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The Final Call

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 7:11:01 PST

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My Song

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 7:09:24 PST

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The Generals' War

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 5:26:43 PST

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Last Call

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 5:25:41 PST

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In an entertaining book that is the basis for the forthcoming Ken Burns documentary forPBS, the author explains how Prohibition happened, what life under ...

The Big Short

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 5:24:52 PST

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Wherever I Wind Up

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 5:24:20 PST

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A personal account about the author's unlikely journey to the big leagues describes how his athletic dream was destroyed by medical findings and how he was sustained by his Christian faith and the love of his family before emerging as a ...

Rome

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 5:23:49 PST

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A comprehensive history of Rome covers the city's evolution from the Roman empire through the early years of Christianity to the Renaissance and the modern era, ...

Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 5:20:17 PST

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Five years in the making, Londoners is a fresh and compulsively readable view of one of the world's most fascinating cities—a vibrant narrative portrait of the London of our own time, featuring unforgettable stories told by the real people who make the city hum. Acclaimed writer and editor Craig Taylor has spent years traversing every corner of the city, getting to know the most interesting Lond ...

The Prince of Mist

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 5:12:20 PST

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It's war time, and the Carver family decides to leave the capital where they live and move to a small coastal village where they've recently bought a home. But from the minute they cross the threshold, strange things begin to happen. In that mysterious house still lurks the spirit of Jacob, the previous owners' son, who died by drowning.</p><p>With the help of their new friend Roland, ...

The Admirals

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 5:04:48 PST

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Only four men in American history have been promoted to the five-star rank of Admiral of the Fleet: William Leahy, Ernest King, Chester Nimitz, and William Halsey. These four men were the best and the brightest the navy produced, and together they led the U.S. navy to victory in World War II, establishing the United States as the world's greatest fleet. In THE ADMIRALS, award-winning historian Wa ...

The Last Sultan

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 4:26:08 PST

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"The Last Sultan "is the definitive biography of a man who changed popular culture throughout the world. As the founder and head of Atlantic Records, Ahmet Ertegun signed and/or recorded many of the greatest musical artists of all time, among them Ruth Brown; Big Joe Turner; Ray Charles; Bobby Darin; Sonny and Cher; Eric Clapton; Buffalo Springfield; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; Led Zeppelin; th ...

Jack Kennedy

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 4:24:02 PST

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This is the story of the friendships that defined one of America's most beloved Presidents. Chris Matthews, who has been following and studying the Kennedys most of his life, has interviewed President Kennedy's closest confidants - family, friends, and those who served with him--to create a moving portrait of a man many loved but few really understood. Matthews focuses on the relationships betwe ...

All in

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 4:21:26 PST

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The Secret Race

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 4:20:53 PST

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For the first time ever, Hamilton recounts his own battle with clinical depression, speaks frankly about the agonizing choices that go along with the decision to compete at a world-class level, and tells the story of his complicated ...

London Under

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 4:20:13 PST

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The Last Boy

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 4:18:20 PST

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Jane Leavy, the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy, returns with a biography of an American original—number 7, Mickey Mantle. Drawing on more than five hundred interviews with friends and family, teammates, and opponents, she delivers the definitive account of Mantle's life, mining the mythology of The Mick for the true story of a luminous and illust ...

Cronkite

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 4:09:21 PST

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For decades, Walter Cronkite was known as the most trusted man in America. Millions across the nation welcomed him into their homes each evening, first as a reporter from the frontlines of World War II, then later, in the emerging medium of television, where he hosted numerous documentary programs and anchored the "CBS Evening News" until his retirement in 1981. Yet this very public figure, undou ...

Heads in Beds

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 4:08:41 PST

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"A humorous memoir by a veteran hospitality employee that reveals what goes on behind the scenes of the hotel business. Includes tips on how to get the most out of your hotel stay"--

The General

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 4:08:08 PST

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No leader of modern times was more unique and more uniquely national than Charles de Gaulle. As founder and first President of the Fifth Republic, General de Gaulle saw himself 'carrying France on my shoulders'. When he first emerged on to the world stage in 1940, his insistence that he spoke for his nation might well have appeared impossibly arrogant for a recently promoted junior general who h ...

