-Titulo Original : Driven To Distraction (Revised): Recognizing And Coping With Attention Deficit Disorder-Fabricante : Anchor-Descripcion Original: - Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping With Attention Deficit Disorder Product Description Groundbreaking and comprehensive, Driven to Distraction has been a lifeline to the approximately eighteen million Americans who are thought to have ADHD. Now the bestselling book is revised and updated with current medical information for a new generation searching for answers. Through vivid stories and case histories of patients both adults and children Hallowell and Ratey explore the varied forms ADHD takes, from hyperactivity to daydreaming. They dispel common myths, offer helpful coping tools, and give a thorough accounting of all treatment options as well as tips for dealing with a diagnosed child, partner, or family member. But most importantly, they focus on the positives that can come with this disorder including high energy, intuitiveness, creativity, and enthusiasm. Review A very readable, highly informative and helpful book. – The New York Times Book Review Conversational in tone, encyclopedic in content, and, best of all, utterly convincing because of its grounding in clinical experience, Driven to Distraction should make Attention Deficit Disorder comprehensible even to the most distractible reader. Peter D. Kramer, M.D., author of Listening to Prozac This is an important and much-needed book! Wise, practical, and reassuring. Jane M. Healy, Ph.D., author of Endangered Minds and Different Learners The first comprehensive book on the subject for the lay reader. The Boston Globe About the Author Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., is in private practice in adult and child psychiatry and has offices in both the Boston area and New York City. He lives with his wife, Sue, and children, Lucy, Jack, and Tucker. John J. Ratey, M.D. is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and is in private practice. He lives in the Boston area. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. 1 What Is Attention Deficit Disorder? Once you catch on to what this syndrome is all about, youll see it everywhere. People you used to think of as disorganized or manic or hyper or creative but unpredictable, people who you know could do more if they could just get it together, people who have bounced around in school or in their professional lives, people who have made it to the top but who still feel driven or disorganized, these may be people who in fact have attention deficit disorder. You may even recognize some of the symptoms in your own behavior. Many of the symptoms of ADD are so common to us all that for the term ADD to have specific meaning, rather than just be a scientific-sounding label for the complex lives we lead, we need to define the syndrome carefully. The best way to understand what ADD is and what it is not is to see how it affects the lives of people who have it. In the cases that follow, and in the many case illustrations that appear in this book, one can witness the struggles individuals faced to break through inaccurate labels and unfair judgments. As their stories unfold, a definition of ADD emerges. Case 1: Jim It was eleven oclock at night and Jim Finnegan was up pacing in his study. This was where he often found himself at night: alone, pacing, trying to get things together. Now approaching the halfway point of life, Jim was getting desperate. He looked around the room and took in the disorder. The room looked as if the contents of a bag ladys shopping cart had been dumped into it. Books, papers, odd socks, old letters, a few half-smoked packages of Marlboros, and other loose ends lay scattered about, much like the bits and pieces of cognition that were strewn about in his mind. Jim looked up at the TO DO list that was tacked to the corkboard above his desk. There were seventeen items, the final one circled several times in black ink and marked with exclamation points: Reorganization proposal due Tues., 3/19!!! This was Mon., 3/18. Jim hadnt started on the proposal. Hed been thinking about it for weeks, ever ...

-Titulo Original : Night Shift-Fabricante : Anchor-Descripcion Original: Stephen King’s first collection of short stories showcases the darkest depths of his brilliant imagination and will chill the cockles of many a heart (Chicago Tribune). Featuring “Jerusalem’s Lot, the basis for the upcoming tv series Chapelwaite. Here we see mutated rats gone bad (“Graveyard Shift”); a cataclysmic virus that threatens humanity (“Night Surf,” the basis for The Stand); a possessed, evil lawnmower (“The Lawnmower Man”); unsettling children from the heartland (“Children of the Corn”); a smoker who will try anything to stop (“Quitters, Inc.”); a reclusive alcoholic who begins a gruesome transformation (“Gray Matter”); and many more shadows and visions that will haunt you long after the last page is turned...

-Titulo Original : Sooley A Novel-Fabricante : Anchor-Descripcion Original: Hannah es una adolescente de dieciseis años que lleva una vida aburrida y monotona frente al ordenador y las redes sociales. Pero todo cambia cuando recibe un mensaje por de un chico llamado Alex Crowell. Hannah accede a su perfil, para ver quien es, pero entonces algo inquietante ocurre: Hannah descubre que el chico esta muerto. ¿Y que es lo mas escalofriante? El mensaje que inmediatamente despues recibe de el: Alex necesita ayuda para averiguar quien lo mato. About the Author Janeth Gomez (Leon, Mexico, 1998) ha sido uno de los mayores fenomenos de Wattpad en castellano. Siempre ha sentido pasion por la literatura, en especial por los thrillers psicologicos, las novelas de terror y las de genero romantico juvenil. A los dieciseis años, inspirada por un video de YouTube, decidio escribir su primera obra, ¿Quien mato a Alex?, a la que poco a poco dio forma en la pagina web de lectura online Wattpad. Desde entonces, ¿Quien mato a Alex? se ha convertido en un fenomeno de ventas en España y Latinoamerica...

-Titulo Original : Medical Apartheid: The Dark History Of Medical Experimentation On Black Americans From Colonial Times To The Present-Fabricante : Anchor-Descripcion Original: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER * The first full history of Black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. No one concerned with issues of public health and racial justice can afford not to read this masterful book. [Washington] has unearthed a shocking amount of information and shaped it into a riveting, carefully documented book. -New York Times From the era of slavery to the present day, starting with the earliest encounters between Black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, Medical Apartheid details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without their knowledge-a tradition that continues today within some black populations. It reveals how Blacks have historically been prey to grave-robbing as well as unauthorized autopsies and dissections. Moving into the twentieth century, it shows how the pseudoscience of eugenics and social Darwinism was used to justify experimental exploitation and shoddy medical treatment of Blacks. Shocking new details about the government’s notorious Tuskegee experiment are revealed, as are similar, less-well-known medical atrocities conducted by the government, the armed forces, prisons, and private institutions. The product of years of prodigious research into medical journals and experimental reports long undisturbed, Medical Apartheid reveals the hidden underbelly of scientific research and makes possible, for the first time, an understanding of the roots of the African American health deficit. At last, it provides the fullest possible context for comprehending the behavioral fallout that has caused Black Americans to view researchers-and indeed the whole medical establishment-with such deep distrust. Review National Book Critics Circle Award Winner * PEN/Oakland Award Winner * BCALA Nonfiction Award Winner * Gustavus Meyers Award Winner[Washington] has unearthed a shocking amount of information and shaped it into a riveting, carefully documented book. - New York Times “This groundbreaking study documents that the infamous Tuskegee experiment, in which black syphilitic men were studied but not treated, was simply the most publicized in a long, and continuing, history of the American medical establishment using African Americans as unwitting or unwilling human guinea pigs . . . Washington is a great storyteller, and in addition to giving us an abundance of information on ‘scientific racism,’ the book, even at its most disturbing, is compulsively readable. It covers a wide range of topics-the history of hospitals not charging black patients so that, after death, their bodies could be used for anatomy classes; the exhaustive research done on black prisoners throughout the 20th century-and paints a powerful and disturbing portrait of medicine, race, sex, and the abuse of power.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Medical ethicist and journalist Washington details the abusive medical practices to which African Americans have been subjected. “She begins her shocking history in the colonial period, when owners would hire out or sell slaves to physicians for use as guinea pigs in medical experiments. Into the 19th century, black cadavers were routinely exploited for profit by whites who shipped them to medical schools for dissection and to museums and traveling shows for casual public display. The most notorious case here may be the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, in which about 600 syphilitic men were left untreated by the U.S. Public Health Service so it could study the progression of the disease, but Washington asserts that it was the forerunner to a host of similar medical abuses . . . African American skepticism about the medical establishment and reluctance to participate in medical research is an unfortunate result. One of her goals in writing this book, aside from do...

