Author: aboutreads

THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY by James Patterson,John Connolly

~ aboutreads ~ Leave a comment

Filthy Rich: A Powerful Billionaire, the Sex Scandal that Undid Him, and All the Justice that Money Can Buy: The Shocking True Story of Jeffrey Epstein by James Patterson,John Connolly, No. 1 bestselling book of New York Times Best Sellers. A story of how an architect and a serial killer were linked by the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893. Originally published in 2003. For more New York Times Best Seller of Crime and Punishment best sellers, click here

Filthy Rich: A Powerful Billionaire, the Sex Scandal that Undid Him, and All the Justice that Money Can Buy: The Shocking True Story of Jeffrey Epstein

 by: James Patterson,  John Connolly
No. 1 Best Seller on November 6, 2016.
Find in Library
Read Review
A shocking true crime tale of money, power, and sex from the world’s most popular thriller writer.

Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins to the rarefied heights of New York City’s financial elite. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers–and for people–Epstein amassed his wealth through a combination of access and skill. But even after he had it all, Epstein wanted more. And that unceasing desire–especially a taste for young girls–resulted in his stunning fall from grace. From Epstein himself, to the girls he employed as masseuses at his home, to the cops investigating the appalling charges against him, FILTHY RICH examines all sides of a case that scandalized one of America’s richest communities. An explosive true story, FILTHY RICH is a riveting account of wealth, power and the influence they bring to bear on the American justice system.

More books by James Patterson,John Connolly

1. Filthy Rich: A Powerful Billionaire, the Sex Scandal that Undid Him, and All the Justice that Money Can Buy – The Shocking True Story of Jeffrey Epstein

 by: James Patterson,  John Connolly,  Tim Malloy
Release date: Oct 10, 2016
Find in Library
Read Review
A shocking true crime tale of money, power, and sex from the world’s most popular thriller writer.

Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins to the rarefied heights of New York City’s financial elite. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers–and for people–Epstein amassed his wealth through a combination of access and skill. But even after he had it all, Epstein wanted more. And that unceasing desire–especially a taste for young girls–resulted in his stunning fall from grace. From Epstein himself, to the girls he employed as masseuses at his home, to the cops investigating the appalling charges against him, FILTHY RICH examines all sides of a case that scandalized one of America’s richest communities. An explosive true story, FILTHY RICH is a riveting account of wealth, power and the influence they bring to bear on the American justice system.

2. Filthy Rich: The Billionaire’s Sex Scandal – The Shocking True Story of Jeffrey Epstein

 by: James Patterson,  John Connolly,  Tim Malloy
Release date: Nov 28, 2017
Find in Library
Read Review
A shocking true crime tale of money, power, and sex from the world’s most popular thriller writer.

Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins to the rarefied heights of New York City’s financial elite. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers–and for people–Epstein amassed his wealth through a combination of access and skill. But even after he had it all, Epstein wanted more. And that unceasing desire–especially a taste for young girls–resulted in his stunning fall from grace. From Epstein himself, to the girls he employed as masseuses at his home, to the cops investigating the appalling charges against him, FILTHY RICH examines all sides of a case that scandalized one of America’s richest communities. An explosive true story, FILTHY RICH is a riveting account of wealth, power and the influence they bring to bear on the American justice system.

3. Race and Reconciliation in America

 by: William S. Cohen,  Janet Langhart Cohen,  Enola Gay Aird,  Adele Logan Alexander,  James Allen,  Tom Allen,  Bernard Bergreen,  Douglas Blackmon,  Katrina Brown,  Krista Buccellato,  Lonnie Bunch,  Deepak Chopra,  Gail Christopher,  Nancy Clair,  Chuck Conconi,  John Connolly,  Stephen Cropper,  Jason Dean,  Debbie Dingell,  Jan Smith-Donaldson,  Sam Donaldson,  Maria Echaveste,  Christopher Edley,  Mary Farrell,  Raul Fernandez,  Patricia Finneran,  Badi Foster,  LaToya Foster,  D’Angelo Gardner,  Helene Gayle
Release date: Aug 16, 2009
Find in Library
Read Review
Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America’s history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities for all.

While much progress in race relations has been made in recent years―including the election of Barack Obama as President of the United State―it’s clear that our journey to a post-racial era is far from complete. In virtually every measurable category, whether income levels, job opportunities, access to health care, life expectancy, high school diplomas, incarceration rates, do not fare well compared to their white counterparts.

The dialogue entitled Race and Reconciliation in America was convened to provide a forum for a long overdue, open, honest, and constructive discussion among people of good will about the need for the American people to truly grasp the depth of past misdeeds, why the legacies of past oppression persist, and how we can achieve a more fair and just society embodied in the American Dream.

4. Filthy Rich: A Powerful Billionaire, the Sex Scandal that Undid Him, and All the Justice that Money Can Buy – The Shocking True Story of Jeffrey Epstein

 by: James Patterson,  John Connolly,  Tim Malloy
Release date: Oct 10, 2016
Find in Library
Read Review
A shocking true crime tale of money, power, and sex from the world’s most popular thriller writer.

Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins to the rarefied heights of New York City’s financial elite. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers–and for people–Epstein amassed his wealth through a combination of access and skill. But even after he had it all, Epstein wanted more. And that unceasing desire–especially a taste for young girls–resulted in his stunning fall from grace. From Epstein himself, to the girls he employed as masseuses at his home, to the cops investigating the appalling charges against him, FILTHY RICH examines all sides of a case that scandalized one of America’s richest communities. An explosive true story, FILTHY RICH is a riveting account of wealth, power and the influence they bring to bear on the American justice system.

5. Filthy Rich: The Billionaire’s Sex Scandal – The Shocking True Story of Jeffrey Epstein

 by: James Patterson,  John Connolly,  Tim Malloy
Release date: Nov 28, 2017
Find in Library
Read Review
A shocking true crime tale of money, power, and sex from the world’s most popular thriller writer.

Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins to the rarefied heights of New York City’s financial elite. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers–and for people–Epstein amassed his wealth through a combination of access and skill. But even after he had it all, Epstein wanted more. And that unceasing desire–especially a taste for young girls–resulted in his stunning fall from grace. From Epstein himself, to the girls he employed as masseuses at his home, to the cops investigating the appalling charges against him, FILTHY RICH examines all sides of a case that scandalized one of America’s richest communities. An explosive true story, FILTHY RICH is a riveting account of wealth, power and the influence they bring to bear on the American justice system.

6. Race and Reconciliation in America

 by: William S. Cohen,  Janet Langhart Cohen,  Enola Gay Aird,  Adele Logan Alexander,  James Allen,  Tom Allen,  Bernard Bergreen,  Douglas Blackmon,  Katrina Brown,  Krista Buccellato,  Lonnie Bunch,  Deepak Chopra,  Gail Christopher,  Nancy Clair,  Chuck Conconi,  John Connolly,  Stephen Cropper,  Jason Dean,  Debbie Dingell,  Jan Smith-Donaldson,  Sam Donaldson,  Maria Echaveste,  Christopher Edley,  Mary Farrell,  Raul Fernandez,  Patricia Finneran,  Badi Foster,  LaToya Foster,  D’Angelo Gardner,  Helene Gayle
Release date: Aug 16, 2009
Find in Library
Read Review
Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America’s history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities for all.

While much progress in race relations has been made in recent years―including the election of Barack Obama as President of the United State―it’s clear that our journey to a post-racial era is far from complete. In virtually every measurable category, whether income levels, job opportunities, access to health care, life expectancy, high school diplomas, incarceration rates, do not fare well compared to their white counterparts.

The dialogue entitled Race and Reconciliation in America was convened to provide a forum for a long overdue, open, honest, and constructive discussion among people of good will about the need for the American people to truly grasp the depth of past misdeeds, why the legacies of past oppression persist, and how we can achieve a more fair and just society embodied in the American Dream.

Last updated on Thursday, March 30, 2017

HAMILTON: THE REVOLUTION by Trevor Noah

~ aboutreads ~ Leave a comment

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah, No. 1 bestselling book of New York Times Best Sellers. The libretto of the Grammy-, Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, annotated by its creator, along with backstage photos,interviews and a production history. For more New York Times Best Seller of Culture best sellers, click here

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

 by: Trevor Noah
No. 1 Best Seller on December 4, 2016.
Find in Library
Read Review
The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed
 
Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle.
           
Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life.
           
The stories collected here are by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Trevor illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother’s unconventional, unconditional love.

Advance praise for Born a Crime

“[A] substantial collection of staggering personal essays . . . Incisive, funny, and vivid, these true tales are anchored to his portrait of his courageous, rebellious, and religious mother who defied racially restrictive laws to secure an education and a career for herself—and to have a child with a white Swiss/German even though sex between whites and blacks was illegal. . . . [Trevor Noah’s] electrifying memoir sparkles with funny stories . . . and his candid and compassionate essays deepen our perception of the complexities of race, gender, and class.”—Booklist (starred review)
 
“A gritty memoir . . . studded with insight and provocative social criticism . . . with flashes of brilliant storytelling and acute observations.”—Kirkus Reviews

From the Hardcover edition.

More books by Trevor Noah

1. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

 by: Trevor Noah
Release date: Nov 15, 2016
Find in Library
Read Review
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Michiko Kakutani, New York Times • Newsday • Esquire • NPR • Booklist

Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle.

Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life.

The stories collected here are by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Trevor illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother’s unconventional, unconditional love.

Praise for Born a Crime

 “[A] compelling new memoir . . . By turns alarming, sad and funny, [Trevor Noah’s] book provides a harrowing look, through the prism of Mr. Noah’s family, at life in South Africa under apartheid. . . . Born a Crime is not just an unnerving account of growing up in South Africa under apartheid, but a love letter to the author’s remarkable mother.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

“[An] unforgettable memoir.”—Parade

 “What makes Born a Crime such a soul-nourishing pleasure, even with all its darker edges and perilous turns, is reading Noah recount in brisk, warmly conversational prose how he learned to negotiate his way through the bullying and ostracism. . . . What also helped was having a mother like Patricia Nombuyiselo Noah. . . . Consider Born a Crime another such gift to her—and an enormous gift to the rest of us.”—USA Today

“[Noah] thrives with the help of his astonishingly fearless mother. . . . Their fierce bond makes this story soar.”—People

“[Noah’s] electrifying memoir sparkles with funny stories . . . and his candid and compassionate essays deepen our perception of the complexities of race, gender, and class.”—Booklist (starred review)

“A gritty memoir . . . studded with insight and provocative social criticism . . . with flashes of brilliant storytelling and acute observations.”—Kirkus Reviews

2. FourTwoNine Magazine, Issue 9, 2016

 by: John Waters,  Trevor Noah,  Ashton Sanders,  Brian Anderson
Release date: Dec 25, 2019
Find in Library
Read Review
Our Holiday issue is the biggest, brightest volume yet, with cover stars Trevor Noah, John Waters, Ashton Sanders and Brian Anderson sounding off. Plus exclusive stories on Jeff Klein’s Hollywood empire, Michael Alig’s second act, and LA’s new sound.

4. Farbenblind (German Edition)

 by: Trevor Noah,  Heike Schlatterer
Release date: Mar 06, 2017
Find in Library
Read Review
Trevor Noah kam 1984 im Township Soweto als Sohn einer Xhosa und eines Schweizers zur Welt. Zu einer Zeit, da das südafrikanische Apartheidsregime „gemischtrassige“ Beziehungen weiterhin unter Strafe stellte. Als Kind, das es nicht geben durfte, erlebte er Armut und systematischen Rassismus, aber auch die mutige Auflehnung seiner “farbenblinden” Eltern, die einfallsreich versuchten, Trennungen zwischen Ethnien und Geschlechtern zu überwinden. Heute ist er ein international gefeierter Comedian, der die legendäre “The Daily Show” in den USA leitet und weltweit – ob Sydney, Dubai, Toronto, San Francisco oder Berlin – in ausverkauften Sälen auftritt.

