-Titulo Original : Fight Club A Novel-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review An astonishing debut…Fight Club is a dark, unsettling, and nerve-chafing satire. Seattle TimesA volatile, brilliantly creepy satire. Washington PostA powerful, dark, original novel. This is a memorable debut by an important writer. Robert StoneFight Club is hot. It’s great. Even I can’t write this well. Thom JonesThis brilliant bit of nihilism succeeds where so many self-described transgressive novels do not: It’s dangerous because it’s so compelling. Kirkus ReviewsA noir fable with a punch…A genuine, two-fisted talent. Katherine DunnAmazing and artful disturbance. Fight Club is for everybody who thinks and loves the fine American language. Barry HannahIrresistible…As with chocolate or pornography, you struggle to savor it slowly, yet feel compelled to zip through its smart, atomic, nightmarish world. A visionary novel of beautiful violence and creepy intensity. Scott HeimPalahniuk’s utterly original creation will make even the most jaded reader sit up and take notice. Publishers WeeklyA ferocious, taut, mesmerizing novel whose economical stylishness and rigorous, perverse philosophical underpinnings put one in mind of Camus’ The Stranger and J. G. Ballard’s Crash. Dennis Cooper The first rule about fight club is you dont talk about fight club.Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist in this, his first book. Fight Club’s estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic young man who holds secret after-hours boxing matches in the basements of bars. There, two men fight as long as they have to. This is a gloriously original work that exposes the darkness at the core of our modern world. About the Author Chuck Palahniuk is the best-selling author of more than eighteen fictional works, including Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, Choke, Lullaby, Diary, Haunted, Rant, Pygmy, Tell-All, Damned, Doomed, Beautiful You and The Invention of Sound. He lives in the Pacific Northwest...

-Titulo Original : 21st Century Monetary Policy The Federal Reserve From The Great Inflation To Covid-19-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review This exercise of historical assessment from a central participant is one that more policymakers should probably try. It allows readers to make judgments along with Bernanke and think about what lessons today’s policymakers who are once again battling inflation might take. David Leonhardt, The New York Times. . . [A] uniquely practical book as the public tries to better understand the powers of the Fed and Congress to juice or slow the economy amid a supply-chain crunch and sky-high demand. Andrew Ross Sorkin, The New York TimesSuffused with high-stakes drama and clear thinking, this is one of the best accounts yet of the Fed’s tumultuous recent past. Publishers WeeklyA clear explication of how money flows from the nation’s central banking system into the larger economy. Kirkus 21st Century Monetary Policy takes readers inside the Federal Reserve, explaining what it does and why.In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Reserve deployed an extraordinary range of policy tools that helped prevent the collapse of the financial system and the U.S. economy. Chair Jerome Powell and his colleagues lent directly to U.S. businesses, purchased trillions of dollars of government securities, pumped dollars into the international financial system, and crafted a new framework for monetary policy that emphasized job creation.These strategies would have astonished Powell’s late-20th-century predecessors, from William McChesney Martin to Alan Greenspan, and the advent of these tools raises new questions about the future landscape of economic policy.In 21st Century Monetary Policy, Ben S. Bernanke former chair of the Federal Reserve and one of the world’s leading economists explains the Fed’s evolution and speculates on its future. Taking a fresh look at the bank’s policymaking over the past seventy years, including his own time as chair, Bernanke shows how changes in the economy have driven the Fed’s innovations. He also lays out new challenges confronting the Fed, including the return of inflation, cryptocurrencies, increased risks of financial instability, and threats to its independence.Beyond explaining the central bank’s new policymaking tools, Bernanke also captures the drama of moments when so much hung on the Fed’s decisions, as well as the personalities and philosophies of those who led the institution. About the Author Ben S. Bernanke is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Author of the best-selling memoir The Courage to Act, he served as chair of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014...

-Titulo Original : Fuzz When Nature Breaks The Law-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: An Instant New York Times Bestseller * #1 Los Angeles Times Bestseller * #1 Indie Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller * Longlisted for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * A New York Times Editors Choice * A Washington Post Notable Book of 2021 * A Goodreads Choice Award Finalist * An NPR 2021 Best Book of the Year * A New York Public Library 2021 Best Book of the Year * A BookPage Best Book of 2021, Nonfiction * A Bookshop Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 * A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2021 * A Library Journal Best Science & Technology Book of 2021 * A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2021 * Science Best Book of 2021 * A Smithsonian 10 Best Science Book of 2021 * A St. Louis Public Radio Best Book of 2021Join America’s funniest science writer (Peter Carlson, Washington Post), Mary Roach, on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet.What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on trial. These days, as New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict, a discipline at the crossroads of human behavior and wildlife biology.Roach tags along with animal-attack forensics investigators, human-elephant conflict specialists, bear managers, and danger tree faller blasters. Intrepid as ever, she travels from leopard-terrorized hamlets in the Indian Himalaya to St. Peter’s Square in the early hours before the pope arrives for Easter Mass, when vandal gulls swoop in to destroy the elaborate floral display. She taste-tests rat bait, learns how to install a vulture effigy, and gets mugged by a macaque.Combining little-known forensic science and conservation genetics with a motley cast of laser scarecrows, langur impersonators, and trespassing squirrels, Roach reveals as much about humanity as about nature’s lawbreakers. When it comes to problem wildlife, she finds, humans are more often the problem and the solution. Fascinating, witty, and humane, Fuzz offers hope for compassionate coexistence in our ever-expanding human habitat. 12 illustrations Review [Fuzz is] powerfully propelled by the force of Roach’s unflinching fascination with the weird, the gross and the downright improbable... There’s a wacky genius to [her] interjections...[Her] curious and generous engagement with her subjects makes for world-expanding reading. Amelia Urry, Washington PostAn idiosyncratic tour with Roach as the wisecracking, ever-probing guide... My favorite moments, ultimately, weren’t the funny ones, but those that reveal a bit of scientific poetry. Vicki Constantine Croke, New York Times Book ReviewEach chapter is packed with the results of [Roach’s] detailed investigations. Roach uses footnotes to add both depth and lightness to the topic at hand by capturing misfit studies, asides, and hilarious tangents... Refreshing. Katherine E. Himes, ScienceWith her characteristic dry wit, [Roach] brings an intense fascination to the seldom discussed details and the at times absurd miscellany in the unexplored corners of unappreciated research... It is impossible not to smirk, chortle and sometimes outright belly laugh as you read her many wry asides and funny but fascinating footnotes... But the real trick Roach pulls off is to keep you laughing while at the same time making sure the earnest points come across. Tiffany OCallaghan, New ScientistFull of kernels of fascinating information... Her approach is informative and unpretentious, and she’s always armed with a dry sense of humor. Roach will change the way you think about the great outdoors. What more could you ask for? Emerson Malone, BuzzfeedThe book brims with Roach’s irreverent humor, which particularly sh...

-Titulo Original : Siblings Without Rivalry How To Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: The #1 New York Times best-selling guide to reducing hostility and generating goodwill between siblings. Already best-selling authors with How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish turned their minds to the battle of the siblings. Parents themselves, they were determined to figure out how to help their children get along. The result was Siblings Without Rivalry. This wise, groundbreaking book gives parents the practical tools they need to cope with conflict, encourage cooperation, reduce competition, and make it possible for children to experience the joys of their special relationship. With humor and understanding much gained from raising their own children Faber and Mazlish explain how and when to intervene in fights, provide suggestions on how to help children channel their hostility into creative outlets, and demonstrate how to treat children unequally and still be fair. Updated to incorporate fresh thoughts after years of conducting workshops for parents and professionals, this edition also includes a new afterword. About the Author Adele Faber, whose books on communication between adults and children have been translated into more than thirty languages, is the award-winning author of the best-selling How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk.Elaine Mazlish, whose books on communication between adults and children have been translated into more than thirty languages, is the award-winning author of the best-selling How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk...