-Titulo Original : The Shining-Fabricante : Anchor-Descripcion Original: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Before Doctor Sleep, there was The Shining, a classic of modern American horror from the undisputed master, Stephen King. Jack Torrance’s new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he’ll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic location feels ever more remote . . . and more sinister. And the only one to notice the strange and terrible forces gathering around the Overlook is Danny Torrance, a uniquely gifted five-year-old. Review “A master storyteller.” - Los Angeles Times “Scary! . . . Serves up horrors at a brisk, unflagging pace.” - The New York Times “This chilling novel will haunt you, and make your blood run cold and your heart race with fear.” - Nashville Banner “Guaranteed to frighten you into fits. . . . with a climax that is literally explosive.” - Cosmopolitan “The most wonderfully gruesome man on the planet.” - USA Today “An undisputed master of suspense and terror.” - The Washington Post “[King] probably knows more about scary goings-on in confined, isolated places than anybody since Edgar Allan Poe.” - Entertainment Weekly “He’s the author who can always make the improbable so scary you’ll feel compelled to check the locks on the front door.” - The Boston Globe “Peerless imagination.” - The Observer (London) About the Author Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. Among his most recent are 11/22/63; Full Dark, No Stars; Under the Dome; Just After Sunset; Duma Key; Lisey’s Story; Cell; and the concluding novels in the Dark Tower saga: Wolves of the Calla, Song of Susannah, and The Dark Tower. His acclaimed nonfiction book, On Writing, is also a bestseller. He was the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2007, he received the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He lives in Maine with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. stephenking Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Excerpted from Chapter One Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick. Ullman stood five-five, and when he moved, it was with the prissy speed that seems to be the exclusive domain of all small plump men. The part in his hair was exact, and his dark suit was sober but comforting. I am a man you can bring your problems to, that suit said to the paying customer. To the hired help it spoke more curtly: This had better be good, you. There was a red carnation in the lapel, perhaps so that no one on the street would mistake Stuart Ullman for the local undertaker. As he listened to Ullman speak, Jack admitted to himself that he probably could not have liked any man on that side of the desk-under the circumstances. Ullman had asked a question he hadn’t caught. That was bad; Ullman was the type of man who would file such lapses away in a mental Rolodex for later consideration. “I’m sorry?” “I asked if your wife fully understood what you would be taking on here. And there’s your son, of course.” He glanced down at the application in front of him. “Daniel. Your wife isn’t a bit intimidated by the idea?” “Wendy is an extraordinary woman.” “And your son is also extraordinary?” Jack smiled, a big wide PR smile. “We like to think so, I suppose. He’s quite self-reliant for a five-year-old.” No returning smile from Ullman. He slipped Jack’s application back into a file. The file went into a drawer. The desk top was now completely bare except for a blotter, a telephone, a Tensor lamp, and an in/out basket. Both sides of the in/out were empty, too. Ullman stood up and went to the file cabinet in the corner. “Step around the desk, if you will, Mr. Torrance. We’ll look at the hotel floor plans.” He...

-Titulo Original : The Body: A Guide For Occupants-Fabricante : Anchor-Descripcion Original: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body-with a new afterword for this edition. Bill Bryson once again proves himself to be an incomparable companion as he guides us through the human body-how it functions, its remarkable ability to heal itself, and (unfortunately) the ways it can fail. Full of extraordinary facts (your body made a million red blood cells since you started reading this) and irresistible Brysonesque anecdotes, The Body will lead you to a deeper understanding of the miracle that is life in general and you in particular. As Bill Bryson writes, “We pass our existence within this wobble of flesh and yet take it almost entirely for granted.” The Body will cure that indifference with generous doses of wondrous, compulsively readable facts and information. As addictive as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best, a must-read owner’s manual for every body. Review ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE WASHINGTON POST * FINANCIAL TIMES * THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS * BOOKPAGE * THE BOSTON GLOBE Glorious. . . . Having described the physical nature of our world and beyond, from the atomic to the intergalactic, in The Body [Bryson] now turns inward to explain-in his lucid, amusing style-what we’re made of. . . . Astonishing. . . . You will marvel at the brilliance and vast weirdness of your design. -The Washington Post Delightful . . . reveals the thousands of rarely acknowledged tasks our body takes care of as we go about our day. . . . Informative, entertaining and often gross (kissing, according to one study, transfers up to one billion bacteria from one mouth to another, along with 0.2 micrograms of food bits). . . . Bryson, who gives off a Cronkite-like trustworthy vibe, is good at allaying fears and busting myths.” -The New York Times Book Review Bryson is a master explainer, with a gift for the pithy simile and all-encompassing metaphor. . . . Mr. Bryson’s account is enlivened by his excellent command of the history of medicine. . . . Brisk, provocative and entertaining throughout. -The Wall Street Journal Fascinating. -NPR Bryson launches himself into the wilderness of the human anatomy armed with his characteristic thoroughness and wit. . . .This book is full of such arresting factoids and, like a douser hunting water, Bryson is adept at finding the bizarre and the arcane in his subject matter. . . . Amazing. -USA Today A witty, informative immersion. . . . The Body-a delightful, anecdote-propelled read-proves one of his most ambitious yet, as he leads us on a head-to-toe tour of a physique that’s terra incognita to many of us. . . . Playful, lucid. . . . [Bryson] cover[s] a remarkably large swathe of human corporeal and cerebral experience. -The Boston Globe A directory of wonders. . . . Extraordinary. . . . A tour of the minuscule; it aims to do for the human body what his A Short History of Nearly Everything did for science. . . . Wry, companionable, avuncular and always lucid . . . [ The Body] could stand as an ultimate prescription for life. -The Guardian A delightful tour guide. . . . Brysons stroll through human anatomy, physiology, evolution, and illness (diabetes, cancer, infections) is instructive, accessible, and entertaining. -Booklist, starred review Amusingly informative. -Forbes A pleasing, entertaining sojourn into the realm of what makes us tick. -Kirkus Reviews About the Author BILL BRYSONs bestselling books include A Walk in the Woods, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, and A Short History of Nearly Everything (which won the Aventis Prize in Britain and the Descartes Prize, the European Unions highest literary award). He was chancellor of Durham University, Englands third oldest university, from 2005 to 2011, and is an honorary fellow of Britains Royal Society. ...

-Titulo Original : To Be A Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, And The Futurists Solving The Modest Problem Of Death-Fabricante : Anchor-Descripcion Original: “This gonzo-journalistic exploration of the Silicon Valley techno-utopians’ pursuit of escaping mortality is a breezy romp full of colorful characters.” -New York Times Book Review (editors choice) Transhumanism is a movement pushing the limits of our biology-of our senses, intelligence, and lifespans-with technology. Its supporters have reached a critical mass and now include some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley and beyond, among them Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Ray Kurzweil. In this provocative and eye-opening account, journalist Mark O’Connell explores the staggering (and terrifying) possibilities that present themselves when you think of your body as an outmoded device. He visits the world’s foremost cryonics facility to witness how some have chosen to forestall death, discovers an underground collective of biohackers boosting their senses by implanting electronics under their skin, and meets with members of a team urgently investigating how to protect mankind from rogue artificial superintelligence. In investigating what it means to be a machine, O’Connell shines a light on our ancient desire to transcend the animal condition-and offers a surprising meditation on what it means to be human. Review **Winner of the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize****Shortlisted for the 2017 Baillie-Gifford Prize for Nonfiction****Finalist for the 2017 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize** “Troubling and humorous, this is one of my current give-it-to-everyone books-I buy six copies at a time. Did you know our future belongs to a few asocial geeks for whom being human has always been a problem? Now they can solve it! - Jeanette Winterson, Vulture “O’Connell… dissects the practices and beliefs of trans-humanism with extraordinary exuberance and wit… To Be a Machine is sometimes hilarious (triggering several bursts of uncontrollable giggles while I read it on the Tube) but even as O’Connell mocks the more absurd manifestations of trans-humanism he shows sympathy and understanding for its adherents.” -Financial Times “Wryly humorous, cogently insightful…. To Be a Machine is a lucid, soulful pilgrimage into the heart of what humanity means to us now-and how science may redefine it tomorrow, for better and for worse.” -NPR.org “Open-minded… With a practiced journalist’s sense of engagement and empathy leavened by healthy skepticism, O’Connell describes the peculiar constellation of scientists, seekers, grifters, and con artists orbiting techno-optimist communities over the past half century…. Offer[s] much-needed critical analysis that never veers into condescension.” - LA Review of Books “OConnell unleashes his prodigious researching and writing skills on what could be your future.” -Philadelphia Inquirer “O’Connell is a writer of elegant precision and winning facetiousness… His ear and eye for detail are prodigious… O’Connell’s writing-full of high-low swerves and personal asides-is a constant reminder of the bathetic reality of being human.” -4Columns “[O’Connell] reveals a bounty of beguiling ingenuity and genuine absurdity, eliciting laughs and empathy, because we are our most human while trying to become something more than human.” -Playboy OConnell, a columnist for Slate, is a charming, funny tour guide. Writing on transhumanism often gets swept away by the inherent drama of its adherents promises, but OConnells eye for small human details…keeps the narrative grounded in a way that rigorous scientific debunking wouldnt.” -Vice The game-changing technology being developed in Silicon Valley is often hard to wrap ones head around, and Mark OConnell takes readers on a wild ride through this world in a way that makes one feel that anything is possible and everything is happening right now. -Newsweek In this thoughtful and readable book, [O’Connell] aims to understand the motivations of those who are guided by the belief that technology will enable humans to tra...

