-Titulo Original : Greedy Bastards How We Can Stop Corporate Communists, Banksters, And Other Vampires From Sucking America Dry-Fabricante : Simon & Schuster-Descripcion Original: DYLAN RATIGAN’S mission is to uncover never-before-seen solutions to the most pressing issues of our time: government corruption, corporate communism, an ailing health care system, an age-old dependency on foreign oil, and a broken educational system. In this groundbreaking book, Ratigan makes a case that America has the opportunity to prosper, but only by setting clear goals. Ratigan believes that this country, now more than ever, needs passionate debate and smart policy, a brazen willingness to scrap what doesn’t work, and the entrepreneurial spirit to try what does. Ratigan has compiled brash and fresh solutions for building a new and better America, and with this book he has started the debate America deserves. Review Greedy Bastards is a fantastic book! It has the perfect tone and is completely convincing. --Lawrence Lessig, Director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University and Professor of Law at Harvard Law SchoolGreedy Bastards helps us better understand why we suffer recurrent, intensifying financial crises. First, cheating has become the dominant strategy in finance. Second, cheating is dominant because finance CEOs create such intensely perverse incentives that fraud becomes endemic.-- Bill Black, author ofThe Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own Oneand associate professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri-Kansas CityGreedy Bastards is superb. Dylans policy recommendations track with what the Committee for Economic Development has been saying on: health care, the federal deficit, corporate governance, education, a consumption tax, and campaign finance reform. His explanations are clear, and he nails health care with his criticism of the fee-for-service model. Greedy Bastards deserves wide readership!--Charles Kolb, President of the Committee on Economic DevelopmentExiles on Wall Street like us have a platform and a responsibility to speak out. Dylans book shows that our problems dont stem from too much capitalism but not enough of it relative to our jerry-rigged system --Mike Mayo, financial analyst and author of Exile on Wall StreetRatigan delivers an energetic, powerful, and at times unsettling portrait of America in crisis ... And even though his portrait of the U.S. is bleak, he believes we have options.--Publishers WeeklyReaders will find a great deal to ponder, as Ratigan covers why and how hes certain the USA is going seriously wrong.--USA TodaySome books explain a problem, this book gives you an entire world view. Greedy Bastards, puts everything in context and makes the enormity and entirety of our crises understandable. Dylan, as always, is incisive, sharp and pointed. --Eliot SpitzerThis book might be the smelling salts that wake up America.--Alan GraysonVery sharp, funny, and splendidly written, Dylan Ratigans new book is perfect for Americans disgusted with both our political parties who are trying to understand the roots of our broken economy and political system. -- Thomas Ferguson, University of Massachusetts, Boston and the Roosevelt Institute and author of Golden Rule About the Author Dylan Ratigan is the host of MSNBC’s The Dylan Ratigan Show, one of the highest-rated, daytime shows on the network. This make-versus-take, analysis-driven daily broadcast fearlessly takes on the world of politics, money, and the unholy alliance between big business and government.The former global managing editor for corporate finance at Bloomberg News, Ratigan has developed and launched more than half a dozen broadcast and new media properties. They include CNBC’s Fast Money and Closing Bell, as well as DylanRatigan , which is home to his podcast, “Greedy Bastards Antidote.”Ratigan left as host of Fast Money in 2009, provoked by outrage over the government’s handling of the 2008 financial crisis. Since then, he has dedicated his work to launching platforms that engage and ...

-Titulo Original : The New New Deal The Hidden Story Of Change In The Obama Era-Fabricante : Simon & Schuster-Descripcion Original: A New York Times bestseller, now with a new foreword by the author, The New New Deal is a riveting story about change in the Obama era-an essential handbook for citizens who want the truth about the president, his record, and his enemies. Drawing on new documents and interviews with more than 400 sources, award-winning reporter Michael Grunwald reveals the vivid story behind one of the most important and least understood laws in U.S. history, President Obama’s $800 billion stimulus. Grunwald’s New York Times bestseller shows how the politically disastrous stimulus was a real new New Deal, preventing a depression while jumpstarting the president’s ambitious agenda for lasting change. It launched America’s transition to a clean-energy economy, established the boldest education reform in U.S. history, overhauled the nation’s antipoverty programs, and funded the most extensive infrastructure investments since Eisenhower’s interstate highway system. This is the definitive account not only of a transformative law, but of a transformative president’s first term. Review “The New New Deal is the most interesting book that has been published about the Obama administration. The EconomistExceptional...The single best book on the inner workings of the Obama administration. ... Grunwald points out how everything you think you know about the stimulus is wrong. The GuardianThe New New Deal is not only the best book about the administration and its challenges, but ... one of the two best books ever written about government. The National MemoGrunwald peppers this Washington drama with dialogue and characters in action, which makes it a rollicking good read. US NewsEngrossing ... It is a full detailed, careful argument, based on detailed, careful reporting. The New York Review of Books“Michael Grunwald is one of our generations most original and tireless journalists-a reporter who is allergic to received wisdom, a writer with an uncommon talent for illuminating hidden truths. So it is a delight, but not a surprise, that The New New Deal demolishes cliches and vividly reframes our thinking about President Obama and his stimulus package through a gripping narrative. -- John Harris Politico About the Author Michael Grunwald, a Time senior correspondent, has won the George Polk Award for national reporting, the Worth Bingham Award for investigative reporting, and many other prizes. The Washington Post called the first book, The Swamp, “a brilliant work of research and reportage.” He lives in Florida. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. The New New Dea...

-Titulo Original : The Slave Trade The Story Of The Atlantic Slave Trade 1440 - 1870-Fabricante : Simon & Schuster-Descripcion Original: After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade.Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions, Hugh Thomas describes and analyzes the rise of one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures in all of history. Between 1492 and 1870, approximately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses. The Slave Trade is alive with villains and heroes and illuminated by eyewitness accounts. Hugh Thomass achievement is not only to present a compelling history of the time, but to answer controversial questions as who the traders were, the extent of the profits, and why so many African rulers and peoples willingly collaborated. Review Robert B. Edgerton National Review Hugh Thomas has given us the most comprehensive account of the Atlantic Slave Trade ever written.Gregory Kane Baltimore Sun The Slave Trade is more than just a history of the transatlantic peddling of human flesh. It is the story, in microcosm, of four continents: Europe, Africa, North America, and South America. Thomas weaves a tale of merchants and slaves; of diplomats and clergymen; of philosophers, statesmen, abolitionists, and rulers that readers will find surprisingly engaging.John Thornton The New York Times Book Review Well researched...engaging...a fine narrative history.Hardy Green Business Week Masterly....With its uncompromising show of erudition drawn from a wealth of original and secondary sources, The Slave Trade is an indispensable account of a repugnant institution.Barbara Stanton Detroit Free Press Thomas has taken a sprawling subject and turned it into a disciplined, compelling narrative. From the Back Cover After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade. Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions, he describes and analyzes the rise of one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures in all of history. Between 1492 and 1870, approximately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses. The Slave Trade is alive with villains and heroes and illuminated by eyewitness accounts. Hugh Thomass achievement is not only to present a compelling history of the time but to answer as well such controversial questions as who the traders were, the extent of the profits, and why so many African rulers and peoples willingly collaborated. Thomas also movingly describes such accounts as are available from the slaves themselves. About the Author Hugh Thomas is the author of The Spanish Civil War, Conquest, and many other books. A former Chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies (U.K.), he was made Lord Thomas of Swinnerton in 1981. He is currently a University Professor at Boston University. He lives in London. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. INTRODUCTIONI remember as if it were yesterday the day when I began to be interested in the slave trade: it was thirty-three years ago. I was dining in London. At the table, among others, there was the prime minister of Trinidad, the historian Dr. Eric Williams. Hearing that I was making a study of the causes of the Cuban revolution, he expressed astonishment that I should contemplate writing such a book without reading his own works, such as A History of Trinidad and Tobago (completed, he spiritedly explained, in ten days while his people were celebrating Carnival) and, above all, Capitalism and Slavery, a copy of which came to my house next day, by messenger, from the Trinidad High Commission.A swift perusal of the latter showed me the fascination of the eighteenth-century Caribbean, and I devoted much attention, in what became a history of...