In “Farbenblind” erzählt Trevor Noah ebenso feinsinnig wie komisch in achtzehn Geschichten von seinem Aufwachsen in Südafrika, das den ganzen Aberwitz der Apartheid bündelt: warum ihn seine Mutter aus einem fahrenden Minibus warf, um Gottes Willen zu erfüllen, welche Musik er für einen tanzenden Hitler aufzulegen pflegte, um sein erstes Geld zu verdienen, und wie ihn eine Überwachungskamera, die nicht einmal zwischen Schwarz und Weiß unterscheiden konnte, vor dem Gefängnis bewahrte.

5. Awake I: By an Elephant in the Room

 by: greg hoey,  Jon Ronson,  JD Vance,  Trevor Noah,  Patrice O’neal,  Geraldine Brookes,  Dana Maclaine,  Craig Silvey
Release date: Dec 22, 2013
Find in Library
Read Review
“The old out-back town of Kalgoorlie has never before been so richly-strangely transcribed by way of prose as it has indeed been done in this wonderful memoir of a child’s awakening!” This a a somewhat tragi/humourous memoir, but for all of that it has no agenda like so many who use their own personal accounts to implore their readership into some kind of political activist mentality usually related to some minorities entitlements or rights. THIS IS NOT ONE OF THOSE BOOKS!! It is meant to be read purely from a literary perspective none other.

6. XXL-Leseprobe: Farbenblind (German Edition)

 by: Trevor Noah
Release date: Feb 10, 2017
Find in Library
Read Review
Vorableseprobe zur Biografie von Trevor Noah, dem Moderator von The Daily Show, die am 6. März 2017 erscheint.

Trevor Noah kam 1984 im Township Soweto als Sohn einer Xhosa und eines Schweizers zur Welt. Zu einer Zeit, da das südafrikanische Apartheidsregime „gemischtrassige“ Beziehungen weiterhin unter Strafe stellte. Als Kind, das es nicht geben durfte, erlebte er Armut und systematischen Rassismus, aber auch die mutige Auflehnung seiner “farbenblinden” Eltern, die einfallsreich versuchten, Trennungen zwischen Ethnien und Geschlechtern zu überwinden. Heute ist er ein international gefeierter Comedian, der die legendäre “The Daily Show” in den USA leitet und weltweit – ob Sydney, Dubai, Toronto, San Francisco oder Berlin – in ausverkauften Sälen auftritt.

In “Farbenblind” erzählt Trevor Noah ebenso feinsinnig wie komisch in achtzehn Geschichten von seinem Aufwachsen in Südafrika, das den ganzen Aberwitz der Apartheid bündelt: warum ihn seine Mutter aus einem fahrenden Minibus warf, um Gottes Willen zu erfüllen, welche Musik er für einen tanzenden Hitler aufzulegen pflegte, um sein erstes Geld zu verdienen, und wie ihn eine Überwachungskamera, die nicht einmal zwischen Schwarz und Weiß unterscheiden konnte, vor dem Gefängnis bewahrte.

7. The Daywalker

 by: Trevor Noah
Release date: Dec 25, 2019
Find in Library
Read Review
South African Award Winner Trevor Noah Live at the Lyric Theatre

8. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

 by: Trevor Noah
Release date: Nov 15, 2016
Find in Library
Read Review
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Michiko Kakutani, New York Times • Newsday • Esquire • NPR • Booklist

Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle.

Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life.

The stories collected here are by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Trevor illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother’s unconventional, unconditional love.

Praise for Born a Crime

 “[A] compelling new memoir . . . By turns alarming, sad and funny, [Trevor Noah’s] book provides a harrowing look, through the prism of Mr. Noah’s family, at life in South Africa under apartheid. . . . Born a Crime is not just an unnerving account of growing up in South Africa under apartheid, but a love letter to the author’s remarkable mother.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

“[An] unforgettable memoir.”—Parade

 “What makes Born a Crime such a soul-nourishing pleasure, even with all its darker edges and perilous turns, is reading Noah recount in brisk, warmly conversational prose how he learned to negotiate his way through the bullying and ostracism. . . . What also helped was having a mother like Patricia Nombuyiselo Noah. . . . Consider Born a Crime another such gift to her—and an enormous gift to the rest of us.”—USA Today

“[Noah] thrives with the help of his astonishingly fearless mother. . . . Their fierce bond makes this story soar.”—People

“[Noah’s] electrifying memoir sparkles with funny stories . . . and his candid and compassionate essays deepen our perception of the complexities of race, gender, and class.”—Booklist (starred review)

“A gritty memoir . . . studded with insight and provocative social criticism . . . with flashes of brilliant storytelling and acute observations.”—Kirkus Reviews

9. FourTwoNine Magazine, Issue 9, 2016

 by: John Waters,  Trevor Noah,  Ashton Sanders,  Brian Anderson
Release date: Dec 25, 2019
Find in Library
Read Review
Our Holiday issue is the biggest, brightest volume yet, with cover stars Trevor Noah, John Waters, Ashton Sanders and Brian Anderson sounding off. Plus exclusive stories on Jeff Klein’s Hollywood empire, Michael Alig’s second act, and LA’s new sound.

11. Farbenblind (German Edition)

 by: Trevor Noah,  Heike Schlatterer
Release date: Mar 06, 2017
Find in Library
Read Review
Trevor Noah kam 1984 im Township Soweto als Sohn einer Xhosa und eines Schweizers zur Welt. Zu einer Zeit, da das südafrikanische Apartheidsregime „gemischtrassige“ Beziehungen weiterhin unter Strafe stellte. Als Kind, das es nicht geben durfte, erlebte er Armut und systematischen Rassismus, aber auch die mutige Auflehnung seiner “farbenblinden” Eltern, die einfallsreich versuchten, Trennungen zwischen Ethnien und Geschlechtern zu überwinden. Heute ist er ein international gefeierter Comedian, der die legendäre “The Daily Show” in den USA leitet und weltweit – ob Sydney, Dubai, Toronto, San Francisco oder Berlin – in ausverkauften Sälen auftritt.

