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Dogfight at the Pentagon - Sergeant Dogs, Grumpy Cats, Wallflower Wingmen, and Other Lunacy from the Wall Street Journal's A-Hed Column - Bok av Wall

Dogfight at the Pentagon - Sergeant Dogs, Grumpy Cats, Wallflower Wingmen, and Other Lunacy from the Wall Street Journal's A-Hed Column - Bok av Wall

Discover the story behind these and more in this delightful collection of the wild, the weird, and the wonderful, culled from The Wall Street Journal's popular and long-standing A-Hed column.One of the The Wall Street Journal's most popular features for more than seventy years, the daily A-Hed column?named for a headline that looked like a letter A?has diverted readers from the more glum news of war, economic woe, natural disasters, and man-made malfeasance. Covering a wide range of lunacy and the..

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Indecent Exposure - A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street - Bok av David McClintick - Häftad

Indecent Exposure - A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street - Bok av David McClintick - Häftad

When the head of Columbia Pictures, David Begelman, got caught forging Cliff Robertson''s name on a $10,000 check, it seemed, at first, like a simple case of embezzlement. It wasn''t. The incident was the tip of the iceberg, the first hint of a scandal that shook Hollywood and rattled Wall Street. Soon powerful studio executives were engulfed in controversy; careers derailed; reputations died; and a ruthless, take-no-prisoners corporate power struggle for the world-famous Hollywood dream factory..

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Confidence Men - Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President - Bok av Ron Suskind - Häftad

Confidence Men - Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President - Bok av Ron Suskind - Häftad

In this gripping, revelatory, and brilliantly reported book, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Suskind tells for the first time the full story of America's financial meltdown and an untested new president charged with commanding Washington, taming Wall Street, rescuing an economy on the verge of collapse, and restoring the confidence of a shaken nation. Suskind moves from the frenzied trading floors of lower Manhattan to the power corridors inside the Beltway and introduces a larger-than-life cast..

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Lamp with Wings - Love Sonnets - Bok av M.A. Vizsolyi - Häftad

Lamp with Wings - Love Sonnets - Bok av M.A. Vizsolyi - Häftad

A winner of the 2010 National Poetry Series Prize as selected by Ilya Kaminsky (author of Dancing in Odessa, recipient of the 2004 Whiting Award, the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, among other honors, and co-editor of The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry), Vizsolyi's work perpetuates NPS's tradition of promoting exceptional poetry from emerging poets.Kaminksy writes that Vizsolyi's poetry ?is erotic the way Catullus was erotic, and Mayakovsky. The voice is arrogant and tender, it goes 'on the nerve,'..

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X Troop - The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II - Bok av Leah Garrett - Inbunden

X Troop - The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II - Bok av Leah Garrett - Inbunden

WALL STREET JOURNAL BOOK OF THE MONTH \This is the incredible World War II saga of the German-Jewish commandos who fought in Britain’s most secretive special-forces unit—but whose story has gone untold until now.\ —Wall Street Journal“Brilliantly researched, utterly gripping history: the first full account of a remarkable group of Jewish refugees—a top-secret band of brothers—who waged war on Hitler.”—Alex Kershaw, New York Times best-selling..

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A Series of Unfortunate Events #2: The Reptile Room - Bok av Lemony Snicket - Inbunden

A Series of Unfortunate Events #2: The Reptile Room - Bok av Lemony Snicket - Inbunden

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIESViolet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children. They are charming, and resourceful, and have pleasant facial features. Unfortunately, they are exceptionally unlucky.In the first two books alone, the three youngsters encounter a greedy and repulsive villain, itchy clothing, a disastrous fire, a plot to steal their fortune, a lumpy bed, a deadly serpent, a large brass reading lamp, a long knife, and a terrible odour. In the tradition of great storytellers,..

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Secret History of Food - Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat - Bok av Matt Siegel - Inbunden

Secret History of Food - Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat - Bok av Matt Siegel - Inbunden

An irreverent, surprising, and entirely entertaining look at the little-known history surrounding the foods we know and loveIs Italian olive oil really Italian, or are we dipping our bread in lamp oil? Why are we masochistically drawn to foods that can hurt us, like hot peppers? Far from being a classic American dish, is apple pie actually . . . English? ?As a species, we're hardwired to obsess over food,? Matt Siegel explains as he sets out ?to uncover the hidden side of everything we put in our..

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Mother May I - A Novel - Bok av Joshilyn Jackson - Häftad

Mother May I - A Novel - Bok av Joshilyn Jackson - Häftad

NATIONAL BESTSELLER?A finely paced, shrewdly observed, multi-tiered story . . . A thinking (and feeling) reader's thriller.? ?Wall Street Journal \Chilling, thought-provoking, and hauntingly written, Mother May I kept me on the edge of my seat with its breathless race against time.\ ? Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl from Widow HillsRecommended by Buzzfeed • Parade • Country Living • Atlanta Journal-Constitution • Augusta Chronicle • The Nerd Daily • She..

