"Every person who dreams of building a great business mustread this book. Sam Walton set the standard for listening to his customers and listening to ......
Like Kevin Phillips in his bestselling American Dynasty, the Schweizers trace the history of the Bush family back to progenitors George Herbert Walker......
A poet's account of her journey toward adulthood follows her coming of age near the isolated logging camps of northern Idaho...
The author's memoir of her six-year romance with Maoism follows her education at Beijing University, her marriage to an American draft-dodger, and dis......
Book DescriptionSince its hardcover publication in August of 1995, Buffett has appeared on the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, San Francisco Chro......
Steel (Lightning, p. 422, etc.), the Queen of Conjunctions (both human and grammatical) returns, this time with a page-turning, incantatory love story......
A superb debut. With uncommon grace and poetic sensitivity, Susan Hertog has captured both the transcendent beauty and profound sorrow of a remarkable......
Moss, an investigative reporter for New York Newsday , has managed to be fair and accurate in this well-researched biography, a hard task considering ......
This a lively and inspirational account of "Jungle" Jack Hanna s career. Currently director of the Columbus Zoo and a popular TV talk show guest, Hann......
From dealing blackjack in the small-time gangster??town of Steubenville, Ohio, to carousing with the??famous "Rat Pack" in a Hollywood he??called home......
An acclaimed biography of Elizabeth I, and examination of the politics and intrigues of her Tudor court. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
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 Po......
内容简介Twelve straight playoff appearances. Six American League pennants. Four World Series titles. This is the definitive story of a dynasty: the Yankee......
This is the story of an extraordinary boy with a brilliant mind, a heart of gold, and a tortured soul. It is the story of an illness, a fight to live,......
The daughter of the longtime conductor of the Boston Pops symphony orchestra recounts his professional achievements and innovations, his backstage hum......
The bestselling biography of one of the 20th century s most remarkable and controversial writers.??Author Barbara Branden, who knew Rand for nineteen ......
John Kerry and John Edwards know that the issues, and the stakes, of the 2004 Presidential election are the most profound and urgent to confront Ameri......
Told in flowing and succinct prose, this portrait of Ruth Bell Graham, the world-famous evangelist Billy Graham s wife gives the reader a first-hand g......
On December 15, 1895, TheodoreRoosevelt, future Governor of NewYork State, Bough Rider inthe Spanish-American War, andtwenty-sixth President of theUni......
The annual publication of The O. Hen-ry Awards PRIZE STORIES is always ahighlight of the literary season. Here isthe finest of contemporary Americansh......