-Titulo Original : Well Always Have Casablanca The Life, Legend, And Afterlife Of Hollywoods Most Beloved Movie-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: A Los Angeles Times Bestseller For the 75th anniversary of its premiere the incredible story of how Casablanca was made and why it remains the most beloved of Hollywood films. Casablanca was first released in 1942, just two weeks after the city of Casablanca itself surrendered to American troops led by General Patton. Featuring a pitch-perfect screenplay, a classic soundtrack, and unforgettable performances by Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and a deep supporting cast, Casablanca was hailed in the New York Times as “a picture that makes the spine tingle and the heart take a leap.” The film won Oscars for best picture, best director, and best screenplay, and would go on to enjoy more revival screenings than any other movie in history. It became so firmly ensconced in the cultural imagination that, as Umberto Eco once said, Casablanca is “not one movie; it is ‘movies.’ ” We’ll Always Have Casablanca is celebrated film historian Noah Isenberg’s rich account of this most beloved movie’s origins. Through extensive research and interviews with filmmakers, film critics, family members of the cast and crew, and diehard fans, Isenberg reveals the myths and realities behind Casablanca’s production, exploring the transformation of the unproduced stage play into the classic screenplay, the controversial casting decisions, the battles with Production Code censors, and the effect of the war’s progress on the movie’s reception. Isenberg particularly focuses on the central role refugees from Hitler’s Europe played in the production (nearly all of the actors and actresses cast in Casablanca were immigrants). Finally, Isenberg turns to Casablanca’s long afterlife and the reasons it remains so revered. From the Marx Brothers’ 1946 spoof hit, A Night in Casablanca, to loving parodies in New Yorker cartoons, Saturday Night Live skits, and Simpsons episodes, Isenberg delves into the ways the movie has lodged itself in the American psyche. Filled with fresh insights into Casablanca’s creation, production, and legacy, We’ll Always Have Casablanca is a magnificent account of what made the movie so popular and why it continues to dazzle audiences seventy-five years after its release. 24 illustrations Review Isenberg gives us . . . a rich miscellany of material that will delight fans of both the film and Hollywood’s golden era. His research is clearly second to none. Lucy Scholes, Times Literary Supplement Combining trenchant analysis of the film’s poetic and political power with a well-researched and playful account of its legacy, We’ll Always Have Casablanca is a necessary book and perhaps even an urgent one. Noah Gittell, Los Angeles Review of Books Fascinating, packed with fun trivia . . . but also profoundly relevant in [its exploration] of how our politics and creative industries not only hold a mirror to each other but also to the nation. Rebecca Prime, Los Angeles Times Well Always Have Casablanca is a hugely readable and entertaining look at how Casablanca came to be, and how it came to be such an indelible part of American pop culture. Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel A treasure trove of facts and anecdotes. Peter Biskind, New York Times Book Review Four out of four stars. . . . A lively account of the making of the 1942 Warner Bros. classic and why it has endured as Hollywoods Most Beloved Movie. Bill Desowitz, USA Today A treasure trove of information . . . but also everything else you could ask for: the fascinating process of coming up with the script, the casts relation on the set,and the movies long afterlife in popular culture, right down to the latest SNL parody. Noah Isenberg has produced a delightful page-turner of a book, perfect for every movie fan. David Mikics, Tablet As Noah Isenberg details in his excellent new book We’ll Always Have Casablanca, the 1942 film is a case study of how history gets depicted for popular entertainment, but...

-Titulo Original : Concise History Of Western Music-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: An anthology and media update for the most student-friendly music history text This update to Barbara Hanning’s concise survey aligns it with the Eighth Edition of the Norton Anthology of Western Music and supports your students with a more robust media package. New resources include Audio Timelines, tutorials to help build music history skills, and adaptive activities to reinforce concepts. Book Description with Total Access registration code About the Author Barbara Russano Hanning (Professor of Music, The City College and Graduate Center, CUNY) taught music history to undergraduate and graduate students for forty years and is the author of a book on early opera. She has served as president of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music and chaired the Music Department at City College for fifteen years...

-Titulo Original : The Enjoyment Of Music-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Setting the Standard. Raising the Bar. The Enjoyment of Music has been the most trusted introduction to music for more than five decades. The Enjoyment of Music continues to teach students how to listen and connect to any kind of music. After more than fifty years of successfully preparing students for a lifetime of informed listening, the Twelfth Edition raises the bar with an expanded repertory of appealing music, an exciting new listening and assessment pedagogy, and the richest and most user-friendly online resources available to students today. Book Description with Total Access Registration Card About the Author Kristine Forney has been a member of the Music History/Musicology faculty at California State University, Long Beach, since 1978. She specializes in Renaissance music, is a performer and teacher of historical instruments, and is the author of numerous scholarly articles exploring diverse facets of Renaissance musical life and practices. She has taught music appreciation to thousands of undergraduate students, and has been an author of The Enjoyment of Music since 1988. Andrew DellAntonio is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music at the University of Texas at Austin. Winner of the University of Texas Regents Outstanding Teaching Award, he teaches courses in musical historiography, feminist/queer theory, and cultural studies. DellAntonio is a specialist in musical repertories of early modern Europe, and his recent work investigates topics as diverse as postmodern modes of hearing and changing listening practices in the early Italian Baroque. The late Joseph Machlis was professor of music at Queens College of the City University of New York. Among his many publications are Introduction to Contemporary Music (Norton) and singing translations for many operas...