-Titulo Original : The Latinist A Novel-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review Ingenious.... a superb literary suspense novel that calls to mind an earlier such debut, Donna Tartt’s The Secret History.... Like the classics that inspire it, The Latinist is an inventive wedding of the elegant and the barbaric. Maureen Corrigan, Washington PostSmart and fast-paced.... [A] sparkling debut.... A contemporary classic. Clea Simon, Boston GlobePrins’s confident, engrossing debut novel.... contains more than enough twists to keep you turning the page until the very end. Chris Murphy, Vanity FairA devilishly clever and terrifically entertaining campus novel/philological whodunnit that also happens to be a brilliantly sly riff on Ovid’s Apollo & Daphne.... A remarkably polished and skillful first novel. Daniel MendelsohnIt would have taken me a single night to read the book except that I kept pausing to pursue tantalizing nuggets of information, ranging from choliambic verse to amputation practices of yesteryear. [A] cleverly plotted adventure about an American student who falls prey to the schemes of her malevolent adviser a tale of passion, suspense and archaeology. (That’s what I call a ‘triple threat’!) Molly Young, New York TimesOxford University graduate student Tessa Templeton trusts her dissertation adviser, Christopher Eccles but should she? ... The Latinist, which twists around the Daphne and Apollo myth from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, culminates with a deeply satisfying blow to the treachery of academia. Jason DeRose, NPR, Best Books of 2022An engrossing psychological thriller.... an absorbing drama about obsession, abuse of power and intimate violence. Sharmila Mukherjee, Minneapolis Star TribuneBrilliant.... Delves deep to question the blurring line between love and obsession, between a yearning for truth and a desire of power. Jianan Qian, The MillionsPropulsive.... a campus novel turned psychological thriller.... The novel invites us to see Tessa as Daphne, manipulated by but ultimately escaping Eccles’s Apollo, yet it also asks us: what happens to her humanity along the way? Ayelet Haimson Lushkov, Los Angeles Review of BooksThis cerebral thriller will keep you on the edge of your seat.... Prins’ analysis of the toxic relationship between advisor and student is nuanced and thoughtful.... The Latinist succeeds as both literary fiction and thriller; it is every bit as suspenseful as it is intellectually intriguing, with many of the features of A.S. Byatt’s Possession. Hannah Joyner, Washington Independent Review of BooksWithin the first few pages of this book, I knew I was in the hands of a masterful storyteller. The Latinist is imaginative, propulsive, and wildly intelligent. What a joy to encounter a thrilling and singular new voice in fiction. Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, author of The Nest and Good CompanyA novel about love and scholarship, ego and obsession, coercion and consent a brilliant, marvelously infuriating puzzle of a book that combines the globe-trotting exploits of The Da Vinci Code with the smarts and literary gifts of A. S. Byatt. A terrific debut! Julie Schumacher, author of Dear Committee Members and The Shakespeare RequirementBrainy and deftly plotted, The Latinist enchants with its deft inversions of power, its witty poetic inventions, and its passion for languages old and new. A lovely debut. Andrea Barrett, author of Archangel and The Air We BreatheMark Prins weaves together an extremely contemporary plot an American academic caught up in the machinations of her advisor at Oxford with a much older plot the discovery of a second-century Roman poet. The two thrillingly intertwine and the result is a wonderfully suspenseful novel. The Latinist is a brilliant debut. Margot Livesey, author of The Boy in the Field The Latinist is a whip-smart tale of obsession that teeters on the knife-edge of suspense and literary fiction; Mark Prins is a worthy successor to Patricia Highsmith, Donna Tartt, and Ian McEwan. Alexandra And...

-Titulo Original : The Thirteen Gun Salute (aubrey/maturin Novels, 13)-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review For escapist reading, I especially like the sea novels of Patrick O’Brian. Bill BrysonIn length the series is unique; in quality and there is not a weak link in the chain it cannot but be ranked with the best of twentieth century historical novels. Independent Like Aubrey and Maturin playing Mozart duets beneath a Pacific moon, [Patrick O’Brian] works elegant variations on the tradition of the seafaring adventure story. Thomas Flanagan, New York Times Book ReviewCaptain Jack Aubrey sets sail for the South China Sea with a new lease on life as a privateer. Now he is to shepherd Stephen Maturin his friend, ship’s surgeon, and sometimes intelligence agent on a diplomatic mission to prevent links between Bonaparte and the Malay princes that would put English merchant shipping at risk. Along their journey, Maturin climbs the Thousand Steps of the sacred crater of the orangutans; a killer typhoon catches Aubrey and his crew trying to work the Diane off a reef; and, in the barbaric court of Pulo Prabang, a classic duel of intelligence agents unfolds: the French envoys, well entrenched in the Sultan’s good graces, against the savage cunning of Stephen Maturin. From the Back Cover Praise for the Aubrey/Maturin Series and Patrick O’Brian“The best historical novels ever written.” Richard Snow, New York Times Book Review“I love these books.… [They offer] the same sense of lived experience as Hilary Mantel.… They will sweep you away and return you delighted, increased and stunned. If the phrase ‘Napoleonic war fiction’ fills you with anticipation, then you don’t need me to convince you to read [Patrick] O’Brian. But for the rest of you.… [P]lease, just trust me.” Nicola Griffith, NPR“A few books work their way… onto [bestseller] lists by genuine, lasting excellence witness The Lord of the Rings, or Patrick O’Brian’s sea stories.” Ursula K. Le Guin“Like John LeCarre, [O’Brian] has erased the boundary separating a debased genre from ‘serious’ fiction. O’Brian is a novelist, pure and simple, one of the best we have.” Mark Horowitz, Los Angeles Times Book Review“[Patrick O’Brian has] the power of bringing near to the reader… savagery and tenderness, beauty and mystery and boldness and dignity.” Eudora Welty“O’Brian’s eloquent admirers include not merely distinguished critics and reviewers but… thousands upon thousands of fervent readers who thank the gods for him.… [H]is work accomplishes nobly the three grand purposes of art: to entertain, to edify, and to awe.” Stephen Becker, Paris Review“O’Brian’s narrative… provides endlessly varying shocks and surprises comic, grim, farcical and tragic. An essential of the truly gripping book for the narrative addict is the creation of a whole, solidly living world for the imagination to inhabit, and O’Brian does this with prodigal specificity and generosity.” A. S. Byatt“I prefer the Aubrey-Maturin series to all others.… Every book is packed to absolute straining with erudition, wit, history, and thunderous action.” Joe Hill“All of the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian [is on my shelves].” Mindy Kaling, New York Times About the Author One of our greatest contemporary novelists, Patrick O’Brian is the author of the twenty volumes of the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series, as well as many other books, including Testimonies, The Golden Ocean, The Unknown Shore, and biographies of Joseph Banks and Picasso...

-Titulo Original : Bonk The Curious Coupling Of Science And Sex-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: A New York Times Bestseller “Rich in dexterous innuendo, laugh-out-loud humor and illuminating fact. It’s compulsively readable.” Los Angeles Times Book Review In Bonk, the best-selling author of Stiff turns her outrageous curiosity and insight on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex. Can a person think herself to orgasm? Why doesnt Viagra help women-or, for that matter, pandas? Can a dead man get an erection? Is vaginal orgasm a myth? Mary Roach shows us how and why sexual arousal and orgasm-two of the most complex, delightful, and amazing scientific phenomena on earth-can be so hard to achieve and what science is doing to make the bedroom a more satisfying place. 16 illustrations Review Roach ferrets out basic truths and endless absurd details amid mountains of dry science on her chosen subject. . . . It’s a wonderful read, sprinkled with facts you can quote to amaze your friends. San Francisco Chronicle[Mary Roach] is a bold, tenacious, and insatiable reporter. . . . A greatly satisfying romp. New York Times Book ReviewRoll over, Kinsey. Mary Roach has done it again.... Bonk proves that full-bodied research can be riveting. O, The The Oprah MagazineRoach is a fearless and witty reporter. Wall Street Journal[An] account that is at once revealing alarmingly so and very very funny. She studs (forgive me) her journey with a multitude of knee-crossing bits of fact that will enliven bedtime conversation everywhere. Erik Larson, author of Devil in the White City About the Author Mary Roach is the author of seven best-selling works of nonfiction, including Stiff, Bonk, and Gulp. Her writing has appeared in Outside, National Geographic, and the New York Times Magazine, among other publications...

