Prize-winning journalist Philip P. Pan offers an unprecedented inside look at the momentous battle underway for China's future. On one side is the entrenched party elite determined to preserve its...
A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project
Dave Isay
Drawn from the work of StoryCorps, the largest and most ambitious private oral history project in American history, comes this tapestry of the stories Americans have been sharing from their lives to...
A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York
Chandler Burr
No journalist has ever been allowed into the ultrasecretive, highly pressured process of originating a perfume. But Chandler Burr, the New York Times perfume critic, spent a year behind the...
A Vision of Medicine That Can Transform Our Future
Andrew Weil, M.D.
Following up his five #1 New York Times bestsellers, Dr. Andrew Weil draws upon thirty years of medical experience to speak to us about our health care, offering a clear picture of what really went...
The Story of the First African American Explorer of the American South
Robert Goodwin
The never-before-told true story of the first great explorer and adventurer in American history---an African slave who led three Spanish noblemen on an eight-year journey from Florida to California...
Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It
Joshua Ramo
For decades, American foreign policy has been based on the seductive belief that there exists a logical relationship between power of states and the physics of change. And yet today policies...
Friendship, Ambition and the Tragic Loss of an Extraordinary Mind
Paula Kamen
Iris Chang, best-selling author of The Rape of Nanking and tireless human-rights activist, symbolized strength to many in the literary and social justice worlds. Her fearlessness made it all...
They number in the millions and they are incredibly important to families and to our society, yet they are underappreciated, little respected, and even controversial.
It's supposed to be a happy day at the Magic Kingdom - the teenage holographic hosts have returned. But things go very wrong when a sudden lightning storm disrupts the celebration, and Amanda's...