-Titulo Original : The Red Book (philemon)-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: The most influential unpublished work in the history of psychology. When Carl Jung embarked on an extended self-exploration he called his “confrontation with the unconscious,” the heart of it was The Red Book, a large, illuminated volume he created between 1914 and 1930. Here he developed his principle theories-of the archetypes, the collective unconscious, and the process of individuation-that transformed psychotherapy from a practice concerned with treatment of the sick into a means for higher development of the personality. While Jung considered The Red Book to be his most important work, only a handful of people have ever seen it. Now, in a complete facsimile and translation, it is available to scholars and the general public. It is an astonishing example of calligraphy and art on a par with The Book of Kells and the illuminated manuscripts of William Blake. This publication of The Red Book is a watershed that will cast new light on the making of modern psychology. 212 color illustrations. Review This is a volume that will be treasured by the confirmed Jungian or by admirers of beautifully made books or by those with a taste for philosophical allegory. Michael Dirda, Washington Post About the Author Sonu Shamdasani, a preeminent Jung historian, is Reader in Jung History at Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London. He lives in London, England. From The Washington Post From The Washington Posts Book World/washingtonpost Reviewed by by Michael Dirda Starting in 1912, Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), a specialist in the treatment of schizophrenia, began to experience strange dreams and frightening visions. Once when returning home on a train, the 38-year-old Swiss psychologist hallucinated that everywhere he looked he could see nothing but rivers of blood. In one enigmatic dream a bird-girl hauntingly announced, Only in the first hour of the night can I become human, while the male dove is busy with the twelve dead; in another he encountered a wise old man, with wings, holding four keys. After a while, Jung began to carry on conversations with the winged Philemon during his daytime walks. Was he going mad? After World War I broke out in 1914, Jung decided with relief that his disturbed imagination had actually been sensing the coming conflict. He also concluded that he had entered what we would now call a midlife crisis, a period in which he was being compelled to reexamine his life and explore his deepest self. To do this, he recorded some of his dreams and visions in what were later called his Black Books (which have been available for some while). But he also began a remarkable visionary text, illustrated with his own bizarre paintings: The Red Book or Liber Novus. This he composed during a state of active imagination -- that is, of reverie or waking dream. As he said, he wanted to see what would happen when he switched off consciousness. To the modern reader, the result recalls an allegorical-mythological amalgam of Nietzsches Also Sprach Zarathustra, Blakes illuminated poems, Renaissance Neoplatonic dialogue, Eastern scripture, Dantes Inferno, Yeatss A Vision and even the biblical book of Revelation. Jungs pictures sometimes resemble simplified versions of Georgia OKeeffes flower paintings and sometimes the symbol-laden images in treatises about alchemy (a subject that Jung was soon to study intently). Throughout, one finds illuminated capitals, interlaced roundels that call to mind stained-glass windows, stars, half moons, swords, crosses, dying animals. Jung also drew circular patterns that he later recognized as versions of the mystical shape called the mandala. The Red Book was never published during the psychologists lifetime, though a few friends and disciples were allowed to examine it. Apparently Jung felt it was not only too personal and quirky for publication, but also th...

-Titulo Original : Funny Weather Art In An Emergency-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: “One of the finest writers of the new nonfiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in our tumultuous modern era. In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty-first century. Funny Weather brings together a career’s worth of Laing’s writing about art and culture, examining their role in our political and emotional lives. She profiles Jean-Michel Basquiat and Georgia O’Keeffe, reads Maggie Nelson and Sally Rooney, writes love letters to David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, and explores loneliness and technology, women and alcohol, sex and the body. With characteristic originality and compassion, she celebrates art as a force of resistance and repair, an antidote to a frightening political time. We’re often told that art can’t change anything. Laing argues that it can. Art changes how we see the world. It makes plain inequalities and it offers fertile new ways of living. Review [Olivia Laing is] a kind of cultural sage… an accidental literary grande dame of the emotional havoc wrought by late capitalism and digital disconnect. Hillary Kelly, Vulture Laing’s arts writing is sharp-minded, and her manner is generous toward both subject and reader. John Glassie, Washington Post Laing writes of her creative subjects in a winning, passionate voice that proves both soothing and galvanizing, especially amid a panic.… It’s not just art we need in an emergency, but writers, like Laing, who gently guide our eyes to what’s out there. Alina Cohen, Observer As exterior life shuts temporarily down, Funny Weather is an immensely useful reminder that new space can be intellectual as well as physical.… Laing animates her prose with concise, brainy descriptions of visual art.… Laing is a tremendously gifted genre-mixer, and her writing flourishes most when its topic requires her both to observe and to imagine.… Funny Weather is an invitation to Laing’s imaginary museum, where minds if not bodies meet, and where true hospitality resides. Lily Meyer, Hyperallergic Laing opens each piece with a deceptive ease [and] alights upon poetic insights.… [H]er light touch throughout these essays makes room for some stunning perceptions. A.V. Club A thought-provoking, inspiring collection that you can go back to whenever the weather takes a funny turn. Susannah Butter, Evening Standard Funny Weather gives the reader a tangible sense of the sprawling garden of work which Laing has planted. She is to the art world what David Attenborough is to nature: a worthy guide with both a macro and micro vision, fluent in her chosen tongue and always full of empathy and awe. Mia Colleran, Irish Times An incisive meditation on the value of heartfelt, messy art in our paranoid times. Telegraph A fine writer’s embrace of the artists who preceded her, friendly visits with their lives, and loving acknowledgement of their foundational contributions. A work of joy in recognition. Sarah Schulman, author of Conflict Is Not Abuse Like all great critics, Olivia Laing combines formidable intelligence with boundless curiosity and fabulous taste, but she also has a rare quality of intimacy; an ability to connect the reader to a work of art or literature (or for that matter a facet of life itself) with a directness that lights it up like nothing else. It’s why I read her. James Lasdun, author of Afternoon of a Faun About the Author Olivia Laing is the author of five acclaimed works of nonfiction, including The Lonely City and Funny Weather. Her first novel, Crudo, won the 2019 James Tait Black Prize. The recipient of the 2018 Windham-Campbell Prize in nonfiction, Laing lives in Suffolk, United Kingdom...

-Titulo Original : Hello World Being Human In The Age Of Algorithms-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Shortlisted for the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize and the 2018 Royal Society Investment Science Book Prize A beautifully accessible guide.…One of the best books yet written on data and algorithms. Times (UK) When it comes to artificial intelligence, we either hear of a paradise on earth or of our imminent extinction. It’s time we stand face-to-digital-face with the true powers and limitations of the algorithms that already automate important decisions in healthcare, transportation, crime, and commerce. Hello World is indispensable preparation for the moral quandaries of a world run by code, and with the unfailingly entertaining Hannah Fry as our guide, we’ll be discussing these issues long after the last page is turned. Review With refreshing simplicity, Fry explains what AI, machine learning and complicated algorithms really mean. Guardian Fascinating and funny. I learned something on every page. Tom Chivers, Buzzfeed An action-packed read during which you will be outraged, provoked, and challenged. Cathy O’Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction This short, sharp book on the power and dangers of algorithms offers one of the clearest explanations of a complex subject. Financial Times Hannah Fry is one of the best STEM explainers and popularizers today. Forbes For a reader unfamiliar with the technical aspects of AI, this book offers among the best lay explanations of how algorithms work. Science Hannah Fry makes algorithms sound not only quite interesting but an idea that we must understand better as they dominate more and more of our daily lives in ways we see and in many ways we don’t. Amazon Book Review Mixing mathematics and storytelling, this book asks the big questions about algorithms and humans and their future together. Literary Hub A well-constructed tour of technology and its discontents?timely, too, given the increasing prominence of AI in our daily lives. Kirkus Reviews A lucid and timely analysis. Booklist (starred review) About the Author Hannah Fry is the author of Hello World. With Adam Rutherford, she co-hosts the BBC Radio 4 show The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry. She lives in London...

