-Titulo Original : The Rise And Fall Of Nations Forces Of Change In The Post-crisis World-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review For insights into the forces operating in our world today, The Rise and Fall of Nations is a stimulating and useful guide. Financial TimesFilled with amazing data. . . fascinating insights and revealing anecdotes, this is quite simply the best guide to the global economy today. Whether you are an observer or an investor, you cannot afford to ignore it. Fareed ZakariaIn this lively and informative book, Sharma explains his system of 10 rules for identifying economies with good potential. Among the striking conclusions is his bearishness about China, largely because of its huge and growing indebtedness. Martin Wolf, Financial TimesWhat determines whether countries succeed or fail? That’s the big question Ruchir Sharma sets out to answer in The Rise and Fall of Nations. . . . Sharma’s mission is as ambitious as it is well-executed. A mix of humble pragmatism and daring decisiveness make his tips compelling and credible. . . . The author backs up each of the rules with a combination of hard facts and colourful anecdotes gathered on his travels. . . . Sharma’s tried and tested tenets and eloquent delivery will reward anyone hoping to understand what determines the fickle fortunes of nations. Katrina Hamlin, ReutersEntertaining, acute and disarmingly honest. . . . [Sharma] has a knack for sharp comparisons between countries. Australia’s history of high immigration is contrasted with Japan’s insularity. . . . He is pithy, too. In countries with rotten financial systems, ‘a shake-up of banking is a shake-up of society.’ . . . Mr. Sharma’s book is a fine guide to the great emerging market boom and bust. The EconomistCompelling. . . a success. . . . The local insight adds color, while the data reassures us that his analysis is underpinned by more than a series of conversations with taxi drivers. . . . Much more than an investment primer. The issues he deals with, from growth to inequality, are of much broader interest. . . . This does not necessarily mean he will be right but it does mean his projections are more easily testable. . . . Sharma’s book provides a good guide for working out what will come next. Duncan Weldon, Prospect magazineA vital guide to the new economic order. . . . Sharma has been one of the prescient seers of the Chinese debt crisis. Rana Foroohar, Time MagazineIf you have been wondering what’s happening to the world why for example has England voted to commit economic suicide by leaving the European Union?. . . . The Americans have voted for Donald Trump. . . Donald Trump? What’s going on? Is there a rightwing, anti-immigrant backlash, or is it more complex? In fact much of what is happening is following a pattern, a pattern of global trends that this book has in great detail and mastery documented. . . . An amazing read, I learned a lot from it, and its out-of-the-box thinking. Prannoy Roy, Indian TV news anchor and executive co-chair of NDTV groupArticulate. . . Highly recommended to all readers interested in global economics. Sharma offers ten rules in evaluating global economic growth since the 2008 financial crisis. . . . Sharma presents a wealth of data and insights into the economic condition of the post-2008 world. . . . Some of his conclusions may seem jarring but are always thought provoking, such as that past population control measures are now causing labor shortages and that economic forecasting beyond five years is rarely accurate. Library Journal[Sharma] writes interestingly and well. . . . The book is rich in example and anecdote. . . . And it may just help you avoid picking losers. David Smith, The Times (UK)The book is so lively and wandering that it is possible to miss the 10 rules and enjoy it just as a record of Sharma’s learning them. The Indian ExpressHow do you write a compelling book about which nations will rise and fall over the next five years? Probably not by suggesting that it’s mostly random, except for extreme policy mistakes...

-Titulo Original : How Charts Lie Getting Smarter About Visual Information-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: A leading data visualization expert explores the negative and positive influences that charts have on our perception of truth.We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at? Social media has made charts, infographics, and diagrams ubiquitous and easier to share than ever. We associate charts with science and reason; the flashy visuals are both appealing and persuasive. Pie charts, maps, bar and line graphs, and scatter plots (to name a few) can better inform us, revealing patterns and trends hidden behind the numbers we encounter in our lives. In short, good charts make us smarter if we know how to read them.However, they can also lead us astray. Charts lie in a variety of ways displaying incomplete or inaccurate data, suggesting misleading patterns, and concealing uncertainty or are frequently misunderstood, such as the confusing cone of uncertainty maps shown on TV every hurricane season. To make matters worse, many of us are ill-equipped to interpret the visuals that politicians, journalists, advertisers, and even our employers present each day, enabling bad actors to easily manipulate them to promote their own agendas.In How Charts Lie, data visualization expert Alberto Cairo teaches us to not only spot the lies in deceptive visuals, but also to take advantage of good ones to understand complex stories. Public conversations are increasingly propelled by numbers, and to make sense of them we must be able to decode and use visual information. By examining contemporary examples ranging from election-result infographics to global GDP maps and box-office record charts, How Charts Lie demystifies an essential new literacy, one that will make us better equipped to navigate our data-driven world. 175 illustrations Review This book offers a succinct, elegant, accessible look at the ways data can be represented or misrepresented and is a perfect primer for anyone who cares about the difference. I loved this book! Charles Wheelan, author of Naked StatisticsFunny, engaging, and mathematically correct…A must read for anyone who wants to stay informed. Cathy O’Neil, best-selling author of Weapons of Math DestructionI wish we lived in a world where you didn’t need to read Alberto Cairo’s How Charts Lie, a robust guide to self-defense against graphs and figures designed to mislead. But here we are, and yes, you do. Jordan Ellenberg, author of How Not to Be WrongAlberto Cairo has written a wise, witty, and utterly beautiful book. You couldn’t hope for a better teacher to improve your graphical literacy. Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist and presenter of More or LessAlberto Cairo shares great examples of data visualization and storytelling for anyone who wants to dig into their data. Dona Wong, author of The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information GraphicsA picture may be worth a thousand words, but only if you know how to read it. In this book, Alberto Cairo teaches us how to get smarter about visual information by reading charts with attention and care. I found a lot to steal here, and you will, too. Austin Kleon, author of Steal Like an ArtistThis book will open your eyes to how everyone uses visuals to push agendas. A master visual designer, Alberto Cairo shows you how to read charts and decode design. After this book, you can’t look at charts with a straight face! Kaiser Fung, author of Numbers Rule Your World About the Author Alberto Cairo is the Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the School of Communication of the University of Miami. He has consulted with companies and institutions such as Google and the Congressional Budget Office on visualizations. He lives in Miami, Florida...