-Titulo Original : Basic Teachings Of The Great Philosophers-Fabricante : Anchor-Descripcion Original: A complete summary of the views of the most important philosophers since the beginning of Western civilization. Each major field of philosophic inquiry is treated in a separate chapter, so that each chapter can be read as a complete unit, without reference to the others. Includes Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Dewey, Sartre, and many others. From the Publisher A complete summary of the views of the most important philosophers in Western civilization. Each major field of philosophic inquiry comprises a separate chapter for greater accessibility. Includes Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Dewey, Sartre, and many others. From the Inside Flap A complete summary of the views of the most important philosophers in Western civilization. Each major field of philosophic inquiry comprises a separate chapter for greater accessibility. Includes Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Dewey, Sartre, and many others. From the Back Cover A complete summary of the views of the most important philosophers in Western civilization. Each major field of philosophic inquiry comprises a separate chapter for greater accessibility. Includes Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Dewey, Sartre, and many others. About the Author S. E. Frost, Jr. taught in the Department of Education, Brooklyn College, City University of New York. He received a Ph.D. from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Yale University. He spent many years in the study and teaching of the history and philosophy of education and is the author of a number of books on philosophy, religion, and education. He died in 1978...

-Titulo Original : This Bodys Not Big Enough For Both Of Us: A Novel-Fabricante : Anchor-Descripcion Original: Joss Whedon...can’t possibly write All The Things That Are Kind Of Like This. So hallelujah that Edgar Cantero - a Barcelona native whose first language is Spanish, but who spits pop-culture in English like the savviest geek in, say, Sheboygan posting on Tumblr - is writing some of them.”--The Austin ChronicleFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Meddling Kids comes a mind-blowing, gender-bending, genre-smashing romp through the entire pantheon of action and noir. It is also a bold, tautly crafted novel about family, being weird, and claiming your place in your own crazy story. In a dingy office in Fishermans Wharf, the glass panel in the door bears the names of A. Kimrean and Z. Kimrean. Private Eyes. Behind the door there is only one desk, one chair, one scrawny androgynous P.I. in a tank top and skimpy waistcoat. A.Z., as they are collectively known, are twin brother and sister. Hes pure misanthropic logic, shes wild hedonistic creativity. The Kimreans have been locked in mortal battle since they were in utero...which is tricky because they, very literally, share one single body. Thats right. One body, two pilots. The mystery and absurdity of how Kimrean functions, and how they subvert every plotline, twist, explosion, and gunshot--and confuse every cop, neckless thug, cartel boss, ninja, and femme fatale--in the book is pure Cantero magic. Someone is murdering the sons of the ruthless drug cartel boss known as the Lyon in the biggest baddest town in California--San Carnal. The notorious A.Z. Kimrean must go to the sin-soaked, palm-tree-lined streets of San Carnal, infiltrate the Lyons inner circle, and find out who is targeting his heirs, and while they are at it, rescue an undercover cop in too deep, deal with a plucky young stowaway, and stop a major gang war from engulfing California. Theyll face every plot device and break every rule Elmore Leonard wrote before they can crack the case, if they dont kill each other (themselves) first. This Bodys Not Big Enough for Both of Us is a brilliantly subversive and comic thriller celebrating noir detectives, Die Hard, Fast & Furious, and the worst case of sibling rivalry, that can only come from the mind of Edgar Cantero. Review This Body is a book that lives in the intersection between reality and pop-culture, but it does so with a kind of honesty because thats where its characters live. Likely where Cantero lives, too. It packs more references, asides, call-outs and side-eyes into a single paragraph than anything youve ever read...once you settle into the rat-a-tat prattle of the dialog and the tinkling of shell casings hitting the floor, its a ride, for sure. --NPR.org In A.Z. Kimrean, Cantero has written the funniest private investigator this side of Peter Sellers. How can you not love the warring siblings, opposites in a single body, as they outwit everyone they meet? You will. You will love them. --Josh Malerman, New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and Unbury Carol “Audacious, clever, and ridiculously entertaining at every page turn… Subverting familiar tropes of the detective genre is a fertile playground for Cantero and the result is something extraordinarily alluring.” --SYFYWIRE “Cantero is exercising a lot of genre tropes in [ Meddling Kids]-although not as psychedelically as he does in...the private-eye-skewering, gender-confounding This Bodys Not Big Enough for Both of Us - and the exercise pays off in satisfying dividends. Especially because Joss Whedon, you know? Because Joss Whedon is, after all, only a single human being, and thus can’t possibly write All The Things That Are Kind Of Like This. So hallelujah that Edgar Cantero - a Barcelona native whose first language is Spanish, but who spits pop-culture in English like the savviest geek in, say, Sheboygan posting on Tumblr - is writing some of them.” --The Austin Chronicle “[A] winning spoof…Literary references (Br...

-Titulo Original : The Word Exchange-Fabricante : Anchor-Descripcion Original: Books, libraries, and newspapers have at last become things of the past. Now handheld Memes allow for constant communication and entertainment. They can even anticipate our needs, dialing the doctor before we know we’re sick, or prompting us with words we can’t recall. Yet a few dedicated wordsmiths are still laboring on the final print edition of the North American Dictionary of the English Language. But one evening, right before it’s released, Anana Johnson finds that the chief editor-her father-has vanished. In alternating points of view, Anana and her bookish colleague Bart follow their only clue, the word ALICE, down the proverbial rabbit hole, into subterranean passages, the stacks of the Mercantile Library, and secret meetings of an anti-Meme underground resistance, racing closer to the truth about Anana’s father’s disappearance, and discovering a frightening connection to the growing “word flu” pandemic. Review A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “A nervy, nerdy dystopian thriller.” - The New York Times Book Review “A propulsive, twisty future-noir. . . . [Graedon’s] attention to language-and the breakdown of language-invites comparisons to writers like Anthony Burgess and Lewis Carroll.” - The Daily Beast “Spectacular. . . . A gorgeous genre mashup that offers readers the pleasures of noir, science fiction, romance, and philosophy. [ The Word Exchange is] an unforgettable joyride across the thin ice of language.” -Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove “Combines the jaunty energy of youngish adult fiction with the spine-tingling chill of the science-­fiction conspiracy genre. . . . [Graedon achieves] the singular feat of turning the alphabet into a cliffhanger.” - The New York Times Book Review “Dazzling. . . . A snappy, noir-inflected vision of a future New York suffering from an epidemic of aphasia brought on by super-smartphones. . . . Sparklingly inventive.” - Slate “A sobering look at how dependent we are on technology and how susceptible we are to the distortions of language.” - The Washington Post “Alena Graedon makes what sounds like a preposterous premise believable in this clever first novel, a mystery set in a dystopian near future .” - Chicago Tribune “Imaginative, layered, and highly original.” -Karen Thompson Walker, bestselling author of The Age of Miracles “[Graedon] knows how to ratchet up mystery. In [her] dystopian future, face-to-face interfacing is finished and even email is a fading memory.” - Esquire (UK) “[A] fast-paced, thrill-a-minute debut novel. . . . The sonic pleasures of Graedon’s degraded language are considerable. . . . She creates a powerful sense of mystery. . . . [I] raced greedily to the last page, enjoying Graedon’s plot-weaving every step of the way.” -Peter C. Baker, The New Yorker “An ambitious debut. . . . Graedon’s own language is essential to the success of The Word Exchange-it’s erudite, ruminative, and complex.” - Bustle “This highly addictive future noir is also terrifyingly prescient. . . . Graedon’s book is luminous and haunting at every turn. I will never look at words in quite the same way-and neither will you.” -Reif Larsen, author of The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet “Wildly ambitious, darkly intellectual and inventive. . . . Students of linguistics may run screaming from this dystopian nightmare by Brooklyn-based debut novelist Graedon, but diligent fans of Neal Stephenson or Max Barry will be richly rewarded by a complex thriller.” -Kirkus Reviews, starred review “Spectacular. . . . [Graedons] novel is rife with literary allusions and philosophical wormholes that arent only decorative but integral to characters abilities and limitations in communicating, and it succeeds precisely because it’s as full of humanity as it is of mystery and intellectual prowess.” -Publishers Weekly,...

