After moving from Washington, D.C. to the Jersey Shore, a former speechwriter for President Obama starts surfing at the age of thirty-five—the rough equivalent of beginning guitar lessons on your deathbed—and must turn for help to the only other surfer he knows: a tattooed, truck-driving, Joe Rogan superfan who happens to be his brother-in-law.
Extravagantly praised in hardback, the term J Curve has entered the language as a tool for understanding how nations behave. What Freakonomics did for how the economy works, Bremmer does for Western interest.
A new history of two centuries of revolt by the Jews against the Roman Empire that draws on new scholarship, including recent archeological discoveries, by our leading historian of ancient Rome.
The life of Hollywood legend Joan Crawford, told by bestselling biographer and film historian Scott Eyman, drawing in part on letters and papers not available to previous biographers, with cooperation from the estate.
The life of Hollywood legend Joan Crawford, told by bestselling biographer and film historian Scott Eyman, drawing in part on letters and papers not available to previous biographers, with cooperation from the estate.
More than half a million people each year are diagnosed with diabetes. Now, the world-renowned Joslin Diabetes Centre offers a comprehensively updated and uniquely indispensable new edition of its definitive guide to diabetes self-care.