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Who hasnt dreamed, on a mundane Monday or frowzy Friday, of chucking it all in and packing off to the south of France? Proven??al cookbooks and guidebooks entice with provocatively fresh salads and azure skies, but is it really all C??tes-du-Rh??ne and fleur-de-lis? Author Peter Mayle answers that question with wit, warmth, and wicked candor […]
Silent Spring, released in 1962, offered the first shattering look at widespread ecological degradation and touched off an environmental awareness that still exists. Rachel Carsons book focused on the poisons from insecticides, weed killers, and other common products as well as the use of sprays in agriculture, a practice that led to dangerous chemicals to […]
Men like Marc Castellano don forgive. They get revenge… Five years ago, Ava McGuire married Marcs business rival, causing a high-profile scandal. But no one knows that Ava was forced to say “I do.” Now a widow, shes left with nothing but crippling debts and another scandalous proposition. Marc is going to have Ava right […]
Gently dismantling the myth of medical infallibility, Dr. Atul Gawandes Complications: A Surgeons Notes on an Imperfect Science is essential reading for anyone involved in medicine–on either end of the stethoscope. Medical professionals make mistakes, learn on the job, and improvise much of their technique and self-confidence. Gawandes tales are humane and passionate reminders that […]
Everyone knows that Galileo Galilei dropped cannonballs off the leaning tower of Pisa, developed the first reliable telescope, and was convicted by the Inquisition for holding a heretical belief–that the earth revolved around the sun. But did you know he had a daughter? In Galileos Daughter, Dava Sobel (author of the bestselling Longitude) tells the […]
Wilfred Thesiger was born in Addis Ababa in 1910 and educated at Eton and Oxford. Though British, he was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life, “the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets, etc.” In the spirit of T.E. Lawrence, Thesiger spent five years exploring and wandering the deserts of Arabia. […]
Nobody has done more harm to me than Jawaharlal Nehru, wrote Subhas Chandra Bose in 1939. Had relations between the two great nationalist leaders soured to the extent that Bose had begun to view Nehru as his enemy? But then, why did he name one of the regiments of the Indian National Army after Jawaharlal? […]
Take an unforgettable journey through the English countryside and into the homes of its inhabitants; four-legged and otherwise; with the worlds best-loved animal doctor. For over 25 years, since All Creatures Great and Small was first published, readers have delighted to the storytelling genius of James Herriot, the Yorkshire veterinarian whose fascinating vignettes brim with […]
The incredible true story of Sybil Dorsett, a survivor of child abuse who was diagnosed with the first multiple personality disorder, reveals that she played host to sixteen separate and distinct personalities before making the long journey to recovery. Reissue.
Thomas L. Friedmans phenomenal number-one bestseller The World is Flat has helped millions of readers to see the world in a new way. In his brilliant, essential new book, Friedman takes a fresh and provocative look at two of the biggest challenges we face today: Americas surprising loss of focus and national purpose since 9/11; […]
Now updated with new material that brings the killers picture into clearer focus
* Why do our headaches persist after taking a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a 50-cent aspirin? * Why does recalling the Ten Commandments reduce our tendency to lie, even when we couldnt possibly be caught? * Why do we splurge on a lavish meal but cut coupons to save twenty-five cents on […]
In a country where the average woman is 5-foot-4 and weighs 140 pounds, movies, advertisements, and MTV saturate our lives with unrealistic images of beauty. The tall, nearly emaciated mannequins that push the latest miracle cosmetic make even the most confident woman question her appearance. Feminist Naomi Wolf argues that womens insecurities are heightened by […]
Personal-finance author and lecturer Robert Kiyosaki developed his unique economic perspective through exposure to a pair of disparate influences: his own highly educated but fiscally unstable father, and the multimillionaire eighth-grade dropout father of his closest friend. The lifelong monetary problems experienced by his “poor dad” (whose weekly paychecks, while respectable, were never quite sufficient […]
Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn nation. Surrounded by men and women whose skills;as doctors, nurses, and therapists;seemed eminently more practical than her own, Rodriguez, a hairdresser and mother of two from Michigan, despaired of being […]