-Titulo Original : The Illness Lesson: A Novel-Fabricante : Anchor-Descripcion Original: A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICELONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE“Astoundingly original.” -The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the author of the award-winning debut story collection We Show What We Have Learned, a vivid work of historical fiction with shocking and eerie connections to our own time. At their newly founded school, Samuel Hood and his daughter, Caroline, promise a groundbreaking education for young women. But Caroline has grave misgivings. After all, her own unconventional education has left her unmarriageable and isolated, unsuited to the narrow roles afforded women in nineteenth-century New England. When a mysterious flock of red birds descends on the town, Caroline alone seems to find them unsettling. But it’s not long before the assembled students begin to manifest bizarre symptoms: rashes, seizures, headaches, verbal tics, night wanderings. One by one, they sicken. Fearing ruin for the school, Samuel overrules Caroline’s pleas to inform the girls’ parents and turns instead to a noted physician, a man whose sinister ministrations-based on a shocking historic treatment-horrify Caroline. As the men around her continue to dictate, disastrously, all terms of the girls’ experience, Caroline’s own body begins to betray her. To save herself and her young charges, she will have to defy every rule that has governed her life, her mind, her body, and her world. Review “Brilliant, suspenseful. . . . A masterpiece.” -Elizabeth Gilbert, author of City of Girls Astoundingly original.” -The New York Times Book Review “This is Alcott meets Shirley Jackson, with a splash of Margaret Atwood. . . . Unusual and transporting.” -Washington Post“A meticulously crafted suspense tale seething with feminist fury.” -O, The Oprah Magazine“Masterfully considered. . . . Clare Beams’ cool, cutting prose hypnotically evokes the oppression of female bodies and minds.” -Entertainment Weekly “Part horror, part case study and . . . part feminist polemic. . . . [The novel’s antagonist] is a true and timeless 21st century villain.” -San Francisco Chronicle “Both savagely acute in its portrayal of misogyny and tenderly hopeful in its trajectory.” - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “[This] gripping novel meditates on how an all-male establishment can denying women’s pain, and how the consequences can shape a society.” -Vanity Fair “Expertly blends 19th-century and modern diction. . . . Steering [her] protagonist toward liberation, [Beams] seem to suggest that an honest reckoning with misogyny might produce not only solidarity, but also change.” -The Atlantic “Frightening, suspenseful, and timely, The Illness Lesson explores the crushing weight of oppression and the indefatigable power of female defiance.” -Esquire “A haunting psychological thriller about society’s preoccupation with controlling women’s minds and bodies. . . . [An] arresting, beautifully written debut novel.” -Newsday “An astonishing book. . . . Beams shows a kind of mastery in yoking the natural to the surreal and linking grief and fear to rage.” -New York Journal of Books “Provocative. . . . A scathing indictment of early toxic masculinity, a measured diatribe against male-dominated medical and educational institution.” -The Washington Independent Review of Books “Clare Beams’ writing is a revelation. . . . A fascinating mix of genres (the school story, body horror, paean to feminist anger), [ The Illness Lesson] manages to achieve all the things that the best historical fiction should.” -Irish Independent “Beams takes risk after risk in this, her first novel, and they all seem to pay off. Her ventriloquizing of the late 19th century, her delicate-as-lace sentences, and the friction between the unsettling thinking of the period and its 21st century resonances make for an electrifying read.” -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Luminous. . . . This suspenseful and vividly evocative tale expertly ...

-Titulo Original : The Daring Ladies Of Lowell-Fabricante : Anchor-Descripcion Original: Eager to escape life on her family’s farm, Alice Barrow moves to Lowell in 1832 and throws herself into the hard work demanded of “the mill girls.” The hours are long and the conditions are bad, but Alice soon finds a true friend in Lovey Cornell, a saucy, strong-willed girl who is outspoken about the dangers they face in the factories . . . and about Alice opening her heart to a blossoming relationship with Samuel Fiske, the handsome and sympathetic son of the mill’s owner. But when Lovey is found dead under suspicious circumstances, a sensational trial brings the workers’ unrest to a boiling point, leaving Alice is torn between finding justice for her friend and her growing passion for the man with whom she had no business falling in love. Review “A suspenseful, compelling tale of courageous young women fighting for justice.” -Jennifer Chiaverini, author of Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker “Alice is cast in the mold of a character created by an earlier Alcott, the passionate and spunky Jo March. A refreshingly old-fashioned heroine.” -The New York Times Book Review “Offers up a compelling slice of both feminist and Industrial Age history.” -Christian Science Monitor “Both inspiring and thought-provoking…. Will keep the reader captivated for hours.” -The Free-Lance Star (Fredericksburg, VA) “Riveting. . . . In this book, and in real life, there’s no story-or change-if people don’t push the boundaries of what is acceptable, or give voice to uncomfortable truths.” -Huffington Post“Alcott draws from dramatic events indelibly etched in history and offers a fresh perspective. . . . Alcott’s work will attract historical romance fans who will be entertained by the antics of the daring ladies who leave everything they know and embrace less-than-ideal conditions to gain their freedom.” -Library Journal (starred review)“The carefully detailed life in the Massachusetts cotton mills gives Alcott’s latest a ring of authenticity. Add to this well-drawn characters, a sensational trial, a forbidden romance and a young woman’s struggle for independence and you have a compelling read. Alcott is a splendid storyteller who knows exactly how to capture reader attention with a perfect combination of history and romance.” -The Romantic Times “Captures the spirit and courage of the young women who dared to work at factory jobs. Kate Alcott draws on the true story of a murdered mill girl for this captivating story of loyalty, friendship, and love-most of all, love.” -Sandra Dallas, author of Alice’s Tulips “An engrossing narrative with a love story at its core.” -Booklist “The Daring Ladies of Lowell are as complicated and flawed as any contemporary heroines, and they shine in this gripping 19th century tale about a small group of “factory girls” who refuse to be silenced when one of their own is murdered. . . . A nuanced gem of a novel about friendship, sacrifice, and love that will keep you turning its pages until the very end.” -Amy Brill, author of The Movement of Stars “Will illuminate and satisfy.” -Publishers Weekly About the Author Kate Alcott is the pseudonym for journalist Patricia O’Brien, who has written several books, both fiction and nonfiction. As Kate Alcott, she is the author of The Dressmaker, a New York Times bestseller. She lives with her husband in Washington, D.C. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter One Lowell, Massachusetts March 1832 Alice stepped gingerly into the darkened dormitory, holding her breath against the unexpected. An oil lamp flickered, turned so low she could see no more than a line of cots squeezed close together in a long, narrow room. The air was close, aromatic with the scent of warm bodies. “Who are you?” demanded a sleepy voice. “Alice Barrow. I’m from New Hampshire, here to work.” It didn’t seem enough, but she was worn to the bone from her long coach ride to this gritty, bustling mill town that promised so ...

