Nonfiction | Nonfiction
Nov.21.2012
Patagonia Chronicle: On Foot in Torres del Paine enables readers to gain a sense of the rewards and challenges of travel south of the 40th parallel in Chile and Argentina—in the area known as Patagonia. Through a combination of journal entries, interviews, historic documents, and essays on subjects...
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Nov.13.2012
Life isn’t about finding yourself, it’s about creating yourself. My Life Map is a journaling tool to help you reflect on the past and sketch a picture of the future you hope to live. My Life Map aids people at any stage of life to plot a visual roadmap of both their past and their future...
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Oct.17.2012
How the French love love! It occupies an honored place in their sense of identity, on a par with fashion, food, wine, and the rights of man. For hundreds of years, the French have championed themselves as guides to the art of love. Marilyn Yalom distills her readings of...
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Sep.04.2012
This book transports the reader from the world of mainstream economics, in which the object of observation is The Market (exchange), to a world in which the object of observation is the economic process. Both producer and consumer must, respectively, be legitimate owners of real wealth and...
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Aug.20.2012
In the tradition of the great photographic populists Alfred Eisenstaedt and Dorothea Lange, Horace Bristol used his camera to record the human, intimate moments in the grand sweep of history. Bristol’s American view included the best and worst of the 20th century, from poignant images of the urban...
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Apr.30.2012
It’s all in the attitude for this tall, dark, and autistic fellow, a rangy six-footer with a sexy five o’clock shadow—and the mind of a good-natured adolescent. But twenty-one year old David is desperate to tackle life on his own terms even if it means getting kicked around a bit.
Weaving...
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Mar.25.2012
The Golden Gate Bridge is an icon of one of the most mythic of American cities, San Francisco. Standing between the Bay and the mighty Pacific like a guardian of the city, the Golden Gate retains its grip on the American imagination long after its twenty-seven-year record of being the longest...
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Oct.11.2011
From Publishers Weekly With a relentlessly honest look at modern emergency medicine, Austin, a former firefighter now living in Durham, N.C., writes in his debut book of his transformation to a highly capable ER doctor struggling to stay one jump ahead of death in the crowded critical care...
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Sep.25.2011
He believed the dog was immortal.
So begins Susan Orlean’s sweeping, powerfully moving story of Rin Tin Tin’s journey from orphaned puppy to movie star and international icon. From the moment in 1918 when Corporal Lee Duncan discovers Rin Tin Tin on a World War I battlefield, he recognizes...
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Aug.16.2011
The sexually violent murder of twenty-one-year-old British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, on the night of November 1, 2007, became an international sensation when one of Kercher’s housemates, twenty-year-old Seattle native Amanda Knox, as well as her Italian boyfriend and a...
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