In “Farbenblind” erzählt Trevor Noah ebenso feinsinnig wie komisch in achtzehn Geschichten von seinem Aufwachsen in Südafrika, das den ganzen Aberwitz der Apartheid bündelt: warum ihn seine Mutter aus einem fahrenden Minibus warf, um Gottes Willen zu erfüllen, welche Musik er für einen tanzenden Hitler aufzulegen pflegte, um sein erstes Geld zu verdienen, und wie ihn eine Überwachungskamera, die nicht einmal zwischen Schwarz und Weiß unterscheiden konnte, vor dem Gefängnis bewahrte.

12. Awake I: By an Elephant in the Room

 by: greg hoey,  Jon Ronson,  JD Vance,  Trevor Noah,  Patrice O’neal,  Geraldine Brookes,  Dana Maclaine,  Craig Silvey
Release date: Dec 22, 2013
Find in Library
Read Review
“The old out-back town of Kalgoorlie has never before been so richly-strangely transcribed by way of prose as it has indeed been done in this wonderful memoir of a child’s awakening!” This a a somewhat tragi/humourous memoir, but for all of that it has no agenda like so many who use their own personal accounts to implore their readership into some kind of political activist mentality usually related to some minorities entitlements or rights. THIS IS NOT ONE OF THOSE BOOKS!! It is meant to be read purely from a literary perspective none other.

13. XXL-Leseprobe: Farbenblind (German Edition)

 by: Trevor Noah
Release date: Feb 10, 2017
Find in Library
Read Review
Vorableseprobe zur Biografie von Trevor Noah, dem Moderator von The Daily Show, die am 6. März 2017 erscheint.

Trevor Noah kam 1984 im Township Soweto als Sohn einer Xhosa und eines Schweizers zur Welt. Zu einer Zeit, da das südafrikanische Apartheidsregime „gemischtrassige“ Beziehungen weiterhin unter Strafe stellte. Als Kind, das es nicht geben durfte, erlebte er Armut und systematischen Rassismus, aber auch die mutige Auflehnung seiner “farbenblinden” Eltern, die einfallsreich versuchten, Trennungen zwischen Ethnien und Geschlechtern zu überwinden. Heute ist er ein international gefeierter Comedian, der die legendäre “The Daily Show” in den USA leitet und weltweit – ob Sydney, Dubai, Toronto, San Francisco oder Berlin – in ausverkauften Sälen auftritt.

In “Farbenblind” erzählt Trevor Noah ebenso feinsinnig wie komisch in achtzehn Geschichten von seinem Aufwachsen in Südafrika, das den ganzen Aberwitz der Apartheid bündelt: warum ihn seine Mutter aus einem fahrenden Minibus warf, um Gottes Willen zu erfüllen, welche Musik er für einen tanzenden Hitler aufzulegen pflegte, um sein erstes Geld zu verdienen, und wie ihn eine Überwachungskamera, die nicht einmal zwischen Schwarz und Weiß unterscheiden konnte, vor dem Gefängnis bewahrte.

14. The Daywalker

 by: Trevor Noah
Release date: Dec 25, 2019
Find in Library
Read Review
South African Award Winner Trevor Noah Live at the Lyric Theatre

Last updated on Thursday, March 30, 2017

GOOP CLEAN BEAUTY by From the Editors of Goop

~ aboutreads ~ Leave a comment

Goop Clean Beauty by From the Editors of Goop, No. 1 bestselling book of New York Times Best Sellers. Healthy living and mindful consumption are the main ingredients in this compendium of tips and tactics, as curated by Gwyneth Paltrow. For more New York Times Best Seller of Fashion Manners and Customs best sellers, click here

Goop Clean Beauty

 by: From the Editors of Goop
No. 1 Best Seller on January 1, 2017.
Find in Library
Read Review
The ultimate beauty guide from the experts at GOOP–the trusted resource for healthy, mindful living, curated by Gwyneth Paltrow

Millions of women around the world turn to the clean-living team at GOOP for beauty advice. From nontoxic product recommendations, red carpet- (and everyday-) ready hair and makeup tutorials, to guidance on aging, acne, and antioxidants, GOOP has become the go-to resource for head-to-toe beauty.

Finally, the editors of GOOP have shared their top tips and recommendations, favorite detox recipes, workout plans, and hair and makeup looks in one must-have guide. Featuring more than 100 gorgeous photos and extensive Q&As from GOOP’s family of expert contributors, GOOP CLEAN BEAUTY will shed a definitive light on the importance of diet, sleep, exercise, and clean beauty products, while offering tactical advice for healthy, glowing skin and hair that starts from the inside out. The first book from the top name in clean-living, GOOP CLEAN BEAUTY is the one resource women need to feel, and look, their best every day.

More books by From the Editors of Goop

Last updated on Thursday, March 30, 2017

WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR by Anthony William

~ aboutreads ~ Leave a comment

Medical Medium Life-Changing Foods: Save Yourself and the Ones You Love with the Hidden Healing Powers of Fruits & Vegetables by Anthony William, No. 1 bestselling book of New York Times Best Sellers. A memoir by a physician who received a diagnosis of Stage IV lung cancer at the age of 36. For more New York Times Best Seller of Health best sellers, click here

Medical Medium Life-Changing Foods: Save Yourself and the Ones You Love with the Hidden Healing Powers of Fruits & Vegetables

 by: Anthony William
No. 1 Best Seller on December 4, 2016.
Find in Library
Read Review

The highly anticipated new release from the groundbreaking, New York Times best-selling author of Medical Medium!

Experience the next level of medical revelations. Packed with information you won’t find anywhere else about the Unforgiving Four—the threats responsible for the rise of illness—and the miraculous power of food to heal, this book gives you the ability to become your own health expert, so you can protect yourself, friends, family, and loved ones from symptoms, suffering, and disease. Unleash the hidden powers of fruits and vegetables and transform your life in the process.

ANTHONY WILLIAM, the Medical Medium, has helped tens of thousands of people heal from ailments that have been misdiagnosed or ineffectively treated—or that medical communities can’t resolve. And he’s done it all by listening to a divine voice that literally speaks into his ear, telling him what is at the root of people’s pain or illness and what they need to do to be restored to health.

