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Hiroshima

by John Hersey

On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city. This book tells what happened on that day, told through the memoirs of survivors.

What is the information highway? How will the new technology change our lives? The Road Ahead is Bill Gates' vision of the future. In it he describes how he thinks the revolution of the information age will change the way we buy, work, learn and communicate with each other. Bill Gates has built the Microsoft Corporation into one of the most successful companies in the world. His book is an optimistic look at how... (more)

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (Vintage)

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (Vintage)

by Kay R. Jamison, Kay Redfield Jamison

The personal memoir of a manic depressive and an authority on the subject describes the onset of the illness during her teenage years and her determined journey through the realm of available treatments. Reprint. 125,000 first printing. NYT.

The National Gallery Companion, Revised and Expanded Edition

The National Gallery Companion, Revised and Expanded Edition

by National Gallery

This revised edition of the National Gallery's popular and successful Companion Guide includes paintings recently acquired by the Gallery and long-term loans.

A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

by Marianne Williamson

Back by popular demand -- and newly updated by the author -- the mega-bestselling spiritual guide in which Marianne Williamson shares her reflections on A Course in Miracles and her insights on the application of love in the search for inner peace. Williamson reveals how we each can become a miracle worker by accepting God and by the expression of love in our daily lives. Whether psychic pain is in the area of... (more)

Plague Time: The New Germ Theory of Disease

Plague Time: The New Germ Theory of Disease

by Paul W. Ewald

According to conventional wisdom, our genes and lifestyles are the most important causes of cancer, heart disease, and other killer ailments today. Conventional wisdom is wrong. In this bold, visionary book, biologist Paul W. Ewald argues that these serious illnesses are caused by a virtual plague of chronic infections. Acute infections give the sufferer symptoms almost immediately; the flu, cholera, even Ebola... (more)

Lessons Learned the Hard Way: A Personal Report

Lessons Learned the Hard Way: A Personal Report

by Newt Gingrich

My Fellow Americans, The past 30 months have been very eventful for our country and for me. I'm proud of the strides we have made to accomplish the vision that I described in To Renew America. As the leader of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives, I have been privileged to play a role in many legislative and political struggles. My tenure as Speaker has been marked by both unprecedented... (more)

A Monk Swimming- A Memoir

by Malachy McCourt

Slapped with a libel suit after an appearance on a talk show,Malachy McCourt crows, "If they could only see me now in the slums of Limerick, a big shot, sued for a million. Bejesus, isn't America a great and wonderful country?" His older brother Frank's Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, Angela's Ashes, took its somber tone from the bleak atmosphere of those slums, while Malachy's boisterous recollections are fueled... (more)

Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth About Exercise and Health

Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth About Exercise and Health

by Gina Kolata

From the highly acclaimed New York Times science writer Gina Kolata, the book for people who love exercise as much as they value the truth. In Ultimate Fitness , Gina Kolata, science reporter for The New York Times , takes a fascinating journey into the fads, fictions, and genuine innovations that have defined the world of physical fitness. From weight lifting for men and women in the early days, to jogging... (more)

Required Reading: Why Our American Classics Matter Now

Required Reading: Why Our American Classics Matter Now

by Andrew Delbanco

In an age of uncertainty over what constitutes our common heritage, Andrew Delbanco reconsiders our greatest writers and how they enlarged our sense of American possibilities and the expressive range of our language. In superb chapters on Melville, Thoreau, Wharton, Richard Wright, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lincoln, and others, he shows how these writers celebrate the idea of the free individual while conveying the... (more)

America in the Eyes of the Germans: An Essay on Anti-Americanism

America in the Eyes of the Germans: An Essay on Anti-Americanism

by Dan Diner

In this essay, German-Israeli historian Dan Diner argues that the European consciousness uses America as a metaphor for the dark sides of modernism. He finds an especially aggressive variant of this negative judgement in Germany, the roots of which he traces back to the Romantic period.

Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (Oxford Paperback Reference)

Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (Oxford Paperback Reference)

From Albert Einstein to the Marx Brothers, this authoritative reference book provides 2,000 biographies of men and women from different countries and cultures who have contributed to the thought as well as the action of the twentieth century. Who's Who in the Twentieth Century features biographies on leading figures from politics, religion, science, literature, medicine, cinema, sport, and many other fields of... (more)

Life Script: How the Human Genome Discoveries Will Transform Medicine and Enhance Your Health

Life Script: How the Human Genome Discoveries Will Transform Medicine and Enhance Your Health

by Nicholas Wade

With the decoding of the human genome, researchers can now read the script in which evolution has written the program for the design and operation of the human body. A new generation of medical treatments is at hand. Researchers are developing therapies so powerful that there is now no evident obstacle to the ancient goal of conquering most major diseases. Nicholas Wade has covered the sequencing of the genome,... (more)

Prophets in the Dark: How Xerox Reinvented Itself and Beat Back the JapaneseDavid T. Kearns, David A. Nadler

Prophets in the Dark: How Xerox Reinvented Itself and Beat Back the Japanese

by David T. Kearns

When Kearns became CEO of Xerox in 1982, he learned that the seemingly solid company was in danger of going under if it didn't react to increasing Japanese competition. Now he tells how his "prophets in the dark" slashed costs, doubled production, and cut the product development cycle by a full year to get Xerox back on top. Photos.

The Man Who Was Dorian Gray

by Jerusha Hull McCormack

The Man Who Was Dorian Gray tells the story of John Gray: a working class boy whose passionate friendship with Oscar Wilde made his name as the reputed model for Wilde's scandalous novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray . Noted Wilde scholar Jerusha McCormack traces Gray's life, from decadent poet to dedicated priest, whose first work was in the Edinburgh slums. Gray's shifting relationships with Wilde and, later,... (more)

Millennium Year by YearDerrick Mercer

Millennium Year by Year

by Derrick Mercer

Lorenzo: D. H. Lawrence and the Women Who Loved HimEmily Hahn

Lorenzo: D. H. Lawrence and the Women Who Loved Him

by Emily Hahn

Eat Better, Live Better: A Commonsense Guide to Nutrition and Good Health

Midstream: The Story of a Mother's Death and a Daughter's RenewalLe Anne Schreiber

Midstream: The Story of a Mother's Death and a Daughter's Renewal

by Le Anne Schreiber

Divided Lives : The Public and Private Struggles of Three Accomplished Women

Divided Lives : The Public and Private Struggles of Three Accomplished Women

by Elsa Walsh

An intimate look at the lives of three contemporary women--television journalist Meredith Vieira, conductor Rachael Worby, and breast surgeon Dr. Alison Estabrook--portrays their conflicts as they struggle to balance their own needs with the needs of those around them. 20,000 first printing.

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