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The African American Writer's Handbook
How to Get in Print and Stay in Print
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
With African Americans writing and buying books in record numbers, the time is ripe for a comprehensive publishing guide tailored expressly to the needs of this vibrant, creative community. The African American Writers Handbook meets this challenge perfectly. Written by veteran journalist and published...
Creativity, Inc.
Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
**From a co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios—the Academy Award–winning studio behind *Coco, Inside Out, *and Toy Story—comes an incisive book about creativity in business and leadership for readers of Daniel Pink, Tom Peters, and Chip and Dan Heath.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NAMED...
Sin in the Second City
Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
Step into the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history–and the catalyst for a culture war that rocked the nation. Operating in Chicago’s notorious Levee district at the dawn of the last century, the Club’s proprietors, two aristocratic sisters named...
The Emperor of Scent
A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2003
For as long as anyone can remember, a man named Luca Turin has had an uncanny relationship with smells. He has been compared to the hero of Patrick Süskind’s novel Perfume, but his story is in fact stranger, because it is true. It concerns how he made use of his powerful gifts to solve one of the...
Morgan
American Financier
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A century ago, J. Pierpont Morgan bestrode the financial world like a colossus. The organizing force behind General Electric, U.S. Steel, and vast railroad empires, he served for decades as America's unofficial central banker: a few months after he died in 1913, the Federal...
Trump: Think Like a Billionaire
Everything You Need to Know About Success, Real Estate, and Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2004
It’s not good enough to want it. You’ve got to know how to get it. Real estate titan, bestselling author, and TV star Donald J. Trump is the man to teach you the billionaire mind-set–how to think about money, career skills, and life. Here is crucial advice on investing in real estate from the...
When Hollywood Had a King
The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent into Power and Influence
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2003
In When Hollywood Had a King, the distinguished journalist Connie Bruck tells the sweeping story of MCA and its brilliant leader, a man who transformed the entertainment industry— businessman, politician, tactician, and visionary Lew Wasserman.
The Music Corporation of America was founded...
My Vast Fortune
The Money Adventures of a Quixotic Capitalist
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
"This book will make you rich. Filthy stinking rich. You will never need to work again. You will spend the rest of your life on the Riviera sipping piña coladas and listening to Sinatra. And even if this doesn't happen, Andrew Tobias will provide you with such a wealth of wit that you will retire...
The Ride of a Lifetime
Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2019
A grand vision defined: The CEO of Disney, one of Time’s most influential people of 2019, shares the ideas and values he embraced to reinvent one of the most beloved companies in the world and inspire the people who bring the magic to life.
Robert Iger became CEO of The Walt Disney Company...
Mapplethorpe
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
With Robert Mapplethorpe's full endorsement and encouragement, Morrisroe interviewed more than three hundred friends, lovers, family members, and critics to form this definitive biography of America's most censored and celebrated photographer.
“Eventually I found several hundred people who...
by James Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
J.M.W. Turner was a painter whose treatment of light put him squarely in the pantheon of the world’s preeminent artists, but his character was a tangle of fascinating contradictions. While he could be coarse and rude, manipulative, ill-mannered, and inarticulate, he was also generous, questioning,...
Crisis, Pursued by Disaster, Followed Closely by Catastrophe
A Memoir of Life on the Run
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
Throughout his childhood, Mike O’Connor’s family pretended to be normal. But Mike and his two younger sisters knew that their parents were hiding something–a secret they didn’t dare talk about. The family appeared to be no different from any of their small-town Texas neighbors–that is, until...
by Laura Claridge
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2001
Norman Rockwell’s tremendously successful, prolific career as a painter and illustrator has rendered him a twentieth-century American icon. However, the very popularity and accessibility of his idealized, nostalgic depictions of middleclass life have caused him to be considered not a serious artist...
The Facts of Life
and Other Dirty Jokes
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
If you had to give America a voice, it’s been said more than once, that voice would be Willie Nelson’s. For more than fifty years, he’s taken the stuff of his life-the good and the bad-and made from it a body of work that has become a permanent part of our musical heritage and kept us company...