St Martin S Press imprint: 3366 books
The Southern Tiger
Chile's Fight for a Democratic and Prosperous Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Former Chilean president Ricardo Lagos provides a fascinating glimpse inside his country's meteoric rise on the world stage. A leader in the underground resistance movement against Augusto Pinochet and his Dirty War, Ricardo Lagos burst onto the national stage in 1988 when he gave a speech denouncing...
Thomas Jefferson - Revolutionary
A Radical's Struggle to Remake America
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
"In this lively and clearly written book, Kevin Gutzman makes a compelling case for the broad range and radical ambitions of Thomas Jefferson's commitment to human equality." - Alan Taylor, Pulitzer Prize winning author of American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
Though...
Conversations with Power
What Great Presidents and Prime Ministers Can Teach Us about Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Fresh out of college, and frustrated with own generation's political apathy, Brian Till set out to interview the former world leaders he most admired. To his surprise, they were eager to talk, and he soon found himself discussing everything from energy to terrorism to nuclear disarmament with the...
The Harding Affair
Love and Espionage during the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Warren Harding fell in love with his beautiful neighbor, Carrie Phillips, in the summer of 1905, almost a decade before he was elected a United States Senator and fifteen years before he became the 29th President of the United States. When the two lovers started their long-term and torrid affair,...
I Believe in ZERO
Learning from the World's Children
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
First-hand, human stories of hope, resilience, determination, and family: a call to see the world's children as our own, by the President and CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF
In I Believe in ZERO, President and CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, an organization known for its decades of charity...
Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs
The Making of a Surgeon
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
It looked for a while like Michael Collins would spend his life breaking concrete and throwing rocks for the Vittorio Scalese Construction Company. He liked the work and he liked the pay. But a chance remark by one of his coworkers made him realize that he wanted to involve himself in something bigger,...
How We Do Harm
A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
How We Do Harm exposes the underbelly of healthcare today—the overtreatment of the rich, the under treatment of the poor, the financial conflicts of interest that determine the care that physicians' provide, insurance companies that don't demand the best (or even the least expensive) care, and pharmaceutical...
Divided Minds
Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2006
A riveting true story of sisters who were identical, until the voices began
Growing up in the fifties, Carolyn Spiro was always in the shadow of her more intellectually dominant and socially outgoing twin, Pamela. But as the twins approached adolescence, Pamela began to suffer the initial symptoms...
by Kitty Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Kitty Ferguson, the award-winning and international bestselling author of Stephen Hawking’s biography, presents an even deeper portrait of the legendary physicist’s life and scientific theories.
This updated edition of Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind looks at one of the most remarkable...
Growing Up Again
Life, Loves, and Oh Yeah, Diabetes
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
With generosity of spirit, ebullience, and sly humor, Mary Tyler Moore presents the intensely private, often funny, and sometimes startling story of her life with diabetes. Growing Up Again is a delightfully candid read for her legion of fans, the more than 20 million Americans with diabetes, and...
A Smile as Big as the Moon
A Special Education Teacher, His Class, and Their Inspiring Journey Through U.S. Space Camp
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Besides being a football coach at his Michigan High School, Mike
Kersjes taught special education classes, dealing with children whose disabilities included Tourette syndrome, Downs Syndrome, dyslexia, eating disorders and a variety of emotional problems.
One autumn Kersjes got the outlandish...
The Boy in the Moon
A Father's Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2011
"[A]n intimate glimpse into the life of a family that cares around the clock for a disabled child, that gets so close to the love and despair, and the complex questions the life of such a child raises...It is a beautiful book, heartfelt and profound,...
Believe Me
My Battle with the Invisible Disability of Lyme Disease
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
From the star of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills comes an emotional and eye opening behind-the-scenes look at her descent into uncovering the mystery of chronic Lyme disease.
In early 2011, Yolanda was struck by mysterious symptoms including brain fog, severe exhaustion, migraines and...
Mercies in Disguise
A Story of Hope, a Family's Genetic Destiny, and the Science That Rescued Them
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
"[Kolata] is a gifted storyteller. Her account of the Baxleys... is both engrossing and distressing... Kolata's book raises crucial questions about knowledge that can be both vital and fatal, both pallative and dangerous." —Andrew Solomon, The New York Review of Books
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