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Hurst has written a riveting account of the making of two great military leaders--Ulysses Grant and Nathan Bedford Forrest--and two battles that transformed the American Civil War.

Dubbed "the Hip-Hop Intellectual" by critics and fans for his pioneering explorations of rap music in the academy and beyond, Dyson probes the most compelling and controversial dimensions of hip-hop culture.

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Dyson's latest work offers a sampling of the author's sharp wit, profound thought, and edifying eloquence of the enduring problems of humanity, from love and justice to race relations and politics.

A leading expert in emotions research establishes a bold new paradigm for understanding grief.

In 1848, a violent storm of revolutions ripped through Europe. This vivid and enlightening book traces the roots of the revolutions and then, with breathtaking pace, describes how these explosions of violence spread across Europe, and explains how their effects are still present today.

Two leading researchers make the controversial argument that the human species is still measurably evolving in important ways--in fact, faster than ever before.

A renowned primatologist argues that cooking created the human race. A groundbreaking new theory of evolution, "Catching Fire" offers a startlingly original argument about how we have come to be the social, intelligent, and sexual species we are today.

The Believer" relates the disturbing and provocative story of a Jewish skinhead from Brooklyn, and calls into question fundamental assumptions about faith, belief and ethnic identity.

Forty years ago, Frances war with the anticolonial Communist-led Vietminh insurgency climaxed in the bloody battle for the valley of Dienbienphu. The Vietminhs victory put the 17 million people of North Vietnam under Communist rule and would, in two years, induce Americas attempt to save South Vietnamwithout heeding the French armys catastrophic defeat. That defeat, former French soldier Jules Roy explains, occurred not because of a shortage o...

In this, the first full-length study of the Directorate of Science and Technology, Richelson walks readers down the corridors of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, and through the four decades of science, scientists, and managers that produced the CIA that exists today.

Happy Mondays presents a groundbreaking challenge to anti-work rhetoric. It argues that work need not be stressful, demolishes the arguments for "work-life balance, " and shows you how to approach work not merely as an economic necessity but as something that will enhance your life.

The Big Difference tackles one of life's toughest issues-how to make choices and discover the decisions that will have the greatest and most profound impact. Nicola Phillips guides you through the process and shows you how to make the leap from understanding to action.

Packed with illustrative examples and interactive exercises, this book shows you to maximize the value of your knowledge capital (what you know), social capital (whom you know), and emotional capital (how you interact with others)-and combine these components to make you a more successful, effective, balanced, and fulfilled person.Momentum books are for people who want to make things happen in their career and their life, who want to work at s...

This is the fascinating history of the Institute for Advanced Study, which was home to fourteen Nobel laureates and most of the century's greatest mathematicians and physicists, including Einstein, Kurt Godel, and J. Robert Oppenheimer.

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Austin argues in this bold book that the reason only ten percent of top-level managerial or professional positions are held by women is the self-imposed psychological glass ceiling that influences every decision women make in their lives. She gives readers eight life-defining choices that determine their ultimate level of accomplishment.

More clearly than many other books, Large's account depicts the tragic abandonment of the Jews by Western Nations.- "Booklist

A hard-hitting examination of the currentcrisis in higher education and an urgent call for major reform.

A delightful look at the science of butterflies-and our obsession with them-by an acclaimed nature writer