Elizabeth the Queen

Sat, 5 May 2012 3:27:41 PST

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The Battle of the Tanks

Sat, 5 May 2012 3:25:57 PST

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A chronicle of the pivotal World War II tank battle offers insight into Kursk's strategic importance and the agendas of both German and Red Army forces, drawing ...

The Soul of a Chef

Sat, 5 May 2012 3:24:25 PST

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Ruhlman's storytelling combines with his immense love of food to reveal the people whose goal is to serve perfect food. Through talking with the most talented young chefs in the business, Ruhlman takes readers on a journey toward the soul of a chef. [예스24 제공]

Stirring it Up with Molly Ivins

Sat, 5 May 2012 3:23:05 PST

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You probably knew Molly Ivins as an unabashed civil libertarian who used her rapier wit and good ole Texas horse sense to excoriate political figures she deemed unworthy of our trust and respect. But did you also know that Molly was one helluva cook? And we're not just talking chili and chicken-fried steak, either. Molly Ivins honed her culinary skills on visits to France--often returning with pe ...

Ghost in the Wires

Sat, 5 May 2012 3:20:14 PST

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Kevin Mitnick, the world's most wanted computer hacker, managed to hack into some of the country's most powerful - and seemingly impenetrable - agencies and companies. By conning employees into giving him private information and maneuvering through layers of security, he gained access to data that no one else could. The suspenseful heart of the book unfolds as Mitnick disappears on a three-year r ...

To End All Wars

Sat, 5 May 2012 3:18:37 PST

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The Facebook Effect

Sat, 5 May 2012 3:15:27 PST

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IN LITTLE MORE THAN HALF A DECADE, Facebook has gone from a dorm-room novelty to a company with 500 million users. It is one of the fastest growing companies in history, an essential part of the social life not only of teenagers but hundreds of millions of adults worldwide. As Facebook spreads around the globe, it creates surprising effects—even becoming instrumental in political protests from Co ...

The Wizard of Lies

Sat, 5 May 2012 3:13:50 PST

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In The Wizard of Lies, Diana B. Henriques of The New York Times -- who has led the paper’s coverage of the Madoff scandal since the day the story broke -- has ...

The Silent Season of a Hero

Sat, 5 May 2012 3:10:26 PST

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Chronicles the writing of the legendary sports journalist, from his first high schooljob, to becoming the sports reporter for the New York Times, including his ...

Idea Man

Sat, 5 May 2012 2:28:49 PST

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The Microsoft co-founder shares the story of his life while revealing the lessons he haslearned throughout his influential career, covering topics that range ...

Secrets of the FBI

Sat, 5 May 2012 2:25:58 PST

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Crack reporter, Washington insider, and "New York Times"-bestselling author Kessler ("In the President's Secret Service") is back with an explosive new book on ...

The only game in town

Sat, 5 May 2012 2:24:01 PST

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A latest entry in the best-selling series features contributions by leading sports and literary writers, from Roger Angell's assessment of the famous pitching duel between Ron Darling and Frank Viola to David Owen's views on Tiger Wood's ...

Play Their Hearts Out

Sat, 5 May 2012 2:22:19 PST

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist George Dohrmann's remarkable debut offers an up-close and unforgettable narrative that reveals the gritty reality hiding behind the romanticized hoop dreams of America's basketball prodigies.

Ok

Sat, 5 May 2012 2:20:25 PST

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It is said to be the most frequently spoken (or typed) word on the planet, more common than an infant's first word ma or the ever-present beverage Coke. It was even the first word spoken on the moon. It is OK - the most ubiquitous and invisible of American expressions, one used countless times every day. Yet few of us know the secret history of OK - how it was coined, what it stood for, and the a ...

The Archimedes Codex

Sat, 5 May 2012 2:14:59 PST

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At a Christies auction in October 1998, a battered medieval manuscript sold for two million dollars to an anonymous bidder, who then turned it over to the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore for further study. The manuscript was a palimpsest-a book made from an earlier codex whose script had been scraped off and the pages used again. Behind the script of the thirteenth-century monks prayer book, th ...