-Titulo Original : Norton Anthology Of Western Music-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: The definitive history of Western Music The definitive survey, combining current scholarship with a vibrant narrative. Carefully informed by feedback from dozens of scholars, it remains the book that students and teachers trust to explain what’s important, where it fits, and why it matters. Peter Burkholder weaves a compelling story of people, their choices, and the western musical tradition that emerged. From chant to hip-hop, he connects past to present to create a context for tomorrow’s musicians. About the Author J. Peter Burkholder is Distinguished Professor of Musicology at Indiana University. He has written and edited four books on Charles Ives, as well as numerous articles on topics spanning from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of Musicology, Musical Quarterly, 19th-Century Music, Music Theory Spectrum, and other journals. He has served as President, Vice President, and Director-at-Large of the American Musicological Society and on the board of the College Music Society. His writings have received awards from the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, and ASCAP. Donald Jay Grout, late professor of music at Cornell University, also wrote a standard history of opera. Claude V. Palisca, late professor of music at Yale University, began his collaboration on A History of Western Music with the Third Edition. Among his many publications are a history of Baroque music and a collection of scholarly essays on Italian Renaissance music...

-Titulo Original : Norton Anthology Of Western Music-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: The definitive history of Western Music The definitive survey, combining current scholarship with a vibrant narrative. Carefully informed by feedback from dozens of scholars, it remains the book that students and teachers trust to explain what’s important, where it fits, and why it matters. Peter Burkholder weaves a compelling story of people, their choices, and the western musical tradition that emerged. From chant to hip-hop, he connects past to present to create a context for tomorrow’s musicians. About the Author J. Peter Burkholder is Distinguished Professor of Musicology at Indiana University. He has written and edited four books on Charles Ives, as well as numerous articles on topics spanning from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of Musicology, Musical Quarterly, 19th-Century Music, Music Theory Spectrum, and other journals. He has served as President, Vice President, and Director-at-Large of the American Musicological Society and on the board of the College Music Society. His writings have received awards from the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, and ASCAP. Donald Jay Grout, late professor of music at Cornell University, also wrote a standard history of opera. Claude V. Palisca, late professor of music at Yale University, began his collaboration on A History of Western Music with the Third Edition. Among his many publications are a history of Baroque music and a collection of scholarly essays on Italian Renaissance music...

-Titulo Original : The Study Of Orchestration-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: The book that set the standard for orchestration texts. Written by a renowned composer whose works have been performed by major orchestras around the world, The Study of Orchestration is the only text that explores the characteristics of orchestral instruments and shows students how a master composer approaches orchestration. The Fourth Edition invites students to experience the instruments through online audio and video recordings and now offers more coverage of writing for band. Access to the recordings is included with every new copy and is good for 360 days. Book Description with Audio and Video Recordings About the Author Samuel Adler is Professor Emeritus at the Eastman School of Music and the Juilliard School of Music. He has been a visiting professor at many schools throughout the country and abroad, giving master classes in composition, orchestration, and conducting. Adler’s compositions have been performed worldwide by orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, and the Chicago Symphony. His works have been recorded on numerous labels, including Naxos, Albany, RCA, Crystal, New World, and PARMA...

-Titulo Original : Twentieth-century Harmony Creative Aspects And Practice-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: One of the most important books on contemporary music in the twentieth century. Here for the first time is an orderly presentation of the harmonic procedures to be found in music of the first half of the twentieth-century. The author examines the nature of intervals in various contexts, discusses the modes and other scales employed in modern music, describes the formation and uses of chords by thirds, by fourths, and by seconds, of added-note chords and polychords; he deals with different types of harmonic motion, with harmonic rhythm and dynamic sand ornamentation, with harmonic behavior in tonality, polytonality, atonality and serial composition. From the Back Cover One of the most important books on contemporary music to appear in this century. Here for the first time is an orderly presentation of the harmonic procedures to be found in music of the first half of the twentieth-century. The author examines the nature of intervals in various contexts, discusses the modes and other scales employed in modern music, describes the formation and uses of chords by thirds, by fourths, and by seconds, of added-note chords and polychords; he deals with different types of harmonic motion, with harmonic rhythm and dynamic sand ornamentation, with harmonic behavior in tonality, polytonality, atonality and serial composition...

-Titulo Original : Professional Practice A Guide To Turning Designs Into Buildings-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: What you need to know to protect your designs and get them built as you envision them; how to get and keep clients and become their trusted advisor and professional every architect needs the answers in this concise, thorough, and readable guide. Who are the parties in architecture, engineering, and construction? How do you market architectural services (get the project)? What are the basic project delivery methods? What are the forms of owner/architect and owner/contractor agreements and what services do they cover? How should you charge for your services? How do you set up an office? What insurance, legal, and accounting issues must you consider? What is project management and who should do it? What are zoning and building codes about? Review Professional Practice gives our changing industry exactly what it needs, a clear and concise road map to the design and building process. Paul Segal taps his many years as a successful practicing architect and educator to touch on just about every important challenge facing the profession, and yet leaves us with a healthy dose of new ideas and hope for the future. Frank Sciame, President/CEO Sciame Construction and Development It is a pleasure to read a book in which the conscientious practice of architecture is accorded the respect it deserves. A precise and vivid account of the complex process by which buildings come to be designed and realized through the progressive interaction of clients, architects, contractors, and a wide range of technical and legal specialists, this is destined to be of equal pertinence to any of the protagonists commonly involved in the act of making buildings. Kenneth Frampton, Ware Professor of Architecutre, Columbia University Paul Segal is one of the only architects I know who not only understands but truly loves both the aesthetic power of great architecture and the practical demands of the real world, and he has spent much of his career teaching younger architects that these things do not have to be incompatible. In this book, he explains clearly, concisely, and eloquently how architecture is not only an art and not only a business--how it has to be both. Paul Goldberger, Architecture Critic and Dean, Parsons The New School for Design About the Author Paul Segal, FAIA, is a partner in Paul Segal Associates Architects LLP, recipients of seventeen AIA awards for design excellence. A graduate of Princeton University School of Architecture, he has taught professional practice to generations of students at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He is a past president of the AIA/New York Chapter and of the New York Foundation for Architecture (now the Center for Architecture Foundation), and past vice chairman of the Preservation League of New York State...

