Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller “promise Me, Dad Is A Brisk, Often Uplifting Read, A Consequence Of Its Author’s Congenital Jollity And Irrepressible Candor.” – Vanity Fair A Deeply Moving Memoir About The Year That Would Forever Change Both A Family And A Country. In November 2014, Thirteen Members Of The Biden Family …
The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis–and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance
America’s Youth Are In Crisis. Raised By Well-meaning But Overprotective Parents And Coddled By Well-meaning But Misbegotten Government Programs, They Are Ill-equipped To Survive In Our Highly-competitive Global Economy. Many Of The Coming-of-age Rituals That Have Defined The American Experience Since The Founding — Learning The Value Of Working With Your Hands, Leaving Home To …
The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir
A Gorgeous, Darkly Humorous Memoir For Readers Of Cheryl Strayed About A Woman Overcoming Dramatic Loss And Finding Reinvention, As Well As A Portrait Of A Generation Used To Assuming They’re Entitled To Everything–based On This Award-winning Writer’s New Yorker Article ‘thanksgiving In Mongolia’– In 2012, At Age 38, When She Left On A Reporting …
Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual
Jocko Willink’s Methods For Success Were Born In The Seal Teams, Where He Spent Most Of His Adult Life, Enlisting After High School And Rising Through The Ranks To Become The Commander Of The Most Highly Decorated Special Operations Unit Of The War In Iraq. Here He Describes How He Lives That Mantra: The Mental …
In The Neighborhood: The Search for Community on an American Street, One Sleepover at a Time
Waking At Lou’s — A Considerable Trauma — Footprints — The Top Of Their Games — No Bed, No Breakfast — The Woman In The Castle — Motion Sickness — A Father Ten Feet Tall — Misdirected Mail — Connections. Peter Lovenheim. A Perigee Book. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [237]-238)
Theodore Roosevelt’s Letters To His Children
many Of The Earliest Books, Particularly Those Dating Back To The 1900s And Before, Are Now Extremely Scarce And Increasingly Expensive. We Are Republishing These Classic Works In Affordable, High Quality, Modern Editions, Using The Original Text And Artwork.
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
In Previous Books, Holocaust Historian Timothy Snyder Dissected The Events And Values That Enabled The Rise Of Hitler And Stalin And The Execution Of Their Catastrophic Policies. With Twenty Lessons, Snyder Draws From The Darkest Hours Of The Twentieth Century To Provide Hope For The Twenty-first. As He Writes, Americans Are No Wiser Than The …
All Our Waves Are Water: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment and the Perfect Ride
In This Meditative Memoir–a Compelling Fusion Of Barbarian Days And The Journals Of Thomas Merton–the Author Of Saltwater Buddha Reflects On His Failing Toward Enlightenment, His Continued Search To Find Meaning And A Greater Understanding Of The Divine In The World’s Oceans As Well As Everyday Life.–amazon.com. Jaimal Yogis.
Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania
Over The Last Few Decades, Americans Have Turned College Admissions Into A Terrifying And Occasionally Devastating Process, Preceded By Test Prep, Tutors, All Sorts Of Stratagems, All Kinds Of Rankings, And A Conviction Among Too Many Young People That Their Futures Will Be Determined And Their Worth Established By Which Schools Say Yes And Which …
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
Cd 1/lecture 1. Atoms In Motion, September 26, 1961 — Cd 2/lecture 2. Basic Physics, September 29, 1961 — Cd 3/lecture 3. The Relation Of Physics To Other Sciences, October 3, 1961 — Cd 4/lecture 4. Conservation Of Energy, October 3 1961 — Cd 5/lecture 5. The Theory Of Gravitation, October 17, 1961 — Cd …
Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer
Phyllis Bennis. Includes Index.
The Legend Of Colton H. Bryant
a Heartrending Story Of The Human Spirit From The Author Of The Bestselling don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight alexandra Fuller Returns With The Unforgettable True Story Of Colton H. Bryant, A Soulful Boy With A Mustang-taming Heart Who Comes Of Age In The Oil Fields And Open Plains Of Wyoming. After Surviving A …
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
John Boyd May Be The Most Remarkable Unsung Hero In All Of American Military History. Some Remember Him As The Greatest U.s. Fighter Pilot Ever – The Man Who, In Simulated Air-to-air Combat, Defeated Every Challenger In Less Than Forty Seconds. Some Recall Him As The Father Of Our Country’s Most Legendary Fighter Aircraft – …
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
In The Late Nineteenth Century, People Were Obsessed By One Of The Last Unmapped Areas Of The Globe: The North Pole. No One Knew What Existed Beyond The Fortress Of Ice Rimming The Northern Oceans, Although Theories Abounded. The Foremost Cartographer In The World, A German Named August Petermann, Believed That Warm Currents Sustained A …
The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution (Great Discoveries)
Charles Darwin Was By Nature A Homebody, A Breeder Of Pigeons, A Close Student Of Barnacles–in Short, A Cautious And Deeply Shy Man. Yet He Found Himself Burdened With A Profoundly Radical Insight. This Elusive Character, Whose Theories Have Had Such A Revolutionizing Impact On Our Understanding Of Nature, Remains As Misapprehended As His Most …
On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
On Writing Well Has Been Praised For Its Sound Advice, Its Clarity And The Warmth Of Its Style. It Is A Book For Everybody Who Wants To Learn How To Write Or Who Needs To Do Some Writing To Get Through The Day, As Almost Everybody Does In The Age Of E-mail And The Internet. …
Lincoln’s Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
Drawing on seven years of his own research and the work of other esteemed Lincoln scholars, Shenk reveals how the sixteenth president harnessed his depression to fuel his astonishing success. Lincoln found the solace and tactics he needed to deal with the nation s worst crisis in the “coping strategies” he had developed over a …
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
Draws On History, Psychology, And Anthropology To Discuss How The Tribal Connection–the Instinct To Belong To Small Groups With A Clear Purpose And Common Understanding–can Satisfy The Human Quest For Meaning And Belonging,–novelist. Introduction — The Men And The Dogs — War Makes You An Animal — In Bitter Safety I Awake — Calling Home …
American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals Of The Great Plains
The Story Of What Happened To Six Major Species Of The Great Plains Pronhorn Antelope, Gray Wolves, Bison, Coyotes, Wild Horses, And Grizzly Bears In The 19th And 20th Centuries, And The Prospects For Recovering North America’s Serengeti In Our Time By Re-creating A Great Plains Wilderness On A Yellowstone-sized Scale. The Book Is Thus …
Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
This Book Is Both An Environmental And A Deep Natural History Of The Coyote. It Traces Both The Five-million-year-long Biological Story Of An Animal That Has Become The Wolf In Our Backyards, As Well As Its Cultural Evolution From A Preeminent Spot In Native American Religions To The Hapless Foil Of The Road Runner. A …
Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West
A Revolutionary New Appraisal Of The Old West And The America It Made The Open Range Cattle Era Lasted Barely A Quarter-century, But It Left America Irrevocably Changed. These Few Decades Following The Civil War Brought America Its Greatest Boom-and-bust Cycle Until The Depression, The Invention Of The Assembly Line, And The Dawn Of The …