In his first book, the New York Times bestseller Medical Medium, Anthony revealed how you can treat dozens of illnesses with targeted healing regimens in which nutrition plays a major role. Medical Medium Life-Changing Foods delves deeper into the healing power of over 50 fruits, vegetables, herbs and spices, and wild foods that can have an extraordinary effect on health. Anthony explains each food’s properties, the symptoms and conditions it can help relieve or heal, and the emotional and spiritual benefits it brings. And he offers delicious recipes to help you enjoy each food’s maximum benefit, from sweet potatoes with braised cabbage stuffing to honey-coconut ice cream.

YOU’LL DISCOVER:

  • Why wild blueberries are the “resurrection food,” asparagus is the fountain of youth, and lemons can lift your spirits when you’ve had bad news
  • The best foods to eat to relieve gallstones, hypertension, brain fog, thyroid issues, migraines, and hundreds more symptoms and conditions
  • The particular healing powers of kiwis, cucumbers, cat’s claw, coconut, and much more
  • Insight into cravings, how to use stress to your advantage, and the key role fruit plays in fertility

Much of Anthony’s information is dramatically different from the conventional wisdom of medical communities, so don’t expect to hear the same old food facts rehashed here. Instead, expect to get a whole new understanding of why oranges offer more than just vitamin C—and a powerful set of tools for healing from illness and keeping yourself and your loved ones safe and well.
Here are just a few highlights of what’s inside:

  • Critical information about the specific factors behind the rise of illness and how to protect yourself and your family
  • Foods to repair your DNA, boost your immune system, improve your mental clarity, alkalize every body system, shield you from others’ negative emotions, and so much more
  • Techniques to make fruits, vegetables, herbs and spices, and wild foods the most healing they can be for your individual needs

Plus targeted foods to bring into your life for relief from hundreds of symptoms and conditions, including:

  • ANXIETY
  • AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS
  • CANCER
  • DIABETES
  • DIGESTIVE PROBLEMS
  • FATIGUE
  • FOOD ALLERGIES
  • INFERTILITY
  • INFLAMMATION
  • INSOMNIA
  • LYME DISEASE
  • MEMORY LOSS
  • MIGRAINES
  • THYROID DISEASE
  • WEIGHT GAIN

More books by Anthony William

1. Medical Medium Life-Changing Foods: Save Yourself and the Ones You Love with the Hidden Healing Powers of Fruits & Vegetables

 by: Anthony William
Release date: Nov 08, 2016
Find in Library
Read Review

The highly anticipated new release from the groundbreaking, New York Times best-selling author of Medical Medium!

Experience the next level of medical revelations. Packed with information you won’t find anywhere else about the Unforgiving Four—the threats responsible for the rise of illness—and the miraculous power of food to heal, this book gives you the ability to become your own health expert, so you can protect yourself, friends, family, and loved ones from symptoms, suffering, and disease. Unleash the hidden powers of fruits and vegetables and transform your life in the process.

ANTHONY WILLIAM, the Medical Medium, has helped tens of thousands of people heal from ailments that have been misdiagnosed or ineffectively treated—or that medical communities can’t resolve. And he’s done it all by listening to a divine voice that literally speaks into his ear, telling him what is at the root of people’s pain or illness and what they need to do to be restored to health.

In his first book, the New York Times bestseller Medical Medium, Anthony revealed how you can treat dozens of illnesses with targeted healing regimens in which nutrition plays a major role. Medical Medium Life-Changing Foods delves deeper into the healing power of over 50 fruits, vegetables, herbs and spices, and wild foods that can have an extraordinary effect on health. Anthony explains each food’s properties, the symptoms and conditions it can help relieve or heal, and the emotional and spiritual benefits it brings. And he offers delicious recipes to help you enjoy each food’s maximum benefit, from sweet potatoes with braised cabbage stuffing to honey-coconut ice cream.

YOU’LL DISCOVER:

  • Why wild blueberries are the “resurrection food,” asparagus is the fountain of youth, and lemons can lift your spirits when you’ve had bad news
  • The best foods to eat to relieve gallstones, hypertension, brain fog, thyroid issues, migraines, and hundreds more symptoms and conditions
  • The particular healing powers of kiwis, cucumbers, cat’s claw, coconut, and much more
  • Insight into cravings, how to use stress to your advantage, and the key role fruit plays in fertility

Much of Anthony’s information is dramatically different from the conventional wisdom of medical communities, so don’t expect to hear the same old food facts rehashed here. Instead, expect to get a whole new understanding of why oranges offer more than just vitamin C—and a powerful set of tools for healing from illness and keeping yourself and your loved ones safe and well.
Here are just a few highlights of what’s inside:

  • Critical information about the specific factors behind the rise of illness and how to protect yourself and your family
  • Foods to repair your DNA, boost your immune system, improve your mental clarity, alkalize every body system, shield you from others’ negative emotions, and so much more
  • Techniques to make fruits, vegetables, herbs and spices, and wild foods the most healing they can be for your individual needs

Plus targeted foods to bring into your life for relief from hundreds of symptoms and conditions, including:

  • ANXIETY
  • AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS
  • CANCER
  • DIABETES
  • DIGESTIVE PROBLEMS
  • FATIGUE
  • FOOD ALLERGIES
  • INFERTILITY
  • INFLAMMATION
  • INSOMNIA
  • LYME DISEASE
  • MEMORY LOSS
  • MIGRAINES
  • THYROID DISEASE
  • WEIGHT GAIN

2. Medical Medium: Secrets Behind Chronic and Mystery Illness and How to Finally Heal

 by: Anthony William
Release date: Nov 10, 2015
Find in Library
Read Review

Anthony William, Medical Medium, has helped tens of thousands of people heal from ailments that have been misdiagnosed or ineffectively treated or that doctors can’t resolve. He’s done this by listening to a divine voice that literally speaks into his ear, telling him what lies at the root of people’s pain or illness, and what they need to do to restore their health. His methods achieve spectacular results, even for those who have spent years and many thousands of dollars on all forms of medicine before turning to him. Now, in this revolutionary book, he opens the door to all he has learned over his 25 years of bringing people’s lives back: a massive amount of healing information, much of which science won’t discover for decades and most of which has never appeared anywhere before.