-Titulo Original : Jazz Essential Listening-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: The Essentials edition of the No.1 jazz text, now with Total Access Now with streaming audio for every track, this text provides everything students need for listening to, understanding, and loving jazz. Written by two master storytellers, the book combines a dynamic listening experience with vivid narrative history, must-hear masterworks, and a superior media package to reveal the excitement of America’s quintessential music. Book Description with Total Access About the Author Scott DeVeaux is a nationally recognized jazz scholar whose 1997 book The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History won the American Book Award, an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award, the Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society, and the ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Sound Research. He has taught jazz history at the University of Virginia for more than 25 years. Gary Giddins is the Executive Director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the City University of New York. He was the Village Voice jazz columnist for over 30 years and remains a preeminent jazz critic who received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award, and the Bell Atlantic Award for Visions of Jazz: The First Century in 1998. His other books include Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams: The Early Years, 1903-1940, which won the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award and the ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Sound Research; Weatherbird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century; Faces in the Crowd; Natural Selection; Warning Shadows; and biographies of Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker. He has won an unparalleled six ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Peabody Award in Broadcasting...

-Titulo Original : The Black Banners (declassified) How Torture Derailed The War On Terror After 9/11-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review Unfortunately, we only have one Ali Soufan. Had American intelligence listened to him, 9/11 might never have happened. No one did more to unravel the story of al-Qaeda than Ali Soufan. Thankfully, he’s left another legacy in this book. Anyone who wants to know what really happened should read it. It’s an inspiring but wrenching story told from the heart of a great American. Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11Paints a devastating picture of rivalry and dysfunction inside the government’s counterterrorism agencies…The account offered by the agent, Ali H. Soufan is the most detailed to date by an insider. Scott Shane, New York TimesOne of the most valuable and detailed accounts of its subject to appear in the past decade. EconomistSoufan knows exactly what he is talking about, and does us all a service by having it set down in The Black Banners. Glenn L. Carle, Foreign PolicySuperb. An education. And the best book on al-Qaeda out there, bar none. Robert Baer The definitive account of an FBI special agent’s al-Qaeda story, unredacted for the first time.Widely heralded on publication as a must-read (Military Review) and important window on America’s battle with al-Qaeda (Washington Post), Ali Soufan’s revelatory account of the war on terror as seen from its front lines changed the way we understand al-Qaeda and how the United States prosecuted the war and led to hard questions being asked of our leaders.When The Black Banners was published in 2011, significant portions of the text were redacted. After subsequent review by the Central Intelligence Agency, those redactions have been lifted. Their removal corrects the record on how vital intelligence was obtained from al-Qaeda suspects and brings forth important new details on the controversial use of enhanced interrogation techniques (torture) to extract information from terror suspects. For many years, proponents of the use of these techniques have argued that they produced actionable intelligence in the war on terror. This edition of The Black Banners explodes this myth; it shows Soufan at work using guile and intelligent questioning not force or violence to extract some of the most important confessions in the war, and it vividly recounts the failures of the government’s torture program. Drawing on Soufan’s experiences as a lead operative for the FBI and declassified government records, The Black Banners (Declassified) documents the intelligence failures that lead to the tragic attacks on New York and Washington, DC, and subsequently how torture derailed the fight against al-Qaeda. With this edition, eighteen years on from the first sanctioned enhanced interrogation technique, the public can finally read the complete story of what happened in their name after the events of 9/11.The Black Banners (Declassified) includes a new foreword from Ali Soufan that addresses the significance of the CIA’s decision to lift the redactions. About the Author Ali Soufan, a former FBI special agent and the lead investigator on some of the world’s?most complex international terrorism cases, gained an?international reputation as a top counterterrorism operative. He is the chairman and CEO of The Soufan Group, founder of The Soufan Center, and has been featured in books, films, television series, newspaper articles, and documentaries across the globe...

-Titulo Original : William Tecumseh Sherman In The Service Of My Country A Life-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: A major new biography of one of America’s most storied military figures. General Sherman’s 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Yet Sherman proved far more complex than his legendary military tactics reveal. James Lee McDonough offers fresh insight into a man tormented by the fear that history would pass him by, who was plagued by personal debts, and who lived much of his life separated from his family. As a soldier, Sherman evolved from a spirited student at West Point into a general who steered the Civil War’s most decisive campaigns, rendered here in graphic detail. Lamenting casualties, Sherman sought the war’s swift end by devastating Southern resources in the Carolinas and on his famous March to the Sea. This meticulously researched biography explores Sherman’s warm friendship with Ulysses S. Grant, his strained relationship with his wife, Ellen, and his unassuageable grief over the death of his young son, Willy. The result is a remarkable, comprehensive life of an American icon whose legacy resonates to this day. 8 pages of illustrations, 10 maps Review A well-rounded study.... Everything about this book will interest readers who want to know more about antebellum America and the Civil War. Starred Review, Library JournalMcDonough…adroitly weaves his prodigious knowledge of Civil War-era America into this behemoth biography as he brilliantly captures Gen. Sherman’s personality…. an exhaustive biography told with considerable narrative skill. Publishers Weekly[McDonough] offers a great deal of shrewd military analysis, but what gives the book its vigor is [his] presentation of Sherman’s propulsive personality. Richard Snow, Wall Street JournalA vigorous military biography….welcome reading for any student of Civil War history. Starred review, KirkusMasterly...the product of a historians lifelong study....a full-blooded narrative. Carl Rollyson, The Wall Street Journal[McDonough] tells this story well. Thomas E. Ricks, New York Times Book ReviewShermans is surely a fascinating American life, in war and peace alike, and this packed book will beguile a whole summer with ease. John Timpane, Philadelphia InquirerSuperbly researched and richly detailed, James McDonough’s William Tecumseh Sherman judiciously guides the reader through the epic life of the man who might be history’s most complicated soldier. For Sherman fans it is a must-read, and for others, a worthwhile endeavor. Robert L. O’Connell, best-selling author of Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh ShermanJames McDonoughs William Tecumseh Sherman is the first major biography of this complex, challenging figure in almost a quarter century, and it is deeply researched and thoughtfully presented. Engagingly written, it brings new perspective to Sherman’s pre-war years and the benefit of a lifetime of study to his Civil War career. Perhaps no one will ever completely capture Sherman, but McDonoughs wide net snares more than enough of the new with the old to make this a life well worth reading. William C. Davis, author of Crucible of Command: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee The War They Fought, the Peace They Forged About the Author James Lee McDonough is a Civil War historian and the author of nine books, including Nashville: The Western Confederacy’s Final Gamble. He lives in Lewisburg, Tennessee, and Flagler Beach, Florida...

