Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Digital
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Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light. Tr...
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From the National Book Awardwinning author of Arctic Dreams, a highly charged, stunningly original work of fictionyes'>#8211;a passionate response to the changes shaping our country today. In nine fictional testimonies, men and women who have resisted the mainstream and who are now suddenly yes'>#82...
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Collected Later Poems
Anthony Hecht
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 4 March 2009
- 9780307555205
Anthony Hecht, now in his eightieth year, has earned a place alongside such poets as W. H. Auden, Robert Frost, and Elizabeth Bishop. Here under one cover are his three most recent collections-The Transparent Man, Flight Among the Tombs, and The Darkness and the Light. The perfect companion to his C...
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Garrett Hongos long-awaited third collection of poems is a beautiful, elegiac gathering of his Japanese-American ancestors in their Hawaiian landscape and a testament to the power of poetry, as it brings their marginalized yet heroic narratives into the realm of art. In Coral Road Hongo explores th...
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Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and staggeringly expensive actions now being considered to meet the challenges of global warming ultimately will have little impact on the world’s temperature. He suggests that rather than focusing on ineffective solutions that will cost us trillions o...
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In The Good Life, Jay McInerney unveils a story of love, family, conflicting desires, and catastrophic loss in his most powerfully searing work thus far.Clinging to a semiprecarious existence in TriBeCa, Corrine and Russell Calloway have survived a separation and are wonderstruck by young twins whos...
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The first full biography of Colin Powell, from his Bronx childhood to his military career to his controversial tenure as secretary of state, with a new afterword detailing his life after the Bush White House.Over the course of a lifetime of service to his country, Colin Powell became a national hero...
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Dangerous Nation
Robert Kagan
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 10 October 2006
- 9780307265999
Most Americans believe the United States had been an isolationist power until the twentieth century. This is wrong. In a riveting and brilliantly revisionist work of history, Robert Kagan, bestselling author of Of Paradise and Power, shows how Americans have in fact steadily been increasing their gl...
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Boeing Versus Airbus
John Newhouse
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 16 January 2007
- 9780307267269
The commercial airline industry is one of the most volatile, dogeatdog enterprises in the world, and in the late 1990s, Europeyes'>#8217;s Airbus overtook Americayes'>#8217;s Boeing as the preeminent aircraft manufacturer. However, Airbus quickly succumbed to the same complacency it once challenged,...
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Supercapitalism
Robert B Reich
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 4 September 2007
- 9780307267856
From one of America's foremost economic and political thinkers comes a vital analysis of our new hypercompetitive and turbocharged global economy and the effect it is having on American democracy. With his customary wit and insight, Reich shows how widening inequality of income and wealth, heightene...
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The Bauhaus Group
Nicholas Fox Weber
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 27 October 2009
- 9780307273345
Nicholas Fox Weber, for thirtythree years head of the Albers Foundation, spent many years with Anni and Josef Albers, the only husbandandwife artistic pair at the Bauhaus (she was a textile artist; he a professor and an artist, in glass, metal, wood, and photography). The Alberses told him their own...
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The Fabric of the Cosmos
Greene Brian
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 18 December 2007
- 9780307428530
From Brian Greene, one of the world’s leading physicists and author the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Elegant Universe, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way.Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most ...
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Overcoming Dyslexia
Sally Shaywitz M D Jonathan Shaywitz MD
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 24 December 2008
- 9780307558893
FOR EVERYONE WHO STRUGGLES TO READ!Clear, practical, science-based information and advice for successful resultsOne in five American children has trouble reading. But they are not stupid or lazy. In Overcoming Dyslexia, Dr. Sally Shaywitz, codirector of the Yale Center for the Study of Learning and ...
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Julia's Kitchen Wisdom
Julia Child
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 19 January 2010
- 9780307593535
How many minutes should you cook green beans? Is it better to steam them or to boil them?What are the right proportions for a vinaigrette?How do you skim off fat?What is the perfect way to roast a chicken?Julia Child gave us extensive answers to all these questionsyes'>#8211;and so many moreyes'>#82...
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Kent Haruf, awardwinning, bestselling author of Plainsong returns to the highplains town of Holt, Colorado, with a novel of masterful authority. The aging McPheron brothers are learning to live without Victoria Roubideaux, the single mother they took in and who has now left their ranch to start coll...
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The Table Comes First
Adam Gopnik
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 25 October 2011
- 9780307700599
Examines the meaning and relevance of food in the modern world, tracing the evolution of present-day practices from French traditions. ...
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Nobody knows Bangkok like Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, and there is no one quite like Sonchai: a police officer who has kept his Buddhist soul intact--more or less--despite the fact that his job shoves him face-to-face with some of the most vile and outrageous crimes and crimina...
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The World America Made
Robert Kagan
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 7 February 2012
- 9780307961327
What would the world look like if America were to reduce its role as a global leader in order to focus all its energies on solving its problems at home? And is America really in decline? Robert Kagan, New York Times best-selling author and one of the countrys most influential strategic thinkers, pai...
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The Skeptical Romancer
W Somerset Maugham
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 14 February 2012
- 9780307947635
W. Somerset Maugham was one of the seminal writers of the twentieth century, and his travel writing has long been considered among his finest work. Now, acclaimed travel writer Pico Iyer maps out a masterful tour of these vivid, evocative pieces that are collected here for the first time. Maugham w...
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Schmidt Steps Back
Begley Louis
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 13 March 2012
- 9780307957351
Struggling to recover from Carrie the waitress's rejection and his daughter's marriage to a Jewish man, lawyer Albert Schmidt hopes for renewal when both Carrie and his daughter become pregnant and when he falls for the beautiful French widow of a former partner. By the author of Schmidt Delivered ...
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The Lay of the Land
Richard Ford
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 24 October 2006
- 9780307267122
Featuring Frank Bascombe, this is the third novel following the bestselling "The Sportswriter" and "Independence Day". Here, Frank, fifty-five, settled in his realty business in Sea-Clift, New Jersey, has arrived at a state of optimistic pragmatism that he calls the Permanent Period of life. ...
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The Vintage Caper
Peter Mayle
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 20 October 2009
- 9780307273208
Danny Roth is the rich owner of a priceless collection of wines. He invites a journalist to write a piece about his rare collection and shortly afterwards is the unfortunate victim of a world-class wine heist. Roth is devastated.Called in by Roth's insurance company, lawyer and wine connoisseur Sam ...
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A compilation of short fiction explores the themes of love, honor, friendship, sacrifice, memory, and abandon through the lives of a translator assisting in his wife's suicide, a rare books collector, a profoundly lonely married woman, and other characters. ...
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Healthy Aging
Andrew Weil M D
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 26 November 2008
- 9780307485854
In each of his widely acclaimed, best-selling books, Dr. Andrew Weil has been an authoritative and companionable guide through a uniquely effective combination of traditional and nontraditional approaches to health and healthy living. Now he gives us a book about aging that is unlike any other. Draw...
