The deepest cave on earth was a prize that had remained unclaimed
for centuries, long after every other ultimate discovery had been
made. both poles by 1912, Everest in 1958, the Challenger Deep in
1961. In 1969 we even walked on the moon. And yet as late as 2000,
the earth’s deepest cave—the supercave—remained
undiscovered.
New York Times bestselling author Sally Jenkins and
distinguished Harvard professor John Stauffer mine a nearly
forgotten piece of Civil War history and strike gold in this
surprising account of the only Southern county to secede from the
Confederacy.
Nobel Prize® winning economist Paul Krugman shows how today's
crisis parallels the events that caused the Great Depression - and
explains what it will take to avoid catastrophe. In 1999, Paul
surveyed the economic crisis that had swept across Asia and Latin
America, and warned that those crises were a warning for all of us.
If Rupert Murdoch isn’t making headlines, he’s busy
buying the media outlets that generate the headlines. His News
Corp. holdings—from the New York Post, Fox News, and
most recently The Wall Street Journal, to name just a
few—are vast, and his power is unrivaled.
Based on the single largest neuromarketing study ever conducted,
Buyology reveals surprising truths about what attracts our
attention and captures our dollars. Among the long-held assumptions
and myths Buyology confronts.
• Sex doesn’t sell - people in skimpy clothing and provocative poses don’t persuade us to buy products.
• Sex doesn’t sell - people in skimpy clothing and provocative poses don’t persuade us to buy products.
He was the Golden Boy of the Golden Age. Dashing and debonair, Tony
Curtis arrived on the scene in a blaze of bright lights and
celluloid. His good looks, smooth charm, and natural talent earned
him fame, women, and adulation–Elvis copied his look and the
Beatles put him on their Sgt.
Were World Wars I and II–which can now be seen as a
thirty-year paroxysm of slaughter and destruction–inevitable.
Were they necessary wars. Were the bloodiest and most
devastating conflicts ever suffered by mankind fated by forces
beyond man’s control.
Mesmerized–at times unnerved–by his
ninety-seven-year-old father’s nearly superhuman vitality and
optimism, David Shields undertakes an investigation of the human
physical condition. The result is this exhilarating audiobook. both
a personal meditation on mortality and an exploration of
flesh-and-blood existence from crib to oblivion–an
exploration that paradoxically prompts a renewed and profound
appreciation of life.
In this extraordinary audiobook, Robert D. Kaplan lets listeners
experience up close the American military worldwide in the air, at
sea, and on the ground. HOG PILOTS, BLUE WATER GRUNTS provides not
only a ground-level portrait of the Global War on Terrorism on
several continents, but also a gritty firsthand account of how U.
Bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin takes you into the chambers of
the Supreme Court and reveals the complex dynamic among the nine
people who decide the law of the land.
Just in time for the 2008 presidential election–where the future of the Court will be at stake–Toobin reveals an institution at a moment of transition, when decades of conservative disgust with the Court have finally produced a conservative majority, with major changes in store on such issues as abortion, civil rights, presidential power, and church-state relations.
Just in time for the 2008 presidential election–where the future of the Court will be at stake–Toobin reveals an institution at a moment of transition, when decades of conservative disgust with the Court have finally produced a conservative majority, with major changes in store on such issues as abortion, civil rights, presidential power, and church-state relations.
“This book is . . . my personal search ‘for the face of
the Lord.’” –Benedict XVI
In this bold, momentous work, the Pope––in his first book written as Benedict XVI––seeks to salvage the person of Jesus from recent “popular” depictions and to restore Jesus’ true identity as discovered in the Gospels.
In this bold, momentous work, the Pope––in his first book written as Benedict XVI––seeks to salvage the person of Jesus from recent “popular” depictions and to restore Jesus’ true identity as discovered in the Gospels.
If you’d guess that Yale or Harvard ruled the college
gridiron in 1911 and 1912, you’d be wrong. The most popular
team belonged to an institution called the Carlisle Indian
Industrial School. Its story begins with Lt. Col. Richard Henry
Pratt, a fierce abolitionist who believed that Native Americans
deserved a place in American society.
