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Living a Year of Kaddish
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Ari Goldman’s exploration of the emotional and spiritual aspects of spending a year in mourning for his father will resonate with anyone who has lost a loved one, as he describes how this year affected him as a son, husband, father, and member of his community. Through the daily recitation of kaddish,...
Mama's Boy
A Story from Our Americas
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
This heartfelt, deeply personal memoir explores how a celebrated filmmaker and activist and his conservative Mormon mother built bridges across today’s great divides—and how our stories hold the power to heal.
Dustin Lance Black wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for Milk and helped overturn...
Just Watch Me
The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau: 1968-2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
This magnificent second volume, written with exclusive access to Trudeau’s private papers and letters, completes what the Globe and Mail called “the most illuminating Trudeau portrait yet written” — sweeping us from sixties’ Trudeaumania to his final days when he debated his faith.
His...
by Bill Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Here, from Bill Clinton, is a call to action. Giving is an inspiring look at how each of us can change the world. First, it reveals the extraordinary and innovative efforts now being made by companies and organizations—and by individuals—to solve problems and save lives both “down the street...
by Jung Chang
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
A New York Times Notable Book
Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age.
At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as one of the...
The Swing
Mastering the Principles of the Game
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
Not since Ben Hogan in the 1950s has a dominant player so thoroughly addressed golf's central enigma: how to develop and repeat an effective swing, the only way any player can hope to truly improve.
In the early '90s, after years of struggle and determination, Nick Price emerged as the world's...
Swimming to Antarctica
Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2009
• At age fourteen, she swam twenty-six miles from Catalina Island to the California mainland.
• At ages fifteen and sixteen, she broke the men’s and women’s world records for swimming the English Channel—a thirty-three-mile crossing in nine hours, thirty-six minutes.
• At eighteen, she...
by Teri Thompson, Nathaniel Vinton, Michael O'Keeffe
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
It was an epic downfall. In twenty-four seasons pitcher Roger Clemens put together one of the greatest careers baseball has ever seen. Seven Cy Young Awards, two World Series championships, and 354 victories made him a lock for the Hall of Fame. But on December 13, 2007, the Mitchell Report laid waste...
Lean In
Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
The #1 international best seller
In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg reignited the conversation around women in the workplace.
Sandberg is chief operating officer of Facebook and coauthor of Option B with Adam Grant. In 2010, she gave an electrifying TED talk in which she described how women...
Back to Work
Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
“I wrote this book because I love my country and I'm concerned about our future,” writes Bill Clinton. “As I often said when I first ran for President in 1992, America at its core is an idea—the idea that no matter who you are or where you're from, if you work hard and play by the rules, you'll...
The Brand You 50 (Reinventing Work)
Fifty Ways to Transform Yourself from an 'Employee' into a Brand That Shouts Distinction, Commitment, and Passion!
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1999
Michael Goldhaber, writing in Wired, said, "If there is nothing very special about your work, no matter how hard you apply yourself you won't get noticed and that increasingly means you won't get paid much either. In times past you could be obscure yet secure -- now that's much harder."
Again:...
Designing Your Life
How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
**#1 *New York Times Bestseller ***
**An inspiring and thought-provoking graduation gift: At last, a book that shows you how to build—design—a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage
Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office...
by Sheryl Sandberg
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The perfect graduation gift: the iconic #1 best seller, expanded and updated exclusively for graduates entering the workforce.
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*This extraordinary edition of Lean In, by Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook and coauthor of Option B, with Adam Grant, *includes a letter to...
by Tom Peters
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1999
Transform white collar departments into "professional service firms" whose sole, powerful asset is knowledge.
Peters discusses making the most of presentations, working with outsiders on market analysis, how to imporve brainstorming meetings, how to develop relationships with clients...