The Great Arab Conquests

Sat, 5 May 2012 2:14:31 PST

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Todays Arab world was created at breathtaking speed. In just over one hundred years following the death of Mohammed in 632, Arabs had subjugated a territory with an east-west expanse greater than the Roman Empire, and they did it in about one-half the time. By the mid-eighth century, Arab armies had conquered the thousand-year-old Persian Empire, reduced the Byzantine Empire to little more than ...

The First War of Physics

Sat, 5 May 2012 2:12:06 PST

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Relates the politics and the physics of the ten-year race to build the world's most destructive weapon, from the discovery of nuclear fission to the aftermath of the first Soviet atomic bomb test.

The War for Late Night

Sat, 5 May 2012 2:09:00 PST

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A dramatic account of the politics and personalities behind NBC's calamitous attempt to reinvent late-night television. When NBC decided to move Jay Leno into prime time to make room for Conan O'Brien to host the Tonight show-a job he had been promised five years earlier-skeptics anticipated a train wreck for the ages. It took, in fact, only a few months for the dire predictions to come true. Le ...

K2

Sat, 5 May 2012 2:05:40 PST

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The Atlantic and Its Enemies

Sat, 5 May 2012 2:03:08 PST

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The "Atlantic and its Enemies" is Norman Stone's personal, uncompromising and provocative history of how the West 'won' the Cold War. For decades after the end of the Second World War, most of the globe either laboured under Communist rule or else was lost in a violent stagnancy that seemed doomed to permanence. For every Atlantic success there seemed to be a dozen Communist or Third World succes ...

Westmoreland

Sat, 5 May 2012 1:59:28 PST

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An analysis of the integral role of General William Westmoreland in the Vietnam War traces his prestigious background and rise to the head of the war effort, ...

Steve Jobs

Sat, 5 May 2012 1:57:52 PST

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From the author of the bestselling biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, this is the exclusive biography of Steve Jobs. Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues--Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and ...

A Journey

Sat, 5 May 2012 1:55:09 PST

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Prime Minister Tony Blair - young, charismatic and complex - shaped the nationprofoundly in the ten years that followed.

The Gun

Sat, 5 May 2012 1:52:57 PST

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At a secret arms-design contest in Stalin’s Soviet Union, army technicians submitted a stubby rifle with a curved magazine. Dubbed the AK-47, it was selected as the Eastern Bloc’s standard arm. Scoffed at in the Pentagon as crude and unimpressive, it was in fact a breakthrough—a compact automatic that could be mastered by almost anyone, last decades in the field, and would rarely jam. Manufacture ...

The Cut

Sat, 5 May 2012 1:52:05 PST

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Spero Lucas has a new line of work. Since he returned home after serving in Iraq, he has been doing special investigations for a defense attorney. He's good at it, and he has carved out a niche: recovering stolen property, no questions asked. His cut is forty percent. A high-profile crime boss who has heard of Lucas's specialty hires him to find out who has been stealing from his operation. It's ...

Tried by War

Sat, 5 May 2012 1:49:14 PST

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James McPherson, a bestselling historian of the Civil War, illuminates how Lincoln worked with—and often against— his senior commanders to defeat the Confederacy and create the role of commander in chief as we know it. Though Abraham Lincoln arrived at the White House with no previous military experience (apart from a couple of months spent soldiering in 1832), he quickly established himself as ...

WAR

Sat, 5 May 2012 1:47:17 PST

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The #1 best-selling author of The Perfect Storm offers an on-the-ground account of asingle platoon during its 15-month tour of duty in the most dangerous ...

Kitchen Confidential

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 5:34:32 PST

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Updated Edition A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying out his more than a quarter-century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine—now with all-new, never-before-published material.

Masters and Commanders

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 4:40:15 PST

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The King's Gold

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 4:39:57 PST

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The Big Short

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 4:39:28 PST

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The real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine and the SEC doesn't dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class Americans who can't pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was or might be happening were paralyzed by hope a ...

