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Conspiracy of Fools
A True Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2005
From an award-winning New York Times reporter comes the full, mind-boggling true story of the lies, crimes, and ineptitude behind the Enron scandal that imperiled a presidency, destroyed a marketplace, and changed Washington and Wall Street forever.
It was the corporate collapse that appeared...
Having It All?
Black Women and Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A behind-the-scenes look into the lives of successful middle- and upper-middle class African American women, the groundbreaking HAVING IT ALL? is sure to spark discussions from cocktail parties to boardrooms.
In a single generation, black women have made extraordinary strides academically,...
Backlash
The Undeclared War Against American Women
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2009
From the author of In the Darkroom, a feminist classic and skillful examination of the attack on women’s rights.
Today’s political climate leaves no doubt that American women are still being assaulted by the same antifeminist backlash messages that Susan Faludi brilliantly exposed in her...
by Kurt Eichenwald
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A real-life thriller—the story of kickbacks and payoffs, of shady deals struck in secret with known felons; a story in which half a million people lose enormous sums—some their life’s savings—in the largest securities fraud of the 1980s, with names like Onassis and Bush numbered among the victims.
Keyboarding Made Simple
Learn the best techniques for keyboarding like a pro
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
Leave hunt-and-peck to the chickens. Effective and efficient keyboarding is more than tapping the correct letter. Designed for individual and classroom use, this book teaches you to react to letters instead of finding them on the keyboard. This breakthrough guide brims with step-by-step exercises...
Tulipomania
The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
A vivid narration of the history of the tulip, from its origins on the barren, windswept steppes of central Asia to its place of honor in the lush imperial gardens of Constantinople, to its starring moment as the most coveted—and beautiful—commodity in Europe.
In the 1630s, visitors to...
The Great Depression
America 1929-1941
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
One of the classic studies of the Great Depression, featuring a new introduction by the author with insights into the economic crises of 1929 and today.
In the twenty-five years since its publication, critics and scholars have praised historian Robert McElvaine’s sweeping and authoritative...
Third World America
How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
It’s not an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species and that the American Dream of a secure, comfortable standard of living has become as outdated as an Edsel with an eight-track player. That the United States of America is in danger of becoming a third world...
Pinched
How the Great Recession Has Narrowed Our Futures and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
The Great Recession is not done with us yet. While the most acute part of the economic crisis is past, the recession's most significant impact on American life still lies in the future. The personal, social, and cultural changes that result from severe economic shocks build and manifest themselves...
Rogues' Gallery
The Secret Story of the Lust, Lies, Greed, and Betrayals That Made the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
“Behind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime.”
With these words as a starting point, Michael Gross, leading chronicler of the American rich, begins the first independent, unauthorized look at the saga of the nation’s greatest museum, the Metropolitan Museum of...
Hollywood: The Movie Lover's Guide
The Ultimate Insider Tour of Movie L.A.
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
The classic guide to who-did-what-where in Los Angeles, on- and off-screen, including:
Film & TV locations: the Hollywood Hills house where Barbara Stanwyck seduced Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity...the funky apartment building where William Holden lived in Sunset Boulevard...the exotic...
Anatomy of an Epidemic
Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Now with bonus material, including a new foreword and afterword with updated research
In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over...
Driving with the Devil
Southern Moonshine, Detroit Wheels, and the Birth of NASCAR
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
“Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought, and love into their cars than any racer ever will. Lose on the track and you go home. Lose with a load of whiskey and you go to jail.” —Junior Johnson, NASCAR legend and one-time whiskey runner
Today’s NASCAR is a family sport with 75 million...
by Peter Kuper, Franz Kafka
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
A brilliant, darkly comic reimagining of Kafka’s classic tale of family, alienation, and a giant bug.
Acclaimed graphic artist Peter Kuper presents a kinetic illustrated adaptation of Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. Kuper’s electric drawings—where American cartooning meets German expressionism—bring...