-Titulo Original : Journey To The Edge Of Reason The Life Of Kurt Godel-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: The first major biography written for a general audience of the logician and mathematician whose Incompleteness Theorems helped launch a modern scientific revolution.Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Godel’s famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true yet never provable continues to unsettle mathematics, philosophy, and computer science. Yet unlike Einstein, with whom he formed a warm and abiding friendship, Godel has long escaped all but the most casual scrutiny of his life.Stephen Budiansky’s Journey to the Edge of Reason is the first biography to fully draw upon Godel’s voluminous letters and writings including a never-before-transcribed shorthand diary of his most intimate thoughts to explore Godel’s profound intellectual friendships, his moving relationship with his mother, his troubled yet devoted marriage, and the debilitating bouts of paranoia that ultimately took his life. It also offers an intimate portrait of the scientific and intellectual circles in prewar Vienna, a haunting account of Godel’s and Jewish intellectuals’ flight from Austria and Germany at the start of the Second World War, and a vivid re-creation of the early days of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, where Godel and Einstein both worked.Eloquent and insightful, Journey to the Edge of Reason is a fully realized portrait of the odd, brilliant, and tormented man who has been called the greatest logician since Aristotle, and illuminates the far-reaching implications of Godel’s revolutionary ideas for philosophy, mathematics, artificial intelligence, and man’s place in the cosmos. 68 photographs and 3 maps Review Mesmerizing.... As this vibrant biography so beautifully elucidates, the truth of a life can’t ever be proven; it can only be shown. Jennifer Szalai, New York Times Book Review[Budiansky] writes vividly, and the book overflows with fascinating detail.... Enthralling. David Edmonds, Wall Street JournalWonderfully engrossing. Adam Gopnik, The New YorkerJourney to the Edge of Reason is an intimate and haunting portrait of one of the most elusive gods on Princeton’s Mt. Olympus. A triumph of research and a wonderful read. Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful MindKurt Godel’s mathematical results on incompleteness and undecidable propositions leave it up to us, as individuals, to choose whether to mourn these limits to the power of formal systems, or celebrate his proof that even the most rigid numerical bureaucracy contains the tools by which higher truth will always be able to effect an escape. Stephen Budiansky’s Journey to the Edge of Reason expertly and humanely frames these results between Godel’s childhood under the dark shadow of the Austrian and Nazi bureaucracies, his escape to America, his descent into physical and mental illness, and his achievement of a reconciliation between spiritual faith and scientific proof. George Dyson, author of Analogia and Turing’s CathedralExpansive ... places [Godel’s] achievements in their social and political context. The New YorkerA painstakingly researched and lucidly presented biography a close-up of one of the most influential and enigmatic thinkers of the twentieth century full of vivid detail and sharp historical insight. Karl Sigmund, professor of mathematics, University of Vienna, and author of Exact Thinking in Demented TimesA brilliant biography of one of the most original thinkers of all time, Journey to the Edge of Reason is as deep and precise as the genius it describes. In a paradox befitting Godel himself, it takes a tale of logic and its limits and finds, at its heart, something strangely soulful and sympathetic. Steven Strogatz, professor of mathematics, Cornell University, and author of Infinite PowersTerrific.... An outstanding biography of a man of incomprehensible brilliance. Kirkus, starred reviewGodel comes through as a brilliant though trag...

-Titulo Original : Nuclear Folly A History Of The Cuban Missile Crisis-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: A harrowing account of the Cuban missile crisis and how the US and USSR came to the brink of nuclear apocalypse.Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must relearn the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War: the Cuban missile crisis.Serhii Plokhy’s Nuclear Folly offers an international perspective on the crisis, tracing the tortuous decision-making that produced and then resolved it, which involved John Kennedy and his advisers, Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro, and their commanders on the ground. In breathtaking detail, Plokhy vividly recounts the young JFK being played by the canny Khrushchev; the hotheaded Castro willing to defy the USSR and threatening to align himself with China; the Soviet troops on the ground clearing jungle foliage in the tropical heat, and desperately trying to conceal nuclear installations on Cuba, which were nonetheless easily spotted by U-2 spy planes; and the hair-raising near misses at sea that nearly caused a Soviet nuclear-armed submarine to fire its weapons.More often than not, the Americans and Soviets misread each other, operated under false information, and came perilously close to nuclear catastrophe. Despite these errors, nuclear war was ultimately avoided for one central reason: fear, and the realization that any escalation on either the Soviets’ or the Americans’ part would lead to mutual destruction.Drawing on a range of Soviet archival sources, including previously classified KGB documents, as well as White House tapes, Plokhy masterfully illustrates the drama and anxiety of those tense days, and provides a way for us to grapple with the problems posed in our present day. 8 pages of photographs and 2 maps Review Superb.... an immense scholarly achievement, engrossing and terrifying, and surely one of the most important books ever written about the Cuban Missile Crisis and 20th century international relations. James Rosen, Wall Street JournalThe story is extraordinary, and Plokhy is an accomplished narrator.... This account is probably as authoritative a version of the Soviet side as we are likely to get. Max Hastings, Sunday Times (UK)[Plokhy] provides fresh and horrifying new details.... Finishing this sobering account, I could not help but think of the dangers that exist today from nuclear standoffs involving Pakistan, India, China, North Korea and the United States. Max Boot, Washington PostA magisterial work based on a bevy of U.S. and Soviet archival sources, including previously classified KGB documents. The perspective Plokhy provides exposes the perverse incentives that fueled dangerous nuclear power plays during the Cold War and, he suggests, beyond. Andre Pagliarini, New RepublicWhat makes this the definitive history is Mr Plokhy’s telling of the tale in gripping detail from the Soviet perspective.... It is the picture Mr Plokhy paints of the complete failure of the key decision-makers to get inside the minds of their counterparts that is most telling.... With his masterly book, Mr Plokhy has sounded a warning bell. The EconomistArguably the most authoritative and cleverly written work on the subject yet produced. Packed with fresh information from newly declassified Russian sources, including a KGB archive no researcher has previously accessed.... Gripping. Victor Sebestyen, Financial TimesNearly sixty years after the Cuban missile crisis, Serhii Plokhy, the author of multiple groundbreaking books on Soviet history, once again uses newly released KGB archives to offer a new perspective: In gripping, granular detail, he shows us just how close the United States and the Soviet Union came to Armageddon. At a moment when nuclear technology is still spreading, Nuclear Folly reminds us of the danger we all still face. A...