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Mother May I - A Novel - Bok av Joshilyn Jackson - Inbunden

Mother May I - A Novel - Bok av Joshilyn Jackson - Inbunden

NATIONAL BESTSELLER?A finely paced, shrewdly observed, multi-tiered story . . . A thinking (and feeling) reader's thriller.? ?Wall Street Journal \Chilling, thought-provoking, and hauntingly written, Mother May I kept me on the edge of my seat with its breathless race against time.\ ? Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl from Widow HillsRecommended by Buzzfeed • Parade • Country Living • Atlanta Journal-Constitution • Augusta Chronicle • The Nerd Daily • She..

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Mother May I - Bok av Joshilyn Jackson - Häftad

Mother May I - Bok av Joshilyn Jackson - Häftad

NATIONAL BESTSELLER?A finely paced, shrewdly observed, multi-tiered story . . . A thinking (and feeling) reader's thriller.? ?Wall Street Journal \Chilling, thought-provoking, and hauntingly written, Mother May I kept me on the edge of my seat with its breathless race against time.\ ? Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl from Widow HillsRecommended by Buzzfeed • Parade • Country Living • Atlanta Journal-Constitution • Augusta Chronicle • The Nerd Daily • She..

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The Enlightenment - Bok av Ritchie Robertson - Häftad

The Enlightenment - Bok av Ritchie Robertson - Häftad

?[Mr. Robertson] is [a] splendid writer, astoundingly versed in European letters and gifted at vividly sketching the views of the ?Enlighteners.?... Robertson, armed with a prodigious knowledge of the Enlightenment's literary output, has captured the tone and spirit of this milieu.\ -- Wall Street JournalNow in paperback, a magisterial history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human..

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Trillion Dollar Coach - The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell - Bok av Eric Schmidt - Inbunden

Trillion Dollar Coach - The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell - Bok av Eric Schmidt - Inbunden

#1 Wall Street Journal BestsellerNew York Times BestsellerUSA Today BestsellerThe team behind How Google Works returns with management lessons from legendary coach and business executive, Bill Campbell, whose mentoring of some of our most successful modern entrepreneurs has helped create well over a trillion dollars in market value.Bill Campbell played an instrumental role in the growth of several prominent companies, such as Google, Apple, and Intuit, fostering deep relationships with Silicon Valley..

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Extraterrestrial - The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth - Bok av Avi Loeb - Häftad

Extraterrestrial - The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth - Bok av Avi Loeb - Häftad

New York Times Bestseller | Wall Street Journal Bestseller | Publishers Weekly Bestseller | Publishers Marketplace 2020 Buzz Book | Amazon Best Book of the Year | Longlisted for the 2022 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardHarvard's top astronomer lays out his controversial theory that our solar system was recently visited by advanced alien technology from a distant star.?Provocative and thrilling ... Loeb asks us to think big and to expect the unexpected.??Alan Lightman, New York Times..

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Water Like a Stone - Bok av Deborah Crombie - Häftad

Water Like a Stone - Bok av Deborah Crombie - Häftad

Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his partner, Sergeant Gemma James, take their sons to picturesque Cheshire for their first family Christmas with Duncan's parents?a holiday both dreaded and anticipated. But not even the charming town of Nantwich and the dreaming canals can mask the tensions in Duncan's family, which are tragically heightened by the discovery of an infant's body hidden in the wall of an old dairy.As Duncan and Gemma help the police investigate the infant's death, another..

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We - Bok av Yevgeny Zamyatin - Häftad

We - Bok av Yevgeny Zamyatin - Häftad

Before Brave New World... Before 1984...There was...WEIn the One State of the great Benefactor, there are no individuals, only numbers. Life is an ongoing process of mathematical precision, a perfectly balanced equation. Primitive passions and instincts have been subdued. Even nature has been defeated, banished behind the Green Wall. But one frontier remains: outer space. Now, with the creation of the spaceship Integral, that frontier -- and whatever alien species are to be found there -- will be..

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The Boston Massacre - Bok av Serena Zabin - Häftad

The Boston Massacre - Bok av Serena Zabin - Häftad

?Historical accuracy and human understanding require coming down from the high ground and seeing people in all their complexity. Serena Zabin's rich and highly enjoyable book does just that.??Kathleen DuVal, Wall Street JournalA dramatic, untold ?people's history? of the storied event that helped trigger the American Revolution.The story of the Boston Massacre?when on a late winter evening in 1770, British soldiers shot five local men to death?is familiar to generations. But from the very beginning,..