-Titulo Original : The Boom How Fracking Ignited The American Energy Revolution And Changed The World-Fabricante : Simon & Schuster-Descripcion Original: The “best all-around book yet on fracking” (San Francisco Chronicle) from a Pulitzer Prize finalist: “Golds work is a tour de force of contemporary journalism” (Booklist). First invented in 1947, hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has not only become a major source of energy, it is changing the way we use energy, and the energy we use. It is both a threat and a godsend for the environment, and it is leading the revival of manufacturing in the United States. A definitive narrative history, The Boom follows the twists and turns in the development and adoption of this radical technology. It is a thrilling journey filled with colorful characters: the green-minded Texas oilman who created the first modern frack; a bare-knuckled Oklahoman natural gas empire-builder who gave the world an enormous new supply of energy and was brought down by his own success and excesses; an environmental leader whose embrace of fracking brought an end to his public career; and an aging fracking pioneer who is now trying to save the industry from itself. A fascinating and exciting exploration of one of the most controversial and promising sources of energy, The Boom “brings new clarity to a subject awash in hype from all sides…a thoughtful, well-written, and carefully researched book that provides the best overview yet of the pros and cons of fracking. Gold quietly leads both supporters and critics of drilling to consider other views” (Associated Press). Review Russell Gold’s The Boom is a double quest. He tells the story of the biggest innovation in energy so far in this century-the shale gas revolution. He captures the personalities, and the drama and surprises, and brings clarity to the debate about the environmental impact-and what it means for the U.S. economy and “energy independence.” But it’s also a more personal story - about “The Farm” in rural Pennsylvania where he spent time as a child, and his quest to understand what is happening in this new age of shale gas. -- Daniel Yergin, author of The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World and of The Prize “In The Boom, Russell Gold provides a compelling account of the last half century of natural gas technology development. Driven by hunches, large ambitions and even larger personalities, the story of fracking is the story of innovation, American style. Gold delves into the growing conflict between economic development and concerns over environmental damage, and explains why fracking is seen by some as a vital bridge to a sustainable energy future and feared by others as another excuse to postpone addressing the risks of climate change…. The Boom puts a human face on the unfinished story of our struggle to transition to a sustainable world.” -- Steven Chu, Former United States Secretary of Energy Golds book is an early must-read for 2014: it is both a thorough and fascinating examination of the fracking economy and the technological innovations that have made these new riches accessible (including the often catastrophic damage done in the process of obtaining them). Gizmodo An insider’s guide to the most controversial energy-production technique in the United States. Kirkus Reviews “Gold delivers an engaging and expansive education on the promise and risks involved with the sudden rise of fracking for oil and natural gas in the United States… Gold delivers a balanced analysis weighing the benefits (the reduced use of dirtier coal, an end to the reliance on foreign oil and foreign entanglements, and sudden and reliable abundance of energy supply) against the pitfalls (the impacts on the environment and quality of life as energy companies stampede to secure leases and rush to drill, often in populated areas). Worthy of the attention of both fracking’s boosters and opponents, Gold’s insightful reportage supplies a well-rounded view of a polarizing subject.” Publishers Weekly (starred) “Whether you think fracking is ou...

-Titulo Original : Bull By The Horns Fighting To Save Main Street From Wall Street And Wall Street From Itself-Fabricante : Simon & Schuster-Descripcion Original: NEW YORK TIMES and WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER The former FDIC chairwoman, and one of the first people to acknowledge the full risk of subprime loans, offers a unique perspective on the financial crisis. Appointed by George W. Bush as the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in 2006, Sheila Bair witnessed the origins of the financial crisis and in 2008 became-along with Hank Paulson, Ben Bernanke, and Timothy Geithner-one of the key public servants trying to repair the damage to the global economy. Bull by the Horns is her remarkable and refreshingly honest account of that contentious time and the struggle for reform that followed and continues to this day. Review “When Sheila Bair took over as head of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in 2006, the agency was probably better known for the ‘FDIC’ logo on the doors of the nation’s banks than for anything it did. Now Bair is at the center of the financial crisis, speeding the takeover of failing banks and pressing the mortgage industry to ease loan terms. . . . winning praise from Democrats and Republicans.” -- Bloomberg News “The FDIC’s influence has grown in the past year because of Ms. Bair’s willingness to challenge her peers, as well as her agencys central role responding to the financial crisis. Ms. Bair warned about the housing crisis before many of her colleagues.” The Wall Street Journal “Bair is everything youd want in a public servant: thoughtful, practical, independent-minded-a straight shooter with political savvy who can manage the details of policy without losing sight of the big picture. Shes no grandstander, but she isnt shy about going public with concerns if she thinks it will help her inside game. She never forgets that her most important constituency isnt the thousands of banks she regulates but the millions of Americans who use them.” -- Steven Pearlstein Pulitzer-prize winning Washington Post columnist “During the worst economic crisis since the 1930s, Sheila Bair has been the little guys protector in chief.” Time Magazine “A crisp, telling and often funny narrative of the 2008 meltdown.” -- John Wasik Forbes Bull By the Horns is the story of financial calamity seen from the perspective of this public servant, rendered from detailed notes. We learn with whom she met, what was said, what decisions taken, and how things turned out….This is a book for aficionados of infuriating detail. Yet beneath the froth of facts courses an epic struggle. It pits Sheila Bair and the civil servants of the FDIC on one side and [Timothy Geithner] on the other.” -- James Galbraith “A useful, corrective addition to the already extensive literature on the crisis.” Foreign Affairs About the Author Sheila Bair is the former Chairman of the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation). She has been covered-and lauded-everywhere from The New Yorker to The Washington Post to The Wall Street Journal, and in 2008 and 2009 Forbes named her the second-most powerful woman in the world. Prior to assuming her post at the FDIC, Bair served as assistant secretary for financial institutions at the US Department of the Treasury and as senior vice president for government relations of the New York Stock Exchange. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Bull by the Horns Prologue Monday, October 12, 2008 I took a deep breath and walked into the large conference room at the Treasury Department. I was apprehensive and exhausted, having spent the entire weekend in marathon meetings with Treasury and the Fed. I felt myself start to tremble, and I hugged my thick briefing binder tightly to my chest in an effort to camouflage my nervousness. Nine men stood milling around in the room, peremptorily summoned there by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. Collectively, they headed financial institutions representing about $9 trillion in assets, or 70 percent of the U.S. ...

-Titulo Original : The Business A Novel-Fabricante : Simon & Schuster-Descripcion Original: Who Do You Work For? The Business, a nearly omnipotent enterprise, is so infinitely discreet that even its top executives are vague about its actual business. It predates the Christian church and counts among its vast riches dozens of Michelangelos pornographic paintings and several sets of Crown jewels. The only thing it lacks is political clout, a problem the Business plans to solve by buying a nation and joining the United Nations. Kate Telman, the Businesss foremost expert on emerging technologies, is chosen to lead the effort. As this beautiful, ambitious American woman pursues the ultimate prize for her highly secretive transglobal employer, Iain Banks -- whom The Times of London calls the most imaginative British novelist of his generation -- offers a portrait of todays ubiquitous multinational corporations. Already a bestseller in England, The Business paints a picture that is at once wickedly satirical and frighteningly familiar. Review Sunday Express (London) Imagination, wit and complexity are Bankss hallmarks and The Business is no exception. The Guardian One of his most assured performances yet....A highly inventive piece of work, amusing and sinister by turns. The Independent (London) The Business is written with enormous energy, crunchy wit and more curves than an Alpine road. The Scotsman To most of us, the world of international high finance is a mysterious domain, full of grey men in grey suits. But Iain Bankss biting satire cuts through the fog....The Business is human comedy, entertainment with a serious, satirical intent. The Times (London) The Business is a classic Banks invention. About the Author Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the original publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory, recently selected in a British poll as one of the top 100 novels of the century. Since then he has gained enormous popular and critical acclaim with further works of fiction and, as Iain M. Banks, science fiction. He lives in Scotland...