-Titulo Original : Free Coming Of Age At The End Of History-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Detective Billy Harney’s reputation as a dirty cop may be the only thing keeping Chicago clean in James Patterson’s most critically-acclaimed thriller since The Black Book. For Detective Billy Harney, getting shot in the head, stalked by a state’s attorney, and accused of murder by his fellow cops is a normal week on the job. So when a drive-by shooting on the Chicagos west side turns political, he leads the way to a quick solve. But Harneys instincts-his father was once chief of detectives and his twin sister, Patti, is also on the force-run deep. As a population hungry for justice threatens to riot, he realizes that the three known victims are hardly the only casualties.When Harney starts asking questions about whos to blame, the easy answers prove to be the wrong ones. On the flip side, the less he seems to know, the longer he can keep his clandestine investigation going . . . until Harneys quest to expose the evil thats rotting the city from the inside out takes him to the one place he vowed never to return: his own troubled past. Review Crisply written ... a fine thriller. BooklistPraise for The Black Book: The plot twists will give you whiplash. Washington PostBrilliantly twisty. Publishers Weekly, starred review About the Author James Patterson is the worlds bestselling author. The creator of Alex Cross, he has produced more enduring fictional heroes than any other novelist alive. He lives in Florida with his family. David Ellis is a justice of the Illinois Appellate Court and the author of nine novels, including Line of Vision, for which he won an Edgar Award, and The Hidden Man, which earned him a 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize nomination...

-Titulo Original : Packing For Mars The Curious Science Of Life In The Void-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: About the Author Mary Roach is the author of seven best-selling works of nonfiction, including Stiff, Bonk, and Gulp. Her writing has appeared in Outside, National Geographic, and the New York Times Magazine, among other publications. “America’s funniest science writer” (Washington Post) explores the irresistibly strange universe of life without gravity in this New York Times bestseller.The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. From the Space Shuttle training toilet to a crash test of NASA’s new space capsule, Mary Roach takes us on the surreally entertaining trip into the science of life in space and space on Earth...

-Titulo Original : Go Back To Where You Came From And Other Helpful Recommendations On How To Become American-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review Wajahat Ali’s deeply personal and keenly perceptive memoir is a clear-eyed account of his American immigrant experience.… We are all fortunate to be on the receiving end of not only his intellect, but his humanity and heart. Katie Couric, Emmy Award-winning journalistThis is the book I’ve been hoping Wajahat Ali would write for ten years hilarious, stylistically fearless, deeply humane. Dave Eggers, author of The EveryWajahat Ali has already proven that he is the fastest mind on TV. Now his fans can sample his brilliance on the page. Ishmael Reed, author of The Terrible FoursThis book is a tour de force equal parts tragedy and laugh-out-loud comedy. With brazen wit, rigorous analysis, and searing insight, Wajahat Ali speaks to the first-generation American’s dilemma of being both ‘us’ and ‘them.’ Suleika Jaouad, author of Between Two KingdomsA hilarious and heartwarming treatise on what it truly means to be American in the twenty-first century. You’ll be laughing so hard you won’t even notice the inevitable Islamic takeover of America! Oops, I’ve said too much. Reza Aslan, author of God: A Human HistoryWajahat Ali brilliantly and lovingly unpacks the complicated history and urgent lived experience of being otherized in America.… [A] rich feast for all the senses a must-read. S. E. Cupp, author of Losing Our ReligionThis powerful and moving book is, at its heart, a love story. The beloved, flawed and tragic -- so flawed, so tragic -- is America. The lovers hope is always undermined. And yet his hope somehow endures. Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit WestFind a place on your bookshelf between Mark Twain and James Baldwin. Read this book before putting it there. Timothy Snyder, author of On TyrannyWith wit and charm, Ali has delivered a masterful meditation on growing up brown in America...An intoxicating rejection of cynicism in the face of existential threats to multiracial democracy, and a clear-eyed call to arms against the forces seeking to stop the expansion of American democracy. An affirmation of the country America could be. Mara Gay, editorial board, New York TimesIn prose at times hilarious and at other times deeply moving, Wajahat Ali chronicles a uniquely American experience. All will benefit from reading his story. Representative Ilhan OmarFull of wisdom and compassion, not to mention Ali’s signature humor. As educational as it is entertaining. I wish my nine-year-old immigrant self had this book when the playground kids were telling me to go back where I came from.” Gary Shteyngart, author of Our Country FriendsA tender knife-sharp analysis of racism . . . personal, painful, familial, and global Juan Felipe Herrera, United States Poet Laureate Emeritus “Go back to where you came from, you terrorist!”This is just one of the many warm, lovely, and helpful tips that Wajahat Ali and other children of immigrants receive on a daily basis. Go back where, exactly? Fremont, California, where he grew up, but is now an unaffordable place to live? Or Pakistan, the country his parents left behind a half-century ago?Growing up living the suburban American dream, young Wajahat devoured comic books (devoid of brown superheroes) and fielded well-intentioned advice from uncles and aunties. (“Become a doctor!”) He had turmeric stains under his fingernails, was accident-prone, suffered from OCD, and wore Husky pants, but he was as American as his neighbors, with roots all over the world. Then, while Ali was studying at University of California, Berkeley, 9/11 happened. Muslims replaced communists as America’s enemy #1, and he became an accidental spokesman and ambassador of all ordinary, unthreatening things Muslim-y.Now a middle-aged dad, Ali has become one of the foremost and funniest public intellectuals in America. In Go Back to Where You Came From, he tackles the dangers of Islamophobia, white supremacy, and chocolate hummus, peppering personal...

-Titulo Original : Gulp Adventures On The Alimentary Canal-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: The irresistible, ever-curious, and always best-selling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside. “America’s funniest science writer” (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as surreal as the universe of zero gravity explored in Packing for Mars. Why is crunchy food so appealing? Why is it so hard to find words for flavors and smells? Why doesn’t the stomach digest itself? How much can you eat before your stomach bursts? Can constipation kill you? Did it kill Elvis? In Gulp we meet scientists who tackle the questions no one else thinks of or has the courage to ask. We go on location to a pet-food taste-test lab, a fecal transplant, and into a live stomach to observe the fate of a meal. With Roach at our side, we travel the world, meeting murderers and mad scientists, Eskimos and exorcists (who have occasionally administered holy water rectally), rabbis and terrorists who, it turns out, for practical reasons do not conceal bombs in their digestive tracts. Like all of Roach’s books, Gulp is as much about human beings as it is about human bodies. 15 illustrations Review There is much to enjoy about Mary Roach her infectious aw for quirky science and its nerdy adherents, her one-liners... She is beloved, and justifiably so. Jon Ronson, New York Times Book ReviewAs engrossing as it is gross. Entertainment WeeklyFar and away her funniest and most sparkling book, bringing Ms. Roach’s love of weird science to material that could not have more everyday relevance. . . . Never has Ms. Roach’s affinity for the comedic and bizarre been put to better use. . . . “Gulp” is structured as a vastly entertaining pilgrimage down the digestive tract, with Ms. Roach as the wittiest, most valuable tour guide imaginable. Janet Maslin, New York TimesA delicious read and, dare I say it, a total gas. Kate Tuttle, Boston GlobeWith the same eager curiosity that she previously brought to the subjects of cadavers, space, and sex, the author explores the digestive system, from mouth to colon. New Yorker[A] merry foray into the digestive sciences….Inexorably draws the reader along with peristaltic waves of history and vividly described science. Brian Switek, Wall Street JournalYou’ll come away from this well-researched book with enough weird digestive trivia to make you the most interesting guest at a certain kind of cocktail party…Go ahead and put this one in your carry-on. You won’t regret it. Amy Stewart, Washington PostA witty, woving romp of a book… Roach…is a thoroughly unflappable, utterly intrepid investigator of the icky. Chloe Schama, SmithsonianGulp is about revelling in the extraordinary complexities and magnificence of human digestion. The EconomistRelentlessly fun to read. Bee Wilson, The New RepublicNever before has the process of eating been so very interesting…. After digesting her book, you can’t help but think about what that really means. Micki Myers, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteOne of my top criteria for pronouncing a book worthwhile is the number of times you snort helplessly with laughter and say, “Wow! Did you know that ... ” before your long-suffering spouse throws a book at you from across the room. My personal spouse says that, in this department, “Gulp” takes the cake. Adam Woog, Seattle TimesLetting this brilliantly mischievous writer, for whom no pun is ouch and no cow sacred, dip her pen into the font of all potty humor must have seemed even riskier than her previous excursions into corpses (Stiff), the afterlife (Spook), sex (Bonk) and outer space (Packing for Mars). But dip she did at one point she put her whole arm into a cow’s belly and came up with another quirkily informative pop-science entertainment in Gulp: Adventures on th...