-Titulo Original : Behemoth A History Of The Factory And The Making Of The Modern World-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Freeman’s rich and ambitious Behemoth depicts a world in retreat that still looms large in the national imagination.…More than an economic history, or a chronicle of architectural feats and labor movements. Jennifer Szalai, New York TimesIn an accessible and timely work of scholarship, celebrated historian Joshua B. Freeman tells the story of the factory and examines how it has reflected both our dreams and our nightmares of industrialization and social change. He whisks readers from the early textile mills that powered the Industrial Revolution to the factory towns of New England to today’s behemoths making sneakers, toys, and cellphones in China and Vietnam. Behemoth offers a piercing perspective on how factories have shaped our societies and the challenges we face now. 30 black and white illustrations Review Fascinating.…Freeman shows how factories have had an overwhelming influence on the way we work, think, move, play and fight. Scott W. Berg, Washington Post[A] lively chronicle of the factory.… [Freeman] delves into the nitty-gritty of manufacturing. He successfully melds together those nuggets with social history, on the shop floor and beyond the factory walls. EconomistRemarkable.… If you want to know where the world we live in came from, this is a good place to start. Eric FonerYou may have no detailed knowledge of factories except that they can be converted into cool lofts. In that case, you’ll learn much from historian Joshua Freeman. Jonathan Rose, Wall Street Journal[An] immersive, trivia-packed history. Henry Grabar, SlateAn effortless and engaging guide. David Sessions, New RepublicFreeman has written a superb account.… Almost every page contains a memorable fact or an intriguing thought. Ian Jack, GuardianExcellent. National Book ReviewFreeman uses the history of the factory as a way to re-examine how workers are treated worldwide. Bradley Babendir, Pacific StandardA global tour of three centuries, from English textile mills to Detroit steel plants to Chinese iPhone factories. Tom Beer, Newsday About the Author Joshua B. Freeman is a Distinguished Professor of History at Queens College and the Graduate Center of CUNY. His previous books include American Empire and Working-Class New York, among others. He lives in New York City...

-Titulo Original : The End Of Alchemy Money, Banking, And The Future Of The Global Economy-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review An outstandingly lucid account of postwar economic policymaking and the dilemmas we now face. . . . It is rare to encounter a book on economics quite as intellectually exhilarating as The End of Alchemy a dazzling performance indeed. John Plender, Financial TimesI have read umpteen books about the financial crisis of 2007-2008 and its lessons. This is the cleverest one, brimming over with new ideas. While other ‘lords of finance’ publish memoirs, King has produced a brilliant analysis not only of what went wrong in the global financial system but also of what went wrong in economics itself. Niall FergusonA sophisticated and highly approachable study of how modern finance has lost its way. Few individuals are more qualified than Lord Mervyn King to imagine the banking of the future. His book should be required reading. Henry KissingerMervyn King asks, ‘Why has almost every industrialized country found it difficult to overcome the stagnation that followed the financial crisis in 2007-2008, and why did money and banking, the alchemists of a market economy, turn into its Achilles heel?’ He addresses these questions, and much more. For those endeavoring to understand the greatest financial crisis of our time and the future of finance, this highly provocative book is a must-read. Alan GreenspanDrawing on years of scholarly study of banking history and his real world experience in fighting financial panic, Mervyn King has set out a new framework for monetary and financial reform. Seemingly simple in concept, it challenges prevailing banking and market practice. The End of Alchemy demands debate and a well-reasoned response. Paul A. Volcker “If [The End of Alchemy] gets the attention it deserves, it might just save the world.” Michael Lewis, Bloomberg ViewSomething is wrong with our banking system. We all sense that, but Mervyn King knows it firsthand; his ten years at the helm of the Bank of England, including at the height of the financial crisis, revealed profound truths about the mechanisms of our capitalist society. In The End of Alchemy he offers us an essential work about the history and future of money and banking, the keys to modern finance.The Industrial Revolution built the foundation of our modern capitalist age. Yet the flowering of technological innovations during that dynamic period relied on the widespread adoption of two much older ideas: the creation of paper money and the invention of banks that issued credit. We take these systems for granted today, yet at their core both ideas were revolutionary and almost magical. Common paper became as precious as gold, and risky long-term loans were transformed into safe short-term bank deposits. As King argues, this is financial alchemy the creation of extraordinary financial powers that defy reality and common sense. Faith in these powers has led to huge benefits; the liquidity they create has fueled economic growth for two centuries now. However, they have also produced an unending string of economic disasters, from hyperinflations to banking collapses to the recent global recession and current stagnation.How do we reconcile the potent strengths of these ideas with their inherent weaknesses? King draws on his unique experience to present fresh interpretations of these economic forces and to point the way forward for the global economy. His bold solutions cut through current overstuffed and needlessly complex legislation to provide a clear path to durable prosperity and the end of overreliance on the alchemy of our financial ancestors. About the Author Mervyn King, former governor of the Bank of England, teaches at New York University and the London School of Economics...

-Titulo Original : Double Entry How The Merchants Of Venice Created Modern Finance-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: “Lively history. . . . Show[s] double entry’s role in the creation of the accounting profession, and even of capitalism itself.” The New Yorker Filled with colorful characters and history, Double Entry takes us from the ancient origins of accounting in Mesopotamia to the frontiers of modern finance. At the heart of the story is double-entry bookkeeping: the first system that allowed merchants to actually measure the worth of their businesses. Luca Pacioli monk, mathematician, alchemist, and friend of Leonardo da Vinci incorporated Arabic mathematics to formulate a system that could work across all trades and nations. As Jane Gleeson-White reveals, double-entry accounting was nothing short of revolutionary: it fueled the Renaissance, enabled capitalism to flourish, and created the global economy. John Maynard Keynes would use it to calculate GDP, the measure of a nation’s wealth. Yet double-entry accounting has had its failures. With the costs of sudden corporate collapses such as Enron and Lehman Brothers, and its disregard of environmental and human costs, the time may have come to re-create it for the future. Review Entertaining and informative. The EconomistLucidly presented. . . . An accessible introduction to this key development in the history of capitalism. Edward Chancellor, Wall Street JournalStimulating. . . . Fascinating. Drew DeSilver, Seattle TimesA timely, topical, readable, and thought-provoking look at the history and legacy of double-entry bookkeeping. Elif Batuman, author of The PossessedElegantly written . . . charts the epic journey of the humble device that showed how to count the cost of everything, from the Doge’s Palace to the acrobatics of John Maynard Keynes’s General Theory. Nicholas Wapshott, author of Keynes HayekA stimulating approach that presents a compelling outline for further detailed review. Kirkus ReviewsStarred review. Lively and elegantly written account of the history of double-entry bookkeeping.... This dynamic examination of the impact and legacy of double-entry bookkeeping is sure to appeal to those in the accounting profession, business leaders, and history buffs, and will likely become required reading in business school curricula. Publishers Weekly About the Author Jane Gleeson-White is the author of Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance, which won the 2012 Waverley Library Award for Literature. Gleeson-White has degrees in economics and literature from the University of Sydney...

-Titulo Original : Time On The Cross The Economics Of American Slavery-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: First published in 1974, Fogel and Engermans groundbreaking book reexamined the economic foundations of American slavery, marking the start of a new period of slavery scholarship and some searching revisions of a national tradition (C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books). In an Afterword added in 1989, the authors assess their findings in the light of recent scholarship and debate. Review With one stroke [this book] turned around a whole field of interpretation and exposed the frailty of history done without science. New York Times Book Review From the Back Cover Time on the Cross is at once a jarring attack on the methods and conclusions of traditional scholarship and a lucid, highly readable analysis of the special American problem - black slavery. About the Author Robert William Fogel, winner of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science, is director of the Center for Population Economics at the University of Chicago.Stanley L. Engerman is an economist and economic historian at the University of Rochester. His controversial writings on the economics of slavery with economist Robert Fogel were some of the first modern treatments of the subject...