-Titulo Original : Helgas Diary A Young Girl’s Account Of Life In A Concentration Camp-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: A New York Times Bestseller A sacred reminder of what so many millions suffered, and only a few survived. Adam Kirsch, New RepublicIn 1939, Helga Weiss was a young Jewish schoolgirl in Prague. As she endured the first waves of the Nazi invasion, she began to document her experiences in a diary. During her internment at the concentration camp of Terezin, Helga’s uncle hid her diary in a brick wall. Of the 15,000 children brought to Terezin and deported to Auschwitz, there were only one hundred survivors. Helga was one of them. Miraculously, she was able to recover her diary from its hiding place after the war. These pages reveal Helga’s powerful story through her own words and illustrations. Includes a special interview with Helga by translator Neil Bermel. 16 color paintings; 12 photographs Review Touches raw nerves and contains the potential to send shock waves through the oeuvre of Holocaust memoirs…Astonishing. Linda F. Burghardt, Jewish Book WorldThe most moving Holocaust diary published since Anne Frank. Daily TelegraphDescribes the unfolding horrors of the Holocaust as seen through the eyes of a young girl. The young Helga responds to hardship with indignation and defiance, maintaining a sharp sense of observation while trying to make sense of the upheaval and suffering she sees. New YorkerFascinating…A youth’s contemporaneous view of life and death. Jewish American WorldReads with refreshing immediacy, describing how a smart, spirited young girl negotiated increasingly desperate circumstances. Jewish Daily ForwardShe is one of few children to survive Auschwitz. Even with all the books that have been published, this one, with its immediacy and child’s point of view, is hard to forget. Jewish WeekResounds with a ferocious will to endure conditions of astonishing cruelty. David Casarani, New StatesmanHelga’s Diary is another moving testimony to the courage, endurance and painfully premature maturity of the young victims of the Holocaust. Financial TimesA breathtaking account…a chilling testament to the tragedy of the Holocaust. Publishers WeeklyAt times the struggle of this young girl in the face of evil becomes so real that you’ll notice yourself adjusting your blanket and thermostat right along with her as she shivers in the worst of conditions. The Daily BeastWhats startling, throughout, is the resilience with which her buoyant spirit keeps bobbing up past the hardships, indignities, and cruelties of her captors. Francine Prose About the Author Helga Weiss was born in Prague in 1929. After surviving the Holocaust and the Second World War, Helga returned to Prague, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, and became an artist. She has two children, three grandchildren, and lives to this day in the apartment where she was born.Francine Prose is the author of sixteen books of fiction, including Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Among her most recent works of nonfiction is the highly acclaimed Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife. A former president of PEN American Center, she lives in New York City...

-Titulo Original : Whitey Bulger Americas Most Wanted Gangster And The Manhunt That Brought Him To Justice-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: This is the definitive story of Whitey Bulger…a masterwork of reporting. Michael Connelly, best-selling author of The Wrong Side of GoodbyeA New York Times BestsellerA #1 Boston Globe BestsellerAn instant classic, this unforgettable narrative, rich with family ties and intrigue, follows the astonishing career of a gangster whose life was more sensational than fiction. Cullen and Murphy have broken more Bulger stories than anyone, and Whitey Bulger became front-page news, revealing the mobsters secret letters written from Plymouth Jail after the sixteen-year manhunt that led to his capture and offering unparalleled insight into his contradictions and complex personality. The afterword covering the results of the dramatic and emotional trial provides a riveting denouement to this eminently fair and thorough telling of a life, which makes it all the more damning (Boston Globe). 16 pages of photographs Review A terrific book…A portrait of its subject in all his complexity. David Ulin, Los Angeles TimesEasily the best story about crime Ive read. Jimmy Breslin, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and author of The Gang That Couldnt Shoot Straight and The Good RatA great read…So many terrific, amazing stories. Dave Davies, NPRs Fresh AirRiveting. The EconomistIn the same way that J. Anthony Lukas’s Common Ground is essential to understanding Bostons racial history, Whitey Bulger is an authoritative treatise on the citys late-20th-century underworld. Sean Flynn, Boston GlobeThis is the definitive story of Whitey Bulger. As much social documentary as riveting crime story, the book is a masterwork of reporting by Cullen and Murphy. I couldn’t put it down. Michael Connelly, best-selling author of The Wrong Side of GoodbyeThis is the Whitey Bulger book by the two expert journalists who know the turf best. Michael Patrick MacDonald, best-selling author of All Souls: A Family Story from Southie About the Author Kevin Cullen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has written for the Boston Globe since 1985, was the first to raise questions about Whitey Bulgers relationship with the FBI. A frequent commentator on NPR and the BBC, Cullen has won major journalism prizes including the Goldsmith Prize, the George Polk Award, and the Selden Ring Award.Shelley Murphy has covered Whitey Bulger and organized crime in Boston since 1985, beginning at the Boston Herald and moving to the Globe in 1993. She has won a George Polk Award for National Reporting...

