Anchor imprint: 1481 books
by William Poundstone
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Should you watch public television without pledging?...Exceed the posted speed limit?...Hop a subway turnstile without paying? These questions illustrate the so-called "prisoner's dilemma", a social puzzle that we all face every day. Though the answers may seem simple, their profound implications...
And If I Perish
Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In World War II, 59,000 women voluntarily risked their lives for their country as U.S. Army nurses. When the war began, some of them had so little idea of what to expect that they packed party dresses; but the reality of service quickly caught up with them, whether they waded through the water in...
by Robert Osserman
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
In the bestselling literary tradition of Lewis Thomas's Lives of a Cell and James Watson's The Double Helix, Poetry of the Universe is a delightful and compelling narrative charting the evolution of mathematical ideas that have helped to illuminate the nature of the observable universe. In a richly...
A Really Good Day
How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
The true story of how a renowned writer’s struggle with mood storms led her to try a remedy as drastic as it is forbidden: microdoses of LSD. Her revealing, fascinating journey provides a window into one family and the complex world of a once-infamous drug seen through new eyes.
When a small...
Heavenly Intrigue
Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the Murder Behind One of History's Greatest Scientific Discoveries
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2005
Heavenly Intrigue is the fascinating, true account of the seventeenth-century collaboration between Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe that revolutionized our understanding of the universe–and ended in murder.One of history’s greatest geniuses, Kepler laid the foundations of modern physics with his...
The Scarlet Professor
Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
During his thirty-seven years at Smith College, Newton Arvin published groundbreaking studies of Hawthorne, Whitman, Melville, and Longfellow that stand today as models of scholarship and psychological acuity. He cultivated friendships with the likes of Edmund Wilson and Lillian Hellman and became...
The Plant Messiah
Adventures in Search of the World's Rarest Species
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Carlos Magdalena is a man on a mission: to save the world’s most endangered plants. In The Plant Messiah, Magdalena takes readers from the forests of Peru to deep within the Australian outback in search of the rare and the vulnerable. Back in the lab—at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, home of...
Crawling
A Father's First Year
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2006
From an award-winning illustrator and children’s book author comes a touching, honest, and laugh-out-loud funny memoir about parenting, love, and the wonder of new life.
"I would have sooner been handed a bomb than a baby,” admits Elisha Cooper, early in his charming chronicle of his...
The Race
The Complete True Story of How America Beat Russia to the Moon
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
"Indispensable to anyone interested in the space race."--Houston Chronicle
In 1963, a young reporter for Time-Life named James Schefter was given a dream job: cover America's race to the moon. Since the astronauts were under contract to Life for their stories, Schefter was given...
In the Shadow of the Sword
The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
The acclaimed author of Rubicon and other superb works of popular history now produces a thrillingly panoramic (and incredibly timely) account of the rise of Islam.
No less significant than the collapse of the Roman Republic or the Persian invasion of Greece, the evolution of the Arab empire...
The Great Transformation
The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2006
From Karen Armstrong, the bestselling author of A History of God and The Spiral Staircase, comes this extraordinary investigation of a critical moment in the evolution of religious thought.
In the ninth century BCE, events in four regions of the civilized world led to the rise of religious traditions...
Of Love and Evil
The Songs of the Seraphim, Book Two
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
The second book in this nationally bestselling series is a gripping metaphysical thriller in which angels partner up with assassins, from the author of Interview with the Vampire.
Barely recovered from his previous divine mission, former contract killer Toby O'Dare is once again summoned...
House of Prayer No. 2
A Writer's Journey Home
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
In this otherworldly memoir of extraordinary power, Mark Richard, an award-winning author, tells his story of growing up in the American South with a heady Gothic mix of racial tension and religious fervor.
Called a “special child,” Southern social code for mentally—and physically—challenged...
Who Named The Knife
A True Story of Murder and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
When a murder occurs in beautiful Hawaii, the suspects are two young mainlanders on their honeymoon. Mayann Acker is eighteen-years-old. Her husband, William, is twenty-eight and just out of prison.Linda Spalding is chosen as a juror for Maryann's trail. Surprisingly, the chief witness against her...