-Titulo Original : Letters To A Young Poet-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review It would take a deeply cynical heart not to fall in love with Rainer Maria Rilkes Letters to a Young Poet. At the end of this millennium, his slender book holds everything a student of the century could want: the unedited thoughts of (arguably) the most important European poet of the modern age. Rilke wrote these 10 sweepingly emotional letters in 1903, addressing a former student of one of his own teachers. The recipient was wise enough to omit his own inquiries from the finished product, which means that we get a marvelously undiluted dose of Rilkean aesthetics and exhortation. The poet prefaced each letter with an evocative notation of the city in which he wrote, including Paris, Rome, and the outskirts of Pisa. Yet he spends most of the time encouraging the student in his own work, delivering a sublime, one-on-one equivalent of the modern writing workshop: Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what recompense might come from outside. Every page is stamped with Rilkes characteristic grace, and the book is free of the breathless effect that occasionally mars his poetry. His ideas on gender and the role of the artist are also surprisingly prescient. And even his retrograde comment on the beauty of the virgin (which the poet derives from the fact that she has not yet achieved anything) is counterbalanced by his perception that the sexes are more related than we think. Those looking for an alluring image of the solitary artist--and for an astonishing quotient of wisdom--will find both in Letters to a Young Poet. --Jennifer Buckendorff Rilkes timeless letters about poetry, sensitive observation, and the complicated workings of the human heart.Born in 1875, the great German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart. Drawn by some sympathetic note in his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. From 1903 to 1908 Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young, would-be poet on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world. Those letters, still a fresh source of inspiration and insight, are accompanied here by a chronicle of Rilkes life that shows what he was experiencing in his own relationship to life and work when he wrote them. About the Author Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), the author of Sonnets to Orpheus and Letters to a Young Poet, was one of the greatest poets of the German language.M. D. Herter Norton is a publisher and translator. Together with her husband William Warder Norton, she founded the publishing company W. W. Norton & Company. Her work as translator includes the translation of works by Rainer Maria Rilke...

-Titulo Original : Poet Warrior A Memoir-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: National bestseller An ALA Notable Book Three-term poet laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life.Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her poet-warrior road. A musical, kaleidoscopic, and wise follow-up to Crazy Brave, Poet Warrior reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of compassion and healing, poetry with the power to unearth the truth and demand justice.Harjo listens to stories of ancestors and family, the poetry and music that she first encountered as a child, and the messengers of a changing earth owls heralding grief, resilient desert plants, and a smooth green snake curled up in surprise. She celebrates the influences that shaped her poetry, among them Audre Lorde, N. Scott Momaday, Walt Whitman, Muscogee stomp dance call-and-response, Navajo horse songs, rain, and sunrise. In absorbing, incantatory prose, Harjo grieves at the loss of her mother, reckons with the theft of her ancestral homeland, and sheds light on the rituals that nourish her as an artist, mother, wife, and community member.Moving fluidly between prose, song, and poetry, Harjo recounts a luminous journey of becoming, a spiritual map that will help us all find home. Poet Warrior sings with the jazz, blues, tenderness, and bravery that we know as distinctly Joy Harjo. 10 photographs From the Back Cover Praise for Joy Harjo and Crazy BraveJoy Harjo has always been able to see with more than her eyes. Her writing is a testament to this gift…Her hero’s journey is a gift for all those struggling to make their way. Sandra CisnerosJoy Harjo is a giant-hearted, gorgeous, and glorious gift to the world. Her belief in art, in spirit, is so powerful, it can’t help but spill over to us lucky readers. Pam HoustonInsightful…Crazy Brave brings one of our finest and most complicated poets into view…Raw and honest. Jack Shakely, Los Angeles Review of BooksHarjo is a magician and a master of the English language…[S]he knows how to navigate the rough waters of silence, exile and cunning. Jonah Raskin, San Francisco ChronicleA…saga about the survival of spirituality and creativity in the face of generations of racism, dispossession, and familial dysfunction…[F]antastic, terrible, and beautiful. Rebecca Steintz, Boston GlobeHarjo gives readers a glimpse into her own mythic life moments: waking dreams that result in some of her most evocative and important poems. Harjo’s poetry, woven throughout, makes this memoir a must-read for her fans and a fascinating door into her world for those new to her work. Elizabeth Wilkinson, Minneapolis Star Tribune About the Author Joy Harjo is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She is the author of nine poetry collections and two memoirs, most recently Poet Warrior. The recipient of the 2017 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, she lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma...

-Titulo Original : The Red Book A Readers Edition (philemon)-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: A portable edition of the famous Red Book text and essay.The Red Book, published to wide acclaim in 2009, contains the nucleus of C. G. Jung’s later works. It was here that he developed his principal theories of the archetypes, the collective unconscious, and the process of individuation that would transform psychotherapy from treatment of the sick into a means for the higher development of the personality. As Sara Corbett wrote in the New York Times, “The creation of one of modern history’s true visionaries, The Red Book is a singular work, outside of categorization. As an inquiry into what it means to be human, it transcends the history of psychoanalysis and underscores Jung’s place among revolutionary thinkers like Marx, Orwell and, of course, Freud.” The Red Book: A Reader’s Edition features Sonu Shamdasani’s introductory essay and the full translation of Jung’s vital work in one volume. About the Author C. G. Jung (1875- 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and the founder of analytical psychology.Sonu Shamdasani is a professor at University College London. He lives in London.John Peck has taught literature at Princeton, Mount Holyoke, Skidmore, and the University of Zurich, and worked as a Jungian analyst in New England for fifteen years. The author of Collected Shorter Poems and Red Strawberry Leaf, he has translated Luigi Zoja, edits for the Philemon Foundation, and lives in Connecticut.Mark Kyburz, Ph.D., specializes in German into English scholarly translation. Over the past twenty years, he has translated numerous books and articles in various areas of the humanities and social sciences. He is currently working on the lectures that C. G. Jung delivered at the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule from 1933 to 1941. He lives in Zurich...