-Titulo Original : Grunt The Curious Science Of Humans At War-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: A New York Times / National Bestseller Americas funniest science writer (Washington Post) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war.Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldiers most challenging adversaries panic, exhaustion, heat, noise and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. Marine Corps Paintball Team as part of a study on hearing loss and survivability in combat. She visits the fashion design studio of U.S. Army Natick Labs and learns why a zipper is a problem for a sniper. She visits a repurposed movie studio where amputee actors help prepare Marine Corps medics for the shock and gore of combat wounds. At Camp Lemmonier, Djibouti, in east Africa, we learn how diarrhea can be a threat to national security. Roach samples caffeinated meat, sniffs an archival sample of a World War II stink bomb, and stays up all night with the crew tending the missiles on the nuclear submarine USS Tennessee. She answers questions not found in any other book on the military: Why is DARPA interested in ducks? How is a wedding gown like a bomb suit? Why are shrimp more dangerous to sailors than sharks? Take a tour of duty with Roach, and you’ll never see our nation’s defenders in the same way again. 15 illustrations Review A mirthful, informative peek behind the curtain of military science. Washington PostFrom the ever-illuminating author of Bonk and Stiff comes an examination of the science behind war. Even the tiniest minutiae count on the battlefield, and Roach leads us through her discoveries in her inimitable style. ElleOur most consistently entertaining science journalist…Roach goes where other writers wouldn’t dare….And her search produces images a kind of technopoetry that are hard to forget. O Magazine[Roach] takes on the challenges the military faces to keep its fighters safe and healthy with her trademark flair (and zingy footnotes). Entertainment WeeklyRoach is a tenacious investigative journalist with an appetite for the unappetizing...Grunt ranks high in the Roach repertoire. USA TodayMary Roach’s latest bit of brilliance….As meticulously researched, beautifully written, and disturbingly funny as her previous books…Grunt examines the science behind war, as well as the researchers who are leading the charge in these state-of- the-art developments. Roach’s prose is a triumph an engaging blend of anecdote, research, and reflection. Boston Globe[Roach] writes exquisitely about the excruciating….wildly informative and vividly written Los Angeles TimesNobody does weird science quite like [Roach], and this time, she takes on war. Though all her books look at the human body in extreme situations (sex! space! death!), this isn’t simply a blood-drenched affair. Instead, Roach looks at the unexpected things that take place behind the scenes. WiredRoach...applies her tenacious reporting and quirky point of view to efforts by scientists to conquer some of the soldier’s worst enemies. Seattle TimesExtremely likable…and quick with a quip….[Roach’s] skill is to draw out the good humor and honesty of both the subjects and practitioners of these white arts among the dark arts of war. San Francisco ChronicleCovering these topics and more, Roach has done a fascinating job of portraying unexpected, creative sides of military science. New York Post About the Author Mary Roach is the author of seven best-selling works of nonfiction, including Stiff, Bonk, and Gulp. Her writing has appeared in Outside, National Geographic, and the New York Times Magazine, among other publications...

-Titulo Original : Fuzz: When Nature Breaks The Law-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: An Instant New York Times Bestseller #1 Los Angeles Times Bestseller #1 Indie Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 Longlisted for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Join America’s funniest science writer (Peter Carlson, Washington Post), Mary Roach, on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet.What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on trial. These days, as New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict, a discipline at the crossroads of human behavior and wildlife biology.Roach tags along with animal-attack forensics investigators, human-elephant conflict specialists, bear managers, and danger tree faller blasters. Intrepid as ever, she travels from leopard-terrorized hamlets in the Indian Himalaya to St. Peter’s Square in the early hours before the pope arrives for Easter Mass, when vandal gulls swoop in to destroy the elaborate floral display. She taste-tests rat bait, learns how to install a vulture effigy, and gets mugged by a macaque.Combining little-known forensic science and conservation genetics with a motley cast of laser scarecrows, langur impersonators, and trespassing squirrels, Roach reveals as much about humanity as about nature’s lawbreakers. When it comes to problem wildlife, she finds, humans are more often the problem and the solution. Fascinating, witty, and humane, Fuzz offers hope for compassionate coexistence in our ever-expanding human habitat. 12 illustrations Review [Fuzz is] powerfully propelled by the force of Roach’s unflinching fascination with the weird, the gross and the downright improbable... There’s a wacky genius to [her] interjections...[Her] curious and generous engagement with her subjects makes for world-expanding reading. Amelia Urry, Washington PostAn idiosyncratic tour with Roach as the wisecracking, ever-probing guide... My favorite moments, ultimately, weren’t the funny ones, but those that reveal a bit of scientific poetry. Vicki Constantine Croke, New York Times Book ReviewEach chapter is packed with the results of [Roach’s] detailed investigations. Roach uses footnotes to add both depth and lightness to the topic at hand by capturing misfit studies, asides, and hilarious tangents... Refreshing. Katherine E. Himes, ScienceWith her characteristic dry wit, [Roach] brings an intense fascination to the seldom discussed details and the at times absurd miscellany in the unexplored corners of unappreciated research... It is impossible not to smirk, chortle and sometimes outright belly laugh as you read her many wry asides and funny but fascinating footnotes... But the real trick Roach pulls off is to keep you laughing while at the same time making sure the earnest points come across. Tiffany OCallaghan, New ScientistFull of kernels of fascinating information... Her approach is informative and unpretentious, and she’s always armed with a dry sense of humor. Roach will change the way you think about the great outdoors. What more could you ask for? Emerson Malone, BuzzfeedThe book brims with Roach’s irreverent humor, which particularly shines when she experiences human-animal conflict firsthand... A blend of modern science and history, with Roach’s flair for spotting hidden absurdities... As another entry in Roach’s canon of books, Fuzz stands tall (and hairy), educating as much as it entertains. Bethany Brookshire, Science NewsReading a Mary Roach book is like spending a luxurious and joyful evening with the perfect dinner guest. Delightful facts become indelibly etched in your brain, and only later do you realize that hours have pass...

-Titulo Original : People Love Dead Jews Reports From A Haunted Present-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Winner of the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice Finalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal, Chicago Public Library, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living. Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture and increasingly in response to a recent wave of deadly antisemitic attacks Horn was troubled to realize what all of these assignments had in common: she was being asked to write about dead Jews, never about living ones. In these essays, Horn reflects on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the mythology that Jewish family names were changed at Ellis Island, the blockbuster traveling exhibition Auschwitz, the marketing of the Jewish history of Harbin, China, and the little-known life of the righteous Gentile Varian Fry. Throughout, she challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths, and so little respect for Jewish lives unfolding in the present. Horn draws upon her travels, her research, and also her own family life trying to explain Shakespeare’s Shylock to a curious ten-year-old, her anger when swastikas are drawn on desks in her children’s school, the profound perspective offered by traditional religious practice and study to assert the vitality, complexity, and depth of Jewish life against an antisemitism that, far from being disarmed by the mantra of Never forget, is on the rise. As Horn explores the (not so) shocking attacks on the American Jewish community in recent years, she reveals the subtler dehumanization built into the public piety that surrounds the Jewish past making the radical argument that the benign reverence we give to past horrors is itself a profound affront to human dignity. Now including a reading group guide...