In the Garden of Beasts

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 4:39:06 PST

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Those Guys Have All the Fun

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 4:38:48 PST

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ESPN began as an outrageous gamble with a lineup that included Australian Rules Football, rodeo, and a rinky-dinky clip show called Sports Center. Today the empire stretches far beyond television into radio, magazines, mobile phones,the internet, video games and more, while ESPN's personalities have become global superstars to rival the sports icons they cover. Chris Berman, Robin Roberts, Keith ...

Pirates of the Levant

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 4:38:34 PST

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Taking work as a mercenary aboard a Spanish galleon, Captain Alatriste, accompanied by his faithful foster son, Íñigo, participates in a grueling battle on ...

In The Plex

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 4:38:17 PST

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It is best known for its search engine, but as Steven Levy explains, Google's ambitions go far beyond internet searching. It has moved into mobile phones, computer operating systems, television, and is the most powerful company in the advertising business. Its advertising business produces revenues so substantial that the company has no difficulty funding all its other projects. The company has ...

Blood, Bones & Butter

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 4:37:43 PST

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Memoire of childhood and the road towards becoming a chef.

D-Day

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 4:37:23 PST

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The definitive account of the Normandy invasion by the bestselling author of Stalingradand The Fall of Berlin 1945 From critically ...

Googled

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 4:35:35 PST

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What Would Google Do?

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 4:35:10 PST

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What,s the question every business should be asking itself? According to Jeff Jarvis, it,s WHAT WOULD GOOGLE DO? If you,re not thinking or acting like Google - the fastest-growing company in the history of the world - then you,re not going to survive, let alone prosper, in the Internet age. An indispensable manual for survival and success that asks the most important question today,s leaders, in ...

War at the Wall Street journal

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 4:34:50 PST

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A former Wall Street Journal reporter who covered Rupert Murdoch's bid for Dow Jonespresents a behind-the-scenes account that shares intimate details about the ...

My Times in black and white

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 4:34:24 PST

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A rags-to-riches story of the climb from urban poverty to the New York Times, this insider's view of struggle and change at the nation's premier newspaper reconstructs the most controversial period in the paper's history and records how journalists reported and edited the biggest events of the past two decades. A candid discussion on race, this memoir is the inspirational story of a man who cover ...

Life

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 4:34:02 PST

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Morning Miracle

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 4:33:39 PST

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Medium Raw

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 4:33:12 PST

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Bourdain tracks his own unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to celebrity chef andglobe traveling professional eater and drinker.

The Last Hero

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 4:32:42 PST

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In addition to chronicling the baseball star's on-field achievements, the author also explains how the dignity and determination with which Aaron stood against ...

By His Own Rules

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 4:32:12 PST

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This is a penetrating portrait of Donald Rumsfeld, one of America's most influential and controversial defense secretaries, written by a respected Pentagon and foreign affairs correspondent for "The Washington Post" who has covered him closely for years, has interviewed him extensively, and has had access to all who knew him. This is a penetrating political biography of the controversial Defense ...

Nureyev

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 4:31:28 PST

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A definitive portrait of the iconic ballet dancer describes Nureyev's Soviet youth, his dramatic 1961 defection to the West, the extraordinary performances that ...

FDR

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:38:02 PST

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One of today’s premier biographers has written a modern, comprehensive, indeed ultimate book on the epic life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In this superlative volume, Jean Edward Smith combines contemporary scholarship and a broad range of primary source material to provide an engrossing narrative of one of America’s greatest presidents. This is a portrait painted in broad strokes and fine det ...

15 Stars

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:37:06 PST

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The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:35:34 PST

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From the acclaimed and bestselling author comes the fifth adventure of Captain Alatriste, "the brooding, charismatic hero of his wildly successful Spanish ...

Defend the Realm

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:34:57 PST

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An unprecedented publishing event: to mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has for the first time opened its archives to ...

The Best American Magazine Writing 2009

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:34:33 PST

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More and more readers turn to The Best American Magazine Writing for their annual fix of the year's most captivating essays, columns, reporting, and criticism. Chosen from the winners and finalists of the 2009 National Magazine Awards, this year's selections include the haunting story by Chris Jones ( Esquire) of an American soldier's final journey home; James Wood's brilliant critique of the aw ...