-Titulo Original : Smalltime A Story Of My Family And The Mob-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: One of Newsweeks Most Highly Anticipated New Books of 2021 Family secrets emerge as a best-selling author dives into the history of the mob in small-town America.Best-selling author Russell Shorto, praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never thought to write about his own past. He grew up knowing his grandfather and namesake was a small-town mob boss but maintained an unspoken family vow of silence. Then an elderly relative prodded: You’re a writer what are you gonna do about the story?Smalltime is a mob story straight out of central casting but with a difference, for the small-town mob, which stretched from Schenectady to Fresno, is a mostly unknown world. The location is the brawny postwar factory town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The setting is City Cigar, a storefront next to City Hall, behind which Russ and his brother-in-law, “Little Joe,” operate a gambling empire and effectively run the town.Smalltime is a riveting American immigrant story that travels back to Risorgimento Sicily, to the ancient, dusty, hill-town home of Antonino Sciotto, the author’s great-grandfather, who leaves his wife and children in grinding poverty for a new life and wife in a Pennsylvania mining town. It’s a tale of Italian Americans living in squalor and prejudice, and of the rise of Russ, who, like thousands of other young men, created a copy of the American establishment that excluded him. Smalltime draws an intimate portrait of a mobster and his wife, sudden riches, and the toll a lawless life takes on one family.But Smalltime is something more. The author enlists his ailing father Tony, the mobster’s son as his partner in the search for their troubled patriarch. As secrets are revealed and Tony’s health deteriorates, the book become an urgent and intimate exploration of three generations of the American immigrant experience. Moving, wryly funny, and richly detailed, Smalltime is an irresistible memoir by a masterful writer of historical narrative. 8 illustrations Review Russell Shorto’s Smalltime draws a convincing portrait of a time when Italian Americans weren’t permitted to live in certain neighborhoods or rise too high in the political firmament. This remembrance of his grandfather’s and great-uncle’s lives of slots and pinball machines, ‘tip seals,’ ‘skeeched dice,’ and places like the Melodee Lounge and City Cigar mixes great history and lovely, lingering memories: ‘Long conversations about spaghetti sauce and aunts who kissed you on the lips: those were the ways we were Italian.’ Francis Ford CoppolaI read a lot of books for NPRs Fresh Air Smalltime, the memoir by Russell Shorto about his grandfather, a mob boss in a Western PA steel town, is one of my favorites. Dave Davies, guest host for NPRs Fresh AirShorto [is] a master of historical narrative…[Smalltime is] a story of family dynamics. Of love and loss and betrayal. Of Shorto’s hometown. Of his own relationship with his father and his father’s relationship with his father.…[O]nce Shorto’s on the highway, steering us along with his usual humor and eye for quirky detail, settling an hour from his hometown for easy access, we are with him. All the way. New York Times Book ReviewShorto has produced something that feels altogether fresh, a street-level portrait of how his late grandfather helped build what amounted to a Mafia small business…Shorto is a terrific storyteller…few of his words are wasted, a delight these days. Wall Street JournalAn entertaining book about the Shorto clan intertwined with a history of the Italian mob, Sicilians in the U.S., and the rise and fall of Johnstown, a central Pennsylvania steel town…Ultimately, Smalltime does not pull any punches while telling its story. It’s strikingly personal, but also a peek into the uniqueness of the American experience. The Daily BeastShorto finally turns a key in the proverbial locked drawer of his familys chest, only to find a web of mob figures ...

-Titulo Original : Crazy Brave A Memoir-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: A “raw and honest” (Los Angeles Review of Books) memoir from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States.In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepfather by finding shelter in her imagination, a deep spiritual life, and connection with the natural world. Narrating the complexities of betrayal and love, Crazy Brave is a haunting, visionary memoir about family and the breaking apart necessary in finding a voice. 12 photographs Review A saga about the survival of spirituality and creativity in the face of generations of racism, dispossession, and familial dysfunction…Fantastic, terrible and beautiful. Rebecca Steinitz, Boston GlobeStirring…In her harrowing and ultimately hopeful story, Harjo allows the reader to know her intimately, and we are enriched by her honesty. Ms.A must-read for her fans and a fascinating door into her world for those new to her work. Elizabeth Wilkinson, Minneapolis Star TribuneGritty and mystical…Reads like a sacred prayer. San Francisco ChronicleExquisite…A must-read for anyone who appreciates the healing power of literature. SouthwestBlunt, moving…[Affirms and acclaims] the artistic impulse. SmithsonianDances into hard truth. [Harjo’s] fine crafting of words and deft braiding of mythic visions throughout the text almost almost draw you past the truth of her personal story. That story is harsh and scary, mystical and loving, and, ultimately, triumphant and healing. Indian CountryJoy Harjo has always been able to see with more than her eyes. Her writing is a testament to this gift. Her memoir honors her own journey as well as those who fell along the wayside. Her hero’s journey is a gift for all those struggling to make their way. Sandra CisnerosJoy Harjo is a giant-hearted, gorgeous, and glorious gift to the world. Her belief in art, in spirit, is so powerful, it can’t help but spill over to us lucky readers. Wildly passionate and honest as a hound, Crazy Brave invites us into a whole new way of seeing deeper, less cluttered, and vastly more courageous than our own. It’s a book for people who want to re-fall in love with the world. Pam Houston About the Author Joy Harjo is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She is the author of nine poetry collections and two memoirs, most recently Poet Warrior. The recipient of the 2017 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, she lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma...

-Titulo Original : Journey To The Edge Of Reason The Life Of Kurt Godel-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: A New York Times Critics Top Book of 2021 * A Booklist Top Ten Biography of 2021 * A Kirkus Reviews Best Science Book of 2021 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 outstand...

-Titulo Original : Letters From An Astrophysicist-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: New York Times Bestseller A luminous companion to the phenomenal bestseller Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has attracted one of the world’s largest online followings with his fascinating, widely accessible insights into science and our universe. Now, Tyson invites us to go behind the scenes of his public fame by revealing his correspondence with people across the globe who have sought him out in search of answers. In this hand-picked collection of 101 letters, Tyson draws upon cosmic perspectives to address a vast array of questions about science, faith, philosophy, life, and of course, Pluto. His succinct, opinionated, passionate, and often funny responses reflect his popularity and standing as a leading educator.Tyson’s 2017 bestseller Astrophysics for People in a Hurry offered more than one million readers an insightful and accessible understanding of the universe. Tyson’s most candid and heartfelt writing yet, Letters from an Astrophysicist introduces us to a newly personal dimension of Tyson’s quest to explore our place in the cosmos. 5 illustrations Review Scintillating....Tyson’s latest is a stimulating companion to his Astrophysics for People in a Hurry and both are recommended for inspiring readers wary of science to give it a chance. Booklist (starred review) From the Back Cover Praise for the #1 New York Times best-selling Astrophysics for People in a Hurry:This book will keep you fascinated with succinct and dynamic explanations of a wide variety of astronomical topics. A winner that every astronomy enthusiast should have on the bookshelf! - David J. Eicher, AstronomyGrappling with the scope of the universe…is no simple endeavor, but in this tidy overview, [Tyson] succeeds with seeming effortlessness. - John McMurtrie, San Francisco ChronicleTysons insights are valuable for any leader, teacher, scientist or educator. - Carmine Gallo, ForbesA great gift for the scientifically inclined (but busy). - Laura Pearson, Chicago TribuneLovely book. Last chapter worthy of Carl Sagan himself. - Richard Dawkins About the Author Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist with the American Museum of Natural History and the New York Times best-selling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry. He lives in New York City...