-Titulo Original : We Came, We Saw, We Left A Family Gap Year-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review A swift and refreshing escape during these isolated, isolating times…[I]ts often the utter normalcy of the Wheelan family that makes this travelogue so endearing. Carson Vaughan, NPRWheelan is a lucid and likable storyteller, and his antic family dialogues are spot-on…[A]n upbeat story. Amity Gaige, New York Times Book ReviewEngaging, insightful, and downright pleasant. Nathan Deuel, Los Angeles TimeA sprightly account of an unusual family vacation. Curt Schleier, Star TribuneEngaging stories of a family bonding over the unusual challenges and opportunities presented by budget-minded globetrotting. John Young, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteMakes a strong case for extended travel as a means of establishing a tighter bond as a family. Michael Patrick Brady, WBUR NewsThe family’s offbeat experiment in global immersion is a triumph of cultural connection, a celebration of humanity’s similarities and differences, presented with a winning blend of humor and humility. For those suffering from pandemic cabin fever, Wheelan’s exuberant travelogue will provide a welcome vicarious getaway. Carol Haggas, BooklistThis rip-roaring adventure will especially appeal to those whose passports are collecting dust thanks to the pandemic. Publishers WeeklyA vivid chronicle of a familys intrepid sojourn...Wheelan offers an entertaining, upbeat account of the trip, often astonishingly beautiful and sometimes harrowing. A charming celebration of discovery. Kirkus ReviewsA complete and utter delight of a book, from start to finish. Charlie Wheelan and his remarkable family deliver not only a page-turning travelogue, but also a blueprint for restoring a long-lost sense of adventure into our lives. Dan Coyle, author of The Culture Code and The Talent Code Charlie Wheelan and his family do what others dream of: They take a year off to travel the world. This is their story.What would happen if you quit your life for a year? In a pre-COVID-19 world, the Wheelan family decided to find out; leaving behind work, school, and even the family dogs to travel the world on a modest budget. Equal parts how-to and how-not-to and with an eye toward a world emerging from a pandemic We Came, We Saw, We Left is the insightful and often hilarious account of one family’s gap-year experiment.Wheelan paints a picture of adventure and connectivity, juggling themes of local politics, global economics, and family dynamics while exploring answers to questions like: How do you sneak out of a Peruvian town that has been barricaded by the local army? And where can you get treatment for a flesh-eating bacteria your daughter picked up two continents ago? From Colombia to Cambodia, We Came, We Saw, We Left chronicles nine months across six continents with three teenagers. What could go wrong? About the Author Charles Wheelan is the author of the best-selling Naked Statistics and Naked Economics and is a former correspondent for the Economist. He teaches public policy and economics at Dartmouth College and lives in Hanover, New Hampshire, with his family...

-Titulo Original : Bewilderment A Novel-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review Richard Powers is one of our country’s greatest living writers. He composes some of the most beautiful sentences I’ve ever read. I’m in awe of his talent. Oprah WinfreyExtraordinary.…Powers’s insightful, often poetic prose draws us at once more deeply toward the infinitude of the imagination and more vigorously toward the urgencies of the real and familiar stakes rattling our persons and our planet. Tracy K. Smith, New York Times Book Review (cover review)A heartrending tale of loss.…Powers continues to raise bold questions about the state of our world and the cumulative effects of our mistakes. Heller McAlpin, NPRNothing short of transportive. Newsweek[A]stounding.…a must-read novel.…It’s urgent and profound and takes readers on a unique journey that will leave them questioning what we’re doing to the only planet we have. Rob Merrill, Associated PressAs in The Overstory, Powers seamlessly yet indelibly melds science and humanity, hope and despair. Dale Singer, St. Louis Post-DispatchBewilderment is a big book about what matters most.…a brilliant, engrossing, and ultimately heartbreaking book. David Laskin, Seattle Times[P]oignant…Bewilderment is a cri de coeur.…this is a hauntingly intimate story set within the privacy of one family trapped in the penumbra of mourning. Ron Charles, Washington PostYou could think of it as ‘The Innerstory’: It is about how and whether we see the world we inhabit.... It is enchanting, and it is devastating. Ezra Klein, The Ezra Klein ShowImmersive and astonishing.…Powers captures the tragedy of a species that could, but perhaps won’t, become a lasting part of a cosmic menagerie. But in this absorbing and effortlessly readable tale he seems to have also found uplifting poetry in our despair. Caleb Scharf, NautilusA moving depiction of filial love, as father and son confront a world of ‘invisible suffering on unimaginable scales. The New YorkerIn Bewilderment, [Powerss] mastery strikes a new vein.…it raises goosebumps and breaks our hearts. John Domini, The Brooklyn RailAchingly current and wise. Bethanne Patrick, Washington Post[Powers] wants to challenge our innate anthropocentrism, both in literature and how we live. Alexandra Alter, New York TimesRemarkable.... Bewilderment channels both the cosmic sublime and that of the vast American outdoors, resting confidently in a lineage with Thoreau and Whitman, Dillard and Kerouac. Rob Doyle, The GuardianOne of America’s most ambitious and imaginative novelists.... In a year of unprecedented worldwide drought, fire, and flooding, [Bewilderment] couldn’t be timelier.... Whether concerning family or nature, this heart-rending tale warns us to take nothing for granted. Alexander C. Kafka, Boston GlobeThe tenderness between father and son seem[s] so real and heartfelt that the novel becomes its own empathy machine. What’s more powerful, though, is how the emotions Bewilderment evokes expand far beyond the bond of father and son to embrace the living world. Ellen Atkins, Minneapolis Star TribunePowers [has] an emotional core to everything he writes, and this sets him apart from nearly everyone. David Yaffe, Air MailAn unabashed tearjerker.... The most moving and inspiring of all Powers’s books. Gish Jen, The New RepublicIntimate.…Powers is an essential member of the pantheon of writers who are using fiction to address climate change. Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles TimesPowers succeeds in engaging both head and heart. And through its central story of bereavement, this novel of parenting and the environment becomes a multifaceted exploration of mortality. The Economist AN OPRAHS BOOK CLUB SELECTION An Instant New York Times Bestseller Shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction Longlisted for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction A heartrending new novel from the Pu...

-Titulo Original : The Family Roe An American Story-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction One of NPRs Best Books of 2021 A New York Times Notable Book of 2021 One of TIMEs 100 Must-Read Books of 2021 The scope is sweeping, the writing is beautiful. It’s an epic story worthy of the impact this one case has had on the American psyche. ? Michel Martin, NPR Stupendous…. If you want to understand Roe more deeply before the coming decision, read it. ? Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal A masterpiece of reporting on the Supreme Court’s most divisive case, Roe v. Wade, and the unknown lives at its heart.Despite her famous pseudonym, “Jane Roe,” no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947-2017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1969 opened a great fracture in American life. Journalist Joshua Prager spent hundreds of hours with Norma, discovered her personal papers a previously unseen trove and witnessed her final moments. The Family Roe presents her life in full. Propelled by the crosscurrents of sex and religion, gender and class, it is a life that tells the story of abortion in America.Prager begins that story on the banks of Louisiana’s Atchafalaya River where Norma was born, and where unplanned pregnancies upended generations of her forebears. A pregnancy then upended Norma’s life too, and the Dallas waitress became Jane Roe.Drawing on a decade of research, Prager reveals the woman behind the pseudonym, writing in novelistic detail of her unknown life from her time as a sex worker in Dallas, to her private thoughts on family and abortion, to her dealings with feminist and Christian leaders, to the three daughters she placed for adoption.Prager found those women, including the youngest Baby Roe now fifty years old. She shares her story in The Family Roe for the first time, from her tortured interactions with her birth mother, to her emotional first meeting with her sisters, to the burden that was uniquely hers from conception.The Family Roe abounds in such revelations not only about Norma and her children but about the broader “family” connected to the case. Prager tells the stories of activists and bystanders alike whose lives intertwined with Roe. In particular, he introduces three figures as important as they are unknown: feminist lawyer Linda Coffee, who filed the original Texas lawsuit yet now lives in obscurity; Curtis Boyd, a former fundamentalist Christian, today a leading provider of third-trimester abortions; and Mildred Jefferson, the first black female Harvard Medical School graduate, who became a pro-life leader with great secrets.An epic work spanning fifty years of American history, The Family Roe will change the way you think about our enduring American divide: the right to choose or the right to life. 16 pages of illustrations Review The scope is sweeping, the writing is beautiful. It’s an epic story worthy of the impact this one case has had on the American psyche. Michel Martin, NPRMr. Prager’s book is stupendous, a masterwork of reporting…. If you want to understand Roe more deeply before the coming decision, read it. Peggy Noonan, Wall Street JournalProdigiously researched, richly detailed, sensitively told.…like a fairy tale set in working-class America. Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker[A]n honest glimpse into the American soul...a sweeping, granular, century-deep case for women’s sovereignty over themselves. Anand Giridharadas, New York Times Book ReviewThrough rigorous reporting and sensitive portrayals, Prager animates Roe’s leading and supporting figures and remakes our understanding of them....interweaving in-depth biographical sketches to transform Roe from an abstract legal doctrine into an epic family saga. Mindy Jane Roseman, Washington PostThe Family Roe is a work of deep empathy without sentimentality, a recovery of fact over myth, a quintessentially American...