Medical Medium reveals the root causes of diseases and conditions that medical communities either misunderstand or struggle to understand at all. It explores all-natural solutions for dozens of the illnesses that plague us, including Lyme disease, fibromyalgia, adrenal fatigue, chronic fatigue syndrome, hormonal imbalances, Hashimoto’s disease, multiple sclerosis, depression, neurological conditions, chronic inflammation, autoimmune disease, blood-sugar imbalances, colitis and other digestive disorders, and more. It also offers solutions for restoring the soul and spirit after illness has torn at our emotional fabric. Whether you’ve been given a diagnosis you don’t understand, or you have symptoms you don’t know how to name, or someone you love is sick, or you want to care for your own patients better, Medical Medium offers the answers you need. It’s also a guidebook for everyone seeking the secrets to living longer, healthier lives.

“The truth about the world, ourselves, life, purpose—it all comes down to healing,” Anthony William writes. “And the truth about healing is now in your hands.”
 

3. Medical Medium Thyroid Healing: The Truth behind Hashimoto’s, Graves’, Insomnia, Hypothyroidism, Thyroid Nodules & Epstein-Barr

 by: Anthony William
Release date: Nov 07, 2017
Find in Library
Read Review
The thyroid is the new hot topic in health. Across age groups, from Baby Boomers (and their parents) to millennials, more and more people—women especially—are hearing that their thyroids are to blame for their fatigue, weight gain, brain fog, memory issues, aches and pains, insomnia, hair loss, hot flashes, sensitivity to cold, and more. Everyone wants to know how to free themselves from the thyroid trap.

As the thyroid has gotten more and more attention, though, these symptoms haven’t gone away—people aren’t healing. Labeling someone with “Hashimoto’s,” “hypothyroidism,” or the like doesn’t explain the myriad health issues that person may experience. That’s because there’s a pivotal truth that goes unnoticed: A thyroid problem is not the ultimate reason for a person’s illness. A problematic thyroid is yet one more symptom of something much larger than this one small gland in the neck. It’s something much more pervasive in the body, something invasive, that’s responsible for the laundry list of symptoms attributed to thyroid disease.

In Medical Medium Thyroid Healing, Anthony William, the Medical Medium, reveals an entirely new take on the epidemic of thyroid illness. Empowering readers to become their own thyroid experts, he explains in detail what the source problem really is, including what’s going on with inflammation and autoimmune disease, then offers a life-changing toolkit to rescue the thyroid and bring readers back to health and vitality. It’s an approach unlike any other, and as his millions of fans and followers will tell you, it’s the approach that gets results. Includes photos and recipes.

4. Neuroscience, Fifth Edition

 by: Dale Purves,  George J. Augustine,  David Fitzpatrick,  William C. Hall,  Anthony-Samuel LaMantia,  Leonard E. White
Release date: Nov 01, 2011
Find in Library
Read Review
This classic textbook guides students through the challenges and excitement of the rapidly changing field of neuroscience. Accessible for both medical students and undergraduate neuroscience students, the 5th edition has been updated throughout to reflect the latest developments.

5. Muscles: Testing and Function, with Posture and Pain (Kendall, Muscles)

 by: Florence Peterson Kendall,  Elizabeth Kendall McCreary,  Patricia Geise Provance,  Mary McIntyre Rodgers,  William Anthony Romani
Release date: Feb 24, 2005
Find in Library
Read Review

This renowned classic provides unparalleled coverage of manual muscle testing, plus evaluation and treatment of faulty and painful postural conditions. The thoroughly updated Fifth Edition is completely reorganized and has new, expanded treatment and exercise sections in each chapter. Other features include a new section on post-polio syndrome, additional case studies comparing Guillain-Barré to polio muscle tests, a new full-color design, and a first-of-its-kind chart of upper extremity articulations.

6. Parkinson’s Disease: A Complete Guide for Patients and Families (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)

 by: William J. Weiner MD,  Lisa M. Shulman MD,  Anthony E. Lang MD FRCP
Release date: Oct 08, 2013
Find in Library
Read Review

Recent innovations, including deep brain stimulation and new medications, have significantly improved the lives of people who have Parkinson’s disease. Nevertheless, patients and families continue to face many challenges. They have long relied on this book for reliable advice about medical, emotional, and physical issues. Bringing this trusted guide up to date, three expert neurologists describe

• New understandings gained by five years of additional research on Parkinson’s disease• New focus on the importance of exercise• New information about imaging techniques such as SPECT Scan and DATScan that are aiding in the diagnosis• New findings about the genetics of the disease• Promising uses of new technologies such as tablet devices for people who have trouble communicating• Information about impulse control disorders caused by some drugs used to address the symptoms of the disease• A complete update on treatments such as medications, surgery, and more

7. Heart Sounds Made Easy with CD-ROM, 2e

 by: Elspeth M. Brown MB ChB FRCPCH,  Terence Leung PhD MSc BEng,  William Collis PhD BEng,  Anthony P. Salmon FRCP FRCPCH
Release date: Jul 08, 2008
Find in Library
Read Review
Awarded The British Medical Association Student Textbook Award 2009, this short and accessible book comes with an interactive CD of heart sounds recorded from actual patients using the latest digital audio technology. Cardiac auscultation is one of the most difficult clinical skills to acquire and competence in this area is extremely variable. With the CD the user can listen to a recording and either eliminate or enhance the different components until they are confident that they have correctly identified the sounds in all phases of the cardiac cycle. This Second Edition uses the latest software and includes new features, such as the ability to slow the heart sounds down without altering their pitch. The layout of the CD has been improved to make it quicker to access. New questions and answers in both the book and the CD allow readers to monitor their knowledge and progress. The visual representation of the cardiac cycle also helps readers understand the origin of the heart sounds.

