The Year of the Tiger: The Major Run That Made Tiger Woods by: Brody Miller (Author) Publisher: Harper Publication Date: 2025-07-03 Language: English Print Length: 240 pages ISBN-10: 0063418126 ISBN-13: 9780063418127 Book Description The inside story of legendary golfer Tiger Woods’ magnificent run, when he won all four major tournaments in a single calendar year, becoming the greatest player of his generation—a show of unparalleled dominance in the sport with which he has become synonymou...
The First and Last Bank: Climate Change, Currency, and a New Carbon Commons (One Planet) by: Gustav Peebles (Author), Benjamin Luzzatto (Author) Publisher: MIT Press Publication Date: 2025-06-17 Language: English Print Length: 264 pages ISBN-10: 0262049643 ISBN-13: 9780262049641 Book Description A groundbreaking approach to currency and community that may allow us to seize carbon from the atmosphere—and offer a new tool in the fight against climate change.Through the ages, currencies have been b...
Invisible Barriers: Understanding and Overcoming Discrimination in the Workplace by: Stephane Carcillo (Author), Marie-Anne Valfort (Author) Publisher: MIT Press Publication Date: 2025-05-27 Language: English Print Length: 264 pages ISBN-10: 0262552132 ISBN-13: 9780262552134 Book Description “An essential resource for anyone committed to fostering equality and fairness in employment—with actionable proposals for public policy that can address these inequities. In a world where discriminati...
The Girl from Human Street: A Jewish Family Odyssey by: Roger Cohen (Author) Publication Date: 2015-12-08 Language: English Print Length: 320 pages ISBN-10: 0307741419 ISBN-13: 9780307741417 Book Description In his intimate and profoundly moving Jewish family history–a memoir of displacement, prejudice, hope, despair, and love–award-winning New York Times columnist Roger Cohen turns a compassionate and discerning eye on the legacy of his own forebears. Beginning in the nineteenth cen...
Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America by: Sam Tanenhaus (Author) Publisher: Random House Publication Date: 2025-06-03 Language: English Print Length: 1040 pages ISBN-10: 0375502343 ISBN-13: 9780375502347 Book Description The definitive biography of America’s greatest conservative, and a vibrant history of the movement he led In 1951, with the publication of God and Man at Yale, a scathing attack on his alma mater, twenty-five-year-old William F. Buckley, Jr., seized the...
Alfred the Great: War, Kingship and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England (The Medieval World) by: Richard Philip Abels (Author) Edition: 1st Publication Date: 1998-09-30 Language: English Print Length: 392 pages ISBN-10: 0582040477 ISBN-13: 9780582040472 Book Description This biography of Alfred the Great, king of the West Saxons (871-899), combines a sensitive reading of the primary sources with a careful evaluation of the most recent scholarly research on the history and archaeology of ninth-century...
Ambrose: Church and Society in the Late Roman World (The Medieval World) by: John Moorhead (Author) Edition: 1st Publication Date: 1999-06-30 Language: English Print Length: 246 pages ISBN-10: 0582251133 ISBN-13: 9780582251137 Book Description An account, and assessment, of the career of St Ambrose (339-397), from 374 bishop of Milan and one of the four Doctors of the Christian Church (with Sts. Jerome, Augustine and Gregory the Great). A key figure in the transition of the later Roman Empire in...
The Reign of Richard Lionheart: Ruler of The Angevin Empire, 1189-1199 (The Medieval World) by: Ralph V V. Turner (Author), Richard Heiser (Author) Edition: 1st Publication Date: 2000-07-25 Language: English Print Length: 304 pages ISBN-10: 0582256593 ISBN-13: 9780582256590 Book Description This ground-breaking and substantive new history considers Richard’s reign from a perspective that is as much French as English. Viewing the king himself as a great military commander, it also shows him...
Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance by: Laura Delano (Author) Publisher: Viking Publication Date: 2025-03-18 Language: English Print Length: 352 pages ISBN-10: 1984880489 ISBN-13: 9781984880482 Book Description “Delano’s story is compelling, important and even haunting. . . . Her memoir evokes Girl, Interrupted for the age of the prescription pill. . . . In Unshrunk, she tells her own story, and she tells it powerfully.” —Casey Schwartz, The New York Times Book Review “An unspa...