Scribner: 1672 books
Hippocrates' Shadow
Secrets from the House of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008
Everyone knows of the Hippocratic Oath, the famous invocation sworn by all neophyte physicians. But most don't realize that the father of modern medicine was an avid listener and a constant bedside presence. Hippocrates believed in the doctor-patient connection and gained worldwide renown for championing...
206 Bones
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
The #1 New York Times bestselling author and producer of the Fox television hit, Bones, returns with a spectacular new Tempe Brennan novel.
There are 206 bones in the human body. Forensic anthropologists know them intimately, can read in them stories of brief or long lives and use them to reconstruct...
Ladies And Gentlemen Of The Jury
Greatest Closing Arguments In Modern Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 1999
The closing arguments from ten noteworthy cases—“lawyers and nonlawyers will enjoy the passion and eloquence of these counselors; practitioners of law will find much to learn from them” (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
Until now, only the twelve jurors who sat in judgment were able to...
The Smoking Gun
Day by Day Through a Shocking Murder Trial with Gerry Spence
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2003
From America's foremost criminal defense lawyer and author of the bestselling How to Argue and Win Every Time comes this riveting, true account of a trial that adeptly exposes the unrelenting power of the state, which so often crushes those -- guilty or innocent -- who come before the bar of justice....
by Herbert Benson
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
Learn how the mind shapes the body, and take charge of your health and wellness with the science and power of belief.
In this life-changing book, Dr. Herbert Benson draws on his twenty-five years as a physician and researcher to reveal how affirming beliefs, particularly belief in a higher...
by Robin Furth
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
A detailed guide to Stephen King's The Bill Hodges Trilogy—Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers, and End of Watch.
A $500 House in Detroit
Rebuilding an Abandoned Home and an American City
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
A young college grad buys a house in Detroit for $500 and attempts to restore it—and his new neighborhood—to its original glory in this “deeply felt, sharply observed personal quest to create meaning and community out of the fallen…A standout” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
Drew...
The Trouble With Testosterone
And Other Essays On The Biology Of The Human Predi
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
From the man who Oliver Sacks hailed as “one of the best scientist/writers of our time,” a collection of sharply observed, uproariously funny essays on the biology of human culture and behavior.
In the tradition of Stephen Jay Gould and...
An Alchemy of Mind
The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Zookeeper's Wife, an ambitious and enlightening work that combines an artist's eye with a scientist's erudition to illuminate, as never before, the magic and mysteries of the human mind.
Long treasured by literary readers for her uncommon ability...
The Colony
The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
In the bestselling tradition of In the Heart of the Sea, The Colony, “an impressively researched” (Rocky Mountain News) account of the history of America’s only leper colony located on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, is “an utterly engrossing look at a heartbreaking chapter” (Booklist) in...
The Sexual Paradox
Men, Women and the Real Gender Gap
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Susan Pinker, psychologist and award-winning columnist, has written a groundbreaking and controversial book that reveals why learning and behavioral gaps between boys and girls in the classroom are reversed in the workplace.
Pinker examines how fundamental sex differences play out over the...
Knocking on Heaven's Door
The Path to a Better Way of Death
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
In this visionary memoir, based on a groundbreaking New York Times Magazine story, award-winning journalist Katy Butler ponders her parents’ desires for “Good Deaths” and the forces within medicine that stood in the way.
Katy Butler was living thousands of miles from her vigorous and...
Rapture Ready!
Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
What does it mean when a band is judged by how hard they pray rather than how hard they rock? Would Jesus buy "Jesus junk" or wear "witness wear"? What do Christian skate parks, raves, and romance novels say about evangelicalism -- and America? Daniel Radosh went searching for the answers and reached...
In the Time of Bobby Cox
The Atlanta Braves, Their Manager, My Couch, Two Decades, and Me
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Bobby Cox has now hung up his spikes, leaving behind an unparalleled tenure as one of the most successful managers of all time. Known throughout baseball as a player’s manager, the legendary skipper has endeared himself to all who love the game. His constancy has been an anomaly in this fickle sports...