Industrial Age

The stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving...

Now featuring a new preface by Peter Thiel Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century...

Have you noticed a change in your parents and are unsure what to do next? This is the book to help you think about next steps, common mistakes people make, and what I wish I had done differently as a caregiver for my dad. You'll hear personal stories about my experience, as well as what I've seen professionally helping families get their estate planning, finances, and insurance in order. It's a practical blend of guidebook and stories. Caring for a parent as they age is challenging.

A New York Times bestseller, this is the “outstanding” (The Atlantic), insightful, and authoritative account of Dwight Eisenhower’s presidency. Drawing on newly declassified documents and thousands of pages of unpublished material, The Age of Eisenhower tells the story of a masterful...

What if the quirks that made you feel different were the very things that built America? Gilded Age Geniuses delivers hilarious, fast-paced, and inspiring stories of the inventors, business titans, and justice fighters who refused to fit the mold—and ended up changing history. Featuring lively true stories of Edison, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and more, this engaging nonfiction collection makes Gilded Age history unforgettable. Perfect for parents wanting to inspire teens, educators looking for engaging classroom reads, and adults who love ...

For readers of David Nicholls and Sally Rooney comes a new love story that's at once tender and electrifying—told by everyone but the main characters. When Clara and Seb first cross paths in a London square, it’s the start of something exciting. Clara, an aspiring director stuck in an...

Biotech in the Balance by Dr. Jeremy M. Levin shows why the next lifesaving medicines may not arrive on time, and what we can do about that in a period of political change. This is not a technical book. It is a bedside-to-boardroom story, told from inside the system, with a clear map of what has to change so that medicines keep arriving when people need them.

New York Times Best Seller How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology—and there’s nobody better qualified or situated to explore that...

Dubbed “the industry bible” by the Los Angeles Times, All You Need to Know About the Music Business by veteran music lawyer Donald Passman is the go-to guide for everyone in the music business through ten editions, over thirty years, and over a half a million copies sold. Now with updates...

A delightfully dishy novel about the all-time most impossible boss in the history of impossible bosses. Andrea Sachs, a small-town girl fresh out of college, lands the job “a million girls would die for.” Hired as the assistant to Miranda Priestly, the high-profile, fabulously successful...

"Narrated with wry undertones by Helen Laser... [who] takes Clo’s wry and self-injurious attitude and makes her relatable instead of unlikeable. [Laser] can fluidly vacillate from the “showhorse” privileged voice of Davis to the “workhorses” like Clo who endure dysmorphia and private...

From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes a sweeping look at the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of economic and political power among society’s members.

For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s latest New York Times bestseller is a guide to meditation as a rational practice informed by neuroscience and psychology. From Sam Harris, neuroscientist and author of numerous New York Times bestselling books...

From the acclaimed author of In the Shadow of the Empress comes the thrilling chronicle of two of the most influential and glamorous women in nineteenth-century Europe—Elisabeth, empress of Austria, and Eugénie, empress of France—and their efforts to rule amid the scandal, intrigue, tragedy...

"Between author Rooney's story and narrator Xe Sands's craftsmanship, this Walk will sweep listeners off their feet...Through Sands we feel the force of Lillian's personality — with all its drive, wit, and grace — as well as the counterforces that want to constrain it." — AudioFile...

Barry Diller, one of America’s most successful businessmen, reveals himself here—his successes, failures, and struggles—with surprising candor and intimacy in a memoir rich in Hollywood lore and filled with business acumen. Writing in his singular voice, Barry Diller delivers an astute...

A New York Times bestseller and a Washington Post "Best Book of the Year". The thrilling story of the passionate, turbulent marriage of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. In 1934, a friend brought fledgling actress Vivien Leigh to see Theatre Royal, where she would first lay eyes on Laurence...

“A monumentally researched biography of one of the nineteenth century’s wealthiest self-made Americans…Well-written and worthwhile.” —The Wall Street Journal A rags-to-riches frontier tale of an Irish immigrant who outwits, outworks, and outmaneuvers thousands of rivals to take control...

A divorced R&B singer starting over at forty gets caught between a ruthless promoter and her protective ex. Will she reclaim her voice or lose her heart? At forty, I thought my music career was dead, until a dangerously seductive promoter offered me the spotlight. Jermaine promises to put my R&B band on the map, but his touch demands a price I might not survive. Just as I give in to the heat between us, my ex-husband steps out of the shadows with a fierce demand for a second chance. Ellington broke my heart years ago, yet his protective glare still sets my soul on fire. Trapped in a ...

He began by defending great art. He ended by putting the entire industrial age on trial. John Ruskin was one of the most extraordinary and contradictory minds of Victorian Britain: art critic, social reformer, teacher, conservationist, economic dissenter and moral prophet. Born into wealth in 1819, Ruskin was raised among books, religion, art and extensive travel. While still in his twenties, his passionate defence of J. M. W. Turner in Modern Painters established him as one of Britain's most influential cultural critics. But paintings were only the beginning. Ruskin increasingly believed ...