-Titulo Original : The Secret History Of Home Economics How Trailblazing Women Harnessed The Power Of Home And Changed The Way We Live-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: An NPR Favorite History Book of 2021 The surprising, often fiercely feminist, always fascinating, yet barely known, history of home economics.The term “home economics” may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken muffins. But common conception obscures the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the twentieth century by reducing domestic work and providing jobs as professors, engineers, chemists, and businesspeople. And it has something to teach us today.In the surprising, often fiercely feminist and always fascinating The Secret History of Home Economics, Danielle Dreilinger traces the field’s history from Black colleges to Eleanor Roosevelt to Okinawa, from a Betty Crocker brigade to DIY techies. These women and they were mostly women became chemists and marketers, studied nutrition, health, and exercise, tested parachutes, created astronaut food, and took bold steps in childhood development and education.Home economics followed the currents of American culture even as it shaped them. Dreilinger brings forward the racism within the movement along with the strides taken by women of color who were influential leaders and innovators. She also looks at the personal lives of home economics’ women, as they chose to be single, share lives with other women, or try for egalitarian marriages.This groundbreaking and engaging history restores a denigrated subject to its rightful importance, as it reminds us that everyone should learn how to cook a meal, balance their account, and fight for a better world. 16 pages of illustrations Review [A] captivating debut…Dreilinger charmed me with her account of home ecs fascinating past. Barbara Spindel, Wall Street JournalDreilingers lively account offers a thorough look at a profession that allowed women to participate in public life even as they were barred from most jobs and areas of study…We can thank home economics for a number of taken-for-granted features of contemporary life. Rachel Newcomb, The Washington PostA fascinating history of the field and of the contributions of some very determined women…[S]timulating. Katherine Powers, Minnesota Star TribuneDeeply researched and crisply written. Margaret Talbot, The New YorkerTheres one important thing youll fully understand after youve read The Secret History of Home Economics: our foremothers were not to be trifled with…Readers of womens history will love this book, as will general historians, feminists, and anyone with an interest in domestic arts. Terri Schlichenmeyer, Washington InformerHome economics turns out to be relevant, important, in some ways revolutionary. Dreilinger tells all in this entertaining journey that shows us that almost all of what we thought we knew on the subject is wrong. Stimulating and fun! Mark Bittman, author of Animal, Vegetable, JunkA pathbreaking book that unearths and presents part of the hidden history of economics, in this case as practiced largely by women, and often black women at that. Think of it as the science and craft of Beckerian household production but with a managerial emphasis. If you like books on paths not taken, this one is for you. Tyler CowenHome ec…may conjure up lessons in baking blueberry muffins and sewing dresses, but in her detail-filled and fascinating book, Danielle Dreilinger dynamites that cliche with glee. Air Mail[An] eye-opening history…[A] great reminder of the value of the field, and the importance of these skills for anyone at any age. Matthew Wheeland, Civil EatsI grew up in the 1960s when Home Economics was required for all ninth-grade girls and meant two things: cooking and sewing. We baked cookies and served them on silver trays to the boys in Wood Shop. We sewed wraparound skirts. Some of us complained, a lot. Danielle Dreilinger’s The Secret History of Home Economics is a revelation. That secret history i...

-Titulo Original : From Here To Eternity Traveling The World To Find The Good Death-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with dignity.Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Here to Eternity is an immersive global journey that introduces compelling, powerful rituals almost entirely unknown in America.In rural Indonesia, she watches a man clean and dress his grandfather’s mummified body, which has resided in the family home for two years. In La Paz, she meets Bolivian natitas (cigarette-smoking, wish-granting human skulls), and in Tokyo she encounters the Japanese kotsuage ceremony, in which relatives use chopsticks to pluck their loved-ones’ bones from cremation ashes.With boundless curiosity and gallows humor, Doughty vividly describes decomposed bodies and investigates the world’s funerary history. She introduces deathcare innovators researching body composting and green burial, and examines how varied traditions, from Mexico’s Dias de los Muertos to Zoroastrian sky burial help us see our own death customs in a new light.Doughty contends that the American funeral industry sells a particular and, upon close inspection, peculiar set of respectful rites: bodies are whisked to a mortuary, pumped full of chemicals, and entombed in concrete. She argues that our expensive, impersonal system fosters a corrosive fear of death that hinders our ability to cope and mourn. By comparing customs, she demonstrates that mourners everywhere respond best when they help care for the deceased, and have space to participate in the process.Exquisitely illustrated by artist Landis Blair, From Here to Eternity is an adventure into the morbid unknown, a story about the many fascinating ways people everywhere have confronted the very human challenge of mortality. 45 illustrations From School Library Journal Doughty, founder of the Order of the Good Death, a nonprofit organization that advocates for natural burial and reducing the stigma around death, describes funereal rituals around the world while stopping to reflect on U.S. practices. In Indonesia, for instance, the Toraja keep the dead at home for several months or years until the funeral. The author also explores the North Carolinas FOREST facility, which composts corpses, and the Crestone End of Life, a Colorado nonprofit that performs open-air cremations. Doughty shares her reverence for the dead while poking fun at our fears (gross as it sounds, Id come back from the dead for a Diet Coke). She forces U.S. readers to confront the secretive and profitable mortuary business and sheds light on cultures that celebrate death. If death is inevitable, she asks, why are we afraid to address it? As the Bolivians look to their natitas (special human skulls), we can look to them for a level of comfort and familiarity with death. How would your ancestors deal with tragedy? Probably not with a $10,000 check to take a dead body away. VERDICT Recommend this fascinating and well-written book to fans of Mary Roachs Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers.-Pamela Schembri, Horace Greeley High School, Chappaqua, NY Review Doughty is a relentlessly curious and chipper tour guide to the underworld, and the weirder things get, the happier she seems. … [H]er dispatches from the dark side [are] doing us all a kindness offering a picture of what we’re in for, even if we’d rather not know. Libby Copeland, New York Times Book ReviewDoughty chronicles [death] practices with tenderheartedness, a technician’s fascination, and an unsentimental respect for grief. Jill Lepore, The New YorkerDoughty writes bluntly about open-air cremations, natural burials and body composting, bringing a little more clarity and a little less mystery to the question: What happens to us after we die? NPR (Our Guide to 2017s Great Reads)[T]he m...

-Titulo Original : Stitches A Memoir-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: The #1 New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist that breaks new ground for graphic novels (Francois Mouly, art editor, The New Yorker).David Small, a best-selling and highly regarded childrens book illustrator, comes forward with this unflinching graphic memoir. Remarkable and intensely dramatic, Stitches tells the story of a fourteen-year-old boy who awakes one day from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he has been transformed into a virtual mute a vocal cord removed, his throat slashed and stitched together like a bloody boot. From horror to hope, Small proceeds to graphically portray an almost unbelievable descent into adolescent hell and the difficult road to physical, emotional, and artistic recovery.A National Book Award finalist; winner of the ALAs Alex Award; a #1 New York Times graphic bestseller; Publishers Weekly and Washington Post Top Ten Books of the Year, Los Angeles Times Favorite Book, ALA Great Graphic Novels, Booklist Editors Choice Award, Huffington Post Great Books of 2009, Kirkus Reviews Best of 2009, Village Voice Best Graphic Novel, finalist for two 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards (Best Writer/Artist: Nonfiction; Best Reality-Based Work). Illustrated throughout Review A profound and moving gift of graphic literature that has the look of a movie and reads like a poem. Jules FeifferSmall…employs angled shots and silent montages worthy of Alfred Hitchcock. Washington PostA breathtaking, horrific, and ultimately redemptive work. Miami HeraldDavid Small’s Stitches is a master class in how to use silence, both internal and external, to convey emotion and meaning. Jo Ann Beard, New York Times Book Review About the Author David Small author of the #1 New York Times best-selling Stitches, is the recipient of the Caldecott Medal, the Christopher Medal, and the E. B. White Award. He and his wife, the writer Sarah Stewart, live in Michigan...

