
The Sense of Style
The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
** “Charming and erudite," from the author of Enlightenment Now, "The wit and insight and clarity he brings . . . is what makes this book such a gem.” —Time.com**
Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and...
The Language Instinct
How The Mind Creates Language
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
The classic book on the development of human language by the world’s leading expert on language and the mind.
In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes,...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Private Investigating, Third Edition
Discover How the Pros Uncover the Facts and Get to the Truth
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
The mystique of private investigating draws significant numbers of people to consider it as a career or side business. At the same time, individuals want to learn investigative techniques to solve their own personal and legal problems. In The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Private Investigating, Third...
Common Ground
Encountering God in the Desert
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Around 1400 B.C. Yahweh, the Great 'I AM', led the Israelites into the Sinai Desert by the hand of His servant Moses.
It was at this time that Yahweh visited his people with great signs and wonders, and handed them His Laws carved on two stone tablets.
Millenlia later this story has weaved itself...