Professionals & Academics

Neil White, a journalist and magazine publisher, wanted the best for those he loved nice cars, beautiful homes, luxurious clothes. He loaned money to fami...

Sigmund Freud is one of the twentieth century's greatest minds and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. His works included here are The E...

NOMINEE 2011 – Toronto Book Awards A rich, unmined piece of Canadian history, an intense psychological drama, a mystery to be solved… and a hardwon es...

The remarkable story of an ordinary man who was transformed when a traumatic injury left him with an extraordinary giftNo one sees the world as Jason Padge...

Cory Friedman Woke Up One Morning When He Was Five Years Old With The Uncontrollable Urge To Twitch His Neck. From That Day Forward His Life Became A Hell O...

The New York Times bestseller: sequel to "Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!"—funny, poignant, instructive. One of the greatest physicists of the twen...

"J.R. Moehringer grew up captivated by a voice. It was the voice of his father, a New York City disc jockey who vanished before J.R. spoke his first word. S...

An inspiring story of how a Mormon kid with Tourette’s found salvation in books and weight-lifting Josh Hanagarne couldn’t be invisible if he tri...

A Charming, Intimate And Fascinating Collection Of Correspondence Between Broadcaster And #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Anderson Cooper And His Mothe...

Birder, environmentalist and activist Mya-Rose Craig is an international force. In her moving memoir, Birdgirl, she chronicles her mother’s struggle with ...

Von J. Edmund Güntz.Categories: Arts & Photography History & CriticismCriticism

Phyllis Theroux. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 277-279).Categories: Biographies & MemoirsMemoirs

For 6,557 miles, Chuck Klosterman thought about dying. He drove a rental car from New York to Rhode Island to Georgia to Mississippi to Iowa to Minneapoli...

Heavenly Intrigue is the fascinating, true account of the seventeenth-century collaboration between Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe that revolutionized our ...

It Was A Time, Much Like Today, When Americans Feared For The Future Of Their Democracy And Women Stood Up For Equal Treatment. At The Crossroads Of The Wat...

A unique individual with a fascinating life story, Ivar Giaever is a scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Experimental Physics in 1973. In his own words, Gi...

Nicholson Baker, who “writes like no one else in America” (Newsweek), here assembles his best short pieces from the last fifteen years. The Way the Wo...

Welcome To New Auburn, Wisconsin (population: 485). Michael Perry Loves This Place. He Grew Up Here, And Now -- After A Decade Away -- He Has Returned. Unab...

With the 2006 publication of The God Delusion, the name Richard Dawkins became a byword for ruthless skepticism and "brilliant, impassioned, articulate, im...

In Ginger Zee's Follow-up To The Bestselling Natural Disaster, The Abc Chief Meteorologist Takes Readers On A Much Deeper Journey Of Self Discovery. When Gi...

jeannette Walls Grew Up With Parents Whose Ideals And Stubborn Nonconformity Were Both Their Curse And Their Salvation. Rex And Rose Mary Walls Had Four C...

As Soon As Adam Kay Set Foot On A Hospital Ward For The First Time, He Realised There's Quite A Lot They Don't Teach You At Medical School ... His Diaries F...

The Unlikely Story Of Dr. Bennet Omalu, The Pathologist Who Made One Of The Most Significant Medical Discoveries Of The Twenty-first Century, A Discovery Th...

In the spring of 2000, Heather Ingram, a 30-year-old high school teacher in a small town on the coast of British Columbia, was convicted of the sexual explo...

By his early thirties, Paul Allen was a world-famous billionaire-and that was just the beginning. In 2007 and 2008, Time named Paul Allen, the cofounder o...

A Beloved Crime Reporter Revisits Some Of Her Biggest Assignments And Passes Judgement On Our Judicial System And Especially Its Judges. When Christie Blatc...

In A Mighty Heart, a courageous woman tells us the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband's life and death. For five weeks the world watched and...

Two Berkeley Scientists Explore The Potential Of A Revolutionary Genetics Technology Capable Of Easily And Affordably Manipulating Dna In Human Embryos To P...

No One Sees The World As Jason Padgett Does. Water Pours From The Faucet In Crystalline Patterns, Numbers Call To Mind Distinct Geometric Shapes, And Intric...

The long-awaited story of the science, the business, the politics, the intrigue behind the scenes of the most ferocious competition in the history of moder...

From Cnn’s Veteran Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta, An Explosive, First-hand Account Of The Dangers He Faces Reporting On The Current White Hou...

National Bestseller Npr Best Book Of 2017 “not All Superheroes Wear Capes, And Elizebeth Smith Friedman Should Be The Subject Of A Future Wonder Woman Mov...

A humane behind-the-scenes account of a week in the life of a psychiatrist at one of Canada’s leading mental health hospitals. How Can I Help? takes us to...

A New York Times Bestseller..!! A heartwarming, true story about George, a rescue dog who helps his owner rediscover love and happiness. Marley & Me m...

Whether it’s asking tough questions during a presidential debate or pressing for answers to today’s most important issues, Megyn Kelly has demonstrated...

A Transformative And Compassionate Memoir By A Leading Pioneer In Medically Assisted Dying Who Began Her Career In The Maternity Ward And Now Helps Patients...

A Riveting Medical Mystery About A Young Woman's Quest To Uncover The Truth About Her Likely Fatal Genetic Disorder That Opens A Window Onto The Exploding F...

"A monument to journalistic excellence.… Highly recommended!” ―Douglas Brinkley, author of Cronkite and American MoonshotAn inspiring memoir from the...

From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovato...

In Nothing General About It, Maurice Looks Back To His Youth In A Small Town And His Tenuous Relationship With His Father. He Describes How His Bipolar Diso...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023‘Grippingly vivid and pacey’ THE TIMES‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten y...

The New York Times bestselling memoir of the 27-year-old Boston Marathon bombing survivor and the basis of the major motion picture starring Jake Gyllenhaa...

The Remarkable Untold Story Of A Miracle Drug, The Forgotten Pioneer Who Discovered It, And The Fight To Bring Lithium To The Masses. The 1949 Discovery Of ...

An Introduction To The Life And Thought Of Kurt Gödel, Who Transformed Our Conception Of Math Forever -- Provided By Publisher. A Platonist Among The Posit...

An Account Of The Worst Cholera Outbreak In Victorian London--and An Exploration Of How Dr. John Snow's Solution Revolutionized The Way We Think About Disea...

Here is the autobiography of a remarkable man. Yukichi Fukuzawa's life covered the 66 years between 1835 and 1901, a period which comprised greater and mor...

Here is the riveting story of how a second-rate newspaper rose to national greatness, only to become a casualty of war-a civil war within the family that ow...

From Tom Brokaw, The Bestselling Author Of The Greatest Generation, Comes A Powerful Memoir Of A Year Of Dramatic Change--a Year Spent Battling Cancer And R...