-Titulo Original : When The Air Hits Your Brain Tales From Neurosurgery-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review Dramatic, moving, and utterly fascinating. New York Times Book ReviewBy turns comic and tragic, this memoir…is a must-read for neurosurgeons but also of interest to most clinicians. Chris Barrett, The BMJDr. Frank Vertosick provides an amusing, insightful and honest inside view of the training of the neurosurgeon. This highly readable account of daily life on the wards shows all the humility, fortitude, and humanity that genuinely underlies this sometimes not well-understood but genuinely wonderful profession. Dr. David W. Roberts, professor of surgery (neurosurgery), Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical CenterWhen the Air Hits Your Brain lets you feel the pain, grief and joy of practicing medicine. This book should be read by every medical student, doctor and present or potential patient. In other words, by all of us. Dr. Bernie Siegel, author of Love, Medicine and MiraclesWriting with humor and compassion, but without sentimentality, Vertosick shows us that neurosurgeons, those gods of the operating room, are humans, too. Kirkus Reviews The story of one mans evolution from naive and ambitious young intern to world-class neurosurgeon.With poignant insight and humor, Frank Vertosick Jr., MD, describes some of the greatest challenges of his career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumor in her brain, a young man struck down in his prime by paraplegia, and a minister with a .22-caliber bullet lodged in his skull. Told through intimate portraits of Vertosick’s patients and unsparing yet fascinatingly detailed descriptions of surgical procedures, When the Air Hits Your Brain the culmination of decades spent struggling to learn an unforgiving craft illuminates both the mysteries of the mind and the realities of the operating room. About the Author Frank Vertosick Jr., MD, is the author of Why We Hurt and When the Air Hits Your Brain. He retired from surgery due to Parkinson’s disease in 2002, but he still treats office patients in Washington, Pennsylvania...

-Titulo Original : The Hemingses Of Monticello An American Family-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: [A] commanding and important book. Jill Lepore, The New YorkerThis epic work named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the New York Times tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently. Now, historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed traces the Hemings family from its origins in Virginia in the 1700s to the family’s dispersal after Jefferson’s death in 1826. 37 illustrations Review A sweeping, prodigiously researched biography. Motoko Rich, New York TimesA monumental and original book. Fergus Bordewich, Washington PostA brilliant book…It marks the author as one of the most astute, insightful, and forthright historians of this generation. Edmund S. Morgan and Marie Morgan, New York Review of Books[A] very important and powerfully argued history of the Hemings family…[Gordon-Reed] has the imagination and talent of an expert historian. Gordon S. Wood, The New RepublicA riveting and compassionate family portrait that deserves to endure as a model of historical inquiry…stands dramatically apart for its searching intelligence and breadth of humane vision…We owe Annette Gordon-Reed tremendous thanks. Kirk Davis Swinehart, Chicago TribuneThe Hemingses of Monticello makes a powerful argument for the historical significance of the Hemings family not only for its engagement with a principal architect of the early Republic, but also for the ways the family embodies the complexities and contradictions of slavery in the United States. James Smethurst, The Boston GlobeThe Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed, a historian and law professor, is a doorstop corrective to early American history, painting a composite portrait of a family that stood at the wellspring of the Jefferson, slave Sally Hemings, their children and kin fascinate and surprise. Cleveland Plain DealerBecause of Gordon-Reed, Hemings and her ancestors and descendants achieve full personhood. For that, the author deserves praise and lots of readers. Minneapolis Star-TribuneAn epic saga of the Hemings family, whose bloodline has been mixed with that of Thomas Jefferson since our third president took slave Sally Hemings as a mistress. Dallas Morning NewsGordon-Reed has pulled off an astonishing feat of historical re-creation, involving equal measures of painstaking archival detective work, creative historical imagination, and balanced judgment. François Furstenberg, SlateAs the title suggests, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family brings an entire family out of the historic shadows that have been cast across Jefferson’s famous Virginia home. The book succeeds on this score by showing how generations of Hemingses labored at Monticello. It offers a stunning illustration of the tragedy that slavery could wreak. Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionHemings and her extended family receive a worthy biography. St. Louis Post-DispatchThe Hemingses of Monticello explores a thorny but important chapter in American history with distinction and clarity, offering a poignant, if also often ugly, chronicle of slavery, secrecy and family tension. Ron Wynn, Bookpag...

-Titulo Original : Mad At The World A Life Of John Steinbeck-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2020 in Nonfiction A resonant biography of America’s most celebrated novelist of the Great Depression.The first full-length biography of the Nobel laureate to appear in a quarter century, Mad at the World illuminates what has made the work of John Steinbeck an enduring part of the literary canon: his capacity for empathy. Pulitzer Prize finalist William Souder explores Steinbeck’s long apprenticeship as a writer struggling through the depths of the Great Depression, and his rise to greatness with masterpieces such as The Red Pony, Of Mice and Men, and The Grapes of Wrath. Angered by the plight of the Dust Bowl migrants who were starving even as they toiled to harvest California’s limitless bounty, fascinated by the guileless decency of the downtrodden denizens of Cannery Row, and appalled by the country’s refusal to recognize the humanity common to all of its citizens, Steinbeck took a stand against social injustice paradoxically given his inherent misanthropy setting him apart from the writers of the so-called lost generation.A man by turns quick-tempered, compassionate, and ultimately brilliant, Steinbeck could be a difficult person to like. Obsessed with privacy, he was mistrustful of people. Next to writing, his favorite things were drinking and womanizing and getting married, which he did three times. And while he claimed indifference about success, his mid-career books and movie deals made him a lot of money which passed through his hands as quickly as it came in. And yet Steinbeck also took aim at the corrosiveness of power, the perils of income inequality, and the urgency of ecological collapse, all of which drive public debate to this day.Steinbeck remains our great social realist novelist, the writer who gave the dispossessed and the disenfranchised a voice in American life and letters. Eloquent, nuanced, and deeply researched, Mad at the World captures the full measure of the man and his work. 8 pages of illustrations Review Painstakingly researched, psychologically nuanced, unshowy, lucid.... Souder, in his own humble style, has brought a deeply human Steinbeck forth in all his flawed, melancholy, brilliant complication. Alexander C. Kafka, Washington PostSouder’s sympathy for Steinbeck ... is most effective and eloquent in his depiction of the California landscape or of the sea, which he describes as swimming with small pelagic crabs ‘like a crimson carpet spread across an ocean the color of lapis lazuli.’ Brenda Wineapple, New York Times Book ReviewA comprehensive new biography of America’s best-known novelist of the Great Depression arrives at a timely moment. Joumana Khatib, New York TimesVividly evokes the landscape ‘between the mountains and by the sea’ that nurtured [Steinbeck’s] love of nature.... [An] appreciative yet clear-eyed assessment. Wendy Smith, Boston GlobeA brisk and engaging account by a highly-regarded biographer whose estimation of Steinbeck’s importance a half-century after his death is itself testimony to his durability as a writer of fiction and critic of our world. Donald Coers, Steinbeck NowBracing.... Steinbeck remains widely read and relevant today, as vibrantly illuminated by Mad at the World. Henry L. Carrigan Jr., BookPage[Souder] knows his subject well and writes with a storyteller’s clean momentum. Phillip Lopate, Times Literary SupplementWilliam Souder’s Mad at the World is a stupendous biography of John Steinbeck. By connecting California’s fog, farms, forests and fisheries to Steinbeck’s growth as an artist Souder has elevated the great Nobel Prize-winning novelist to relevancy in today’s depression-stuck America. The backstories on how Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath and his relationship with marine biologist Ed Ricketts are extraordinary. Throughout the narrative Souder provides first-rate literary analysis and gorgeous prose-stylin...

