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Surviving the Extremes
A Doctor's Journey to the Limits of Human Endurance
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2004
Physiological constraints confine our bodies to less than one-fifth of the earth's surface. Beyond that fraction lie the extremes. What happens when we go to them?
Dr. Kenneth Kamler has spent years observing exactly what happens. A vice president of the legendary Explorers Club, he has climbed,...
Dominion
The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2003
"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." --Genesis 1:24-26
In this crucial...
Beneath the Surface
Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
*Now a New York Times Best Seller*
Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different whales on two continents and at two of SeaWorld's U.S. facilities. For Hargrove, becoming an orca trainer fulfilled a childhood dream. However, as his experience with the whales deepened,...
Less Than Human
Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Winner of the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction
A revelatory look at why we dehumanize each other, with stunning examples from world history as well as today's headlines
"Brute." "Cockroach." "Lice." "Vermin." "Dog." "Beast."...
Ending Aging
The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
MUST WE AGE?
A long life in a healthy, vigorous, youthful body has always been one of humanity's greatest dreams. Recent progress in genetic manipulations and calorie-restricted diets in laboratory animals hold forth the promise that someday science will enable us to exert total control over our own...
On Being Certain
Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
You recognize when you know something for certain, right? You "know" the sky is blue, or that the traffic light had turned green, or where you were on the morning of September 11, 2001--you know these things, well, because you just do.
In On Being Certain, neurologist Robert Burton...
The Year Without Summer
1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Like Winchester's Krakatoa, The Year Without Summer reveals a year of dramatic global change long forgotten by history
In the tradition of Krakatoa, The World Without Us, and Guns, Germs and Steel comes a sweeping history of the year that became known as 18-hundred-and-froze-to-death. 1816...
For the Love of Men
A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
A nonfiction investigation into masculinity, For The Love of Men provides actionable steps for how to be a man in the modern world, while also exploring how being a man in the world has evolved.
In 2019, traditional masculinity is both rewarded and sanctioned. Men grow up being told that boys...
The Future, Declassified
Megatrends That Will Undo the World Unless We Take Action
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Twenty-five years ago when Mathew Burrows went to work for the CIA as an intelligence analyst, the world seemed frozen. Then came the fall of the Berlin Wall and the implosion of the Soviet Union; suddenly, unpredictability became a universal theme and foresight was critical. For the past decade,...
One Nation After Trump
A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER
A call to action from three of Washington's premier political scholar-journalists, One Nation After Trump offers the definitive work on the threat posed by the Trump presidency and how to counter it.
American democracy was never...
Viral Hate
Containing Its Spread on the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Emboldened by anonymity, individuals and organizations from both left and right are freely spewing hateful vitriol on the Internet without worrying about repercussions.Lies, bullying, conspiracy theories, bigoted and racist rants, and calls for violence targeting the most vulnerable circulate openly...
In Putin's Footsteps
Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
In Putin’s Footsteps is Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler’s unique combination of travelogue, current affairs, and history, showing how Russia’s dimensions have shaped its identity and culture through the decades.
With exclusive insider status as Nikita Khrushchev’s great grand-daughter,...
Picking Cotton
Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The New York Times best selling true story of an unlikely friendship forged between a woman and the man she incorrectly identified as her rapist and sent to prison for 11 years.
Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. She was able to...
by Chris Stewart, Elizabeth Smart
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
The harrowing true story of abduction and survival from the courageous young woman who lived it—now the subject of a Lifetime original movie, I Am Elizabeth Smart.
In this memoir, Elizabeth Smart reveals how she survived and the secret to forging a new life in the wake of a brutal crime....