-Titulo Original : Social Creature: A Novel-Fabricante : Anchor-Descripcion Original: One of the Best Books of the Year: Janet Maslin, The New York TimesVultureNPRSocial Creature is a wicked original with echoes of the greats (Patricia Highsmith, Gillian Flynn). -Janet Maslin, The New York Times For readers of Gillian Flynn and Donna Tartt, a dark, propulsive and addictive debut thriller, splashed with all the glitz and glitter of New York City. They go through both bottles of champagne right there on the High Line, with nothing but the stars over them... They drink and Lavinia tells Louise about all the places they will go together, when they finish their stories, when they are both great writers-to Paris and to Rome and to Trieste... Lavinia will never go. She is going to die soon. Louise has nothing. Lavinia has everything. After a chance encounter, the two spiral into an intimate, intense, and possibly toxic friendship. A Talented Mr. Ripley for the digital age, this seductive story takes a classic tale of obsession and makes it irresistibly new. Review The New York Times, 17 Refreshing Books to Read This Summer Vulture, 18 Books We Cant Wait to Read This Summer Refinery29, Brilliant Books to Bring to the Beach This SummerO: The Oprah Magazine, Top Books of SummerPeople, The Best New Books New York Post, The 20 Best Reads for Your Summer Break Popsugar, Best New Books for JuneBrit Co, 12 Page-Turning New Books to Read in June Diabolical...A wicked original with echoes of the greats (Patricia Highsmith, Gillian Flynn). -Janet Maslin, The New York Times Sharp as a shard of broken mirror...a formidable burlesque by Tara Isabella Burton. Her obvious model is Patricia Highsmiths Tom Ripley [but] Burtons tale has a great deal to say about the very tangible conventions of our time. Its superb dialogue and cutting sense of humor help it glide irresistibly toward the unnerving moment when Louise has to decide whether to kill again. -New York Times Book Review “What would Patricia Highsmith have made of today’s socialites with their squad goals and weaponized s? Probably a fictional stew of envy, tension, and mystery like the one Burton stirs together, crafting a story at once familiar and fresh, summery and shadowy.” -VultureEdgy and hypnotic. -People Dark, stylish...Burtons exceptional character work further elevates the tale; every individual is both victim and villain, imbuing their interactions with oceans of emotional subtext and creating conflict that propels the book toward its shocking yet inevitale conclusion...At once a thrilling and provocative crime novel, a devastating exploration of female insecurity, and a scathing indictment of societys obsession with social media. -Kirkus *starred review*Fans of the cult classic Poison Ivy will appreciate the mousy girl-wild girl dynamic on display in Burtons fiendishly clever debut...An ingenious dark thrille rin the Patricia Highsmith Tom Ripley mode...This devious, satisfying novel perfectly captures a very narrow slice of the Manhattan demimonde. -Publishers Weekly *starred review*Last summer, you read Jessica Knolls Luckiest Girl Alive. You relish bad-girl thrillers fueled by toxic friendship, bad choices and exclusive parties. This summer, try Social Creature...Deliciously dark...Glorious fun. -BookPageThis fast-paced, stylish, dialogue- and character-driven debut...will definitvely ensnare readers. Diabolically playing on what we think we know about others and what we reveal about ourselves in the social-media age, it will give readers the creeps, too. -Booklist Pulsing energy, polished language, perfectly drawn characters. -Library Journal“A Talented Mr. Ripley for the social media age.” -New York PostBurton has a gift for crafting suspenseful scenes while giving Louise and Lavinia each a fully formed inner life that makes them unforgettable. -Stylecaster Social Creature is getting comparisons to novels like Gone Girl for good reason. The...

-Titulo Original : The Next 100 Years A Forecast For The 21st Century-Fabricante : Anchor-Descripcion Original: China fragments, a new Cold War with Russia, Mexcio challenges U.S., the new great powers Turkey, Poland and Japan. The Next 100 Years is a fascinating, eye-opening and often shocking look at what lies ahead for the U.S. and the world from one of our most incisive futurists. In his thought-provoking new book, George Friedman, founder of STRATFOR-the preeminent private intelligence and forecasting firm-focuses on what he knows best, the future. Positing that civilization is at the dawn of a new era, he offers a lucid, highly readable forecast of the changes we can expect around the world during the twenty-first century all based on his own thorough analysis and research. For example, The U.S.-Jihadist war will be replaced by a new cold war with Russia; China’s role as a world power will diminish; Mexico will become an important force on the geopolitical stage; and new technologies and cultural trends will radically alter the way we live (and fight wars). Riveting reading from first to last, The Next 100 Years is a fascinating exploration of what the future holds for all of us. Review “Expect the unexpected. . . . He can see without the crystal ball.”- Newsweek “ Barron’s consistently has found Stratfor’s insights informative and largely on the money-as has the company’s large client base, which ranges from corporations to media outlets and government agencies.”- Barron’s “There is a temptation, when you are around George Friedman, to treat him like a Magic 8-Ball.” -New York Times Magazine Predictions have made George Friedman a hot property these days. - The Wall Street Journal About the Author GEORGE FRIEDMAN is founder and chairman of Geopolitical Futures, which specializes in geopolitical forecasting. Prior to 2015, Friedman was chairman of the global intelligence company Stratfor, which he founded in 1996. Friedman is the author of six books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Next 100 Years and The Next Decade. He is a senior advisor to Gallup, Inc. He lives in Austin, Texas. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. CHAPTER 1 The Dawn of the American Age There is a deep-seated belief in America that the United States is approaching the eve of its destruction. Read letters to the editor, peruse the Web, and listen to public discourse. Disastrous wars, uncontrolled deficits, high gasoline prices, shootings at universities, corruption in business and government, and an endless litany of other shortcomings--all of them quite real--create a sense that the American dream has been shattered and that America is past its prime. If that doesnt convince you, listen to Europeans. They will assure you that Americas best day is behind it. The odd thing is that all of this foreboding was present during the presidency of Richard Nixon, together with many of the same issues. There is a continual fear that American power and prosperity are illusory, and that disaster is just around the corner. The sense transcends ideology. Environmentalists and Christian conservatives are both delivering the same message. Unless we repent of our ways, we will pay the price--and it may be too late already. Its interesting to note that the nation that believes in its manifest destiny has not only a sense of impending disaster but a nagging feeling that the country simply isnt what it used to be. We have a deep sense of nostalgia for the 1950s as a simpler time. This is quite a strange belief. With the Korean War and McCarthy at one end, Little Rock in the middle, and Sputnik and Berlin at the other end, and the very real threat of nuclear war throughout, the 1950s was actually a time of intense anxiety and foreboding. A widely read book published in the 1950s was entitled The Age of Anxiety. In the 1950s, they looked back nostalgically at an earlier America, just as we look back nostalgically at the 1950s. American culture is the manic combination of ...

-Titulo Original : The Guardians A Novel-Fabricante : Anchor-Descripcion Original: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “Terrific . . . affecting . . . Grisham has done it again.”-Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues. There were no witnesses, no one with a motive. But the police soon came to suspect Quincy Miller, a young black man who was once a client of Russo’s. Quincy was tried, convicted, and sent to prison for life. For twenty-two years he languished in prison, maintaining his innocence. But no one was listening. He had no lawyer, no advocate on the outside. In desperation, he writes a letter to Guardian Ministries, a small nonprofit run by Cullen Post, a lawyer who is also an Episcopal minister. Guardian accepts only a few innocence cases at a time. Cullen Post travels the country fighting wrongful convictions and taking on clients forgotten by the system. With Quincy Miller, though, he gets far more than he bargained for. Powerful, ruthless people murdered Keith Russo, and they do not want Quincy Miller exonerated. They killed one lawyer twenty-two years ago, and they will kill another without a second thought. “A suspenseful thriller mixed with powerful themes.”-Associated Press “[John Grisham’s] authorial prowess glows again in this riveting tale.”-Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star Review “Terrific…affecting…Grisham has done it again. Such creative longevity is not that unusual in the suspense genre, but what is rare is Grisham’s feat of keeping up the pace of producing, on average, a novel a year without a notable diminishment of ingenuity or literary quality.”-Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post “Grisham again delivers a suspenseful thriller mixed with powerful themes such as false incarceration, the death penalty and how the legal system shows prejudice. The Guardian team of characters is first-rate.”- Associated Press “With his debut, 1989’s A Time to Kill, Grisham established himself as a skilled storyteller, a writer who can nimbly portray complex characters who overcome their fears and flaws to pursue justice. Thirty years later, his authorial prowess glows again in this riveting tale.”- Fredericksburg Free Lance Star “[Grisham] has created a powerful no-nonsense protagonist that you cannot help rooting for in a story stocked with tension and flavor that will have you flipping the pages to a very satisfying ending.”- Florida Times-Union “ Grisham’s colorful prose is riveting, and the issue is a timely one that can be too easily overlooked…His fictional legal happenings convey a loud and clear ring of veracity.”- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “ The Guardians, the newest legal thriller from John Grisham, a true wizard of the form, is certainly not going to disappoint. Fans of the author are going to find it wholly satisfying.”- Anniston Star About the Author John Grisham is the author of thirty-three novels, one work of nonfiction, a collection of stories, and six novels for young readers. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. 1 Duke Russell is not guilty of the unspeakable crimes for which he was convicted; nonetheless, he is scheduled to be executed for them in one hour and forty four minutes. As always during these dreadful nights, the clock seems to tick faster as the final hour approaches. I’ve suffered through two of these countdowns in other states. One went full cycle and my man uttered his final words. The other was waved off in a miracle finish. Tick away-it’s not going to happen, not tonight anyway. The folks who run Alabama may one day succeed in serving Duke his last meal before sticking a needle in his arm, but not tonight. He’s been on death row for only nine years. The average in this state is fifteen. Twenty is not unusual. There is an...