-Titulo Original : The Doctors Blackwell How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine To Women And Women To Medicine-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: New York Times Bestseller Janice P. Nimura has resurrected Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell in all their feisty, thrilling, trailblazing splendor. Stacy SchiffElizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of ordinary womanhood. Though the world at first recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity ultimately won her the acceptance of the male medical establishment. In 1849, she became the first woman in America to receive an M.D. She was soon joined in her iconic achievement by her younger sister, Emily, who was actually the more brilliant physician.Exploring the sisters’ allies, enemies, and enduring partnership, Janice P. Nimura presents a story of trial and triumph. Together, the Blackwells founded the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, the first hospital staffed entirely by women. Both sisters were tenacious and visionary, but their convictions did not always align with the emergence of women’s rights or with each other. From Bristol, Paris, and Edinburgh to the rising cities of antebellum America, this richly researched new biography celebrates two complicated pioneers who exploded the limits of possibility for women in medicine. As Elizabeth herself predicted, a hundred years hence, women will not be what they are now. 28 illustrations Review Nimura writes fluidly, and her book is an engaging and meticulously documented guide not only to the sisters’ lives but also to the medical practices of their time. We hear about obsolete medical treatments (intravaginal leeches), student ingenuity (stuffing medical textbooks under clothes to avoid paying taxes) and New York trivia (the Blackwell’s infirmary on Bleecker Street was a former Roosevelt residence). But the greater part of Nimura’s achievement lies in how she brings new life to the story of two extraordinary and idiosyncratic physicians who forever changed the medical profession. Danielle Ofri, American ScholarThis nonfiction story of the first hospital staffed entirely by women could not be more timely. Seija Rankin, Entertainment WeeklyA riveting dual biography of America’s first female physicians...A compellingly portrayed and vividly realized biography of triumph and trailblazing. Kirkus (starred review)Janice P. Nimura has gifted us with more than a splendid history of the Blackwell sisters. Gripping, vividly written, and moving, it is also a surprisingly timely history of the misogynist, limited, still evolving Anglo-American medical profession. Blanche Wiesen Cook, author of Eleanor Roosevelt: Volumes 1-3Nimura shocks and enthralls with her blunt, vivid storytelling. She draws on the writings of Elizabeth and Emily in an intimate way that makes it feel like she knew the sisters personally. Alongside glaring descriptions of culturally ingrained sexism and discrimination, the biography also touches on how our standards of medicine have changed over the decades, showing how even the most scientific of professions are subject to major culture shifts. Jennifer Walter, Discover MagazineMs. Nimura’s portrait of the Blackwells’ America blazes with hallucinatory energy. It’s a rough-hewn, gaudy, carnival-barking America, with only the thinnest veneer of gentility overlaying cruelty and a simmering violence. It’s an America yearning for relief from disease, besotted with seances and spiritualism, quack cures and phrenology; a deeply divided America, with bloody fissures between rich and poor, North and South, city and countryside. Donna Rifkind, Wall Street JournalThe Doctors Blackwell should be required reading in all medical schools, indeed for anyone who has ever consulted a doctor. This rousing story of two brilliant and determined nineteenth-century sisters is also a history of American medicine how it was practiced and by whom. That the Blackwells arrived in the United States during a cholera epi...

-Titulo Original : The New New Thing A Silicon Valley Story-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: New York Times Bestseller. “A superb book. . . . [Lewis] makes Silicon Valley as thrilling and intelligible as he made Wall Street in his best-selling Liar’s Poker.” Time In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis set out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world’s most important technology entrepreneur. He found this in Jim Clark, a man whose achievements include the founding of three separate billion-dollar companies. Lewis also found much more, and the result the best-selling book The New New Thing is an ingeniously conceived history of the Internet revolution. Review The most significant business story since the days of Henry Ford. . . . Lewis achieves a novelistic elegance. Boston GlobeRemarkable. . . . Clark proves to be a character as enthralling as any in American fiction or non-fiction. . . . [A] great story . . . with prose that ranges from the beautiful to the witty to the breathtaking. Fred Moody, Wall Street JournalA splendid, entirely satisfying book, intelligent and fun and revealing and troubling in the correct proportions, resolutely skeptical but not at all cynical. Kurt Andersen, New York Times Book Review About the Author Michael Lewis is the best-selling author of Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side, The Big Short, The Undoing Project, and The Fifth Risk. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and three children...

-Titulo Original : From Here To Eternity Traveling The World To Find The Good Death-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Doughty chronicles [death] practices with tenderheartedness, a technician’s fascination, and an unsentimental respect for grief.” Jill Lepore, The New YorkerFascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls, she investigates the world’s funerary customs and expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with dignity. Her account questions the rituals of the American funeral industry especially chemical embalming and suggests that the most effective traditions are those that allow mourners to personally attend to the body of the deceased. Exquisitely illustrated by artist Landis Blair, From Here to Eternity is an adventure into the morbid unknown, a fascinating tour through the unique ways people everywhere confront mortality. 45 illustrations Review Doughty is a relentlessly curious and chipper tour guide to the underworld, and the weirder things get, the happier she seems.… Her dispatches from the dark side [are] doing us all a kindness offering a picture of what we’re in for, even if we’d rather not know. New York Times Book ReviewIlluminating.… From Here to Eternity humanizes rituals that might otherwise seem unfathomable. PasteThought-provoking.… Unless you and your friends are immortal, this book pertains to you. A. J. JacobsCaitlin Doughty is razor sharp, and writes about death with exceptional clarity and style. From Here to Eternity manages to be both an extremely funny travelogue and a deeply moving book about what death means to us all. Dylan Thuras, co-founder of Atlas ObscuraDoughty writes bluntly about open-air cremations, natural burials and body composting, bringing a little more clarity and a little less mystery to the question: What happens to us after we die? NPRThe macabre travelogue is a thoughtful reflection and a smart critique of the American funeral industry, with plenty of gallows humor thrown in. SmithsonianFrom Here To Eternity is fascinating, thought-provoking and who would have guessed? sometimes funny. Put it on your bucket list. Mail on SundaysIt sounds a bit like Eat, Pray, Die, but her project is much larger than its premise first implies. She is searching not for personal spiritual enlightenment or the morbid titillation of thana-tourism, but for practical, radical alternatives to our corporatized death industry. Her travels illuminate a host of compelling possibilities for better funerals and a less fraught relationship with our dead. New RepublicDoughty finds the humanity in others cultures relationship with death that seems to be lacking in ours. VICEThis humane book gently provokes you to wonder: what exactly is your ideal funeral? The Times About the Author Caitlin Doughty is a mortician and the New York Times best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, From Here to Eternity, and Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? She is the creator of the web series Ask a Mortician, and the founder of The Order of the Good Death. She lives in Los Angeles, California, where she owns a funeral home.Landis Blair illustrated the prize-winning graphic novel The Hunting Accident and the New York Times bestseller From Here to Eternity, and has published illustrations in the New York Times, Chicago magazine, and Medium. He lives in Chicago, Illinois...

