Point imprint: 454 books
Finding the Titanic
How Images from the Ocean Depths Fueled Interest in the Doomed Ship
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
On the night of April 14, 1912, as it made its first voyage, the luxury steamship Titanic struck an iceberg. Then, a few hours after midnight on April 15, the ship sank thousands of feet before settling on the ocean floor. And that’s where it stayed, whereabouts unknown, for the next 73 years until...
The Upcycle
Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
From the authors of Cradle to Cradle, we learn what's next: The Upcycle
The Upcycle is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Cradle to Cradle, one of the most consequential ecological manifestoes of our time. Now, drawing on the green living lessons gained from 10 years of putting the Cradle to Cradle...
Lessons from the Light
What We Can Learn from the Near-Death Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
While providing many accounts of near-death experiences (NDEs) from men, women, and children of all ages and backgrounds,* Lessons from the Light* is much more than just an inspiring collection of NDEs. In Lessons near-death expert Kenneth Ring extracts the pure gold of the NDE and with a beautiful...
by A. J. Liebling
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
A.J. Liebling's classic New Yorker pieces on the "sweet science of bruising" bring vividly to life the boxing world as it once was. It depicts the great events of boxing's American heyday: Sugar Ray Robinson's dramatic comeback, Rocky Marciano's rise to prominence, Joe Louis's unfortunate...
Rowing to Latitude
Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2002
Two by sea: A couple rows the wild coasts of the far north
Jill Fredston has traveled more than twenty thousand miles of the Arctic and sub-Arctic-backwards. With her ocean-going rowing shell and her husband, Doug Fesler, in a small boat of his own, she has disappeared every summer for years,...
by David Dubal
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2003
The ultimate guide to classical composers and their music-for both the novice and the experienced listener
Music, according to Aaron Copland, can thrive only if there are "gifted listeners." But today's listeners must choose between classical and rock, opera and rap, and the choices...
Coral Reefs
A Journey Through an Aquatic World Full of Wonder
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
During an ordinary visit to the library, a girl pulls a not-so-ordinary book from the shelves. As she turns the pages in this book about coral reefs, the city around her slips away and she finds herself surrounded by the coral cities of the sea and the mysterious plants and animals that live, hunt,...
Inside Bruegel
The Play of Images in Children's Games
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 1997
In this brilliant, original and lavishly illustrated book, Edward Snow undertakes an inquiry into a single painting by the Flemish master Peter Bruegel the Elder—the kaleidoscopic Children's Games—in order to unlock the secrets of the great painter's art.
Appetite City
A Culinary History of New York
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
New York is the greatest restaurant city the world has ever seen.
In Appetite City, the former New York Times restaurant critic William Grimes leads us on a grand historical tour of New York's dining culture. Beginning with the era when simple chophouses and oyster bars dominated the culinary...
Which Way to the Wild West?
Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About Westward Expansion
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
History--with the good bits put back. Discover the drama, discoveries, dirty deeds and derring-do that won the American West.
With a storyteller's voice and attention to the details that make history real and interesting, Steve Sheinkin's Which Way to the Wild West? delivers America's greatest...
The Accidental Connoisseur
An Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2004
What is taste? Is it individual or imposed on us from the outside? Why are so many of us so intimidated when presented with the wine list at a restaurant? In The Accidental Connoisseur, journalist Lawrence Osborne takes off on a personal voyage through a little-known world in pursuit of some answers....
A Sabbath Life
One Woman's Search for Wholeness
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Poetic and provocative, a challenge to women to create more spiritually rich and balanced lives. A successful writer and a committed feminist, Kathleen Hirsch, at age forty, finds herself searching for something more. How, she asks, can women's lives be more spiritually alive and whole? Can we reclaim...
Short
Walking Tall When You're Not Tall At All
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
A SURVIVAL GUIDE TO GROWING UP SHORT. Part science book, part memoir—a
book for everyone concerned about looking (or feeling) different.
When veteran journalist John Schwartz took a close look at famous height studies, he made a surprising discovery: being short doesn't have to be a disadvantage!...
To Reach the Clouds
My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2002
An artist of the air re-creates his six-year plot to pull off an act of incomparable beauty and imagination
One late-summer day, a feat of unimaginable audacity was perpetrated on the twin towers of the World Trade Center. The year was 1974. A hundred thousand people gathered on the ground...