Their effect is not to make us sneer or p0revel in schadenfreude; here are no cautionary tales. Rather, here are brief introductions-acts of excavation and reclamation-to people whom history may have forgotten, but whom now we cannot.
An acclaimed master of suspense creates a heroine you will never forget in this superbly chilling novel of a woman who begins a desperate undertaking that may transform her life -- or end it.
From Tim Weiner, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, an urgent and gripping account of the 75-year battle between the US and Russia that led to the election and impeachment of an American president With vivid ...
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a remarkable story of science history: how a ravishing film star and an avant-garde composer invented spread-spectrum radio, the technology that made wireless phones, GPS systems, and ...
When Emmy Hamilton's mother encourages her to buy the local book store, Folly's Finds, she hopes it will distract her daughter from the loss of her husband.
Sprinkled with candid and often colorful quotations from a variety of investment insiders, Fortune and Folly gives you a unique look at what really happens on Wall Street; facts that challenge the assumptions routinely made about the ...
In Edwardian London, a girl dreams of being an artist, despite her family's disapproval.
... folly for in- stance , foolish matters such as are treated in pagan mythology , which she emulates , will become part of his provenance . Yet he undoubtedly will also gain access to a higher folly , which is wisdom , when he begins to ...
... folly of them , as judged either by the wisdom of the world or by a higher sort of wisdom which reveals to every man who has it that whatever he may do is in itself vain , and ... Folly , beginning ,. [ 1 ] THE FOLLY OF ERASMUS.
... Folly Beach , South Carolina TO : THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY 1. I submit for transmission to Congress my report on a survey of Folly Beach , South Carolina , in partial response to Public Law 71 , Eighty - fourth Congress , first session ...