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Much Ado About Loving
What Our Favorite Novels Can Teach You About Date Expectations, Not So-Great Gatsbys, and Love in the Time of Internet Personals
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
“A treat for any book lover, happily mated or cheerfully single” (USA TODAY)—two popular journalists give hilarious relationship advice borrowed from the most famous characters in literature.
Finding love should be easier than ever before, given all the freedoms we enjoy. But as it turns...
A Return to Modesty
Discovering the Lost Virtue
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Updated with a new introduction, this fifteenth anniversary edition of A Return to Modesty reignites Wendy Shalit’s controversial claim that we have lost our respect for an essential virtue: modesty.
When A Return to Modesty was first published in 1999, its argument launched a worldwide discussion...
by Alfred North Whitehead
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
One of the major philosophical texts of the 20th century, Process and Reality is based on Alfred North Whitehead’s influential lectures that he delivered at the University of Edinburgh in the 1920s on process philosophy.
Whitehead’s master work in philsophy, Process and Reality propounds...
On the Eve of the Millenium
The Future of Democracy Through an Age of Unreason
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1995
"All my life," writes Conor Cruise O'Brien, "I have been fascinated and puzzled by nationalism and religion; by the interaction of the two forces, sometimes in unison, sometimes antagonistic." In these wide-ranging and penetrating essays, O'Brien examines how throughout the world today these age-old...
Touching History
The Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded in the Skies Over America on 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
On the azure blue morning of 9/11 the skies were pronounced "severe clear," in the parlance of airline pilots; a gorgeous day for flying. Nearly 5,000 flights were cruising the skies over America when FAA Operations Manager Ben Sliney arrived at the Command Center for his first day on that job. He...
Hurricane Season
A Coach, His Team, and Their Triumph in the Time of Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
"There's always a point in the season when you're faced with a challenge and you see what you're capable of. And you grow up."
-- J.T. Curtis, head coach, John Curtis Christian School Patriots
On Saturday, August 27, 2005, the John Curtis Patriots met for a grueling practice in the late...
How This Night Is Different
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2006
Elisa Albert's debut story collection marks the arrival of an extraordinary new voice in fiction. In How This Night Is Different, Albert boldly illuminates the struggles of young, disaffected Jews to find spiritual fulfillment. With wit and wisdom, she confronts themes -- self-deprecation, stressful...
SuperCooperators
Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
EVOLUTION IS OFTEN PRESENTED AS A STRICTLY COMPETITIVE ENDEAVOR. This point of view has had serious implications for the way we see the mechanics of both science and culture. But scientists have long wondered how societies could have evolved without some measure of cooperation. And if there was cooperation...
The Statues that Walked
Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
T****he monumental statues of Easter Island, both so magisterial and so forlorn, gazing out in their imposing rows over the island’s barren landscape, have been the source of great mystery ever since the island was first discovered by Europeans on Easter Sunday 1722. How could the ancient people...
Gone to the Forest
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE LONGSHOT comes this gripping saga about the destruction of a family, a home, and a way of life. Set on a struggling farm in a colonial country teetering on the brink of civil war, Gone to the Forest is a tale of family drama and political turmoil in which...
The Longshot
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
Cal and his trainer, Riley, are on their way to Mexico for a make-or-break rematch with legendary fighter Rivera. Four years ago, Cal became the only mixed martial arts fighter to take Rivera the distance -- but the fight nearly ended him. Only Riley, who has been at his side for the last ten years,...
A Radical Line
From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground, One Family's Century of Conscience
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
In this elegant family history, journalist Thai Jones traces the past century of American radical politics through the extraordinary exploits of his own family.
Born in the late 1970s to fugitive leaders of the Weather Underground and grandson of Communists, spiritual pacifists, and civil rights...
Cadillac Orpheus
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
Inspired by Carl Hiaasen and Victor D. LaValle in equal measure, Solon Timothy Woodward mines the nether regions of Florida in search of high drama and raucous comedy. Full of sex, death, and humor, this bawdy, brilliant debut introduces us to three generations of a family in the boisterous, unholy,...
The Used World
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
"It was mid-December in Jonah, Indiana, a place where Fate can be decided by the weather, and a storm was gathering overhead." So Haven Kimmel, bestselling author of A Girl Named Zippy, prepares us to enter The Used World -- a world where big hearts are frequently broken and sometimes repaired; where...