Adam: 4614 books
Will Not Attend
Lively Stories of Detachment and Isolation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
“Damn, this book is good.”—**Jon Stewart
“A biting, darkly hilarious collection of personal essays that begs to be read aloud.”—Chicago Tribune**
Emmy Award–winning writer Adam Resnick began his career at Late Night with David Letterman before honing his chops in movies...
Angels and Ages
A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
In this captivating double life, Adam Gopnik searches for the men behind the icons of emancipation and evolution. Born by cosmic coincidence on the same day in 1809 and separated by an ocean, Lincoln and Darwin coauthored our sense of history and our understanding of man’s place in the world. Here...
Devotion
An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From America’s “forgotten war” in Korea comes an unforgettable tale of courage by the author of A Higher Call.
Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy’s most famous aviator duo, Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown, and the Marines they...
Voices of the Pacific
Untold Stories from the Marine Heroes of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
From the New York Times bestselling author of Spearhead and A Higher Call comes an unflinching, brutal, and relentless firsthand chronicle of United States Marine Corps’ actions in the Pacific during World War 2.
Following fifteen Marines from the Pearl Harbor attack, through battles with...
Napoleon
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
The definitive biography of Napoleon, revealing the true man behind the legend
"What a novel my life has been!" Napoleon once said of himself. Born into a poor family, the callow young man was, by twenty-six, an army general. Seduced by an older woman, his marriage transformed him...
by Adam Gopnik
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2001
Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner--in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagination for as long as there have been Americans.
In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant...
by Dr. Adam
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
- Have you ever read about the religion of over 1.5 billion people on this planet?- Have you ever thought about why those thousands of people all over the globe are converting every day?- Have you ever heard about the true story of the prophet of Muslims, what is the meaning of the word...
by Adam Bellow
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2004
Nepotism is one of those social habits we all claim to deplore in America; it offends our sense of fair play and our pride in living in a meritocracy. But somehow nepotism prevails; we all want to help our own and a quick glance around reveals any number of successful families whose sons and daughters...
Total Competition
Lessons in Strategy from Formula One
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Total Competition is the most compelling, comprehensive and revealing insight into what it takes to get to the top in Formula One that has ever been published.
Across four decades, Ross Brawn was one of the most innovative and successful technical directors and then team principals in Formula...
by Adam Winkler
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
A landmark exposé and “deeply engaging legal history” of one of the most successful, yet least known, civil rights movements in American history (Washington Post).
In a revelatory work praised as “excellent and timely” (New York Times Book Review, front page), Adam Winkler, author...
by Adam Smith, AtoZ Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2017
**With A to Z Classics, discover or rediscover all the classics of literature.
Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) **and in the end of book include a bonus link to the free audiobook.
Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought...
Give and Take
Why Helping Others Drives Our Success
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
A groundbreaking look at why our interactions with others hold the key to success, from the bestselling author of Originals
For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But in today’s dramatically reconfigured world, success...
Bootleggers & Baptists
How Economic Forces and Moral Persuasion Interact to Shape Regulatory Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2014
In Bootleggers & Baptists: How Economic Forces and Moral Persuasion Interact to Shape Regulatory Politics, economists Bruce Yandle and Adam Smith explain how money and morality are often combined in politics to produce arbitrary regulations benefiting cronies, while constraining productive economic activities...
The Method Method
Seven Obsessions That Helped Our Scrappy Start-up Turn an Industry Upside Down
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
An inspiring case study for the next generation of start-ups by the unconventional founders of Method.
Founded ten years ago by childhood pals Eric Ryan and Adam Lowry, Method has been making headlines and profits with a revolutionary blend of culture and commerce, style and substance. Today,...