Coping with Toxic Managers, Subordinates --and Other Difficult People

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:34:05 PST

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Some people are toxic:narcissistic, aggressive, inflexible, unethical, ready to scapegoat, capable of transforming any workplace into an unending nightmare. How do people cope with such individuals, while protecting both career AND sanity? Simplistic, cookie-cutter solutions don't work. In Coping with Nightmare Managers,world-renowned psychiatrist and organizational consultant Roy Lubit shows the ...

Eat, Pray, Love

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:31:40 PST

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A celebrated writer pens an irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit ofworldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of ...

The Borgias and Their Enemies

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:31:14 PST

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The story of the family's dramatic rise from its Spanish roots to the highestposition in Italian society is an absorbing tale.

Journals

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:30:44 PST

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A landmark publication in the history of American letters, and a unique opportunity to celebrate the legacy of the one of the great public intellectuals of our time. For more than a half century, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. was at the vital center of American political and cultural life. From his entrance into political leadership circles in the 1950s through his years in the Kennedy White House a ...

The Dark Side

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:29:35 PST

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A dramatic and damning narrative account of how America has fought the "War on Terror" In the days immediately following September 11th, the most powerful people in the country were panic-stricken. The radical decisions about how to combat terrorists and strengthen national security were made in a state of utter chaos and fear, but the key players, Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful ...

With Wings Like Eagles

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:28:21 PST

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A best-selling in-depth history of the pivotal World War II battle draws on thefirsthand perspectives of pilots, ground crews and commanders on both sides, in ...

Securing the City

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:05:50 PST

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An award-winning Newsweek Middle East reporter presents a behind-the-scenes profile of the NYPD's anti-terror operations to analyze the contributions of its ...

The Clinton Tapes

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:05:22 PST

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A GROUNDBREAKING BOOK about the modern presidency, The Clinton Tapes invites readers into private dialogue with a gifted, tormented, resilient President of ...

Satchel

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:02:28 PST

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A portrait of the Negro League pitcher evaluates the role of discrimination in limiting his career, covering such topics as his near-defeat of a young Joe ...

One Bullet Away

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:01:49 PST

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If the Marines are "the few, the proud," Recon Marines are the fewest and the proudest. Nathaniel Fick's career begins with a hellish summer at Quantico, after his junior year at Dartmouth. He leads a platoon in Afghanistan just after 9/11 and advances to the pinnacle—Recon—two years later, on the eve of war with Iraq. His vast skill set puts him in front of the front lines, leading twenty-two Ma ...

The Shadow Factory

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:01:21 PST

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James Bamford exposed the existence of the top-secret National Security Agency in the bestselling The Puzzle Palace and continued to probe into its workings in his follow-up bestseller, Body of Secrets. Now Bamford discloses inside, often shocking information about the transformation of the NSA in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 2001. In THE SHADOW FACTORY, Bamford shows how the NSA’ ...

Losing the News

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:59:22 PST

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What is wrong with the news? To answer this dismaying question, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alex S. Jones explores how the epochal changes sweeping the media have eroded the core news that has been the essential food supply of our democracy. At a time of dazzling technological innovation, Jones says that what stands to be lost is the fact-based reporting that serves as a watchdog over gover ...

The Battle for Rome

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:58:47 PST

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In September 1943, the German army marched into Rome, beginning an occupation that would last nine months until Allied forces liberated the ancient city. During those 270 days, clashing factions -- the occupying Germans, the Allies, the growing resistance movement, and the Pope -- contended for control over the destiny of the Eternal City. In The Battle for Rome, Robert Katz vividly recreates th ...

True Compass

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:58:28 PST

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Edward M. Kennedy is widely regarded as one of the great Senators in the nation's history. He is also the patriarch of America's most heralded family. ...

Outliers

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:57:16 PST

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In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, thei ...

The Fourth Star

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:56:00 PST

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Collectively, their lives tell the story of the Army over the last four decades andilluminate the path it must travel to protect the nation over the next ...