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Nazi Billionaires - Bok av David de Jong - Häftad

Nazi Billionaires - Bok av David de Jong - Häftad

?Meticulously researched ...compels us to confront the current-day legacy of these Nazi ties.? ?Wall Street JournalA groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions off the horrors of the Third Reich and World War II?and how America allowed them to get away with it.In 1946, Günther Quandt?patriarch of Germany's most iconic industrial empire, a dynasty that today controls BMW?was arrested for suspected Nazi collaboration. Quandt claimed that he had been forced to..

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How Emotions Are Made - The Secret Life of the Brain - Bok av Lisa Feldman Barrett - Häftad

How Emotions Are Made - The Secret Life of the Brain - Bok av Lisa Feldman Barrett - Häftad

\Fascinating . . . A thought-provoking journey into emotion science.\ -- Wall Street Journal\A singular book, remarkable for the freshness of its ideas and the boldness and clarity with which they are presented.\ -- Scientific American\A brilliant and original book on the science of emotion, by the deepest thinker about this topic since Darwin.\ -- Daniel Gilbert, best-selling author of Stumbling on HappinessThe science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with the discovery of..

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This America of Ours - Bok av Nate Schweber - Häftad

This America of Ours - Bok av Nate Schweber - Häftad

?A brilliant rendering of what 'the open space of democracy' must be if we are to survive its present state of erosion.? ?Terry Tempest Williams The forgotten and ?energetic? history of the extraordinary couple who rescued national parks from McCarthyism?and inspired a future of conservation (Wall Street Journal)In late-1940s America, few writers commanded attention like Bernard DeVoto. Alongside his brilliant wife and editor, Avis, DeVoto was a firebrand of American liberty, free speech, and perhaps..

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Black Birds in the Sky - The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre - Bok av Brandy Colbert - Inbunden

Black Birds in the Sky - The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre - Bok av Brandy Colbert - Inbunden

A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and legacy of one of the most deadly and destructive acts of racial violence in American history: the Tulsa Race Massacre. Winner, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District?a thriving, affluent neighborhood known as America's Black Wall Street. They brought with them..

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Inseparable - A Never-Before-Published Novel - Bok av Simone de Beauvoir - Inbunden

Inseparable - A Never-Before-Published Novel - Bok av Simone de Beauvoir - Inbunden

Finalist for the French-American Florence Gould Translation PrizeA novel by the iconic Simone de Beauvoir of an intense and vivid girlhood friendship that, unpublished in her lifetime, displays ?Beauvoir's genius as a fiction writer? (Wall Street Journal) From the moment Sylvie and Andrée meet in their Parisian day school, they see in each other an accomplice with whom to confront the mysteries of girlhood. For the next ten years, the two are the closest of friends and confidantes as they explore..

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Never Have I Ever - A Novel - Bok av Joshilyn Jackson - Häftad

Never Have I Ever - A Novel - Bok av Joshilyn Jackson - Häftad

“Wonderful—suspense and surprises, real characters, and a scary, ominous backbeat.  This feels like the book Jackson was born to write.” —Lee Child, New York Times bestselling authorNamed a Best Book by USA Today • People • The Wall Street Journal • Time • Entertainment Weekly • Bustle • and many more!From New York Times bestselling author Joshilyn..

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The Cartographers - A Novel - Bok av Peng Shepherd - Inbunden

The Cartographers - A Novel - Bok av Peng Shepherd - Inbunden

?The Cartographers is one of those brilliant books you have to read twice.? ? Washington Post?There are echoes of Borges and Bradbury, Pynchon and Finian's Rainbow, but Ms. Shepherd's exhilarating and enjoyable work casts a magical glow all its own.? ? Wall Street JournalFrom the critically acclaimed author of The Book of M, a highly imaginative thriller about a young woman who discovers that a strange map in her deceased father's belongings holds an incredible, deadly secret?one that will lead her..

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Special Characters - My Adventures with Tech's Titans and Misfits - Bok av Laurie Segall - Inbunden

Special Characters - My Adventures with Tech's Titans and Misfits - Bok av Laurie Segall - Inbunden

\CNN's former senior tech correspondent shares her front-row seat on the rise of Fac, Twitter, and other new-media empires?and the geeks turned entrepreneurs who founded them.\?PeopleAn unflinching, era-defining story of self-discovery and breaking barriers by award-winning investigative reporter Laurie Segall. In 2008, 23-year-old Laurie Segall was a newly minted assistant at CNN and was living in an East Village walk-up apartment. As Wall Street was crashing down, Segall began discovering a group..

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