-Titulo Original : The Doctors Blackwell How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine To Women And Women To Medicine-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: New York Times Bestseller Finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Biography Janice P. Nimura has resurrected Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell in all their feisty, thrilling, trailblazing splendor. Stacy SchiffElizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of ordinary womanhood. Though the world at first recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity ultimately won her the acceptance of the male medical establishment. In 1849, she became the first woman in America to receive an M.D. She was soon joined in her iconic achievement by her younger sister, Emily, who was actually the more brilliant physician.Exploring the sisters’ allies, enemies, and enduring partnership, Janice P. Nimura presents a story of trial and triumph. Together, the Blackwells founded the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, the first hospital staffed entirely by women. Both sisters were tenacious and visionary, but their convictions did not always align with the emergence of women’s rights or with each other. From Bristol, Paris, and Edinburgh to the rising cities of antebellum America, this richly researched new biography celebrates two complicated pioneers who exploded the limits of possibility for women in medicine. As Elizabeth herself predicted, a hundred years hence, women will not be what they are now. 28 illustrations Review Nimura writes fluidly, and her book is an engaging and meticulously documented guide not only to the sisters’ lives but also to the medical practices of their time. We hear about obsolete medical treatments (intravaginal leeches), student ingenuity (stuffing medical textbooks under clothes to avoid paying taxes) and New York trivia (the Blackwell’s infirmary on Bleecker Street was a former Roosevelt residence). But the greater part of Nimura’s achievement lies in how she brings new life to the story of two extraordinary and idiosyncratic physicians who forever changed the medical profession. Danielle Ofri, American ScholarThis nonfiction story of the first hospital staffed entirely by women could not be more timely. Seija Rankin, Entertainment WeeklyA riveting dual biography of America’s first female physicians...A compellingly portrayed and vividly realized biography of triumph and trailblazing. Kirkus (starred review)Janice P. Nimura has gifted us with more than a splendid history of the Blackwell sisters. Gripping, vividly written, and moving, it is also a surprisingly timely history of the misogynist, limited, still evolving Anglo-American medical profession. Blanche Wiesen Cook, author of Eleanor Roosevelt: Volumes 1-3Nimura shocks and enthralls with her blunt, vivid storytelling. She draws on the writings of Elizabeth and Emily in an intimate way that makes it feel like she knew the sisters personally. Alongside glaring descriptions of culturally ingrained sexism and discrimination, the biography also touches on how our standards of medicine have changed over the decades, showing how even the most scientific of professions are subject to major culture shifts. Jennifer Walter, Discover MagazineMs. Nimura’s portrait of the Blackwells’ America blazes with hallucinatory energy. It’s a rough-hewn, gaudy, carnival-barking America, with only the thinnest veneer of gentility overlaying cruelty and a simmering violence. It’s an America yearning for relief from disease, besotted with seances and spiritualism, quack cures and phrenology; a deeply divided America, with bloody fissures between rich and poor, North and South, city and countryside. Donna Rifkind, Wall Street JournalThe Doctors Blackwell should be required reading in all medical schools, indeed for anyone who has ever consulted a doctor. This rousing story of two brilliant and determined nineteenth-century sisters is also a history of American medicine how it was practiced and by whom. That the Blackwells...

-Titulo Original : Smalltime A Story Of My Family And The Mob-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 Family secrets emerge as a best-selling author dives into the history of the mob in small-town America.Best-selling author Russell Shorto, praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never thought to write about his own past. He grew up knowing his grandfather and namesake was a small-town mob boss but maintained an unspoken family vow of silence. Then an elderly relative prodded: You’re a writer what are you gonna do about the story?Smalltime is a mob story straight out of central casting but with a difference, for the small-town mob, which stretched from Schenectady to Fresno, is a mostly unknown world. The location is the brawny postwar factory town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The setting is City Cigar, a storefront next to City Hall, behind which Russ and his brother-in-law, “Little Joe,” operate a gambling empire and effectively run the town.Smalltime is a riveting American immigrant story that travels back to Risorgimento Sicily, to the ancient, dusty, hill-town home of Antonino Sciotto, the author’s great-grandfather, who leaves his wife and children in grinding poverty for a new life and wife in a Pennsylvania mining town. It’s a tale of Italian Americans living in squalor and prejudice, and of the rise of Russ, who, like thousands of other young men, created a copy of the American establishment that excluded him. Smalltime draws an intimate portrait of a mobster and his wife, sudden riches, and the toll a lawless life takes on one family.But Smalltime is something more. The author enlists his ailing father Tony, the mobster’s son as his partner in the search for their troubled patriarch. As secrets are revealed and Tony’s health deteriorates, the book become an urgent and intimate exploration of three generations of the American immigrant experience. Moving, wryly funny, and richly detailed, Smalltime is an irresistible memoir by a masterful writer of historical narrative. 8 black-and-white illustrations Review Russell Shorto’s Smalltime draws a convincing portrait of a time when Italian Americans weren’t permitted to live in certain neighborhoods or rise too high in the political firmament. This remembrance of his grandfather’s and great-uncle’s lives of slots and pinball machines, ‘tip seals,’ ‘skeeched dice,’ and places like the Melodee Lounge and City Cigar mixes great history and lovely, lingering memories: ‘Long conversations about spaghetti sauce and aunts who kissed you on the lips: those were the ways we were Italian.’ Francis Ford CoppolaI read a lot of books for NPRs Fresh Air Smalltime, the memoir by Russell Shorto about his grandfather, a mob boss in a Western PA steel town, is one of my favorites. Dave Davies, guest host for NPRs Fresh AirShorto [is] a master of historical narrative…[Smalltime is] a story of family dynamics. Of love and loss and betrayal. Of Shorto’s hometown. Of his own relationship with his father and his father’s relationship with his father.…[O]nce Shorto’s on the highway, steering us along with his usual humor and eye for quirky detail, settling an hour from his hometown for easy access, we are with him. All the way. New York Times Book ReviewShorto has produced something that feels altogether fresh, a street-level portrait of how his late grandfather helped build what amounted to a Mafia small business…Shorto is a terrific storyteller…few of his words are wasted, a delight these days. Wall Street JournalAn entertaining book about the Shorto clan intertwined with a history of the Italian mob, Sicilians in the U.S., and the rise and fall of Johnstown, a central Pennsylvania steel town…Ultimately, Smalltime does not pull any punches while telling its story. It’s strikingly personal, but also a peek into the uniqueness of the American experience. The Daily BeastShorto finally turns a key in the proverbial locked drawer of his familys chest, only to find a web of mob figure...