-Titulo Original : Secret Path-Fabricante : Simon & Schuster-Descripcion Original: Secret Path is a ten song digital download album by Gord Downie with a graphic novel by illustrator Jeff Lemire that tells the story of Chanie “Charlie” Wenjack, a twelve-year-old boy who died in flight from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School fifty years ago. Secret Path is a ten song digital download album by Gord Downie with a graphic novel by illustrator Jeff Lemire that tells the story of Chanie “Charlie” Wenjack, a twelve-year-old boy who died in flight from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School fifty years ago. Chanie, misnamed Charlie by his teachers, was a young boy who died on October 22, 1966, walking the railroad tracks, trying to escape from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School to return home. Chanie’s home was 400 miles away. He didn’t know that. He didn’t know where it was, nor how to find it, but, like so many kids-more than anyone will be able to imagine-he tried. Chanie’s story is Canada’s story. We are not the country we thought we were. History will be rewritten. We are all accountable. Secret Path acknowledges a dark part of Canada’s history-the long suppressed mistreatment of Indigenous children and families by the residential school system-with the hope of starting our country on a road to reconciliation. Every year as we remember Chanie Wenjack, the hope for Secret Path is that it educates all Canadians young and old on this omitted part of our history, urging our entire nation to play an active role in the preservation of Indigenous lives and culture in Canada. The next hundred years are going to be painful as we come to know Chanie Wenjack and thousands like him-as we find out about ourselves, about all of us-but only when we do can we truly call ourselves, “Canada.” About the Author Jeff Lemire is the award winning, New York Times bestselling author of such graphic novels as Essex County, Sweet Tooth, The Underwater Welder, and Roughneck, as well as the cocreator of Descender with Dustin Nguyen, Black Hammer with Dean Ormston, Gideon Falls with Andrea Sorrentino, and many others. He also collaborated with celebrated musician Gord Downie on the graphic novel and album The Secret Path, which was made into an animated film in 2016. Jeff has won numerous awards, including an Eisner Award and Juno Award in 2017. Jeff has also written extensively for both Marvel and DC Comics. Many of his books are currently in development for film and television, including both Descender and A.D. After Death at Sony Pictures, Essex County at the CBC, The Underwater Welder and Plutona at Waypoint Entertainment, and Gideon Falls with Hivemind Media, as well as the Eisner-Award winning Black Hammer at Legendary Entertainment. He lives in Toronto, Canada, with his wife and son, and their troublesome pug, Lola. Visit him at JefLemireComics or on Twitter @JeffLemire...

-Titulo Original : Wake The Hidden History Of Women-led Slave Revolts-Fabricante : Simon & Schuster-Descripcion Original: A Best Book of 2021 by NPR and The Washington Post Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the “powerful” (The New York Times Book Review) story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles scholar Rebecca Hall’s efforts to uncover the truth about these women warriors who, until now, have been left out of the historical record. Women warriors planned and led revolts on slave ships during the Middle Passage. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas. And then they were erased from history. Wake tells the “riveting” (Angela Y. Davis) story of Dr. Rebecca Hall, a historian, granddaughter of slaves, and a woman haunted by the legacy of slavery. The accepted history of slave revolts has always told her that enslaved women took a back seat. But Rebecca decides to look deeper, and her journey takes her through old court records, slave ship captain’s logs, crumbling correspondence, and even the forensic evidence from the bones of enslaved women from the “negro burying ground” uncovered in Manhattan. She finds women warriors everywhere. Using a “remarkable blend of passion and fact, action and reflection” (NPR), Rebecca constructs the likely pasts of Adono and Alele, women rebels who fought for freedom during the Middle Passage, as well as the stories of women who led slave revolts in Colonial New York. We also follow Rebecca’s own story as the legacy of slavery shapes her life, both during her time as a successful attorney and later as a historian seeking the past that haunts her. Illustrated beautifully in black and white, Wake will take its place alongside classics of the graphic novel genre, like Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and Art Spiegelman’s Maus. This story of a personal and national legacy is a powerful reminder that while the past is gone, we still live in its wake. Review A Best Book of 2021 by NPR, The Washington Post, Forbes, and Ms. Magazine “Powerful.... Wake is operating in the wake of slavery, and in a state of being awake to the past, a process Hall frames as both devastating and grounding. -New York Times Book Review Halls eloquence and frank emotionalism are transcendently realized in Martinez art, beckoning the reader inexorably into this story - even the parts that only take place inside Halls mind. With its remarkable blend of passion and fact, action and reflection, Wake sets a new standard for illustrating history. - NPR “Wake accomplishes what the best work in Black Studies aims to do: not just to teach us something new, but to teach us how the very shape of our knowledge could be different…. [ Wake] pushes past the limits of what’s possible, to tell us a story that wasn’t but now can be.”- Los Angeles Review of Books “Hall and Martinez deserve tremendous credit for their work in making this research accessible. Wake is a superb accomplishment on every level, and a book that every American needs to read.”- POPMATTERS A vividly illustrated account of Black women rebels that combines elements of memoir, archival research, and informed imaginings of its subjects lives.... An urgent, brilliant work of historical excavation. -Kirkus *starred review* Heartbreaking yet triumphant, Hall’s vivid reconstructions bore laser-like into a history long hidden. Her engaged scholarship adds back facts that have been stricken from many histories, and it empowers current lives and activism. Highly recommended for educators and for all adults and teens concerned about the United States’ promise, past, and future for its diverse peoples. - Library Journal, *starred review* Hall’s nuanced and affecting debut graphic narrative uncovers history that has either been assumed non-existent or rendered violently so by its almost complete erasure from official record.... The story follows Hall as she strives to write her dissertation on women-led slave revolts.... Hall’s singular look at these women, along with her own...

-Titulo Original : The Caped Crusade Batman And The Rise Of Nerd Culture-Fabricante : Simon & Schuster-Descripcion Original: “A roaring getaway car of guilty pleasures” (The New York Times Book Review), Glen Weldon’s The Caped Crusade is a fascinating, critically acclaimed chronicle of the rises and falls of one of the world’s most iconic superheroes and the fans who love him-now with a new afterword. Since his debut in Detective Comics #27, Batman has been many things: a two-fisted detective; a planet-hopping gadabout; a campy Pop Art sensation; a pointy-eared master spy; and a grim ninja of the urban night. Yet, despite these endless transformations, he remains one of our most revered cultural icons. In this “smart, witty, and engrossing” ( The Wall Street Journal) cultural critique, NPR contributor and book critic Glen Weldon provides “a sharp, deeply knowledgeable, and often funny look at the cultural history of Batman and his fandom” ( Chicago Tribune) to discover why it is that we can’t get enough of the Dark Knight. For nearly a century, Batman has cycled through eras of dark melodrama and light comedy and back again. How we perceive his character, whether he’s delivering dire threats in a raspy Christian Bale growl or trading blithely homoerotic double entendres with Robin the Boy Wonder, speaks to who we are and how we wish to be seen by the world. It’s this endless adaptability that has made him so lasting, and ultimately human. But it’s also Batman’s fundamental nerdiness that uniquely resonates with his fans and makes them fiercely protective of him. As Weldon charts the evolution of Gotham’s Guardian from Bob Kane and Bill Finger’s hyphenated hero to Christopher Nolan’s post-9/11 Dark Knight, he reveals how this symbol of justice has made us who we are today and why his legacy remains so strong. The result is “possibly the most erudite and well-researched fanboy manifesto ever” ( Booklist). Well-researched, insightful, and engaging, The Caped Crusade, with a new afterword by the author, has something for everyone: “If you’re a Bat-neophyte, this is an accessible introduction; if you’re a dyed-in-the-Latex Bat-nerd, this is a colorfully rendered magical history tour redolent with nostalgia” ( The Washington Post). Review “Weldon’s The Caped Crusade is Batman: sometimes hilarious, sometimes frightening, but always intelligent, fascinating, and impossible to put down.” -Tom King, New York Times bestselling writer of DC Comics’s Batman A roaring getaway car of guilty pleasures-film gossip, comic-book esoterica, hilarious tales of nerd rage. . . . Weldon writes with humor and Day-Glo elan. -Jennifer Senior, The New York Times The Caped Crusade is a great read for those who are proud Gothamites, those less initiated, and those who flip the switch on the Bat-Signal in order to find themselves. . . .A sharp, deeply knowledgeable and often funny look at the cultural history of Batman and his fandom...both a page-turner and a Riddler Trophy. -Chicago Tribune “Engaging. . . . What Weldon ultimately achieves here is a character and comic-franchise history that is itself flexible enough to become what the reader needs it to be. If you’re a Bat-neophyte, this is an accessible introduction; if you’re a dyed-in-the-Latex Bat-nerd, this is a colorfully rendered magical history tour redolent with nostalgia.” -The Washington Post For fans of Gotham’s Batman, this is the perfect book to pick up before you head to the movie. . . . Even casual fans will find themselves quickly turning pages to learn more about how our comic heroes affect and even shape our everyday lives. -Bookish [ The Caped Crusade] accomplishes what so many supervillains, from The Joker to Bane, have long desired to do: pin down Batman and systematically dissect him. Weldon navigates Batmans history with an expert step...a winning mix of humor, and incisive social analysis. Even his footnotes are funny. Under that famous cowl, he sees ugliness, wonder, and the undercurrents of pop culture in all their conflicting glory. -NPR Wri...