-Titulo Original : Mercury Rising John Glenn, John Kennedy, And The New Battleground Of The Cold War-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: A riveting history of the epic orbital flight that put America back into the space race.If the United States couldn’t catch up to the Soviets in space, how could it compete with them on Earth? That was the question facing John F. Kennedy at the height of the Cold War a perilous time when the Soviet Union built the wall in Berlin, tested nuclear bombs more destructive than any in history, and beat the United States to every major milestone in space. The race to the heavens seemed a race for survival and America was losing.On February 20, 1962, when John Glenn blasted into orbit aboard Friendship 7, his mission was not only to circle the planet; it was to calm the fears of the free world and renew America’s sense of self-belief. Mercury Rising re-creates the tension and excitement of a flight that shifted the momentum of the space race and put the United States on the path to the moon. Drawing on new archival sources, personal interviews, and previously unpublished notes by Glenn himself, Mercury Rising reveals how the astronaut’s heroics lifted the nation’s hopes in what Kennedy called the hour of maximum danger. 16 pages of illustrations Review [Mercury Rising] brings Glenn’s story alive again with both nostalgia and a riveting, fast-paced narrative ... Shesol does an excellent job of embedding Glenns story into the wider Cold War context. Douglas Brinkley, Washington PostThe perfect book for anyone who wants to read about real life adventures and learn what makes heroes tick ... It will help you understand how some families stay together in the face of existential challenges, how American politics and industrial technology converge, and how the United States won the Cold War competition with the USSR. Walter Clemens, New York Journal of BooksWhat a fresh and refreshing look at a familiar subject, now seen through an important geo-political lens rather than a scientific, technological, and nationalistic one. The new context is exciting, the usual characters made more vivid and dimensional. Bravo. Ken BurnsI loved this book. From the opening lines, I was riveted I couldn’t put it down. Even though we know the ending, Jeff Shesol somehow creates a cliffhanger immersive history that lifts us out of the moment we’re in and transports us to a time of genuine heroes. As this book reveals, John Glenn stoic and selfless, but also restless and ambitious embodies what we hold most dear about being American. Matt DamonIf there’s such a thing as a white-knuckle read, this is it. But Mercury Rising is a twofer. Jeff Shesol interweaves heart-racing renderings of the dread and adrenaline of the earliest space flights with keen analysis of the geopolitical rivalry that drove the arc and pace of the space race. John Glenn emerges as both homespun hero and Cold War cat’s-paw, as well as a flesh-and-blood human being and one hell of a pilot. David M. Kennedy, professor of history emeritus, Stanford University, winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for HistoryThis is a story for the ages the best account, ever, of the flight of Friendship 7. Shesol presents the Mercury Seven and their storied competition in a fresh and even provoking new light. Brilliantly researched and written, Mercury Rising is the book to read on the Cold War collaboration between John Kennedy and John Glenn. Kris Stoever, author, with her father, Scott Carpenter, of For Spacious Skies: The Uncommon Journey of an AstronautI had the privilege of knowing John Glenn well I helped select him and train him as an astronaut and Jeff Shesol has rendered the most compelling portrait I’ve seen of Glenn since the real thing. This gripping book captures the fast pace and high stakes of the space program and shows how Glenn helped win the struggle to surpass the Russians. Robert Voas, astronaut training officer, Project MercuryThis book amazed me. It brought back such memories that I felt like I was reliving the events. Je...

-Titulo Original : Fly Girl A Memoir-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review Fly Girl is a sheer pleasure. A hilarious and often moving look back at a bygone era and a young woman’s coming of age. Dennis Lehane, New York Times best-selling author of Since We FellFly Girl soars: Ann Hood’s memoir of her experiences as a flight attendant is a love letter to the years when flying was a dream and the 747s ruled the skies. I was catapulted back in time and savored every second and every story from 35,000 feet in the air. Chris Bohjalian, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Flight Attendant and The LionnessWinning and compulsively readable, Fly Girl is like a first-class ticket to the sadly-bygone days when air travel was stylish, sexy and deliciously rarified. What a pleasure to see another side of this best-selling author the small-town girl with a passion for adventure who earns her flight-attendant’s wings while decidedly discovering her own. Paula McLain, New York Times best-selling author of The Paris Wife and When the Stars Go DarkIn this warm and engaging memoir, Ann Hood captures the heady thrills as well as the grueling realities of life as a flight attendant during the Golden Age of air travel. Over eight years, Hood walked a million miles, explored far-flung cities, and learned invaluable lessons that shaped her as a writer and a person. A brisk history lesson, an affectionate homage, and a thoughtful critique of the airline industry, Fly Girl soars. Christina Baker Kline, New York Times best-selling author of The Exiles and Orphan TrainAt first blush, Fly Girl is a charming, layered memoir about Ann Hood’s life as a flight attendant who knew the industry in its glory days and its-not-so-glorious days post-deregulation. But it’s also something much more, nothing less than a manifesto calling us to embrace joy and adventure, however we define them. I have always loved Ann’s stories and now I know why she has so many: She has lived, in the best, fullest sense of that word. She cant make the sun stand still, but, boy does she make it run. Laura Lippman, New York Times best-selling author of Dream Girl and Lady in the LakeAs a young woman in the late 1970s, Ann Hood’s determination to seek an adventurous life propelled her into this contradictory profession. Now she flies readers through that era of flight, American history, and her own life and into the present with warmth, humor, and insight in a memoir that sparkles. Julia Cooke, author of Come Fly the World: The Jet Age Story of the Women of Pan Am An entertaining and fascinating memoir of “gifted storyteller” (People) Ann Hood’s adventurous years as a TWA flight attendant.In 1978, in the tailwind of the golden age of air travel, flight attendants were the epitome of glamor and sophistication. Fresh out of college and hungry to experience the world and maybe, one day, write about it Ann Hood joined their ranks. After a grueling job search, Hood survived TWA’s rigorous Breech Training Academy and learned to evacuate seven kinds of aircraft, deliver a baby, mix proper cocktails, administer oxygen, and stay calm no matter what the situation.In the air, Hood found both the adventure she’d dreamt of and the unexpected realities of life on the job. She carved chateaubriand in the first-class cabin and dined in front of the pyramids in Cairo, fended off passengers’ advances and found romance on layovers in London and Lisbon, and walked more than a million miles in high heels. She flew through the start of deregulation, an oil crisis, massive furloughs, and a labor strike.As the airline industry changed around her, Hood began to write even drafting snatches of her first novel from the jump-seat. She reveals how the job empowered her, despite its roots in sexist standards. Packed with funny, moving, and shocking stories of life as a flight attendant, Fly Girl captures the nostalgia and magic of air travel at its height, and the thrill that remains with every takeoff. About t...