-Titulo Original : Ramses The Damned: The Passion Of Cleopatra-Fabricante : Anchor-Descripcion Original: From the iconic, bestselling author of The Vampire Chronicles-Ramses the Great, former pharaoh of Egypt, is reawakened by the elixir of life in Edwardian England. Now immortal with his bride-to-be, he is swept up in a fierce and deadly battle of wills and psyches against the once-great Queen Cleopatra. In this mesmerizing, glamorous tale of ancient feuds and modern passions, Ramses has reawakened Cleopatra with the same perilous elixir whose unworldly force brings the dead back to life. But as these ancient rulers defy one another in their quest to understand the powers of the strange elixir, they are haunted by a mysterious presence even older and more powerful than they, a figure drawn forth from the mists of history who possesses spectacular magical potions and tonics eight millennia old. This is a figure who ruled over an ancient kingdom stretching from the once-fertile earth of the Sahara to the far corners of the world, a queen with a supreme knowledge of the deepest origins of the elixir of life. She may be the only one who can make known to Ramses and Cleopatra the key to their immortality-and the secrets of the miraculous, unknowable, endless expanse of the universe. Review Praise for Anne Rice and Christopher Rices RAMSES THE DAMNED Its got the Edwardian feel that weve come to expect of Anne Rices best novels, and its got something more ... Tying feudal pasts with modern passions, Anne Rice and Christopher Rice have crafted a supreme sequel. --Mountain Times An entertaining soap opera replete with romantic alliances, betrayals, and ends left tantalizingly loose as grist for sequels. Fans of both authors work will enjoy this one. --Publishers Weekly Mesmerizing ... mother and son have triumphed in their first team-up effort. ... An enthralling story rendered with the full flourish of a classic Rice tale ... a superb, philosophically deep sequel to 1989s The Mummy. This mother/son team-up is a resounding success and leaves us eager for more. --Andrea Sefler, Pop Mythology Rice (Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, 2016) continues the tale begun almost 30 years ago in The Mummy (1989) with the help of her novelist son, Christopher (The Heavens Rise, 2013), and it has been worth the wait. This thrilling read blends historial fiction, fantasy, and romance into a book readers will not be able to put down. --Booklist About the Author ANNE RICE is the author of thirty-seven books. She died in 2021. CHRISTOPHER RICE is the author of twelve books. He lives in West Hollywood, California. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Proem It was a tale told by the newspapers in 1914-of a spectacular find by a British Egyptologist in an isolated tomb outside of Cairo-a royal mummy of Egypt’s greatest monarch and, beside his painted sarcophagus, a vast collection of ancient poisons and a journal in Latin, written in the time of Cleopatra, comprising some thirteen scrolls. Call me Ramses the Damned. For that is the name I have given myself. But I was once Ramses the Great of Upper and Lower Egypt, slayer of the Hittites, father of many sons and daughters, who ruled Egypt for sixty-four years. My monuments are still standing; the stele recount my victories, though a thousand years have passed since I was pulled, a mortal child, from the womb. Ah, fatal moment now buried by time, when from a Hittite priestess I took the cursed elixir. Her warnings I would not heed. Immortality I craved. And so I drank the potion in the brimming cup . . . . . . How can I bear this burden any longer? How can I endure the loneliness anymore? Yet I cannot die . . . So wrote a being who claimed to have lived a thousand years, slumbering in darkness when the great kings and queens of his realm had no need of him, ever ready to be resurrected at their command to offer wisdom and counsel-until the death of Cleopatra and of Egypt itse...

-Titulo Original : 100 Great Operas And Their Stories Act-by-act Synopses-Fabricante : Anchor-Descripcion Original: An invaluable guide for both casual opera fans and aficionados, 100 Great Operas is perhaps the most comprehensive and enjoyable volume of opera stories ever written. From La Traviata to Aida, from Carmen to Don Giovanni, here are the plots of the world’s best-loved operas, told in an engaging, picturesque, and readable manner. Written by noted opera authority Henry W. Simon, this distinctive reference book contains act-by-act descriptions of 100 operatic works ranging from the historic early seventeenth century masterpieces of Monteverdi to the modern classics of Gian-Carlo Menotti. In addition to highlighting the most important aspects of each opera, the author discusses the main characters, the famous turnings of plot, and the most significant arias. Here, too, is a wealth of anecdotes concerning literary background, past performances and stars, and production problems of the great operas. From the Publisher An invaluable guide for both casual opera fans and afficionados, this volume contains act-by-act descriptions of operatic works ranging from the early seventeenth century masterworks of Monteverdi and Purcell to the modern classics of Menotti and Britten. Written in a lively anecdotal style, entries include character descriptions, historical background, and much more. From the Inside Flap An invaluable guide for both casual opera fans and afficionados, this volume contains act-by-act descriptions of operatic works ranging from the early seventeenth century masterworks of Monteverdi and Purcell to the modern classics of Menotti and Britten. Written in a lively anecdotal style, entries include character descriptions, historical background, and much more. From the Back Cover An invaluable guide for both casual opera fans and afficionados, this volume contains act-by-act descriptions of operatic works ranging from the early seventeenth century masterworks of Monteverdi and Purcell to the modern classics of Menotti and Britten. Written in a lively anecdotal style, entries include character descriptions, historical background, and much more. About the Author Henry W. Simon (1901-70) was an author, editor, educator, and music critic and served as chairman of the Music Critics Circle of New York. His other books include the Pocket Treasury of Great Operas and The Victor Book of the Opera(revised edition)...

-Titulo Original : Top Of The Rock Inside The Rise And Fall Of Must See Tv-Fabricante : Anchor-Descripcion Original: Top of the Rock is an absorbing insiders’ account of an incredible time and place in television history: the years when Must See TV-led by Cheers, Seinfeld, Friends, ER, and Law & Order-made NBC an unstoppable success. Here the story is vividly told through the words of the actors, writers, producers, creators, and network executives who helped the Peacock rise to its greatest heights-and then saw it all fall apart. Under the supervision of President of Entertainment Warren Littlefield, NBC went from being an also-ran, losing millions of dollars in failed shows, to the number one station, generating billions of dollars in profit. At its height, the Thursday night lineup alone brought in more revenue than the other six nights of programming combined. Top of the Rock dishes out behind-the-scenes stories from all the biggest shows, revealing the highly risky business decisions, creative passion, and blind leaps of faith that made Must See TV possible. Jerry Seinfeld | Jason Alexander | Kelsey Grammer | Sean Hayes | Helen Hunt | Lisa Kudrow | Eriq La Salle | Matt LeBlanc | John Lithgow | Julianna Margulies | Eric McCormack | Debra Messing | Megan Mullally | David Hyde Pierce | Paul Reiser | Noah Wyle | and more Review “Must-See TV-I remember very well when Warren and NBC coined that expression to describe what we were doing. This book will be Must-Read for many people who fondly recall that time.” -Jerry Seinfeld“The first and last word on NBC’s . . . critically acclaimed and crucially profitable Thursday night lineup.” -The Wall Street Journal“Fascinating anecdotes and tidbits . . . . There’s no denying the magic NBC conjured in the 80s and 90s.” -Variety“Engrossing and lively . . . [Littlefield] enlists the voices of many of the actors and creative forces behind such hits as Seinfeld, Will & Grace, Cheers and ER to help him chronicle the glory days of ‘Must See TV.’” -The Chicago Sun-Times“A chronicle of the last golden age of network television, [Top of the Rock] is the literary equivalent of a former NBC Thursday night lineup . . . . Littlefield is the ultimate Must See insider. The mini-histories are a blast . . . full of fresh detail.” -The Hollywood Reporter“[An] essential oral history.” -Detriot Free Press“Warren Littlefield has reminded us of what was possible not so long ago. . . . [recounting] his successful run at NBC and the inside stories of the shows that made it happen.” -TV Guide“A fascinating oral history of shows like Seinfeld that defined an era.” -Daily News“While the general public will likely focus on how Seinfeld got made and what made the cast of Friends tick, industry insiders will be looking for dirt, and there is no shortage of that.” -Los Angeles Times“You are what your record says you are, and Littlefield’s record at NBC in the ’90s was tremendous.” -The Newark Star-Ledger“With an entertaining insiders perspective, Littlefield transports readers back to a seemingly magical time when half the country would watch the same show.” -Kirkus Reviews“Littlefield unleashed a ‘financial geyser’ at NBC, and these revelatory glimpses of those glory days make this one of the more entertaining books published about the television industry.” -Publishers Weekly About the Author WARREN LITTLEFIELD is the former NBC president of entertainment. Previous to that, he was the NBC comedy executive who developed such hit shows as The Cosby Show and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. He currently runs his own television production company. T. R. PEARSON is the author of fourteen novels, including A Short History of a Small Place, and a dozen screenplays. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. 1 Where Everybody Knows Your Name Warren: I arrived at NBC in December 1979, hired by Brandon Tartikoff to work in the comedy department. I was manager of comedy development, the junior member of the department. Brandon was a new...