-Titulo Original : Chas Addams Happily Ever After A Collection Of Cartoons To Chill The Heart Of You-Fabricante : Simon & Schuster-Descripcion Original: Charles Addams was renowned for his depictions of love (or lack thereof) in his cartoons. The passion of Morticia and Gomez Addams, the lonely desires of Fester, the numerous grim and ghastly fights between husband and wife-all found their way into Addamss signature drawings. Addamss concept of love was quite a bit different from the traditional idea of romance. Forget roses and chocolate, Addams will show you how to woo a mermaid or celebrate an anniversary on a desert island. Or how to keep your husband on a leash-literally. Learn what to do when your prince stays a frog, even after youve kissed him. Compiled from Addamss personal archive, many of these cartoons are previously unpublished gems, while others are Addams classics. The cartoons in Chas Addams Happily Ever After run the gamut from ecstatic love to disappointed affection to murderous obsession and demonstrate that love really does hurt. About the Author Chas Addams was the creator of the Addams Family cartoons, which first appeared in The New Yorker and were the inspiration for the popular The Addams Family television show and movies. He has been honored with the Yale Humor Award (1954) and a Special Edgar Award for Cartoonist of the Macabre from the Mystery Writers of America. Addams died in 1988 in New York City...

-Titulo Original : Chas Addams Half-baked Cookbook Culinary Cartoons For The Humorously Famished-Fabricante : Simon & Schuster-Descripcion Original: At the time of his death, Charles Addams was working on this project, a cookbook with never-before-seen artwork and never before tasted and very macabre recipes-published here for the first time, along with some classic Addams cartoons about food and cooking. Food and eating were a couple of Charles Addamss favorite subjects. Hungry cannibals, witches gathering around a cauldron, or a king over his blackbird pie often populated his celebrated cartoons. And, of course, Morticia of the Addams Family was an avid cook, adding a touch of eye of newt or popping over to the neighbors for a cup of cyanide. So it should come as no wonder that in the 1960s Charles Addams was dabbling with a cookbook idea. Addams discovered and compiled some bizarre recipes from antiquated and out-of-the-way sources. These recipes have very Addams-like names, such as Mushrooms Fester or Hearts Stuffed, and serve as a perfect complement to his drawings. Chas Addams™ Half-Baked Cookbook is a collection of his work on the world of food and eating, featuring many Addams drawings that have never been seen before, as well as some of his all-time classics. About the Author Chas Addams was the creator of the Addams Family cartoons, which first appeared in The New Yorker and were the inspiration for the popular The Addams Family television show and movies. He has been honored with the Yale Humor Award (1954) and a Special Edgar Award for Cartoonist of the Macabre from the Mystery Writers of America. Addams died in 1988 in New York City...

-Titulo Original : The Skeleton Crew How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving Americas Coldest Cases-Fabricante : Simon & Schuster-Descripcion Original: Mary Roach meets C.S.I. in this “lively study that’s part whodunit, part sociological study…The result is eminently entertaining and will be devoured by armchair detectives” (Publishers Weekly). Currently, upwards of forty thousand people in America are dead and unaccounted for. These murder, suicide, and accident victims, separated from their names, are being adopted by the bizarre online world of amateur sleuths. It’s DIY CSI, solving cold cases from the comfort of your living room… In an “absorbing look at a very odd corner of our world” ( The Seattle Times), The Skeleton Crew provides an entree into the gritty and tumultuous world of Sherlock Holmes-wannabes who race to beat out law enforcement-and one another-at matching missing persons with unidentified remains. These web sleuths pore over facial reconstructions (a sort of for the dead) and other online clues as they vie to solve cold cases and tally up personal scorecards of dead bodies. There is “no better guide for navigating this multifaceted world than Deborah Halber’s book” ( Psychology Today), and The Skeleton Crew probes the macabre underside of the Internet and how even the most ordinary citizen with a laptop and a knack for puzzles can reinvent herself as a web sleuth. “Engaging and artful” ( Los Angeles Times Review of Books), this witty and insightful look at the fleeting nature of identity is “brilliant” ( The Wall Street Journal). Review “A lively study that’s part whodunit, part sociological study. . . . The result is eminently entertaining and will be devoured by armchair detectives.” Publishers Weekly “Brilliant . . . Ms. Halber chronicles with lucidity and wit . . . the workings of this fascinating new subculture.” The Wall Street Journal “ The Skeleton Crew is a carefully crafted account of an intriguing new opportunity for arm chair sleuths. Thanks to the Internet, anyone with a computer, curiosity, patience, and a passion for justice can enter the dark world of missing persons and unsolved homicides. It’s fascinating to learn how such matches are made and heartening to witness the growing cooperation between law enforcement and ordinary citizens whose persistence can sometimes crack the code in cold cases that have languished unresolved for years. I loved it.” -- Sue Grafton “From home-computer screens to a new national database, join The Skeleton Crew for a page-turning behind-the-scenes look at the world of Internet sleuths who give names to the men and women who have died without identity. For the first time ever, readers are brought the real-life cases of missing persons, the unidentified dead, and the network of people that gives them their names . . . proving once again what I said at the conclusion of every episode of America’s Most Wanted: ‘One person can make a difference.’” -- John Walsh, host of Americas Most Wanted A compelling glimpse into a little-known subculture inhabited by a colorful cast of the idiosyncratic, the quirky, and the downright weird. -- Alison Bass, author of Side Effects In this highly addictive story-within-a-story narrative, Deborah Halber skillfully exposes the complex Internet subculture of amateur sleuths. The people who obsess over the fates and identities of Jane and John Does are puzzles in themselves, which adds a fascinating layer to this captivating book. The Skeleton Crew will likely inspire many more case resolutions. -- Katherine Ramsland, author of The Devils Dozen and Cemetery Stories “Exploring the world of amateur sleuths, Halber proves to be the perfect guide: unflinching, perceptive, wry. I was hooked from page one.” -- Allison Hoover Bartlett, bestselling author of The Man Who Loved Books Too Much “Halber’s artful sleuthing into this little-known demimonde leaves one bloodthirsty for more.” -- Ted Botha, author of The Girl with the Crooked Nose “An integral component of NamUs is the group of responsible, dedicated volunteers who s...