Game Change

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:55:09 PST

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In Game Change, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, two of the country’s leading political reporters, use their unrivaled access to pull back the curtain on the Obama, Clinton, McCain, and Palin campaigns. Based on hundreds of interviews with the people who lived the story, Game Change is a reportorial tour de force that reads like a fast-paced novel. Character-driven and dialogue-rich, replete ...

The American Civil War

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 2:37:18 PST

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This magisterial history of the first modern war is on the scale of John Keegan's classics, "A History of Warfare" and "The First World War". In his sweeping, unputdownable narrative he highlights the geography, leadership and strategic logic at the heart of the conflict. John Keegan writes: 'The geography of the battlefield is to me a living reality. I know the appearance of the battlefields, I ...

The Angel's Game

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 9:06:30 PST

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But as David begins the work, he realizes that there is a connection between hishaunting book and the shadows that surround his home.Once again, Zafón takes...

The Borgias and Their Enemies

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 8:50:36 PST

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The first major biography of the Borgias in thirty years, Christopher Hibbert's latest history brings the family and the world they lived in—the glittering Rome of the Italian Renaissance—to life. The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful, voracious Rodrigo Borgia, better known to history as Pope Alexander VI, was th ...

Best American Political Writing 2008

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 3:44:53 PST

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This year’s edition will include full coverage of the presidential candidates and conventions, and will offer incisive reporting on America’s most pressing ...

The War Within

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 3:42:06 PST

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In his fourth book on President George W. Bush and his wars, Bob Woodward takes readers deep inside the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, the intelligence agencies and the U.S. military headquarters in Iraq to trace the behind-the-scenes debates over the Iraq War from 2006 through mid-2008. Following in the same tradition of measured, documented reporting as #1 New York Times bests ...

The Years of Extermination

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 3:40:55 PST

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With The Years of Extermination, Saul Friedländer completes his major historical work on Nazi Germany and the Jews. The book describes and interprets the persecution and murder of the Jews throughout occupied Europe. The enactment of German extermination policies and measures depended on the cooperation of local authorities, the assistance of police forces, and the passivity of the populations, ...

Nazi Germany and the Jews

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 3:40:37 PST

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A great historian crowns a lifetime of thought and research by answering a question that has haunted us for more than 50 years: How did one of the most industrially and culturally advanced nations in the world embark on and continue along the path leading to one of the most enormous criminal enterprises in history, the extermination of Europe's Jews? Giving considerable emphasis to a wealth o ...

Arnie & Jack

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 3:40:07 PST

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Surprisingly, one of sport's most contentious, complex, and defining clashes played out not in the boxing ring or at the line of scrimmage but on the genteel green fairways of the world's finest golf courses. Arnie and Jack. Palmer and Nicklaus. Their fifty-year duel, in both the clubhouse and the boardroom, propelled each to the status of American icon and pushed modern golf to the heights and p ...

Strange Peaches

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 3:39:43 PST

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A TV western star quits his successful series and returns to Dallas to make a documentary film that reveals the truth about his home town.

The Way Home

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 3:39:02 PST

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Christopher Flynn is trying to get it right. After years of trouble and rebellion that enraged his father and nearly cost him his life, he has a steady job in his father's company, he's seriously dating a woman he respects, and, aside from the distrust that lingers in his father's eyes, his mistakes are firmly in the past.One day on the job, Chris and his partner come across a temptation almost t ...

D.C. Noir 2

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 3:38:27 PST

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Classic reprints from: Edward P. Jones, George Pelecanos, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, James Grady, Julian Mayfield, Marita Golden, ...

The Sun Over Breda

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 3:37:58 PST

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Acclaimed author Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s internationally bestselling series, the saga of the swordsman-for-hire Captain Alatriste, continues in The Sun Over Breda. Fifteen-year-old Iñigo Balboa enlists to serve as his master’s aide, and narrates their further adventures of swordplay and skirmishes, mutiny and wartime honor, as Captain Alatriste rejoins his Cartagena regiment to take part in the ba ...