Eric: 6009 books
by Eric Lomax
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
**Winner of the PEN/Ackerley Prize
The Railway Man is a remarkable memoir of forgiveness—a tremendous testament to the courage that propels one toward remembrance, and finally, peace with the past.**
Eric Lomax, sent to Malaya in World War II, was taken prisoner by the Japanese and...
Winter War
Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash Over the New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
The history of the most acrimonious presidential handoff in American history--and of the origins of twentieth-century liberalism and conservatism
When Franklin Roosevelt defeated Herbert Hoover in the 1932 election, they represented not only different political parties but vastly different...
by Eric Colbourne
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
In Disappeared Eric Colbourne takes us on a fascinating journey through the history, folklore, and customs of a Newfoundland island outport. His sweep is broad encompassing chapters on home remedies, schooling, tragedy and adventure, and the battle fronts of the First World War. What unites these pages is a love of place and people and the truly impressive craft of the writing.
Interesting Times
A Twentieth-Century Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Eric Hobsbawm is considered by many to be our greatest living historian. Robert Heilbroner, writing about Hobsbawm’s The Age of Extremes 1914-1991 said, “I know of no other account that sheds as much light on what is now behind us, and thereby casts so much illumination on our possible futures.”...
by Aziz Ansari, Eric Klinenberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
**The #1 New York Times Bestseller
A hilarious, thoughtful, and in-depth exploration of the pleasures and perils of modern romance from Aziz Ansari, the star of Master of None and one of this generation’s sharpest comedic voices**
At some point, every one of us embarks on a journey...
Going Solo
The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
A revelatory examination of the most significant demographic shift since the Baby Boom—the sharp increase in the number of people who live alone—that offers surprising insights on the benefits of this epochal change
In 1950, only 22 percent of American adults were single. Today, more than...
Where's My Wand?
One Boy's Magical Triumph over Alienation and Shag Carpeting
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
"Gut-splittingly funny...a deeply moving account of a boy's attempt to control his world with his own brand of magic." --People magazine, 4 stars.
Tracey Ullman once described Eric Poole as "the best undiscovered writer I ever met." Now the world can enjoy his achingly honest...
Old Records Never Die
One Man's Quest for His Vinyl and His Past
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
A Hudson Booksellers Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year, with foreword by Wilco's Jeff Tweedy
***High Fidelity ***meets Killing Yourself to Live when one man searches for his lost record collection.
As he finds himself within spitting distance of middle-age, journalist Eric Spitznagel...
Jean-Marie Tjibaou
Une parole Kanak pour le monde
Language: French
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Jean-Marie Tjibaou, leader charismatique du mouvement indépendantiste kanak des années 1980, est incontestablement une figure emblématique de l’histoire contemporaine de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Un visage et une parole qui ont largement dépassé les côtes de l’archipel océanien, tant par...
by Eric Foner
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
“A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era.”—Boston Globe
Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery....
What Truth Sounds Like
Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Named a 2018 Notable Work of Nonfiction by The Washington Post
NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Winner, The 2018 Southern Book Prize
NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY: Chicago Tribune • Time • Publisher's Weekly
A stunning follow up to New York Times bestseller...
Murdering McKinley
The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2007
When President William McKinley was murdered at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901, Americans were bereaved and frightened. Rumor ran rampant: A wild-eyed foreign anarchist with an unpronounceable name had killed the commander-in-chief. Eric Rauchway's brilliant...
Twelve Patients
Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital (The Inspiration for the NBC
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The inspiration for the NBC drama New Amsterdam and in the spirit of Oliver Sacks, this intensely involving memoir from a former medical director is a "humanitarian and heartbreaking tapestry where modern medicine confronts the atrocities of life" (Kirkus Reviews).
Using the plights...
by Eric R. Kandel
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2007
“A stunning book.”—Oliver Sacks
Memory binds our mental life together. We are who we are in large part because of what we learn and remember. But how does the brain create memories? Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel intertwines the intellectual history of the powerful new science of the...