-Titulo Original : I Got Schooled The Unlikely Story Of How A Moonlighting Movie Maker Learned The Five Keys To Closing Americas Education Gap-Fabricante : Simon & Schuster-Descripcion Original: In this vital book, the famed filmmaker tells how his passion for education reform led him to learn that there are five tested, indispensable keys to transforming America’s underperforming schools. Famed director M. Night Shyamalan has long had a serious interest in education. The founda­tion he and his wife started once gave college scholarships to promising inner-city students, but Shyamalan realized that these scholarships did nothing to improve education for all the other students in under-performing schools. When he learned that some schools were succeeding with similar student populations, he traveled across the country to find out how they did this and whether these schools had something in common. He eventually learned that there are five keys to closing America’s achievement gap. But just as we must do several things to maintain good health- eat the right foods, exercise regularly, get a good night’s sleep-so too must we use all five keys to turn around our lowest-performing schools. These five keys are used by all the schools that are succeeding, and no schools are succeeding without them. Before he discovered them, Shyamalan investigated some popular reform ideas that proved to be dead ends, such as smaller class size, truculent unions, and merit pay for teachers. He found that the biggest obstacle to school reform is cognitive biases: too many would-be reformers have committed themselves to false solutions. This is a deeply personal book by an unbiased observer determined to find out what works and why so that we as a nation can fulfill our obliga­tion to give every student an opportunity for a good education. Review “The ed reform graveyard from the past few decades is filled with quick fixes and gimmicks. Shyamalan’s journey of discovery affirms there are no shortcuts if our country is going to ensure all children have access to a great education, and his five keys for any school’s success focus on the essential ingredients.” -- Mike Feinberg, co-founder of the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) “It’s great to have M. Night Shyamalan as a new ally in the fight to transform our calcified public-education system. Like the born storyteller he is, Shyamalan has unraveled the myths of our education system and spun a clear and compelling case for what we need to do. This is a must-read for anyone concerned about our country’s kids and our country’s future.” -- Geoffrey Canada, president and CEO of the Harlem Childrens Zone “Schools on the same block with similar students can post radically different results. I Got Schooled is evocative and will encourage educators and non-educators to debate the keys to great schools. A must-read given educational excellence for all students is the key to unlocking our country’s potential.” -- Cami Anderson, Superintendent, Newark, N.J. Public Schools “Filmmaker Shyamalan makes his nonfiction debut with this engaging presentation of the results of his research into methods for closing Americas education gap.. . . . A lively, provocative contribution from an outsider with his own way of addressing the problem.” Kirkus Reviews The books conversational tone and appealing humor yields an engaging narrative of one Hollywood directors struggle to find out what works in the best schools, and how we can apply those insights to the rest. Publishers Weekly Shyamalan is smart and sincere, and his innovative ideas are unbound by the educational establishment. -- John Wilwol NPR.org About the Author M. Night Shyamalan-screenwriter, director, and producer-has captured the attention of audiences around the world with his original films for almost two decades. His films include The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, The Village, and The Happening. He and his wife, Dr. Bhavna Shyamalan, cofounded the M. Night Shyamalan Foundation, dedicated to helping empower individuals. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved....

-Titulo Original : The Pritikin Edge 10 Essential Ingredients For A Long And Delicious Life-Fabricante : Simon & Schuster-Descripcion Original: Sharing recipes and lifestyle tips, Robert A. Vogel and Paul Tager Lehr reveal the ten essential steps of The Pritikin Program to help you get healthy and energized. We Americans may reside in the greatest nation on earth, but our lifestyle is killing us. One quarter of us still smoke, two-thirds of us are fat, three-quarters of us dont exercise, and stress and depression are ubiquitous. Despite all our advances in drugs and surgery, obesity and the diseases it causes have shortened life expectancy; this is the first time in history that children can expect to die younger than their parents. The Pritikin Program was the first comprehensive lifestyle program in America, and after fifty years on the cutting edge of lifestyle science, it is still the longest-running, most successful program for reversing many of modern societys diseases, including obesity, heart disease, and diabetes. Here youll find the ten simple lifestyle ingredients that will change your life. Stick with them and youll lose weight without feeling hungry, your energy will surge, and you will look and feel healthier and stronger than you have in years. The Pritikin Edge gives you the real facts so you can take control of your health and add years to your life and quality to your years. Once you begin living with these principles, youll wonder how you ever lived any other way. Review As a food journalist, I review every different diet and lifestyle program every year and I have no doubt that the best is The Pritikin Edge; it is the perfect guidebook for people, including baby boomers like me, who want to follow the path to good health for the rest of their lives. -- Phil Lempert , The Supermarket Guru, NBCs Today Show Pritikin is one of the most scientifically proven and effective lifestyle programs anywhere. I highly recommend it. -- Dean Ornish, M.D., author of The Spectrum and clinical professor of medicine, University of California, San Francisco To achieve my maximum level of fitness, Pritikin is the perfect nutrition and lifestyle plan. -- Amy Yoder-Begley, 2008 U.S. Olympic Team, womens 10,000-meter run Whenever I need to get back down to 147 for a welterweight title defense, the Pritikin approach is the best and healthiest way to do it. -- Bob Costas, NBC/HBO broadcaster Pritikin is not just about looking your best; its about feeling your best. It is something you definitely take with you. -- Adrienne Vittadini, American fashion designer The Pritikin Program, pioneer for the last 50 years and proven in more than 110 studies in leading medical journals, is a must to live the healthiest life we can. After years of helping celebrities and CEOs, the Pritikin Program is now neatly packaged in a fabulous new book -- The Pritikin Edge. Oh, and I dont want to forget to mention those recipes -- theyre awesome. -- Charles Stuart Platkin, author of the nationally syndicated column Diet Detective Run, dont walk, to Pritikin! Thats what I tell people who ask me what program delivers results for lasting weight loss and health and lifestyle changes. Pritikin changes -- and even saves -- lives. -- Susie Ellis, president, SpaFinder, Inc. Staying at Pritikin is the best thing Ive done for myself in years. -- Tim Zagat, chairman and CEO, Zagat Survey The food at Pritikin tastes great and you can follow the program in the real world, and thats saying something for a steakhouse guy like me. Pritikin works, not only short term, but long term. -- John Timothy Gannon, cofounder, Outback Steakhouse, Inc. About the Author Dr. Robert A. Vogel is a cardiologist, Pritikins chief medical director, and professor of medicine at the University of Maryland. He has been designated as one of the best doctors in America by Good Housekeeping magazine and is a weight and heart consultant to the National Football League and a diet consultant to the National Health Institute. Son of Pritikin cofou...

-Titulo Original : Deadly Feasts The Prion Controversy And The Publics Health-Fabricante : Simon & Schuster-Descripcion Original: In this brilliant and gripping medical detective story. Richard Rhodes follows virus hunters on three continents as they track the emergence of a deadly new brain disease that first kills cannibals in New Guinea, then cattle and young people in Britain and France-and that has already been traced to food animals in the United States. In a new afterword for the paperback, Rhodes reports the latest US and worldwide developments of a burgeoning global threat. Review A vivid and engrossing account of a scientific saga worthy of Paul de Kruffs Microbe-Hunters.- Beryl Lieff Benderly, San Jose Mercury News Classic medical detective story.- George Johnson, The New York Times Book Review An Upton Sinclair-ish look inside the modern meat industry...Rhodes tells this medical detective story beautifully.- John Schwartz, The Washington Post [Rhodes] is a wonderful storyteller, Deadly Feasts is a great mystery story.- Nancy Schapiro, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Deadly Feasts is a breezy, immensely readable account....It is a splendid description of the process by which scientific knowledge is advanced.- Claudia Winkler, The Weekly Standard In the science literature of Armageddon, Deadly Feasts is in a class by itself....Rhodes is able to make hard science come alive.- Peter Collier, Chicago Tribune Deadly Feasts is a book to be read and pondered carefully -- and perhaps acted on -- possibly before eating ones next hamburger.- Oliver Sacks, The New Yorker About the Author Richard Rhodes is the author of numerous books and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He graduated from Yale University and has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Appearing as host and correspondent for documentaries on public television’s Frontline and American Experience series, he has also been a visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT and is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Visit his website RichardRhodes . Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chaper One I Eat You South Fore, New Guinea Eastern Highlands, 1950 Dark night in the mountains and no drums beating. No flute music like birdsong from the forest above the village -- the men controlled the flutes and this was womens business, secret and delicious, sweet revenge. In pity and mourning but also in eagerness the dead womans female relatives carried her cold, naked body down to her sweet-potato garden bordered with flowers. They would not abandon her to rot in the ground. Sixty or more women with their babies and small children gathered around, gathered wood, lit cooking fires that caught the light in their eyes and shone on their greased dark skins. The dead womans daughter and the wife of her adopted son took up knives of split bamboo, their silicate skin sharp as glass. They began to cut the body for the feast. New Guinea was the last wild place on earth. Its fierce reputation repelled explorers. Micronesians canoe-wrecked anywhere in its vicinity swam the other way. Captain Bligh, put off the Bounty after his crews notorious mutiny, gave the violent island wide berth. It was the largest island in the world after Greenland, fifteen hundred miles long, four hundred miles wide, shaped like a dinosaur with a central cordillera of mountains for a spine, rising out of the Western Pacific just below the Equator north of Australia, eastward of Sumatra and Borneo. Mangrove swamps fouled its tropical coasts; its mountainous interior rose barricaded behind impenetrable, leech-infested rain forests. Its people were Melanesian -- small, muscular, black, woolly-haired Stone Age fishermen, hunters and farmers -- divided into a thousand warring groups so isolat...