This CD is suitable for use in all PC/Macs which have a tray-loading CD-ROM drive. It is not compatible with slot-loading CD-ROM drives.

  • The book provides a simple guide to cardiac auscultation along with useful teaching points and summaries
  • The interactive CD recordings allow the various components of each heart sound to be eliminated and restored to aid understanding
  • Using this package of book and CD the reader can gain a full understanding of cardiac auscultation in minutes that can take years to learn in clinical practice
  • This CD is suitable for use in all PC/Macs which have a tray-loading CD-ROM drive. It is not compatible with slot-loading CD-ROM drives
  • Expanded content with additional information on the principles of cardiac auscultation in the context of the overall cardiac examination.
  • Now presented in colour with additional imaging and colour diagrams to aid interpretation.
  • The CD has been completely redesigned using the latest software.
  • Recordings of heart sounds can now be slowed down without altering their pitch.
  • Includes new questions and answers to test knowledge.

8. [Medical Medium (Medical Medium Life-Changing Foods 2 Book set)

 by: Anthony William
Release date: Dec 25, 2019
Find in Library
Read Review
The highly anticipated new release from the groundbreaking, New York Times best-selling author of Medical Medium! Experience the next level of medical revelations. Packed with information you won’t find anywhere else about the Unforgiving Four-the threats responsible for the rise of illness-and the miraculous power of food to heal, this book gives you the ability to become your own health expert, so you can protect yourself, friends, family, and loved ones from symptoms, suffering, and disease. Unleash the hidden powers of fruits and vegetables and transform your life in the process. ANTHONY WILLIAM, the Medical Medium, has helped tens of thousands of people heal from ailments that have been misdiagnosed or ineffectively treated-or that medical communities can’t resolve. And he’s done it all by listening to a divine voice that literally speaks into his ear, telling him what is at the root of people’s pain or illness and what they need to do to be restored to health. In his first book, the New York Times bestseller Medical Medium, Anthony revealed how you can treat dozens of illnesses with targeted healing regimens in which nutrition plays a major role. Medical Medium Life-Changing Foods delves deeper into the healing power of over 50 fruits, vegetables, herbs and spices, and wild foods that can have an extraordinary effect on health. Anthony explains each food’s properties, the symptoms and conditions it can help relieve or heal, and the emotional and spiritual benefits it brings. And he offers delicious recipes to help you enjoy each food’s maximum benefit, from sweet potatoes with braised cabbage stuffing to honey-coconut ice cream.

9. Human Resources Management: A Strategic Approach, 6th Edition

 by: William P. Anthony,  K. Michelle Kacmar,  Pamela L. Perrewe
Release date: Jul 24, 2009
Find in Library
Read Review
This popular text written from a “what human resources can do for you” perspective, demonstrates how human resources fit into the organizational big picture. Many cross-functional topics are integrated throughout the text including, marketing, finance, operations, and accounting. Updated cases include material that reinforces the key concepts presented in the text and provides an additional practical perspective to problems faced by human resource managers. The market includes all universities that teach a course in Human Resource Management. It may be used for both upper-division undergraduate and graduate level courses.

10. Rapid Review Gross and Developmental Anatomy: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access, 3e

 by: N. Anthony Moore PhD,  William A. Roy PT PhD
Release date: Sep 10, 2010
Find in Library
Read Review

Get the most from your study time, and experience a realistic USMLE simulation with Rapid Review Gross and Developmental Anatomy, 3rd Edition, by Drs. N. Anthony Moore and William A. Roy. This new reference in the highly rated Rapid Review Series is formatted as a bulleted outline with photographs, tables and figures that address all the gross and developmental anatomy information you need to know for the USMLE. And with Student Consult functionality, you can become familiar with the look and feel of the actual exam by taking a timed or a practice test online that includes 350 USMLE-style questions.

  • Review the most current information with completely updated chapters, images, and questions.
  • Access all the information you need to know quickly and easily with a user-friendly, four-color outline format that includes High-Yield Margin Notes.
  • Take a timed or a practice test online with more than 350 USMLE-style questions and full rationales for why every possible answer is right or wrong.
  • Profit from the guidance of series editor, Dr. Edward Goljan, a well-known author of medical study references, who is personally involved in content review.
  • Get a better understanding of complex anatomical concepts with additional radiologic images as well as anatomical illustrations by Dr. Frank H. Netter.
  • Study and take notes more easily with the new, larger page size.
  • Practice with a new testing platform on USMLE Consult that gives you a realistic review experience and fully prepares you for the exam.

11. Medical Medium Life-Changing Foods: Save Yourself and the Ones You Love with the Hidden Healing Powers of Fruits & Vegetables

 by: Anthony William
Release date: Nov 08, 2016
Find in Library
Read Review

The highly anticipated new release from the groundbreaking, New York Times best-selling author of Medical Medium!

Experience the next level of medical revelations. Packed with information you won’t find anywhere else about the Unforgiving Four—the threats responsible for the rise of illness—and the miraculous power of food to heal, this book gives you the ability to become your own health expert, so you can protect yourself, friends, family, and loved ones from symptoms, suffering, and disease. Unleash the hidden powers of fruits and vegetables and transform your life in the process.

ANTHONY WILLIAM, the Medical Medium, has helped tens of thousands of people heal from ailments that have been misdiagnosed or ineffectively treated—or that medical communities can’t resolve. And he’s done it all by listening to a divine voice that literally speaks into his ear, telling him what is at the root of people’s pain or illness and what they need to do to be restored to health.

In his first book, the New York Times bestseller Medical Medium, Anthony revealed how you can treat dozens of illnesses with targeted healing regimens in which nutrition plays a major role. Medical Medium Life-Changing Foods delves deeper into the healing power of over 50 fruits, vegetables, herbs and spices, and wild foods that can have an extraordinary effect on health. Anthony explains each food’s properties, the symptoms and conditions it can help relieve or heal, and the emotional and spiritual benefits it brings. And he offers delicious recipes to help you enjoy each food’s maximum benefit, from sweet potatoes with braised cabbage stuffing to honey-coconut ice cream.