-Titulo Original : Six Feet Over: Science Tackles The Afterlife-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul. What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and thats that the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my lap-top? In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life goes on after we die. Review The general reader’s ideal emissary to the arcana of serious science. . . . Roach’s writing has what science has so far failed to find: a divine spark. Malcolm Jones, NewsweekDependably witty, especially when it ventures far into the ether. . . . [Roach] makes a clever investigator and a thoroughly entertaining, if skeptical, tour guide. Janet Maslin, New York TimesInvestigative reporting has no lighter, more irreverent spirit than Mary Roach. . . . Spook is enormous fun. David A Walton, Pittsburgh Union-TribuneSurreal, fascinating, at times absurd and always hilarious, Mary Roach may not reveal the street address of our final destination, but in Spook she makes it sound less like a morgue and more like a comedy club. Vince Darcangelo, Boulder WeeklyReading Spook is like attending a lecture by a professor who is equal parts Groucho Marx and Stephen Jay Gould, both enlightening and entertaining. Dorman T. Schindler, Sunday Denver Post & Rocky Mountain News About the Author Mary Roach is the author of seven best-selling works of nonfiction, including Stiff, Bonk, and Gulp. Her writing has appeared in Outside, National Geographic, and the New York Times Magazine, among other publications...

-Titulo Original : Damascus Station A Novel-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review A truly sensational read! In fact, Damascus Station is the best spy novel I have ever read. David McCloskey experienced Syria firsthand as a CIA analyst, and he delivers a thrilling, graphic, gripping, and realistic albeit fictional portrayal of the CIA and the bloody, tragic Syrian uprising. I lived this extraordinarily frustrating episode in Agency history, and I could not put this book down. General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret.), former director of the CIA, and former commander of the Surge in Iraq, US Central Command, and International and US Forces in AfghanistanThe nightmare of the Syrian civil war is vividly portrayed by David McCloskey in Damascus Station. He captures the places and people and most of all, the sickening feeling in the gut of this war that shattered poor Syria while America mostly watched. As a former CIA officer, McCloskey gets the details right not just the little ones about mistimed clocks on the wall at Headquarters but the big ones about trying to keep faith with people in a faithless business. This isn’t just a realistic spy novel, it’s real life. David Ignatius, columnist for the Washington Post and author of The PaladinDamascus Station tells the tragic story of Syrias descent into chaos and the price paid by its people during the Assad regimes brutal crackdown. The power of this book is that it tells this devastating story through the eyes of those who suffered and survived because of love, the human relationship, and the power of what makes life worth living. Leon E. Panetta, former Director of the CIA and former secretary of defense[A] gripping, well-written page turner that is part-thriller, part-love story, part-spy tale, and part-historical fiction concerning Syria and the Arab Spring. Any one of those elements on their own makes it well worth reading; the combination makes it compelling. Foreign Policy[An] exciting spy thriller. Washington PostDamascus Station is simply marvellous storytelling...a stand-out thriller and essential reading for fans of the genre. Financial Times[T]his propulsive thriller is at once a master class in spy craft and a poignant story of forbidden love set during the brutal Syrian civil war. PeopleIm a fan of spy thrillers, and I just read the best one Ive consumed in decades …. I’ve never known a writer as good at the spy novel as John LeCarre, but McCloskey approaches. Were watching the emergence of a remarkable talent. Nick Kristof, On the Trail with Nick Kristof[T]ruly one of the finest entries into the modern spy thriller genre. In a field groaning with ludicrous plots, absurd characters, and laughable “espionage,” McCloskey a former CIA analyst has crafted a book that goes back to the roots of what makes a spy thriller great, the spying. Diplomatic Courier[A] swift dive into the lethal, nebulous world of CIA operations in the Middle East…Damascus Station is a breathless ride. SpyTalkAn extremely effective modern espionage novel, filled with action and incident but also a profound knowledge of the people and factions of Syria, the complex maneuvers of spycraft, the gray areas, competing egos and overlapping priorities that make every day a journey through the minefield….[A] dazzling debut. Neil Nyren, BooktribA volatile mix of traditional espionage plotlines intertwined with a modern level of violence that had me flipping pages until the early morning hours. Best Thriller Books[A]n uncommonly gripping first novel....Damascus Station combines an insider’s account of tradecraft detailed enough to satisfy the most demanding geeks with compassion for the Syrian people, outrage at the Assad regime, and an up-to-the-minute old-fashioned love story. First ThingsDamascus Station is a great espionage novel. The Cipher BriefThe most realistic and authentic depiction of modern-day tradecraft in nonpermissive and hostile environments you will find in print. I am shocked the CIA’s Publication Revi...

-Titulo Original : The Rye Baker Classic Breads From Europe And America-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: “A must-have for all serious bread bakers; an instant classic.” Peter Reinhart, author of Bread RevolutionTrue rye bread the kind that stands at the center of northern and eastern European food culture is something very special. With over 70 classic recipes, The Rye Baker introduces bakers to the rich world of rye bread from both the old world and the new. Award-winning author Stanley Ginsberg presents recipes spanning from the immigrant breads of America to rustic French pains de seigle, the earthy ryes of Alpine Austria and upper Italy, the crackly knackebrods of Scandinavia, and the diverse breads of Germany, the Baltic countries, Poland, and Russia. Readers will discover dark, sour classic Russian Borodinsky; orange and molasses-infused Swedish Gotland Rye; nearly black Westphalian Pumpernickel, which gets its musky sweetness from a 24-hour bake; traditional Old Milwaukee Rye; and bright, caraway-infused Austrian Country BouleRounding out this treasury are reader-friendly chapters on rye’s history, unique chemistry, and centuries-old baking methods. Advanced bakers will relish Stanley’s methods, ingredients, and carefully sourced recipes, while beginning bakers will delight in his clear descriptions of baking fundamentals. The Rye Baker is the definitive resource for home bakers and professionals alike. 42 color photographs Review Rye breads are back, as they rightly should be. In The Rye Baker, Stanley Ginsberg has given us everything we need to know about this most misunderstood and fascinating grain, along with a complete collection of superb formulas for every variation of rye bread imaginable. This book is a must-have for all serious bread bakers; an instant classic. Peter Reinhart, author of Bread RevolutionAs a huge fan of baking with rye, I dug deep into Stanley’s illuminations on the history of the grain: a transporting story told through centuries of techniques employed to make the most of this hearty grain. The baking journey starts with the chemistry of sours, soakers, sponges, and scalds; then takes you around the world for a master class of the genre. Chad Robertson, author of Tartine Bread and owner of Tartine BakeryAmong the profusion of recently published baking books, a fair bit of chaff has been mixed in with the grain. For Stanley Ginsberg, rye is the grain of choice, and his book The Rye Baker is a tall and healthy stalk. Although we disagree now and again (for instance, I personally do not endorse vital wheat gluten or clear flour), there is no doubt that Stanley has made an important and durable contribution, and I congratulate and thank him for his excellent work. Jeffrey Hamelman, bakery director, King Arthur Flour Company, and author of Bread: A Baker’s Book of Techniques and Recipes About the Author Stanley Ginsberg, owner-proprietor of The New York Bakers,a seller of baking ingredients, received the IACP Jane GrigsonAward for his first book, Inside the Jewish Bakery. A native NewYorker, he lives with his wife, Sylvia Spieler Ginsberg, in San Diego...