-Titulo Original : What Time Is It? You Mean Now? Advice For Life From The Zennest Master Of Them All-Fabricante : Simon & Schuster-Descripcion Original: Could Confucius hit a curveball? Could Yoda block the plate? Can the Dalai Lama dig one out of the dirt? No, there is only one Zen master who could contemplate the circle of life while rounding the bases. Who is this guru lurking in the grand old game? Well, hes the winner of ten World Series rings, a member of both the Hall of Fame and the All-Century Team, and perhaps the most popular and beloved ballplayer of all time. And without effort or artifice hes waxed poetic on the mysteries of time (“It gets late awful early out there”), the meaning of community (“Its so crowded nobody goes there anymore”), and even the omnipresence of hope in the direst circumstances (“It aint over ‘til its over”). Its Yogi Berra, of course, and in What Time Is It? You Mean Now? Yogi expounds on the funny, warm, borderline inadvertent insights that are his trademark. Twenty-six chapters, one for each letter, examine the words, the meaning, and the uplifting example of a kid from St. Louis who grew up to become the consummate Yankee and the ultimate Yogi. About the Author Yogi Berra played nineteen seasons in the MLB as a catcher and later became a manager and coach. He won ten World Series and holds a place in the Hall of Fame and on the All-Century Team. Dave Kaplan is the executive director of the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center, a nonprofit sports education center founded in 1998 on the campus of Montclair State University. He was formerly a reporter and editor for the Associated Press and the Daily News...

-Titulo Original : The Lucky Years How To Thrive In The Brave New World Of Health-Fabricante : Simon & Schuster-Descripcion Original: “If you buy just one health book this year, then get The Lucky Years” (Howard Stern). In this groundbreaking guide, bestselling author David Agus shows how we can take control of our health like never before in the brave new world of medicine. In his first bestseller, The End of Illness, David Agus revealed how to add vibrant years to your life by knowing the real facts of health. In The Lucky Years, he builds on that theme by showing why this is the luckiest time yet to be alive, giving you the keys to a new kingdom of wellness. In this new golden age, you’ll be able to take full advantage of the latest science and technologies to customize your care. Imagine being able to: edit your DNA to increase a healthy lifespan; use simple technologies to avoid or control chronic conditions like pain, depression, high blood pressure, and diabetes; prolong natural fertility and have children in your forties; lose weight effortlessly without a trendy diet; reverse aging to look, feel, and physically be ten years younger; and turn cancer into a manageable condition you can live with indefinitely. That’s the picture of the future that you can enter-starting today. With “practical health information fortified with exciting news from the forefront of modern medical technology” ( Kirkus Reviews), this is an essential, important read. “If you have made a new year’s resolution to get healthier, you’ll find a buddy in David B. Agus’s new book” ( The Boston Globe). Welcome to the Lucky Years. Review If you buy just one health book this year, then get The Lucky Years. In this important book, David Agus-one of the most inspiring, practical, and knowledgeable people I know-shows us how to participate in the world of personalized medicine. It’s easier than you think, if you have this book to guide you. -Howard Stern, host of The Howard Stern Show Dr. Agus has done it again. The Lucky Years gives us a smart, informed, and sensible look at the latest medical breakthroughs and new technologies. Important and courageous, it tackles tough questions while showing us how to prolong the quality and length of our lives. -Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs and The Innovators “We all have a vague sense that there is a revolution underway in the world of biology and medicine. We hear about major innovations like the sequencing of the genome, targeted drugs, and big data. But what to make of them? How will they improve our health and change our lives? We could not have a better guide to make sense of it all than David Agus. In this fascinating and illuminating book, David brings together a deep knowledge of science, good writing, and common sense. We are lucky to have him around.” -Fareed Zakaria, host of Fareed Zakaria GPS “The Lucky Years is an important and courageous book, raising big questions about health, longevity and what it means to live a meaningful life. With a reverence for data and the latest science, Dr. Agus gives us his vision for a bright future of health, helping everybody understand how to navigate their options in the way that’s best for them-and their loved ones.” -Arianna Huffington, Editor-in-Chief of The Huffington Post and author of Thrive “Dr. Agus offers an optimistic exploration of the new opportunities becoming available to us as exciting new technologies disrupt and revolutionize our understanding and practice of health care. Encouraging, but also clear-eyed and cautionary, The Lucky Years inspires us to take hold of the future of our own health-and, in turn, that of the planet.” - Al Gore, 45th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Laureate in Peace, 2007 “Dr. David Agus describes how a series of scientific breakthroughs enables everyone to lengthen and improve their lives-a future in which our bodys natural mechanisms can be enlisted to fight disease and our genes can be edited to eliminate inherited disease. It is an inspiring vision that we can embrace toda...

-Titulo Original : America Anonymous Eight Addicts In Search Of A Life-Fabricante : Simon & Schuster-Descripcion Original: AMERICA ANONYMOUS is the unforgettable story of eight men and women struggling with addictions. For nearly three years acclaimed journalist Benoit Denizet-Lewis immersed himself in their lives as they battled drug and alcohol abuse, overeating, and compulsive gambling and sexuality. Alternating with their stories is Denizet-Lewis’s candid account of his own recovery from sexual addiction and his compelling examination of our culture of addiction, where we obsessively search for new and innovative ways to escape the reality of the present moment and make ourselves “feel better.” Addiction is arguably this country’s biggest public-health crisis, triggering and exacerbating many of our most pressing social problems, from crime to child abuse and neglect. But while cancer and AIDS survivors have taken to the streets and to the halls of Congress demanding to be heard, millions of addicts talk only to one another in the confines of anonymous Twelve Step meetings. Through the riveting stories in this book, Denizet-Lewis shines a spotlight on addiction and breaks through the shame and denial that still shape our understanding of it-and hamper our ability to treat it. As these eight addicts stumble, fall, and try again to make a different and better life, Denizet-Lewis records their struggles, and his own, with honesty and empathy. Review I couldnt put this book down. I was blown away by the remarkable cast of characters, who come fully alive in Benoits gentle hands. He exposes and explodes a million myths about addiction, never succumbing to the temptation to make addiction -- or recovery -- less complex than it is. This unforgettable book is far more than a compilation of irresistible, artfully told stories about addicts. Its about truth, healing, survival, and hope. -- David Sheff, author of Beautiful Boy: A Fathers Journey Through His Sons Addiction Benoit Denizet-Lewis writes with an impressive mix of transparency and compassion about the addicts eternal battle between will and action. He sees deep into the sadness of desperate people, and equally deep into the systems that redeem such sadness. This is an intimate, compelling volume. -- Andrew Solomon, author of T he Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression This book reaches into the dark depths of the heart and soul of addiction by telling the stories of people who have struggled to find their way into the light of healing. I t is a collage of potent experiences from ordinary people -- women and men caught in the web of addiction whose fight for recovery will inspire anyone who reads Benoits book. -- William Cope Moyers, author of Broken: My Story of Addiction and Redemption One of the best books Ive read in the last year, and one of the most powerful Ive encountered about addiction. -- Rachel Kramer Bussel, The Huffington Post A dazzling portrait of eight addicts and their intimate, sometimes heartbreaking struggle... Addicts will read this book; those who want to understand addiction should read it! -- Susan Cheever, The Daily Beast An arresting, personal glimpse into the merciless world of drug and behavioral addiction. All eight of the people (Denizet-Lewis) followed are gripping subjects, and he describes their plights in seasoned, dexterous prose. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A graceful, compelling book focusing directly on people, not on concepts or proscriptive ideas. Denizet-Lewis relates their successes, relapses, and struggles to stay clean with warmth, clarity, and a deeply refreshing, unpuritanical frankness. -- Kate Christensen, ELLE I was skeptical about another book about addiction, but Denizet-Lewis finds a fresh, provocative approach to the subject... I often felt like I was right there listening to the conversations. And, boy, was I paying attention. -- Rochelle Olson, Minneapolis Star Tribune Engrossing... Denizet-Lewis gives readers a sense of the ravaging power of addiction. -- V...