-Titulo Original : The Circus Fire A True Story Of An American Tragedy-Fabricante : Anchor-Descripcion Original: The acclaimed author of Emily, Alone and Henry, Himself brings all his narrative gifts to bear on this gripping account of tragedy and heroism-the great Hartford circus fire of 1944. It was a midsummer afternoon, halfway through a Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus performance, when the big top caught fire. The tent had been waterproofed with a mixture of paraffin and gasoline; in seconds it was burning out of control. More than 8,000 people were trapped inside, and the ensuing disaster would eventually take 167 lives. Steward ONan brings all his narrative gifts to bear on this gripping account of the great Hartford circus fire of 1944. Drawing on interviews with hundreds of survivors, ONan skillfully re-creates the horrific events and illuminates the psychological oddities of human behavior under stress: the mad scramble for the exits; the perilous effort to maneuver animals out of danger; the hero who tossed dozens of children to safety before being trampled to death. Brilliantly constructed and exceptionally moving, The Circus Fire is history at its most compelling. Review “A triumph of literary storytelling.”- The Cleveland Plain Dealer“An extraordinary book. O’Nan is amazing in his handling of the abundance of fact, rumors and legends that have built up around this fire.”- USA Today “[O’Nan’s]non-fiction is as accomplished as his fiction.... [ The Circus Fire is] as gripping as any thriller.”- The Seattle Times From the Inside Flap d author of A Prayer for the Dying brings all his narrative gifts to bear on this gripping account of tragedy and heroism-the great Hartford circus fire of 1944. Halfway through a midsummer afternoon performance, Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circuss big top caught fire. The tent had been waterproofed with a mixture of paraffin and gasoline; in seconds it was burning out of control, and more than 8,000 people were trapped inside. Drawing on interviews with hundreds of survivors, ONan skillfully re-creates the horrific events and illuminates the psychological oddities of human behavior under stress: the mad scramble for the exits; the hero who tossed dozens of children to safety before being trampled to death. Brilliantly constructed and exceptionally moving, The Circus Fire is history at its most compelling. From the Back Cover The acclaimed author of A Prayer for the Dying brings all his narrative gifts to bear on this gripping account of tragedy and heroism-the great Hartford circus fire of 1944. Halfway through a midsummer afternoon performance, Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circuss big top caught fire. The tent had been waterproofed with a mixture of paraffin and gasoline; in seconds it was burning out of control, and more than 8,000 people were trapped inside. Drawing on interviews with hundreds of survivors, ONan skillfully re-creates the horrific events and illuminates the psychological oddities of human behavior under stress: the mad scramble for the exits; the hero who tossed dozens of children to safety before being trampled to death. Brilliantly constructed and exceptionally moving, The Circus Fire is history at its most compelling. About the Author Stewart ONan is the author of fifteen previous novels, including West of Sunset, The Odds, Emily Alone, Songs for the Missing, Last Night at the Lobster, A Prayer for the Dying, and Snow Angels. His 2007, novel Last Night at the Lobster, was a national bestseller and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He was born and raised in Pittsburgh, where he lives with his family...

-Titulo Original : An Empire Of Their Own How The Jews Invented Hollywood-Fabricante : Anchor-Descripcion Original: A provocative, original, and richly entertaining group biography of the Jewish immigrants who were the moving forces behind the creation of Americas motion picture industry. The names Harry Cohn, William Fox, Carl Laemmle, Louis B. Mayer, Jack and Harry Warner, and Adolph Zucker are giants in the history of contemporary Hollywood, outsiders who dared to invent their own vision of the American Dream. Even to this day, the American values defined largely by the movies of these emigres endure in American cinema and culture. Who these men were, how they came to dominate Hollywood, and what they gained and lost in the process is the exhilarating story of An Empire of Their Own. Review That subtitle may inspire in some readers waves of ethnic pride, and in others waves of ethnic revulsion, but the point of this book is that its claim of origin is quite literally true. And what makes it an interesting read for political types is the way it demonstrates that no matter how much the founding Hollywood moguls and their successors tried to peddle an idealized, escapist form of entertainment, bubbling up under and around their every project was ideology, racism, ethnic prejudice, class friction, domestic and international politics and all the other raw, seething stuff that distinguishes this country from all others. In Gablers hands, the Industry draws a picture of American political history in spite of itself. From Publishers Weekly The author presents an entertaining, wide-ranging, in-depth account of the Jewish studio executives, theater owners, producers, writers, lawyers and talent agents who dominated the American film industry until shortly after WW II. Gabler vividly recreates a way of life now gone forever, commented PW. Photos. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. From the Publisher Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for history, this wonderful history of the golden age of the movie moguls ( Chicago Tribune ) is a provocative, original, and richly entertaining group biography of the Jewish immigrants who were the moving forces behind the creation of Americas motion picture industry. From the Inside Flap e Los Angeles Times Book Award for history, this wonderful history of the golden age of the movie moguls ( Chicago Tribune ) is a provocative, original, and richly entertaining group biography of the Jewish immigrants who were the moving forces behind the creation of Americas motion picture industry. From the Back Cover Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for history, this wonderful history of the golden age of the movie moguls (Chicago Tribune ) is a provocative, original, and richly entertaining group biography of the Jewish immigrants who were the moving forces behind the creation of Americas motion picture industry. About the Author Neal Gabler is the author of five books: An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity, Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality, Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination, and, most recently, Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity and Power for the Yale Jewish Lives series. His essays and articles have appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines, including The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Playboy, Newsweek, and Vogue, and he has been the recipient of two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, Time magazines nonfiction book of the year, USA Todays biography of the year, a National Book Critics Circle nomination, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Public Policy Scholarship at the Woodrow Wilson Center, a Shorenstein Fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Patrick Henry Fellowship at Washington Colleges C.V. Starr Center. He has also served as the chief nonfiction judge of the National Book Awards. Gabler is currently a professor for the MFA program...

-Titulo Original : Hidden Valley Road: Inside The Mind Of An American Family-Fabricante : Anchor-Descripcion Original: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • ONE OF GQs TOP 50 BOOKS OF LITERARY JOURNALISM IN THE 21st CENTURY • The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became sciences great hope in the quest to understand the disease. Reads like a medical detective journey and sheds light on a topic so many of us face: mental illness. —Oprah Winfrey Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Dons work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins--aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony--and they worked hard to play their parts. But behind the scenes was a different story: psychological breakdown, sudden shocking violence, hidden abuse. By the mid-1970s, six of the ten Galvin boys, one after another, were diagnosed as schizophrenic. How could all this happen to one family? What took place inside the house on Hidden Valley Road was so extraordinary that the Galvins became one of the first families to be studied by the National Institute of Mental Health. Their story offers a shadow history of the science of schizophrenia, from the era of institutionalization, lobotomy, and the schizophrenogenic mother to the search for genetic markers for the disease, always amid profound disagreements about the nature of the illness itself. And unbeknownst to the Galvins, samples of their DNA informed decades of genetic research that continues today, offering paths to treatment, prediction, and even eradication of the disease for future generations. With clarity and compassion, bestselling and award-winning author Robert Kolker uncovers one familys unforgettable legacy of suffering, love, and hope...

