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Discover the "important and inspiring" and never-before-told complete story of the remarkable relationship between country music icons Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn (Miranda Lambert).Loretta Lynn and the late Patsy Cline are legends—country icons...

Dolly Parton is a household name whether you enjoy country music or not, and here she gives us a remarkable window into her career as the most storied female country music artist of all time. This book has everything that fans and curious newcomers...

The story of Frank Whittle - RAF pilot, mathematician of genius, inventor of the jet engine and British hero.In 1929, a twenty-two-year-old maverick named Frank Whittle - a self-taught aeronautical obsessive and risk-takingly brilliant RAF pilot -...

The kind of story that opens a lot of people’s eyes, The Fund exposes Ray Dalio for who he really is, pulling no punches as it points the finger at not just him, but all the guilty parties that allowed any of this to happen. It’s a biting...

Helena Rubinstein's remarkable life—from the inception of her beauty empire to the legacy she left behind—is celebrated in this comprehensive book that retraces her inspiring story.Helena Rubinstein was the first to establish the link between...

A USA Today New and Noteworthy Title.“You’ll tell me if it ever starts getting genuinely insane, right?”—Elon Musk, TED interview Hamish McKenzie tells how a Silicon Valley start-up's wild dream came true. Tesla is a car...

For half a century, the Murdoch media empire and its polarizing patriarch have swept across the globe, shaking up markets and democracies in their wake. But how did it all start? In September 1953, 22-year-old Rupert Murdoch landed in Adelaide, South...

Out of print for many years, this is a brand new edition of the definitive companion to the acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series of novels, written by the author himself. What was daily life in Nelson's navy really like, for everyone from the captain down to...

The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer...

From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, finance, mythology, the arts, medicine, and more, as told by the Periodic Table.Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie...

n 1960, Barry Goldwater set forth his brief manifesto in The Conscience of a Conservative. Written at the height of the Cold War and in the wake of America's greatest experiment with big government, the New Deal, Goldwater's message was not only...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Barack Obama’s lucid vision of America’s place in the world and call for a new kind of politics that builds upon our shared understandings as Americans, based on his years in the...

Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty. Included here are the best essays from the most important American contribution to the literature of political science and constitutional government, The Federalist. These essays appeared first...

'I will do as the Senate decrees.'These words from one of Rome's opponents encapsulate the authority Rome achieved by its subjugation of the Mediterranean. The Third Macedonian War, recounted in this volume, ended the kingdom created by Philip II and...

'You know how to win a battle, Hannibal; you do not know how to use the victory!'Livy's great history of Rome contains, in Books 21 to 30, the definitive ancient account of Hannibal's invasion of Italy in 218 BC, and the war he fought with the Romans...

In The War with Hannibal, Livy chronicles the events of the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage, until the Battle of Zama in 202 BC. He vividly recreates the immense armies of Hannibal, complete with elephants, crossing the Alps; the panic as...

Winner of the 2023 National Outdoor Book Award for History/BiographyA Booklist Top of the List Winner for Nonfiction in 2023A New Yorker Best Book of 2023The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River...

In an easy meld of memoir and cultural history, the distinguished Civil War historian and former President of Harvard recounts her transition from southern white privilege to Sixties political activism, chasing the arc of justice and making—in the...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time—war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, and race—in a way that stimulates...

From world-renowned historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari, the bestselling author of Sapiens, comes the second volume in the bestselling Unstoppable Us series that traces human development from the Agricultural Revolution to Prehistoric Egypt...