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The SuperStress Solution
4-week Diet and Lifestyle Program
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
We live on little sleep and exercise but a lot of work. We eat junk and processed foods on the run and fuel up with caffeine and sugar. We are chronically overcommitted, subjected to a 24/7 news cycle, and can’t take our eyes off our computers and PDAs. Is it any wonder that anxious is the new normal?
Our...
The Greedy Hand
How Taxes Drive Americans Crazy and What to Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
The Greedy Hand is an illuminating examination of the culture of tax and a persuasive call for reform, written by one of the nation's leading policy makers, Amity Shlaes of The Wall Street Journal.
The father of the modern American state was an obscure Macy's department store executive...
The Second World
Empires and Influence in the New Global Order
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
Grand explanations of how to understand the complex twenty-first-century world have all fallen short–until now. In The Second World, the brilliant young scholar Parag Khanna takes readers on a thrilling global tour, one that shows how America’s dominant moment has been suddenly replaced by a geopolitical...
The Flickering Mind
Saving Education from the False Promise of Technology
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The Flickering Mind, by National Magazine Award winner Todd Oppenheimer, is a landmark account of the failure of technology to improve our schools and a call for renewed emphasis on what really works.
American education faces an unusual moment of crisis. For decades, our schools have been beaten...
The Essential Conversation
What Parents and Teachers Can Learn from Each Other
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2003
With the insights she has gleaned from her close and subtle observation of parent-teacher conferences, renowned Harvard University professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot has written a wise, useful book about the ways in which parents and teachers can make the most of their essential conversation—the...
The Progress Paradox
How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2003
In The Progress Paradox, Gregg Easterbrook draws upon three decades of wide-ranging research and thinking to make the persuasive assertion that almost all aspects of Western life have vastly improved in the past century--and yet today, most men and women feel less happy than in previous generations....
How to Run the World
Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Here is a stunning and provocative guide to the future of international relations—a system for managing global problems beyond the stalemates of business versus government, East versus West, rich versus poor, democracy versus authoritarianism, free markets versus state capitalism. Written by the...
by Sarah Sentilles
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
A single book might not change the world. But this utterly original meditation on art and war might transform the way you see the world—and that makes all the difference.
“How to live in the face of so much suffering? What difference can one person make in this beautiful, imperfect, and...
Warriors of God
Inside Hezbollah's Thirty-Year Struggle Against Israel
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Hezbollah is the most powerful Islamist group operating in the Middle East today, and no other Western journalist has penetrated as deeply inside this secretive organization as Nicholas Blanford. Now Blanford has written the first comprehensive inside account of Hezbollah and its enduring struggle...
The Victory of Reason
How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Many books have been written about the success of the West, analyzing why Europe was able to pull ahead of the rest of the world by the end of the Middle Ages. The most common explanations cite the West’s superior geography, commerce, and technology. Completely overlooked is the fact that faith...
Monsoon Diary
A Memoir with Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Shoba Narayan’s Monsoon Diary weaves a fascinating food narrative that combines delectable Indian recipes with tales from her life, stories of her delightfully eccentric family, and musings about Indian culture.
Narayan recounts her childhood in South India, her college days in America, her...
World's Fair
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Winner of the National Book Award • “Marvelous . . . You get lost in World’s Fair as if it were an exotic adventure. You devour it with the avidity usually provoked by a suspense thriller.”—The New York Times
Hailed by critics from coast to coast and by readers of all ages, this resonant...
Self-Help for Premenstrual Syndrome
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2009
Updated with the latest information
A completely revised edition of the classic guide to PMS-the first book on this pressing health issue ever published in the United States
Soon after Self-Help for Premenstrual Syndrome came out more than fifteen years ago, it was established as the...
Hard News
The Scandals at The New York Times and the Future of American Media
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2004
On May 11, 2003, The New York Times devoted four pages of its Sunday paper to the deceptions of Jayson Blair, a mediocre former Times reporter who had made up stories, faked datelines, and plagiarized on a massive scale. The fallout from the Blair scandal rocked the Times to its core and revealed...