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“People are hungry to be brought closer to the world, even its hard parts. I went to Sudan, and am writing about it again, because I believe that which separates action from inaction is the same thi……続きを見る

"George Gamow: The Whimsical Mind Behind the Big Bang" details the life and scientific contributions of an influential and colorful 20th century scientists that many laymen nowadays have never heard……続きを見る

Explores Mississippi’s school desegregation from the viewpoint of a white teacher A New Day in the Delta is a fresh and appealing memoir of the experience of a young white college graduate in need o……続きを見る

Today, one out of every three Americans uses some form of alternative medicine, either along with their conventional (“standard,” “traditional”) medications or in place of them. One of the most cont……続きを見る

Author: John Burdett, Mike Lawson, John Lantigua, Gary Phillips, Ernesto Mallo, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Matt Rees, Christopher G. Moore, Colin Cotterill, Barbara Nadel, Quentin Bates, George Fetherlin……続きを見る

A fascinating memoir from the man who revitalized visual geometry, and whose ideas about fractals have changed how we look at both the natural world and the financial world. Benoit Mandelbrot, the c……続きを見る

A long-awaited memoir of the Nuremberg war crimes trials by one of its key participants. In 1945 Telford Taylor joined the prosecution staff and eventually became chief counsel of the international ……続きを見る

In this unique work some of today's greatest educators present concise, accessible summaries of the great educators of the past. Covering a time-span from 500 BC to the early twentieth century each ……続きを見る

A gripping first-hand account of midwife Penny Armstrongs journey from student midwife in Glasgow to running her own practice among the Amish in rural Pennsylvania, A Midwifes Story never fails to e……続きを見る

Sisters is a revealing, intensely readable book by one of Ireland’s finest feminist writers. It contains a major assessment of the women’s movement in Ireland, but first and foremost it tells the st……続きを見る

At age thirty-eight, Navy Dr. Richard Jadick was too old to be called up to the front lines-but not too old to volunteer. This is the inspiring story of one man's decision to enter into the fray-and……続きを見る

An Ordinary Person's memoir, based in Dublin, Ireland. It is the story of the author as she is subjected ("allegedly") to a constructive dismissal after she made a complaint to her empl……続きを見る

“As Albert Camus wrote, the doctor’s role is as a witness–to witness authentically the reality of humanity, and to speak out against the horrors of political inaction. . . . The only crime equaling ……続きを見る

Think of deer and the image that pops into most American's minds is that of a white-tailed deer, the most common large mammal in North America. Most Europeans are more familiar with red deer. It may……続きを見る

The story of Michel Thomas reads like a thriller in which adventure and heartbreak combine to produce a unique form of wisdom. Until his death in 2005, he taught languages to ghetto kids, heads of i……続きを見る

Vasyl Sukhomlynsky (1918-1970) was one of the most influential Soviet educators of the post-war period. His idealistic vision of human development and his deep love for children led him to develop a……続きを見る

Mark Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old founder of Facebook, is the youngest self-made billionaire in history. He is also considered by many to be one of the most influential persons in the information age……続きを見る

In 1969, Mark Edmundson was a typical high school senior in working-class Medford, Massachusetts. He loved football, disdained schoolwork, and seemed headed for a factory job in his hometownーuntil ……続きを見る

The Alexander Technique is a method of muscular re-education, which has become standard training for actors, dancers and singers, and is practised for health reasons all over the world. Its founder,……続きを見る

Each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains 250 entries on the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. This is not a who's who. Instead, e……続きを見る

“What makes this inspiring medical memoir stand out is the courageous measure of Austin’s humanity.”ーPublishers Weekly In this eye-opening account of life in the ER, Paul Austin recalls how the dai……続きを見る

Heritage Apples travels far beyond the grocery store of today to savor the apples of the past. These are the apple varietiesーthe Gravensteins, the Kings, the red-fleshed Pink Pearlーthat link us to……続きを見る

In 2010 Kirin Jacobsen walks across the auditorium stage to receive his Bachelor’s Degree. For his parents, Suzanne and John Jacobsen, this moment is more than a milestone – it is a celebration of K……続きを見る

Leonardo da Vinci's scientific explorations were virtually unknown during his lifetime, despite their extraordinarily wide range. He studied the flight patterns of birds to create some of the first ……続きを見る

From one of our most acclaimed novelists, a David-and-Goliath biography for the digital age. One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois–Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of……続きを見る

Michael Faraday : the Discovery of Electromagnetism (A Short Biography for Children) Michael Faraday was a British chemist and physicist who contributed significantly to the study of electromagnetis……続きを見る

La Caille was one of the observational astronomers and geodesists who followed Newton in developing ideas about celestial mechanics and the shape of the earth. He provided data to the great 18th-cen……続きを見る

In The Girl with the Crooked Nose, Ted Botha tells the absorbing story of Frank Bender, a gifted, self-taught artist who can bring back the dead and the vanished through a unique, macabre sculpting ……続きを見る

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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Los Angeles Times•San Francisco Chronicle•Chicago Tribune• The Christian Science Monitor • Publishers Weekly In Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder giv……続きを見る