PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • From a prize-winning biographer comes the defining portrait of a man who led America in a time of turmoil and left us a darker age. We live today, John A. Farrell shows, in a world Richard Nixon made.At the end of WWII, navy lieutenant “Nick” Nixon returned from the Pacific and set his cap at Congress, an idealistic dreamer seeking to build a better world. Yet amid the turns of that now-legendary 1946 campaign, Nixon’s finer attributes gav...

Drawing on untapped archives and full of fresh revelations, here is the definitive biography of America’s legendary defense attorney and progressive hero.Clarence Darrow is the lawyer every law school student dreams of being: on the side of right, loved by many women, played by Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind. His days-long closing arguments delivered without notes won miraculous reprieves for men doomed to hang.Darrow left a promising career as ...

**Nominated for the National Book Award for Nonfiction • A New Yorker Best Book of the Year"Revelatory . . . the definitive single volume . . . fresh and indelible." —Oprah Daily"A rounded portrait of a gifted, complex, and sometimes tortured man." —The Boston GlobeAn enthralling and groundbreaking new biography of one of modern America’s most fascinating and consequential political figures, drawing on important new sources, by an award-wi...

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • From a prize-winning biographer comes the defining portrait of a man who led America in a time of turmoil and left us a darker age. We live today, John A. Farrell shows, in a world Richard Nixon made.At the end of WWII, navy lieutenant “Nick” Nixon returned from the Pacific and set his cap at Congress, an idealistic dreamer seeking to build a better world. Yet amid the turns of that now-legendary 1946 campaign, Nixon’s finer attributes gav...

**Nominated for the National Book Award for Nonfiction • A New Yorker Best Book of the Year"Revelatory . . . the definitive single volume . . . fresh and indelible." —Oprah Daily"A rounded portrait of a gifted, complex, and sometimes tortured man." —The Boston GlobeAn enthralling and groundbreaking new biography of one of modern America’s most fascinating and consequential political figures, drawing on important new sources, by an award-wi...

Isn't it always the way? You wait ages for one purple flour-filled condom and then three come along at once. Of course the correct procedure for a chemical attack in the House of Commons would have been for MPs to remain in the chamber and remove all items of clothing.I'm not sure which is the more horrific vision; anthrax all over London or Nicholas Soames slipping out of his Y-fronts while chatting to a naked Ann Widdecombe.Here at last is the third col...

What is the boy crisis?It’s a crisis of education. For the first time in American history, our s ons will have less education than their dads.It’s a crisis of mental health. As boys become young men, their suicide rates go from equal to girls to six times that of young women.It’s a crisis of sexuality. Sex is a minefield for our sons. They’re bombarded with mixed messages, afraid of being either too sensitive or not sensitive enough.It’s a crisis of fatherin...

'A very special novel' Louise Kennedy'An enthralling novel and a remarkable narrative feat' John BanvilleA wild child with a ferocious imagination will stop at nothing to protect his family.After years of moving from place to place, a young family finds shelter in an isolated house in the Irish countryside. Their father is missing, Mum is a healer and B a formidable big sister. In his strange new territory, a wild l...

This hilarious novel of a helicopter mom and dad is "a near-flawless caricature of 21st-century upper-middle-class parenthood" ( Publishers Weekly).Alice never imagined she would end up like this, so anxious after hearing about the dangers of meteorites that she makes her children wear bike helmets in the wading pool. Her husband, David, has taught their four-year-old to list every animal represented in Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. But the more...

Like bubonic plague and stone cladding, no-one took Margaret Thatcher seriously until it was too late. Her first act as leader was to appear before the cameras and do a V for Victory sign the wrong way round. She was smiling and telling the British people to f*** off at the same time. It was something we would have to get used to.'Things Can Only Get Better is the personal account of a Labour supporter who survived eighteen miserable years of Conservative government. It is the hear...

Set foot in the emergency room of a major university trauma center and follow the work of someone who has spent his professional life in that setting addressing every kind of life crisis: psychosis and suicide, depression and mania, violence and drug addiction, child and elder abuse, sudden illness and injury, death and grief. He has some stories to tell: a man whose methamphetamine use provoked a dangerous paranoid psychosis, a woman imprisoned by a controlling, violent boyfriend, a brill...

Existem 4 títulos neste livro, que tratam dos seguintes tópicos:Tópico 1: É possível treinar seu cérebro?Você pode se tornar mais inteligente ou mais capaz de se lembrar das coisas?Mergulhe no reino de infinitas possibilidades, algumas das quais serão reveladas a você neste guia rápido. Vários tópicos serão abordados, como jogos de treinamento cerebral, jogos de computador que podem estimular o tipo certo de atividade cerebral, os efeitos da escola e idéias gerais s...