-Titulo Original : The Secret Life Of The Unborn Child How You Can Prepare Your Baby For A Happy, Healthy Life-Fabricante : Simon & Schuster-Descripcion Original: “A startling account of recent work in this field…timely, balanced, useful.” -R.D. Laing What will your child remember about life before birth? For a renowned conductor, it’s the music his mother played- only during her pregnancy! For an autistic girl, unable to speak her native French, it’s the English that her mother spoke- three months before she was born! For others, it’s the sound of a voice, the murmur of a beating heart, the glare of lights in a hospital delivery room. Memories that may be comforting-or terrifying. Long before they’re born, your children are thinking, feeling, and even acting. What happens to them before-and as-they are born may profoundly shape the people they will become. These startling findings have even more dramatic implications. They give us a chance to help determine the course of our children’s lives will take-starting months before they’re born. About the Author Thomas Verny, MD, is a psychiatrist in private practice who earned his doctorate at the University of Toronto. He has taught at Harvard and York (Ontario) Universities and at the University of Toronto and is the founder of that city’s Center for Psychotherapy and Education. He has lectured extensively on the unborn child throughout Europe and North America...

-Titulo Original : Make Your Brain Smarter Increase Your Brains Creativity, Energy, And Focus-Fabricante : Simon & Schuster-Descripcion Original: One of the world’s most innovative and respected cognitive neuroscientists combines cutting-edge research with unique exercises to help you improve the most powerful, most staggeringly complex machine ever created: your brain. In Make Your Brain Smarter, renowned cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Sandra Bond Chapman introduces you to the very latest research in brain science and shows you how to tailor a program to strengthen your brain’s capacity to think smarter. In this all-inclusive book, Dr. Chapman delivers a comprehensive “fitness” plan that you can use to “exercise” your way to a healthier brain. You will find strategies to reduce stress and anxiety, increase productivity, enhance decision-making, and strengthen how your brain works at every age. You will discover why memory is not the most important measure of brain capacity, why IQ is a misleading index of brain potential, and why innovative thinking energizes your brain. Make Your Brain Smarter is the ultimate guide for keeping your brain fit during each decade of your life. Review I dont want to grow old and feel bad, either physically or mentally. Thats why I exercise my body and my brain daily. Im well into my eighties. I know that half my life is over, and that keeping my brain challenged is more important than ever. Thanks to the pioneering brain research being done by Dr. Sandi Chapman, we can have healthy and productive minds for far longer than we might have imagined. -- T. Boone Pickens legendary entrepreneur, innovator, energy executive, and author of The First Billion Is the H “As an athlete, I always knew the importance of training my body for optimal performance. It wasn’t until I met Sandi Chapman that I learned that the same is true for my brain. It has eased my concerns about my future health after spending more than ten years in the impact lifestyle of the NFL.” -- Daryl Johnston, former Dallas Cowboy, NFL commentator, and business leader The BrainHealth physical and the SMART program let me know how I could reach my full cognitive potential. These strategies revolutionized my life and could change the lives of millions. In the knowledge era, cognitive performance has never been more needed, but the distractions are great and growing. This book comes at the perfect time. -- Donovan Campbell New York Times bestselling author of Joker One and the upcoming book The Leaders Code “SMART training truly changed my life. I can’t think of any other training I’ve had that has delivered benefits so quickly and deeply.” -- Laura Sanford, regional vice president, AT&T “After partnering with Dr. Chapman, it was an eye-opener to see how easily brain health can be measured, and how important it is to maintain it at every age. Maximizing our cognitive functioning is attainable and an important step in making good decisions over the entire lifespan.” -- John Migliaccio, AVP and Director of Research and Gerontology at MetLife Mature Market Institute “I’ve had annual physicals for over thirty years, so it made sense to check the top third of the body also. Taking the BrainHealth Physical gave me a sense of peace knowing that I had a baseline of my brain function and could measure any issues that arise in the future.” -- Lyda Hill, a philanthropreneur “When I learned of the research of Dr. Sandi Chapman, I immediately realized her work could be transformational in accelerating the brain performance of employees at all ages. As the global leader of human resources, I am always looking for ways to expand the diverse talents of the different generational age groups that all too often go underdeveloped. Both companies and the individuals will be the beneficiaries of better brain health.” -- Cynthia Brinkley, Vice President of Global Human Resources, General Motors “The profoundly effective program outlined in Make Your Brain Smarter uses relatively simple and straightforward strategies to empower learners. The program al...

-Titulo Original : Two Hours The Quest To Run The Impossible Marathon-Fabricante : Simon & Schuster-Descripcion Original: “Essential reading for every runner.” -Men’s Fitness “Compelling…As becomes clear not long after its starting gun, this book transcends the search for a two-hour marathon.” -The Washington Post Two hours to cover twenty-six miles and 385 yards. It is running’s Everest, a feat once seen as impossible for the human body. But now we can glimpse the mountaintop. The sub-two hour marathon will require an exceptional combination of speed, mental strength, and endurance. The pioneer will have to endure more, live braver, plan better, and be luckier than anyone who has run before. So who will it be? In this spellbinding book, journalist Ed Caesar takes us into the world of elite marathoners: some of the greatest runners on earth. Through the stories of these rich characters, like Kenyan Geoffrey Mutai, around whom the narrative is built, Caesar traces the history of the marathon as well as the science, physiology, and psychology involved in running so fast for so long. And he shows us why this most democratic of races retains its brutal, enthralling appeal-and why we are drawn to test ourselves to the limit. Two Hours is a book about a beautiful sport few people understand. It takes us from big-money races in the United States and Europe to remote villages in Kenya. It’s about talent, heroism, and refusing to accept defeat. It is a book about running that is about much more than running. It is a human drama like no other. Review “Compelling . . . Instructive . . . As becomes clear not long after its starting gun, this book transcends the search for a two-hour marathon.” -The Washington Post “Essential reading for every runner . . . Caesar’s conversational voice grabs your attention instantly, making you feel as if you’re running alongside elite marathoners, visiting hometowns of the greats like Mutai and Haile Gebrselassie-and ultimately you will think you’re reading a fictional story rather than an intensely research-heavy non-fiction book. But that’s what it is. . . . Is it possible that things are only impossible when we think they’re impossible? That’s the question you’re left pondering after you put Two Hours back on the shelf.” -Men’s Fitness “A zippy, engaging book . . . The writing is stylish and evocative . . . Two Hours centers on the sport’s most hotly debated question: will a runner ever clock up their 26 miles and 375 yards in under this time? Caesar follows Geoffrey Mutai, the great Kenyan athlete, in his quest to silence the doubters. In big, confident strides, he also covers marathon history, the science of endurance and the thorny matter of doping.” -Financial Times “Entertaining and informative . . . Caesar’s winning prose will keep even armchair readers turning pages, perhaps tuning in to watch the next marathon. . . . Wide-ranging and compelling.” -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Caesar, who has reported widely from Africa, does great work capturing the lives, training routines, and proud ancestry of these amazing runners, not to mention the pitfalls and dangers they face before and after they achieve fame. This strong tale covers the joys of athletic triumph and the pain of missed opportunities, while investigating what it means to be born or bred a champion and what it will take to for someone to make running history. Caesar proves himself an engaging storyteller with a book whose time has come.” -Publishers Weekly “Caesar is not the first to explore what it will take to break the two-hour barrier, nor is he the first to go to East Africa in search of what fuels today’s great marathoners, but the strength of Two Hours is in combining copious research and emotional human storytelling into a fast-paced narrative.” -Stephen Kurczy, Vice Sports “You might think, at first, that you’re going for a very long morning run with a small African man through the streets of Berlin. Before you know it, you’re chasing the white whale of human endurance-the two-hour marathon...

