Outliers: The Story of Success List price: $27.99 84 new, used & collectible available from $13.90. In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their... |
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World List price: $22.98 2 new available from $15.63. DEWEY is the heartwarming story of Dewey Readmore Books, the beloved library cat of Spencer, Iowa, as told by his owner and companion of nineteen years, Vicki Myron, the librarian who found him on a frigid January morning when he was abandoned as a kitten in the book drop slot. It is also the story of a remarkable small town, which burned down at the beginning of the Depression, only to rebuild it... |
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance List price: $14.95 195 new, used & collectible available from $7.60. In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey—first to a small ... |
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Vintage) List price: $7.99 87 new, used & collectible available from $4.10. The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politics—a politics that builds upon those shared understandings that pull us together as Americans. Lucid in his vision of America's place in the world, refreshingly candid about his family life and his time in the Senate, Obama here sets out his political convictions and inspires us to trust in the dogged optimism that has long defi... |
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln List price: $21.00 84 new, used & collectible available from $11.40. This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history.... |
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time List price: $15.00 282 new, used & collectible available from $5.99. The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s backyard Anyone who despairs of the individual’s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan’s treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoveris... |
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America List price: $27.95 100 new, used & collectible available from $14.78. Thomas L. Friedman’s no. 1 bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy—both of which could poison our world if we do not act quickly and collectively. His argument speaks to all of us who are concerned about the state of America ... |
Multiple Blessings: Surviving to Thriving with Twins and Sextuplets List price: $19.99 61 new, used & collectible available from $11.45. In Multiple Blessings, Kate Gosselin shares the gripping details of her rollercoaster ride of emotional highs and lows when she discovered she and her husband, Jon, would be expecting sextuplets while still basking in the light of their twin girls' toddlerhood. Strongly encouraged to consider selective reduction for the sake of both mother and babies, she and Jon instead decided to accept the extr... |
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference List price: $14.99 433 new, used & collectible available from $4.37. This celebrated New York Times bestsellernow poised to reach an even wider audience in paperbackis a book that is changing the way North Americans think about selling products and disseminating ideas. Gladwells new afterword to this edition describes how readers can constructively apply the tipping point principle in their own lives and work. Widely hailed as an important work that offers not only... |
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals List price: $16.00 244 new & used available from $7.85. A national bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating, this revolutionary book by award winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question: What should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain us— whether industrial or organic, alternative or processed—he develops a portrait of the American way of eating. The... |
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