Tom Shachtman: 10 books
Rumspringa
To Be or Not to Be Amish
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
A revelatory look at Amish youth as they have never been looked at before
Rumspringa is a fascinating look at a little-known Amish coming-of-age ritual, the rumspringa—the period of "running around" that begins for their youth at age sixteen. Through vivid portraits of teenagers...
How the French Saved America
Soldiers, Sailors, Diplomats, Louis XVI, and the Success of a Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Americans today have a love/hate relationship with France, but in How the French Saved America Tom Shachtman shows that without France, there might not be a United States of America.
To the rebelling colonies, French assistance made the difference between looming defeat and eventual triumph....
Gentlemen Scientists and Revolutionaries
The Founding Fathers in the Age of Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Science and experimentation were at the heart of the Founding Fathers' philosophies and actions. The Founders relentlessly tinkered, invented, farmed by means of scientific principles, star-gazed, were fascinated by math, used scientific analogies and scientific thinking in their political writing,...
by Tom Shachtman
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2000
“A lovely, fascinating book, which brings science to life.” —Alan Lightman
Combining science, history, and adventure, Tom Shachtman “holds the reader’s attention with the skill of a novelist” as he chronicles the story of humans’ four-centuries-long quest to master the secrets...
Airlift to America
How Barack Obama, Sr., John F. Kennedy, Tom Mboya, and 800 East African Students Changed Their World and Ours
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
This is the long-hidden saga of how a handful of Americans and East Africans fought the British colonial government, the U.S. State Department, and segregation to transport to, or support at, U.S. and Canadian universities, between 1959 and 1963, nearly 800 young East African men and women who would...
Building Tall
My Life and the Invention of Construction Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
"John Tishman is a true pioneer in the Construction Management industry. Through his CM leadership, some of America's most well-known buildings have been brought to successful completion."
---Bruce D'Agostino, president and chief executive, Construction Management Association of America
"Building...
Whoever Fights Monsters
My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
LEARN THE TRUE STORY OF ONE OF THE FBI PROFILERS WHO COINED THE PHRASE "SERIAL KILLER"
Face-to-face with some of America's most terrifying killers, FBI veteran Robert K. Ressler learned how to identify the unknown monsters who walk among us -- and put them behind bars. In Whoever...
by Len Colodny, Tom Shachtman
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
This groundbreaking book chronicles the little-understood evolution of the neoconservative movement—from its birth as a rogue insurgency in the Nixon White House through its ascent to full and controversial control of America's foreign policy in the Bush years. In eye-opening detail, The Forty Years...
Dead Center
Behind the Scenes at the World's Largest Medical Examiner's Office
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A city with eight million people has eight million ways to die
For fifteen years, Shiya Ribowsky worked as a medicolegal investigator in New York City’s medical examiner’s office—the largest, most sophisticated organization of its kind in the world. Utilizing his background in medicine,...
by Robert K. Ressler, Tom Shachtman
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Después de toda una vida profesional en el FBI y de enfrentarse a criminales como Richard Speck, Ted Bundy o David Berkowitz, nadie mejor que Robert K. Ressler para mostrar los perfiles y motivaciones de los asesinos en serie –término que él mismo acuñó-.
Cómo combatirles, qué grado...