Richard - Libros y biografía

James Madison led one of the most influential and prolific lives in American history, and his story -- although all too often overshadowed by his more celebrated contemporaries -- is integral to that...

Things Paige Morrison will never understand about Mirabelle, Florida: Why wearing red shoes makes a girl a harlot Why a shop would ever sell something called "buck urine" Why everywhere she goes, she...

Comment en tant que dirigeant, pouvons-nous concilier notre propre bonheur, le bien-être de ses collaborateurs et notre contribution à un monde meilleur ? Comment le management altruiste bénéficie-t-il...

Richard Brookhiser wrote his first cover story for National Review at age fourteen, and became the magazine's youngest senior editor at twenty-three. William F. Buckley Jr. was Brookhiser's mentor, hero,...

The groundbreaking theory of how fire and food drove the evolution of modern humans Ever since Darwin and The Descent of Man, the evolution and world-wide dispersal of humans has been attributed to our...

The best of the best from the publishing phenomenon Don't Sweat the Small Stuff -- in time for the series' tenth anniversary! When Richard Carlson wrote Don't Sweat the Small Stuff in January 1997, he...

Featured in Don't Sweat the Small Stuff: The Kristine Carlson Story starring Heather Locklear, premiering on LifetimeIn this candid guide to adolescence in his #1 bestselling series, Richard Carlson examines...

" La première fois que je vois E. je le trouve quelconque sinon laid. Il a le teint gris et il fume, ce sont les seules choses que je remarque. " E. est adossé à la porte verte de son agence lorsqu'Emma...

Faut-il se lamenter sur le sort du roman français, quasiment absent de la scène internationale ? Pas si sûr quand on mesure à quel niveau d'abêtissement conduit le roman dit " international ". Ainsi Umberto...

Au bout de la nuit Milieu des années quatre-vingt-dix. Le jeune Billy Graves est flic au sein d'une brigade anticriminalité de l'un des pires districts du Bronx. Il fait partie d'un groupe de policiers...

La détective Nikki Heat vient d’être promue capitaine de la police new-yorkaise. Juste à temps pour prendre en charge l’une des affaires d’assassinat les plus épineuses de sa carrière. Un cas passionnant...

"J’ai passé ma vie sur la route. Tout seul. Avec la blonde. Avec mes fils, avec la musique, avec mes filles. Des milliers et des milliers de kilomètres. Coureur de savanes, enjambeur d’océans. T’as trop...

" Comme les histoires que l'on lit aux enfants, ce roman intense et subtil peut nous permettre d'éviter le cauchemar qu'il décrit. " USA TodayRichard Kraft est interne en chirurgie pédiatrique au Carver...

Quand Douglas Raymer était collégien, son professeur d’anglais écrivait en marge de ses rédactions : "Qui es-tu, Douglas ?" Trente ans plus tard, Raymer n’a pas bougé de North Bath, et ne sait toujours...

In what other language, asks Lederer, do people drive on a parkway and park in a driveway, and your nose can run and your feet can smell? In CRAZY ENGLISH, Lederer frolics through the logic-boggling byways...

Un homme court à travers la campagne pour échapper aux chiens qui ont flairé sa piste et à l'hélicoptère qui tourne dans le ciel.Le fuyard s'appelle Parker, il vient de braquer une banque. Au sommet...

Le 1er décembre 1969, Teddy, Lincoln et Mickey, étudiants boursiers dans une fac huppée de la côte Est, voient leur destin se jouer en direct à la télévision alors qu’ils assistent, comme des millions...

From journalist and historian Richard Kreitner, a "powerful revisionist account"of the most persistent idea in American history: these supposedly United States should be broken up (Eric Foner). The novel...

How did the replication bomb we call ”life” begin and where in the world, or rather, in the universe, is it heading? Writing with characteristic wit and an ability to clarify complex phenomena (the New...

FIRST IN WAR, FIRST IN PEACE, FIRST IN LEADERSHIP. Richard Brookhiser's revolutionary biography, Founding Father , took George Washington off the dollar bill and made him live. Now, with his trademark...

Tulips are one of the most popular spring-flowering bulbs. Available in a huge range of colors and in a wide array of shapes, they’re a mainstay of most spring gardens. They are the focus of festivals...

When war broke out in Iraq, every major U.S. network pulled its correspondents from the scene. Despite the risk, Richard Engel stayed. As our tanks entered Baghdad in April 2003, he was there, bringing...

"The name Leakey is synonymous with the study of human origins," wrote The New York Times. The renowned family of paleontologists -- Louis Leakey, Mary Leakey, and their son Richard Leakey -- has vastly...

A hilarious collection of essays, riffs, and lists that celebrate the insanity of Hollywood--for anyone who loves the movies. Richard Roeper, like the rest of us, adores the movies. In this uproarious,...

After a lifetime's close observation of the continent, one of the world's finest Africa correspondents has penned a landmark book on life and death in modern Africa. It takes a guide as observant, experienced,...

Debunking the myth of the "Americanization" of Europe, a noted historian presents an authoritative and engrossing cultural history of how America tried to remake Europe in its own image, and how the Europeans...

With more than 21 million copies in print, Richard Carlson's bestselling Don't Sweat series has shown countless families, lovers, and workers how not to sweat the small stuff. Now, in his soothing and...

This collection includes Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems, Things of This World, Ceremony and Other Poems, and The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems.  "One of the best poets of his generation, Richard...

A preeminent scientist—and the world's most prominent atheist—asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society, from the Crusades to 9/11. With rigor...

National BestsellerNational Book Critics Circle Award NomineeFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Playground and The Overstory, a magnificent double love story of two young couples separated by a...