Anchor imprint: 1481 books
The Wave
In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
From Susan Casey, bestselling author of The Devil’s Teeth, an astonishing book about colossal, ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out.
For centuries, mariners have spun tales of gargantuan waves, 100-feet high or taller. Until recently scientists dismissed these stories—waves...
Free Ride
John McCain and the Media
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
We live in a gotcha media culture that revels in exposing the foibles and hypocrisies of our politicians. But one politician manages to escape this treatment, getting the benefit of the doubt and a positive spin for nearly everything he does: John McCain. Indeed, even during his temporary decline...
Know Your Power
A Message to America's Daughters
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
“Never losing faith, we worked to redeem the promise of America, that all men and women are created equal. For our daughters and our granddaughters today we have broken the marble ceiling. For our daughters and our granddaughters now the sky is the limit.” —Nancy Pelosi, after being sworn in...
Pearl
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2005
On Christmas night of 1998, Maria Meyers learns that her twenty-year-old daughter, Pearl, has chained herself outside the American embassy in Dublin, where she intends to starve herself to death. Although Maria was once a student radical and still proudly lives by her beliefs, gentle, book-loving...
by Ted Gup
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Award winning journalist Ted Gup exposes how and why our most important institutions increasingly keep secrets from the very people they are supposed to serve.Drawing on his decades as an investigative reporter, Ted Gup argues that a preoccupation with secrets has undermined the very values--security,...
Bush's Law
The Remaking of American Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
In the aftermath of 9/11, President Bush declared that the struggle against terrorism would be nothing less than a war—a war that would require new tools and a new mind-set. As legal sanction was given to covert surveillance and interrogation tactics, internal struggles brewed over programs and...
Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith
Religion in American War and Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
A richly detailed, profoundly engrossing story of how religion has influenced American foreign relations, told through the stories of the men and women—from presidents to preachers—who have plotted the country’s course in the world.
Ever since John Winthrop argued that the Puritans’ new...
Virtual Equality
The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Since the decade to lift the ban on gays in the military, the emergence of gay conservatives, and the onslaught of antigay initiatives across America, the gay and lesbian community has been asking itself tough questions: Where should the movement go? What do we want? In Virtual Equality, veteran...
The Age of Gold
The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
The California Gold Rush inspired a new American dream—the “dream of instant wealth, won by audacity and good luck.” The discovery of gold on the American River in 1848 triggered the most astonishing mass movement of peoples since the Crusades. It drew fortune-seekers from the ends of the earth,...
The Struggle for Europe
The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent 1945 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
From the ashes of World War II to the conflict over Iraq, William Hitchcock examines the miraculous transformation of Europe from a deeply fractured land to a continent striving for stability, tolerance, democracy, and prosperity. Exploring the role of Cold War politics in Europe’s peace settlement...
by Luis Urrea
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
By the Lake of Sleeping Children explores the post-NAFTA and Proposition 187 border purgatory of garbage pickers and dump dwellers, gawking tourists,and relief workers, fearsome coyotes and their desperate clientele. In sixteen indelible portraits, Urrea illuminates the horrors and the simple joys...
The Dispensable Nation
American Foreign Policy in Retreat
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
In a brilliant and revealing book destined to drive debate about the future of American power, Vali Nasr questions America’s dangerous choice to engage less and matter less in the world.
Vali Nasr, author of the groundbreaking The Shia Revival, worked closely with Hillary Clinton at the State...
The Secret Epidemic
The Story of AIDS and Black America
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2004
Half the people in the United States who are diagnosed with HIV are now African American. Through the eyes of those on the front lines of the crisis, journalist Jacob Levenson tells a story of race and public health that spans fifty years and reveals how AIDS has become one of the leading killers...
Grand New Party
How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
In a provocative challenge to Republican conventional wisdom, two of the Right's rising young thinkers call upon the GOP to focus on the interests and needs of working-class voters.Grand New Party lays bare the failures of the conservative revolution and presents a detailed blueprint for building...