-Titulo Original : Deep Creek Finding Hope In The High Country-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us.On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the earth, the ranch most of all. Alongside her devoted Irish wolfhounds and a spirited troupe of horses, donkeys, and Icelandic sheep, the ranch becomes Houston’s sanctuary, a place where she discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her after a childhood of horrific parental abuse and neglect.In essays as lucid and invigorating as mountain air, Deep Creek delivers Houston’s most profound meditations yet on how to live simultaneously inside the wonder and the grief…to love the damaged world and do what I can to help it thrive. 12 black and white illustrations Review There is so much beauty, wisdom, and truth in this book, I felt the pages almost humming in my hands. I was riveted and enlightened, inspired and consoled. This is a book for all of us, right now. Cheryl Strayed, author of WildThis book is endlessly wise, funny, and full of heart. To say that its clear-eyed, doom-laden yet loving message is important and timely would be an understatement. It is unapologetically sincere, utterly moving. Tommy Orange, author of There ThereDeep Creek is a love letter to earth, animals, and the best of humanity. Pam Houston has taken our heartache and woven it back into hope. Her stories of love, loss, and a life lived in relationship to land give us good reasons not to give up on ourselves or each other. This is the book we need right now to remind us how to endure passionately. An unstoppable heart song. Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Misfit’s ManifestoPam Houston is the rodeo queen of American letters. In Deep Creek, her voice has never been more fully realized, and her message never more important. Samantha Dunn, author of Not by AccidentFull of wisdom, wit, and loving attention, Pam Houston’s survey of her life and land should be required reading for anyone who loves this planet we call home. Camille T. Dungy, author of Guidebook to Relative StrangersIn the face of the world’s turmoil, this book is utter clarity. In the face of the world’s harshness, this book is a soft place to land…If you find yourself careening toward despair, pick up Deep Creek and read even just one page. The words there will lift you back to hope not the sentimental kind, but the kind that can and does change the world for the better. What gratitude we owe to Pam Houston for writing it. B. K. Loren, author of Animal, Mineral, RadicalHouston has a great range of vision, and she’s fun to read. She gets the land right…In this perfectly American memoir, a restless heart finds its place. Craig Childs, author of Atlas of a Lost WorldA profound and inspiring love letter to one piece of Earth and to the rest of it, as well. Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Houstons vision find a solid place among the chronicles of quiet appreciation of the American wilderness, without the misanthropy that often accompanies the genre; her passion for the land and its inhabitants is irresistibly contagious. Publishers Weekly (starred review)Always impressive, Houston is in striking form here. Her talent remains remarkable and her words extraordinarily affecting and effective. Booklist (starred review)Highly recommended as a memoir that combines nature, writing, and personal reflection. Library Journal (starred review) About the Author Pam Houston is the prize-winning author of Contents May Have Shifted, among other books. She is professor of English at the University of California...

-Titulo Original : The Man Who Ate Too Much The Life Of James Beard-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: A Finalist for the 2022 James Beard Foundation Cookbook Award (Writing) The definitive biography of America’s best-known and least-understood food personality, and the modern culinary landscape he shaped. In the first portrait of James Beard in twenty-five years, John Birdsall accomplishes what no prior telling of Beard’s life and work has done: He looks beyond the public image of the Dean of American Cookery to give voice to the gourmet’s complex, queer life and, in the process, illuminates the history of American food in the twentieth century. At a time when stuffy French restaurants and soulless Continental cuisine prevailed, Beard invented something strange and new: the notion of an American cuisine.Informed by previously overlooked correspondence, years of archival research, and a close reading of everything Beard wrote, this majestic biography traces the emergence of personality in American food while reckoning with the outwardly gregarious Beard’s own need for love and connection, arguing that Beard turned an unapologetic pursuit of pleasure into a new model for food authors and experts.Born in Portland, Oregon, in 1903, Beard would journey from the pristine Pacific Coast to New York’s Greenwich Village by way of gay undergrounds in London and Paris of the 1920s. The failed actor-turned-Manhattan canape hawker-turned-author and cooking teacher was the jovial bachelor uncle presiding over America’s kitchens for nearly four decades. In the 1940s he hosted one of the first television cooking shows, and by flouting the rules of publishing would end up crafting some of the most expressive cookbooks of the twentieth century, with recipes and stories that laid the groundwork for how we cook and eat today.In stirring, novelistic detail, The Man Who Ate Too Much brings to life a towering figure, a man who still represents the best in eating and yet has never been fully understood until now. This is biography of the highest order, a book about the rise of America’s food written by the celebrated writer who fills in Beard’s life with the color and meaning earlier generations were afraid to examine. 16 pages of photographs Review For the first time, Mr. Birdsall brings both scholarly research and a queer lens to Beard’s life, braiding the strands of privilege and pain, performance and anxiety, into an entirely new story. Julia Moskin, New York TimesJohn Birdsall is not a polite biographer, and I say this with admiration. In his new book, The Man Who Ate Too Much, he pokes and prods at Beard’s most tender places, his hidden traumas, his deepest insecurities. Birdsall gets to what’s often missing from the cheerful narrative of James Beard, shading in the face sketched on medals and vintage book covers a man known chiefly as a gregarious entertainer, enormous in profile, appetite and knowledge. Tejal Rao, New York TimesA marvel of narrative nonfiction that achieves for 20th-century gay history what Tom Wolfe did for aviation in The Right Stuff, a subjective and objective reconstruction of a neglected American subculture hiding in plain sight. Anne Matthews, The American ScholarLike the life of James Beard, this biography is big and beautiful, heartbreaking and true. It is the celebration that Beard deserves. Rien Fertel, Wall Street JournalBeard was both a victim and a perpetrator of multiple erasures, which Birdsall records in meticulous detail… The story of Beard’s life invites us to recognize the violence that was done in the name of American cooking and expand our understanding of authenticity to include not only what’s on the plate but everything around it: the norms, prejudices, economic wounds, environmental traumas, and other social forces that go into the production of food and culinary authority. It’s a reminder that food is part of culture, and terroir not simply a matter of the soil. Aaron Timms, New RepublicBirdsall’s sentences have rhythm, too, and compress tim...