-Titulo Original : Chiwalking-Fabricante : Simon & Schuster-Descripcion Original: The author of ChiRunning, Danny Dreyer, offers an alternative approach to walking that blends the internal, energy-producing focuses of tai chi with the moderate movement of walking to deliver a programme that maximizes physical and spiritual fitness. Review ChiRunning gave me a precious gift. After being unable to run for ten years because of injury, at age 52 Im again enjoying pleasurable, injury-free trail runs in the Shawangunk Mountains.I can now move on land with the same economy, flow, and mindfulness that make swimming such bliss for me. I tell people that ChiRunning is an owners manual for anyone who has legs and the desire to use them for health and happiness. -- Terry Laughlin, author of Total Immersion This program will totally revolutionize the way you run. -- Baron Baptiste, author of Journey into PowerThe most exciting and revolutionary book to hit the running community this decade. -- Toby Tanser, author of Train Hard, Win EasyChiRunning gave me a precious gift. After being unable to run for ten years because of injury, at age 52 Im again enjoying pleasurable, injury-free trail runs in the Shawangunk Mountains.I can now move on land with the same economy, flow, and mindfulness that make swimming such bliss for me. I tell people that ChiRunning is an owners manual for anyone who has legs and the desire to use them for health and happiness. -- Terry Laughlin, author of Total Immersio...

-Titulo Original : The Testosterone Advantage Plan-Fabricante : Simon & Schuster-Descripcion Original: Eat like a man to look like a man. For years now, the so-called experts have told you to avoid the foods you love. That youre supposed to ditch the weight room and jog your way to maximum fitness. And that testosterone-the hormone that makes you a man-is actually a problem for you, rather than the solution to your problems. In the meantime, American men have kept getting fatter and more frustrated. Which is why weve looked into all this, and from what weve learned, we can tell you-the know-it-alls are know-nothings. The Testosterone Advantage Plan is about realizing your full potential as a man, and will: -show you how nature intended you to eat. -explain how the male body differs in its nutritional needs from the female body-especially when it comes to the proteins, carbohydrates, and fats that are not bad for you. -give you a superior workout regimen to help you attain the muscular physique youve always wanted. -explain how you can boost your testosterone and energy levels naturally, without supplements or quick-fix fads. -help you tick off the long list of benefits youll likely reap in terms of energy and enthusiasm, power and potency, confidence and charisma. This much you know: What youve done in the past hasnt worked. Why not try it our way? You have everything to -and nothing to lose except your gut. Review Susan M. Kleiner, R.D., Ph.D. author of Power Eating The more we learn about hormonal control of the body, the more we understand that theres almost nothing physiologically the same between men and women. The Testosterone Advantage Plan, written just for men, promotes scientifically based approaches to fat loss and muscle gain. About the Author Lou Schuler is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist, a certified strength and conditioning specialist, a contributing editor to Mens Health magazine, and the author of many popular books about fitness and nutrition, including five in the New Rules of Lifting series with coauthor Alwyn Cosgrove. He recently published his first novel, Saints Alive. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter 1: Our Burgers, Ourselves Are you a man whos interested in looking his best? Being his best? Staying physically and physiologically at the top of his game? We feel for you. We really do. Thats because youve been overlooked. And youve been misled. For 20 years, the fitness and weight-loss industries have had little to offer you. For 20 years, youve been overfed but undernourished. Overworked but underexercised. Overanalyzed but still misunderstood. Along the way, well-meaning people -- often with impressive credentials -- have tried to help you. They began by steering you away from the foods you enjoy. When you didnt take an immediate liking to the foods they wanted you to eat instead, other friendly folks in the packaged-food business stepped up with better-tasting versions. When the more palatable food made you fat, yet another group of sincere individuals chimed in to show you a type of exercise that helped you lose some of the fat -- but also caused your body to lose a lot of its muscle and your joints to cry out in protest. At the end of it all, not only are you still out of shape but now you have weak, arthritic knees. Why? Because all those wonderful diets and fitness programs you were given dont work. Not for you. Not for most men. Youre going to be exposed to a lot of eyebrow-raising notions in this book. Well tell you that the Food Guide Pyramid doesnt work for us men. A low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet doesnt work for us. (Except, maybe, for the marathoners among us. For the rest of the male population, a low-calorie diet consisting mostly of carbs is a metabolic and physiological disaster waiting to happen.) Most forms of aerobic exercise dont work for us. For that matter, even weight lifting, as you were traditionally taught it -- Grab X number of poun...

-Titulo Original : The 17 Day Diet Breakthrough Edition-Fabricante : Simon & Schuster-Descripcion Original: In this new edition of the #1 bestseller The 17 Day Diet, Dr. Mike Moreno includes new chapters on supplements and exercise and more than 30 new recipes to help you achieve results fast and effectively. Since Dr. Mike Moreno first published The 17 Day Diet in 2010, millions of people have lost weight using his fast, safe, and extremely effective plan. Dr. Mike listens to his 17 Day Dieters as carefully as he listens to his own patients, and he is always on top of the cutting-edge research in the field of weight management. Using vital reader feedback and the latest science, he has enhanced The 17 Day Diet with three new chapters; 50 new, delicious recipes; and the ability to customize your diet with an optional fasting day. The 17 Day Diet Breakthrough Edition makes everyone’s favorite diet the best and most up-to-date diet on the market. Whether you need to lose 10 pounds or a hundred, Dr. Mike’s plan can help you achieve your weight loss goals quickly and permanently while always ensuring that you feel full, even as you enjoy a wide variety of the foods you love. In fact, that variation in the diet is the key to losing weight: it confuses and boosts your metabolism to help you burn fat rapidly during these four 17-day cycles: Accelerate: The rapid weight loss cycle. You’ll flush sugar and fat from your system and introduce foods and nutrients into your diet that have been proven to trim belly fat, thigh fat, and other stubborn fat zones. Activate: The metabolic boost cycle. You’ll alternate between low- and high-calorie days and watch the fat melt away. Achieve: The steady weight loss cycle. You’ll learn to control portions properly and start the exciting (and quick!) 17 Minute Spot Reduction Workout. Arrive: The efficient control cycle. You’ll be firmly in the habit of healthy eating to support your goal. On weekends, you can even enjoy your favorite foods! Plus: A new, optional transitional day of liquid cleansing that kicks your fat burning into overdrive and a dietary supplement program to support your success. The 17 Day Diet can work for you even if you have food allergies or PMS or are pregnant or constantly traveling. It can be adapted to a wide variety of cuisines, from Chinese to Tex Mex and everything in between. Brimming with helpful tips, interesting facts, and inspiring testimonials from fellow 17 Day Dieters, The 17 Day Diet Breakthrough Edition is the very last diet book you’ll ever need. About the Author Mike Moreno, MD, better known as Dr. Mike, is a graduate of the University of California at Irvine and Hahnemann Medical School. Following his residency at Kaiser Permanente in Fontana, California, Dr. Mike moved to San Diego, where he now practices family medicine and serves on the board of the San Diego Chapter of the American Academy of Family Physicians. He is the author of The 17 Day Diet and The 17 Day Kickstart Diet. Visit DrMikeDiet . Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. The 17 Day Diet Breakthrough Editio...