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Samuel Adams
Father of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Winner of the 2007 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award!
Samuel Adams is perhaps the most unheralded and overshadowed of the founding fathers, yet without him there would have been no American Revolution. A genius at devising civil protests and political maneuvers that became a trademark of American...
Battle for Ground Zero
Inside the Political Struggle to Rebuild the World Trade Center
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
In the aftermath of 9/11, Americans came together in a way not seen for a generation, pledging unity to rebuild after the horrific loss of the Twin Towers. People were signing up to go to war; rescue workers were laboring to clear rubble. But instead of becoming a rallying symbol in the fight against...
The Book of Isaias
A Child of Hispanic Immigrants Seeks His Own America
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
**FIRST PLACE for the Best Political/Current Affairs Book, International Latino Book Awards 2017**
**One of Southern Living's Best Books of 2016**
**OFFICIAL SELECTION: 2017 Social Justice Book List published by The National Network of State Teachers of the Year (NNSTOY) • Boston Public...
How to Shop for a Husband
A Consumer Guide to Getting a Great Buy on a Guy
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Janice Lieberman brings her vast shopping expertise as well as her personal knowledge of the dating marketplace together to tell you how to shop for the most important "purchase" of your life—your spouse. How to Shop for a Husband uses smart shopping principles to formulate rules that...
The Rise of the Naked Economy
How to Benefit from the Changing Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
What happens when work is no longer a place but a state of mind: when the trappings that have defined the economy as we knew it are stripped away and we start from the bare essence of what it means to make a living? From corner coffee shops to Fortune 500 companies, workers from all different backgrounds...
Face Your Fear
Living with Courage in an Age of Caution
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
A world famous thinker, author, lecturer, and activist, whose diverse, acclaimed and immensely popular body of work covers such subjects as religion, relationships, and bravery, Boteach now turns his attention to America's present state of mind and comes to the conclusion that fear is crippling society...
Alexandra
The Last Tsarina
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Taking advantage of material unavailable until the fall of the Soviet Union, Erickson portrays Alexandra's story as a closely observed, enthrallingly documented, progressive psychological retreat from reality.
The lives of the Romanovs were full of color and drama, but the personal life of...
Service and Style
How the American Department Store Fashioned the Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Downtown department stores were once the heart and soul of America's pulsing Broadways and Main Streets. With names such as City of Paris, Penn Traffic, The Maze, Maison Blanche, or The Popular, they suggested spheres far beyond mundane shopping. Nicknames reflected the affection customers felt for...
by Laurel House
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Based on the popular QuickieChick website, lifestyle expert Laurel House's new book QuickieChick's Cheat Sheet to Life, Love, Food, Fitness, Fashion, and Finance on a Less Than Fabulous Budget (St. Martin's Griffin/May 2012) offers quick tips for smart, sassy, independent chicks. This is the essential...
The Lovers' Book
More than 350 Inspired Ideas, Fun Facts and Time-tested Techniques to Make You the Best Lover Ever
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
Stuffed with lore, history, tips, tricks and theories about love, romance, and relationships, The Lovers' Book is the ultimate-and almost erudite-confection for everyone who is in love or wants to attract a lover. Charmingly designed and simply but elegantly presented, The Lovers' Book can be the...
Restless Genius
Barney Kilgore, The Wall Street Journal, and the Invention of Modern Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
The story of the man who transformed The Wall Street Journal and modern media
In 1929, Barney Kilgore, fresh from college in small-town Indiana, took a sleepy, near bankrupt New York financial paper—*The Wall Street Journal—*and turned it into a thriving national newspaper that eventually...
Rethinking Reputation
How PR Trumps Marketing and Advertising in the New Media World
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Good public relations is no longer just icing-it's a strategic imperative more important to your competitive success than even advertising or marketing. This is true whether you're a century-old multibillion-dollar corporation or a penniless startup. In Rethinking Reputation, public relations guru...
The Post-Truth Era
Dishonesty and Deception in Contemporary Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2004
"Dishonesty inspires more euphemisms than copulation or defecation. This helps desensitize us to its implications. In the post-truth era we don't just have truth and lies but a third category of ambiguous statements that are not exactly the truth but fall just short of a lie. Enhanced truth it...
Growing Up on the Mississippi
The 1950s in Winona, Minnesota
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
“Kent Stever takes you by the hand for a stroll back in time to a simpler place, one sprinkled with nostalgia and fond remembrance. His writing conjures up images so exact you’ll swear you’re sitting at a soda fountain sipping on a cherry Coke while he tells his tales.” —Mike Nistler, Publisher, Minnesota Moments Magazine