-Titulo Original : Mengele Unmasking The Angel Of Death-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: A gripping biography of the infamous Nazi doctor, from a former Justice Department official tasked with uncovering his fate.Perhaps the most notorious war criminal of all time, Josef Mengele was the embodiment of bloodless efficiency and passionate devotion to a grotesque worldview. Aided by the role he has assumed in works of popular culture, Mengele has come to symbolize the Holocaust itself as well as the failure of justice that allowed countless Nazi murderers and their accomplices to escape justice. Whether as the demonic doctor who directed mass killings or the elusive fugitive who escaped capture, Mengele has loomed so large that even with conclusive proof, many refused to believe that he had died.As chief of investigative research at the Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations in the 1980s, David G. Marwell worked on the Mengele case, interviewing his victims, visiting the scenes of his crimes, and ultimately holding his bones in his hands. Drawing on his own experience as well as new scholarship and sources, Marwell examines in scrupulous detail Mengele’s life and career. He chronicles Mengele’s university studies, which led to two PhDs and a promising career as a scientist; his wartime service both in frontline combat and at Auschwitz, where his “selections” sent innumerable innocents to their deaths and his “scientific” pursuits including his studies of twins and eye color traumatized or killed countless more; and his postwar flight from Europe and refuge in South America.Mengele describes the international search for the Nazi doctor in 1985 that ended in a cemetery in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the dogged forensic investigation that produced overwhelming evidence that Mengele had died but failed to convince those who, arguably, most wanted him dead. This is the riveting story of science without limits, escape without freedom, and resolution without justice. 8 pages of black-and-white photographs Review Has much new to tell us, both about Mengele himself and, more significant, about the social and scientific milieu that allowed him to flourish. Adam Gopnik, The New YorkerGripping....sober and meticulous. David Margolick, Wall Street JournalCompelling....At once a compact biography of the notorious war criminal, a detailed account of Mengele’s flight to South America, and an absorbing narrative of the quest to bring him to justice. Patricia Heberer Rice, ScienceAuthoritative....Marwell’s account is an adventure in pathology and criminology. Robert Siegel, MomentIn Mengele, David Marwell has written the final and fascinating history of the ‘Angel of Death.’ His prodigious research results in many new insights into one of the most notorious Nazis. Marwell is convincing in unlocking the long-standing mystery of what motivated Mengele to undertake his gruesome medical experiments on twin children. He also manages to fill in important gaps in Mengele’s postwar life on the run and conclusively settles any lingering questions about whether the bones unearthed in 1985 in another man’s grave in Brazil were those of the fugitive war criminal. Marwell, who played a personal role in some of the events he recounts, displays not only the refined eye of a historian but emerges as a talented storyteller. The often infuriating tale he sets forth moves along effortlessly. At long last, in this important book, Mengele has been captured. Gerald Posner, author of Mengele: The Complete StoryThis is a book that only David Marwell could write after half a lifetime of studying and pursuing Josef Mengele. Marwell does more than portray the man, he details his multiple escapes, identities, and careers, the thirty-four-year search for his capture, the political intrigues and rivalries between countries, Nazi hunters, and intelligence agencies that led to Mengele’s grave. A fascinating story of great importance. Michael Berenbaum, former director of the United States Holocaust...

-Titulo Original : Unreliable Memoirs-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: A best-selling classic around the world, Clive James’s hilarious memoir has long been unavailable in the United States. Before James Frey famously fabricated his memoir, Clive James wrote a refreshingly candid book that made no claims to be accurate, precise, or entirely truthful, only to entertain. In an exercise of literary exorcism, James set out to put his childhood in Australia behind him by rendering it as part novel, part memoir. Now, nearly thirty years after it first came out in England, Unreliable Memoirs is again available to American readers and sure to attract a whole new generation that has, through his essays and poetry, come to love James’s inimitable voice. Review Do not read this book in public. You will risk severe internal injuries from trying to suppress your laughter. . . . What’s worse, you can’t put it down once started. Its addictive powers stun all normal decent resistance within seconds. Not to be missed. Sunday Times About the Author Clive James (1939 2019), author of the best-selling Cultural Amnesia and Poetry Notebook, was an Officer of the Order of Australia and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. His writing appeared in the New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic...

-Titulo Original : Captain James Cook A Biography-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: [Houghs] thorough and lively biography . . . interprets the life with sympathy and skill. From first page to last, Hough leaves no doubt that he is telling the story not merely of a great sailor but also of a great man.--Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World James Cook, born in 1728, was one of the most celebrated men of his time, the last and the greatest of the romantic navigator/explorers. His voyages in the Royal Navy to the eastern and western seaboards of North America, the North and South Pacific, the Arctic, and the Antarctic brought a new understanding of the worlds geography and of the peoples, flora, and fauna of the lands he discovered. Richard Houghs vivid narrative captures all the excitement of this age of discovery and establishes Cook as a link between the vague scientific speculations of the early eighteenth century and the industrial revolution to come. A pioneer in many fields, Cook produced maps of unprecedented accuracy; revolutionized the seamans diet, all but eliminating scurvy; and exploded the myth of the Great Southern Continent imagined by earlier geographers and scientists. Hough consulted numerous archives and traveled in Cooks wake from Alaska to Tasmania, visiting many of the Pacific islands--including the spot where Cook was stoned to death by cannibals in the Hawaiian archipelago--to produce a comprehensive and immensely readable biography, full of new insights into the life of one of the worlds greatest mariners. Photographs Review An engaging, intelligent retelling of Cooks extraordinary life.--Verlyn KlinkenborgLively and scholarly. . . . Hough, by condensing Cooks life into a single volume, has brought his achievements into a sharper and stronger focus.--Jon Manchip WhiteAn engaging, intelligent retelling of Cooks extraordinary life. -- Verlyn Klinkenborg About the Author Richard Hough, a noted naval historian and author, lives in England...

