Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Every Moment In Business Happens Only Once. The Next Bill Gates Will Not Build An Operating System. The Next Larry Page Or Sergey Brin Won’t Make A Search Engine. And The Next Mark Zuckerberg Won’t Create A Social Network. If You Are Copying These Guys, You Aren’t Learning From Them. It’s Easier To Copy A …
Ninety-Two in the Shade
A Young Man Courts Disaster When He Decides To Compete With Two Established Fishing Guides In Key West.
Greenlights
From The Academy Award -winning Actor, An Unconventional Memoir Filled With Raucous Stories, Outlaw Wisdom, And Lessons Learned The Hard Way About Living With Greater Satisfaction.i’ve Been In This Life For Fifty Years, Been Trying To Work Out Its Riddle For Forty-two, And Been Keeping Diaries Of Clues To That Riddle For The Last Thirty-five. …
White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America
Around The World, Populist Movements Are Gaining Traction Among The White Working Class. Meanwhile, The Professional Elite–journalists, Managers, And Establishment Politicians–is On The Outside Looking In, And Left To Argue Over The Reasons Why. In White Working Class, Joan C. Williams, Described As Something Approaching Rock Star Status In Her Field By The New York …
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Have You Ever Found Yourself Struggling With Information Overload? Have You Ever Felt Both Overworked And Underutilised? Do You Ever Feel Busy But Not Productive? If You Answered Yes To Any Of These, The Way Out Is To Become An Essentialist. In Essentialism, Greg Mckeown, Ceo Of A Leadership And Strategy Agency In Silicon Valley …
Chasing the Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game
An Intimate Memoir By The Controversial, Oscar-winning Director And Screenwriter About His Privileged New York Upbringing, Volunteering For Combat, And His Struggles And Triumphs Making Such Landmark Films As Platoon, Midnight Express, And Scarface
Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry
Two voices of the American landscape create a remarkable suite of lyrics. Publishers Weekly Basing their recent correspondence entirely on poems shot back and forth from Jim Harrison’s Montana and southern Arizona to Ted Kooser’s Nebraska, the two poets have published the results in the epistolary collaboration Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry. The short, …
Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind
As Concise And Enlightening As Seven Brief Lessons On Physics And Astrophysics For People In A Hurry, This Mind-expanding Dive Into The Mystery Of Consciousness Is An Illuminating Meditation On The Self, Free Will, And Felt Experience. What Is Consciousness? How Does It Arise? And Why Does It Exist? We Take Our Experience Of Being …
Leave It As It Is: A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt’s American Wilderness
“a Rallying Cry In The Age Of Climate Change.” —robert Redford An Environmental Clarion Call, Told Through Bestselling Author David Gessner’s Wilderness Road Trip Inspired By America’s Greatest Conservationist, Theodore Roosevelt. “leave It As It Is,” Theodore Roosevelt Announced While Viewing The Grand Canyon For The First Time. “the Ages Have Been At Work On …
Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings
A Boy Who Turns Into A Tv Set And A Girl Who Eats A Whale Are Only Two Of The Characters In A Collection Of Humorous Poetry Illustrated With The Author’s Own Drawings. Come In – For Where The Sidewalk Ends, Shel Silverstein’s World Begins. The Unicorn And The Bloath Live There, And So Does …
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II’s Greatest Rescue Mission
A breathtaking chronicle of one of WW II's most dramatic yet virtually forgotten events. On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected troops from the elite U.S. Army 6th Ranger Battalion slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty miles in a daring attempt to rescue 513 American and British POWs–the last survivors of …
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
When Kingsolver And Her Family Move From Suburban Arizona To Rural Appalachia, They Take On A New Challenge: To Spend A Year On A Locally Produced Diet, Paying Close Attention To The Provenance Of All They Consume. ‘our Highest Shopping Goal Was To Get Our Food From So Close To Home, We’d Know The Person …
Acid for the Children: A Memoir
Iconic Bassist And Co-founder Of The Immortal Red Hot Chili Peppers Finally Tells His Fascinating Life Story, Complete With All The Dizzying Highs And The Gutter Lows You’d Expect From An La Street Rat Turned World-famous Rock Star.
