Sieben Seasons dauerte die Präsidentschaft von Josiah »Jed« Bartlet: Wirtschaftsnobelpreisträger, Foucault-Leser und, da von Martin Sheen gespielt, New-Hollywood-Ikone. In »The West Wing« regieren Aaron Sorkins Hochgeschwindigkeitsdialoge: Exekutivgewalt ist keine One Man Show und die Deputies haben sowieso Starpotential. Im Modus des Kontrafaktischen wird US-Politik umgeschrieben, während draußen schon die Bush-Doktrin wütet. Auch vor dem Hintergrund des aktuellen »Decline« stell...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIncluded in "The Nonfiction Books Everyone Will Be Reading This Summer" by The New York TimesA novelist once wrote, “There are stories one must tell, and years when one must tell them.” Jill Biden’s time to discuss her four years in the White House is now.Jill Biden became First Lady at a complicated moment in US history, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and in the...

The aviation historian and author of Memphis Belle presents an authoritative analysis of the groundbreaking, post-WWI series of military aircraft.In the years following the First World War, a new imperative arose in aviation technology: stealth, speed, and precision. American aircraft designer Jack Northrop developed a streamlined craft that did away with superfluous appendages, including the weighty fuselage and tail units. This was an extreme measure, bu...

A unique and all-encompassing exploration of the wonders of flight and the waydifferent species have evolved different solutions to the problem of defying gravity – including humans.Flight fascinates us. We thrill to birds, we adore butterflies, we're baffled by bats and we can hardly believe in pterodactyls. We worship angels and we compare love, religious ecstasy and artistic achievement to flight. We love the idea of flight so much we invented machines that at l...

Set during the 20th century East African Revival, Rising on the Wings of the Dawn is an inspirational, true story largely told through the innocent eyes of a disabled child. As this child tries to make sense of his life and situation, his parents struggle with their Christian faith. How can the promise of God's unfailing love be reconciled with the daily reality of illness, hardship, natural disasters, political instability and death? In the end faith and hope triumph over suffering and de...

Everyone has scars. Some are just easier to see ...16-year-old Ava Lee is heading back to school one year after a house fire left her severely disfigured. She’s used to the names, the stares, the discomfort, but there’s one name she hates most of all: Survivor. What do you call someone who didn’t mean to survive? Who sometimes wishes she hadn’t?When she meets a fellow survivor named Piper at therapy, Ava begins to feel like she’s not facing the nig...

A look at the leader and members of the militant Women's Social and Political Union and their contribution to the rise of fascism during the 1930s.Emmeline Pankhurst is seen today as a valiant champion of democracy, but in the 1930s certain prominent former suffragettes were comparing her to Hitler and Mussolini. It was suggested that Mrs. Pankhurst and her Women's Social and Political Union could be viewed as a proto-fascist movement; an idea likely to strike the m...

From base choices and reserve roulette to pay realities, commuter survival, bidding basics, interviews (STAR‑powered), and the benefits everyone's really here for-this is the candid, practical guide to your first five years in the skies.

From bestselling author Abi Elphinstone comes a wondrous new series about four secret unmapped kingdoms hidden in our own world!Casper Tock hates risks and is allergic to adventures. So it comes as a nasty shock to him one day when he hides from bullies in an ancient grandfather clock—and ends up finding an entire world inside.Casper discovers that this sky kingdom of Rumblestar is one of the four Unmapped Kingdoms in charge of controlling the weather in Ca...

Robyn's story is one of resilience, overcoming adversity, empowering others and driving positive change. She tells of a childhood dogged by domestic violence; a promising athletics career; 35 years as a professional soldier who helped vulnerable women and children in war zones. Her determination and self-belief saw her complete the grueling Commando selection course and become the first woman in Australia to wear the coveted Green Beret. She faced her mortality - both on the battlefield an...

ANGEL WINGS #37166 10-8 HEAVEN is a true-life story that captures the unique working relationship of a close-knit Royal Canadian Mounted Police team of three policewomen and their elite compassionate police supervisor, who along with other police officers investigate serious crime cases. A life-saving hostage investigation earns these three policewomen the title "The Angels."Life takes a turn for “The Angels” when Constable Sarah Cockerill is diagnosed with cancer and, as a result,...

The West Wing meets The Office in this “funny, moving story about working in the White House that is a must read for anyone who misses having Barack Obama as President” (Dan Pfeiffer, cohost of Pod Save America), directly from his senior writer and former Deputy Director of Messaging.West Winging It is the “fitfully funny…warm and observant” (Kirkus) story of Pat Cunnane and his journey from outsider to insider—f...