-Titulo Original : Adolf Hitler The Definitive Biography-Fabricante : Anchor-Descripcion Original: From the Publisher A national bestseller with more than 370,000 copies in print, this is the first book that anyone who wants to learn about Hitler or the war in Europe must read... a marvel of fact.--Newsweek Pulitzer Prize-winning historian John Toland’s classic, definitive biography of Adolf Hitler remains the most thorough, readable, accessible, and, as much as possible, objective account of the life of a man whose evil effect on the world in the twentieth century will always be felt.Toland’s research provided one of the final opportunities for a historian to conduct personal interviews with over two hundred individuals intimately associated with Hitler. At a certain distance yet still with access to many of the people who enabled and who opposed the fuhrer and his Third Reich, Toland strove to treat this life as if Hitler lived and died a hundred years before instead of within his own memory. From childhood and obscurity to his desperate end, Adolf Hitler emerges as, in Toland’s words, “far more complex and contradictory . . . obsessed by his dream of cleansing Europe Jews . . . a hybrid of Prometheus and Lucifer.” Review “The first book that anyone who wants to learn about Hitler or [World War II] in Europe must read. . . . A marvel.” -Newsweek“Toland weaves the epic tapestry of popular history, meshing together thousands of details into monumental narratives of wartime drama.” -Chicago Tribune“An unusually revealing picture . . . highly detailed . . . marvelously absorbing . . . must be ranked as one of the most complete pictures of Hitler.” -The New York Times“A significant contribution.” -Houston Chronicle From the Inside Flap A national bestseller with more than 370,000 copies in print, this is the first book that anyone who wants to learn about Hitler or the war in Europe must read... a marvel of fact.--Newsweek From the Back Cover A national bestseller with more than 370,000 copies in print, this is the first book that anyone who wants to learn about Hitler or the war in Europe must read... a marvel of fact.--Newsweek About the Author John Toland, the author of fifteen works of history and fiction, including Infamy: World War II and Its Aftermath, received the Pulitzer Prize for his magisterial Rising Sun: The Decline of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945. Mr. Toland died in 2004...

-Titulo Original : Days Of Fire Bush And Cheney In The White House-Fabricante : Anchor-Descripcion Original: Review “A journalistic miracle: [Baker] has written a thorough, engaging and fair history on the Bush-Cheney White House.”-The Wall Street Journal “Filled with enlivening detail and judicious analysis, Days of Fire is the most reliable, comprehensive history of the Bush years yet.”-The New York Times “Impressive . . . a distinguished work, notable for its scope and ambition. . . . As thorough and detailed an account of the Bush years . . . as we are ever likely to get. . . . Baker draws out each development in this tangled relationship in much the same way that Robert Caro wrote about the relationship between John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.”-The Washington Post “[Baker] has achieved the unthinkable-a vivid page-turner on the ultimately divided not-co-presidency of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.”-Austin American-Statesman“Poignant. . . . The story of those eight years would seem far too vast to contain inside a single volume. Yet here that volume is. Peter Baker neither accuses nor excuses. He writes with a measure and balance that seem transported backward in time from some more dispassionate future.”-The New York Times Book Review“A fine new book about [Bush’s] time in office. . . . [Baker’s] shrewd, meticulous reporting offers a useful corrective to tales of a puppet-master deputy manipulating an inexperienced boss.”-The Economist “This is political journalism and history at its best. A deep, credible, and compelling account of the Bush presidency and the relationship between Bush and Cheney.”-Norm Ornstein, The Best Political Books of the Year, National Journal“An encyclopedic and even-handed account of the Bush years. . . . Baker offers clear-eyed perspective on the fateful decisions of a decade ago. . . . [A] kaleidoscopic, behind-the-scenes narrative.”-The Christian Science Monitor“Baker’s approach works well . . . [he] is an impressive stylist.”-Star Tribune “Magisterial. . . . [A] remarkable achievement. . . . Baker has done a tremendous job of knitting together the disparate strains of a complex and multilayered narrative. For all its density, the book proceeds at a beach-read velocity that makes it a pleasure to peruse.”-The National Interest“The new book with all the buzz is Days of Fire. . . . A magisterial study of the way [Bush and Cheney] influenced each other, waxing and then waning, during the fateful eight-year presidency of George W. Bush.”-US News & World Report“The first comprehensive narrative history of what will surely remain one of the most controversial presidential administrations in U.S. history. . . . All subsequent writers dealing with the subject will find his book indispensable.”-Foreign Affairs “Baker’s book is red meat for political junkies. . . . Mr. Baker’s fair book is an admirable attempt to put a polarizing administration into perspective. But it’s not designed to forgive and forget. If anything, it resurrects the consequential days of an administration that dealt with unprecedented problems and tensions in a uniquely headstrong, American way.”-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “This is an amazing book, a deeply reported, wonderfully written and-crucially-wholly fair and penetrating review and critique of the Bush-Cheney years, their turmoil and tragedy, their great successes and their great failures. I can’t think of a book produced so close to a presidency that has done quite what Baker does in this book. . . . You will be inside the Bush White House in a way you could not have ever have hoped to see inside until decades from now.”-Hugh Hewitt“On each page, there are stories that I remember well from my days in the Bush White House; stories that I’m surprised Peter discovered, and revelations that I read about for the first time.”-Nicolle Wallace, former White House Communications Director“Peter Baker’s superb biography of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney will stand as the most complete and balanced discussion of the men and their administration for decades. . . . No one has dra...

-Titulo Original : Al Capone His Life, Legacy, And Legend-Fabricante : Anchor-Descripcion Original: At the height of Prohibition, Al Capone loomed large as Public Enemy Number One: his multimillion-dollar Chicago Outfit dominated organized crime, and law enforcement was powerless to stop him. But then came the fall: a legal noose tightened by the FBI, a conviction on tax evasion, a stint in Alcatraz. After his release, he returned to his family in Miami a much diminished man, living quietly until the ravages of his neurosyphilis took their final toll. Our shared fascination with Capone endures in countless novels and movies, but the man behind the legend has remained a mystery. Now, through rigorous research and exclusive access to Capone’s family, National Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair cuts through the mythology, uncovering a complex character who was flawed and cruel but also capable of nobility. At once intimate and iconoclastic, Al Capone gives us the definitive account of a quintessentially American figure. Review “An engaging biography that debunks many, many myths.” -San Francisco Chronicle“Offers a new history of Capone, and separates fact from fiction in the process. . . . Bair’s Capone is powerfully human.” -Smithsonian“Compelling reading.” -Chicago Tribune “Bair discovers a rich trove of legends. . . . [She] is a wise and often iconoclastic guide through Capone mythology.” -The New York Times Book Review“Al Capone provides tremendous insight into the man who, decades after his death, may be the best-known Chicagoan of all time.” -St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Dispel[s] many of the myths that have long swirled around Al ‘Scarface’ Capone.” -The New York Post “[Bair] has succeeded in giving the real ‘Scarface’ the literary legacy his life and story richly deserve.” -Houston Press “An intimate, psychologically astute, and richly embroidered biography of the most famous criminal in American history.” -Dick Lehr, coauthor of Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI, and a Devil’s Deal “Beautifully researched and immensely readable . . . Reveal[s] a consistently surprising and exquisitely complex portrait of the man behind the legend.” -Karen Abbott, author of Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America’s Soul “A complete and engrossing picture of Capone’s life and times.” -Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family and screenwriter of Goodfellas and Casino “Enticing . . . knocks it out of the park. In the hands of a master life-storyteller, Al Capone’s brief, explosive career seems as all-American as apple pie and sawed-off shotguns.” -Marion Meade, author of Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties “A definitive biography of Public Enemy #1’. . . . Bair has written perhaps the last word on Capone. Highly recommended.” -Library Journal About the Author Deirdre Bair received the National Book Award for Samuel Beckett: A Biography. Her biographies of Simone de Beauvoir and Carl Jung were finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Simone de Beauvoir biography was chosen by The New York Times as a Best Book of the Year. Her biography of Anais Nin and her most recent book, Saul Steinberg: A Biography, were both New York Times Notable Books. deirdrebairauthor Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Introduction This is the story of a ruthless killer, a scofflaw, a keeper of brothels and bordellos, a tax cheat and perpetrator of frauds, a convicted felon, and a mindless, blubbering invalid. This is also the story of a loving son, husband, and father who described himself as a businessman whose job was to serve the people what they wanted. Al Capone was all of these. He died in 1947, and almost seven decades later it seems that anywhere one travels in the world, people still recognize his name and have something to say about who he was and what he did. Everyone has an opinion, and yet, within the deeply private world of his extended family, ...