-Titulo Original : Oliver Wendell Holmes A Life In War, Law, And Ideas-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: “Consistently gripping.… [I]t’s possessed of a zest and omnivorous curiosity that reflects the boundless energy of its subject.” Steve Donoghue, Christian Science MonitorOliver Wendell Holmes escaped death twice as a young Union officer in the Civil War. He lived ever after with unwavering moral courage, unremitting scorn for dogma, and an insatiable intellectual curiosity. During his nearly three decades on the Supreme Court, he wrote a series of opinions that would prove prophetic in securing freedom of speech, protecting the rights of criminal defendants, and ending the Court’s reactionary resistance to social and economic reforms.As a pioneering legal scholar, Holmes revolutionized the understanding of common law. As an enthusiastic friend, he wrote thousands of letters brimming with an abiding joy in fighting the good fight. Drawing on many previously unpublished letters and records, Stephen Budiansky offers the fullest portrait yet of this pivotal American figure. 90 illustrations Review Lively and engaging.… [A]t a time when progressives and conservatives alike are so sure of their own premises that America is more polarized than at any time since the Civil War, the ‘skeptical humility,’ as Budiansky puts it, that Holmes took from the war seems more elusive, and more urgently needed, than ever. Jeffrey Rosen, Washington PostBudiansky’s account shines. Adam J. White, Wall Street JournalA lively, accessible book. Noah Feldman, New York Times Book ReviewDiscriminating, genial, and admiring. Brenda Wineapple, NationEspecially consequential.… Budiansky’s is now the most engrossing of the major Holmes biographies. Lincoln Caplan, Harvard MagazineSuperb.... A gracefully written narrative full of well-chosen detail. William P. LaPiana, Journal of American HistoryThe longevity and complexity of Holmes’s life and judicial philosophy present a formidable challenge to a biographer. Stephen Budiansky has met that challenge in distinguished fashion. Weaving together Holmes’s private and public lives with a clarity that reveals what had often seemed obscure in previous biographies, this book also shows how Holmes’s experience as a thrice-wounded Civil War officer subtly shaped his social and juridical ideas during the next seventy years. James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War EraStephen Budiansky’s Oliver Wendell Holmes portrays the ultimate giant of American law and intellectual history. In this stunningly researched and compellingly written biography Budiansky brings Holmes back to life. This is an astonishing look at what made our native jurisprudence genius tick. Highly recommended! Douglas Brinkley, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and professor of History, Rice University, and author of American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space RaceA lively and informative portrait of the great justice. Robert C. Post, Sterling Professor of Law, Yale Law School About the Author Stephen Budiansky is a historian, biographer, and journalist whose writing has appeared in the Atlantic, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. A recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, he resides in Loudoun County, Virginia...

-Titulo Original : Fastnet, Force 10 The Deadliest Storm In The History Of Modern Sailing-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: In August 1979, 303 yachts began the 600-mile Fastnet Race from the Isle of Wight off the southwest coast of England to Fastnet Rock off the Irish coast and back. It began in fine weather, then suddenly became a terrifying ordeal. A Force 10, sixty-knot storm swept across the North Atlantic with a speed that confounded forecasters, slamming into the fleet with epic fury. For twenty hours, 2,500 men and women were smashed by forty-foot breaking waves, while rescue helicopters and lifeboats struggled to save them. By the time the race was over, fifteen people had died, twenty-four crews had abandoned ship, five yachts had sunk, 136 sailors had been rescued, and only 85 boats had finished the race. John Rousmaniere was there, and he tells the tragic story of the greatest disaster in the history of yachting as only one who has sailed through the teeth of a killer storm can. With a new introduction by the author. Review John Rousmanieres gripping account of that calamitous race is a must-read for anyone thinking about sailing offshore. This richly detailed account provides inspiration for all sailors to thoroughly prepare and use good sense at sea. Gary Jobson, ESPN sailing commentatorThere are few new lessons in safety at sea. What we teach is the accumulated wisdom of centuries, passed down to us by those who took the trouble to think and then to write. [Fastnet, Force 10] is still the best single source of those lessons, in my view.... Thanks for a great book and a lifetime of caring for those who go down to the sea in ships. John Bonds, Safety-at-sea expert and former director of the U.S. Sailing Association and the U.S. Naval Academy sailing programI reread Fastnet, Force 10 for at least the fourth time, with pleasure and admiration, as always. For a long time now, it has been a huge favorite of mine; as a writer, Im dazzled by [John Rousmaniere]s sure-footed handling of a complex narrative, with multiple points of view, all beautifully woven into a continuous and powerful story. After twenty years, it still reads as freshly as ever. Jonathan Raban, author of Passage to Juneau, Coasting, and Old Glory and editor of The Oxford Book of the Sea About the Author John Rousmaniere has sailed in over 35,000 miles of offshore voyaging and racing. He crewed on the 48-foot Toscana in the fateful Fastnet Race of 1979...

-Titulo Original : Kitty Genovese The Murder, The Bystanders, The Crime That Changed America-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Vividly transforms Ms. Genovese from an iconic urban martyr to a three-dimensional protagonist in a case that transformed the criminal justice system. Sam Roberts, New York TimesIn 1964 Catherine Kitty Genovese was brutally stabbed to death on her front stoop in plain view of numerous witnesses. Her sensational case provoked an anxious outcry and became the stuff of urban legend. Kevin Cook’s “provocative” (Wall Street Journal) investigation upends the simple story we thought we knew. His unprecedented minute-by-minute reconstruction of the crime shatters the fable of the 38 passive witnesses a myth perpetuated by the New York Times, movies, TV programs, and countless psychology textbooks. For the first time, Cook introduces us to a neighbor who did intervene, and he brings to life a vibrant and charismatic Kitty, working (and dancing) her way through the colorful, fast-changing New York of the ’60s. 16 pages of photographs Review Cook is [an] adept storyteller. His peppy knowing style calls to mind pop-culture products from the time of the murder…he is firmly and persuasively in the revisionist camp. The New YorkerProvocative. The Wall Street JournalProvocative… As much about the alchemy of journalism as urban pathology. Edward Kosner, The Wall Street JournalKevin Cook is raising big questions. NPRs All Things ConsideredCook’s restoration helps make Kitty human, not merely iconographic. Cleveland Plain DealerA fully-realized portrait of Kitty… Readers won’t forget that she was a person, not a player in an anecdote. Michael Washburn, Boston Sunday GlobeSmart…suspenseful. [Cook’s] reporting…is rich and deep. Tampa Bay TimesCook manages to maintain an impressive level of tension…[M]oving…compelling. Jordan Michael Smith, Christian Science MonitorKevin Cook rips the cover off an enduring urban myth. He’s done a first-rate reporting job, one that delivers the truth at last about an infamous murder that came to define an age. Kevin Baker, author of The Big Crowd and Paradise AlleyThis is not a good book. This is a GREAT book. I don’t think I’ve read its compelling equal in twenty years. Every page reveals astonishing new facts about one of the most paralyzing events in the flawed soul of the American character. This is modern history at its storytelling best, ignored at the reader’s peril. Harlan Ellison About the Author A former senior editor at Sports Illustrated, Kevin Cook is the author of Titanic Thompson, Tommys Honor, Kitty Genovese and The Dad Report. He lives in New York City...