YOU’LL DISCOVER:

  • Why wild blueberries are the “resurrection food,” asparagus is the fountain of youth, and lemons can lift your spirits when you’ve had bad news
  • The best foods to eat to relieve gallstones, hypertension, brain fog, thyroid issues, migraines, and hundreds more symptoms and conditions
  • The particular healing powers of kiwis, cucumbers, cat’s claw, coconut, and much more
  • Insight into cravings, how to use stress to your advantage, and the key role fruit plays in fertility

Much of Anthony’s information is dramatically different from the conventional wisdom of medical communities, so don’t expect to hear the same old food facts rehashed here. Instead, expect to get a whole new understanding of why oranges offer more than just vitamin C—and a powerful set of tools for healing from illness and keeping yourself and your loved ones safe and well.
Here are just a few highlights of what’s inside:

  • Critical information about the specific factors behind the rise of illness and how to protect yourself and your family
  • Foods to repair your DNA, boost your immune system, improve your mental clarity, alkalize every body system, shield you from others’ negative emotions, and so much more
  • Techniques to make fruits, vegetables, herbs and spices, and wild foods the most healing they can be for your individual needs

Plus targeted foods to bring into your life for relief from hundreds of symptoms and conditions, including:

  • ANXIETY
  • AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS
  • CANCER
  • DIABETES
  • DIGESTIVE PROBLEMS
  • FATIGUE
  • FOOD ALLERGIES
  • INFERTILITY
  • INFLAMMATION
  • INSOMNIA
  • LYME DISEASE
  • MEMORY LOSS
  • MIGRAINES
  • THYROID DISEASE
  • WEIGHT GAIN

12. Medical Medium: Secrets Behind Chronic and Mystery Illness and How to Finally Heal

 by: Anthony William
Release date: Nov 10, 2015
Find in Library
Read Review

Anthony William, Medical Medium, has helped tens of thousands of people heal from ailments that have been misdiagnosed or ineffectively treated or that doctors can’t resolve. He’s done this by listening to a divine voice that literally speaks into his ear, telling him what lies at the root of people’s pain or illness, and what they need to do to restore their health. His methods achieve spectacular results, even for those who have spent years and many thousands of dollars on all forms of medicine before turning to him. Now, in this revolutionary book, he opens the door to all he has learned over his 25 years of bringing people’s lives back: a massive amount of healing information, much of which science won’t discover for decades and most of which has never appeared anywhere before.

Medical Medium reveals the root causes of diseases and conditions that medical communities either misunderstand or struggle to understand at all. It explores all-natural solutions for dozens of the illnesses that plague us, including Lyme disease, fibromyalgia, adrenal fatigue, chronic fatigue syndrome, hormonal imbalances, Hashimoto’s disease, multiple sclerosis, depression, neurological conditions, chronic inflammation, autoimmune disease, blood-sugar imbalances, colitis and other digestive disorders, and more. It also offers solutions for restoring the soul and spirit after illness has torn at our emotional fabric. Whether you’ve been given a diagnosis you don’t understand, or you have symptoms you don’t know how to name, or someone you love is sick, or you want to care for your own patients better, Medical Medium offers the answers you need. It’s also a guidebook for everyone seeking the secrets to living longer, healthier lives.

“The truth about the world, ourselves, life, purpose—it all comes down to healing,” Anthony William writes. “And the truth about healing is now in your hands.”
 

13. Medical Medium Thyroid Healing: The Truth behind Hashimoto’s, Graves’, Insomnia, Hypothyroidism, Thyroid Nodules & Epstein-Barr

 by: Anthony William
Release date: Nov 07, 2017
Find in Library
Read Review
The thyroid is the new hot topic in health. Across age groups, from Baby Boomers (and their parents) to millennials, more and more people—women especially—are hearing that their thyroids are to blame for their fatigue, weight gain, brain fog, memory issues, aches and pains, insomnia, hair loss, hot flashes, sensitivity to cold, and more. Everyone wants to know how to free themselves from the thyroid trap.

As the thyroid has gotten more and more attention, though, these symptoms haven’t gone away—people aren’t healing. Labeling someone with “Hashimoto’s,” “hypothyroidism,” or the like doesn’t explain the myriad health issues that person may experience. That’s because there’s a pivotal truth that goes unnoticed: A thyroid problem is not the ultimate reason for a person’s illness. A problematic thyroid is yet one more symptom of something much larger than this one small gland in the neck. It’s something much more pervasive in the body, something invasive, that’s responsible for the laundry list of symptoms attributed to thyroid disease.

In Medical Medium Thyroid Healing, Anthony William, the Medical Medium, reveals an entirely new take on the epidemic of thyroid illness. Empowering readers to become their own thyroid experts, he explains in detail what the source problem really is, including what’s going on with inflammation and autoimmune disease, then offers a life-changing toolkit to rescue the thyroid and bring readers back to health and vitality. It’s an approach unlike any other, and as his millions of fans and followers will tell you, it’s the approach that gets results. Includes photos and recipes.

14. Neuroscience, Fifth Edition

 by: Dale Purves,  George J. Augustine,  David Fitzpatrick,  William C. Hall,  Anthony-Samuel LaMantia,  Leonard E. White
Release date: Nov 01, 2011
Find in Library
Read Review
This classic textbook guides students through the challenges and excitement of the rapidly changing field of neuroscience. Accessible for both medical students and undergraduate neuroscience students, the 5th edition has been updated throughout to reflect the latest developments.

15. Muscles: Testing and Function, with Posture and Pain (Kendall, Muscles)

 by: Florence Peterson Kendall,  Elizabeth Kendall McCreary,  Patricia Geise Provance,  Mary McIntyre Rodgers,  William Anthony Romani
Release date: Feb 24, 2005
Find in Library
Read Review

This renowned classic provides unparalleled coverage of manual muscle testing, plus evaluation and treatment of faulty and painful postural conditions. The thoroughly updated Fifth Edition is completely reorganized and has new, expanded treatment and exercise sections in each chapter. Other features include a new section on post-polio syndrome, additional case studies comparing Guillain-Barré to polio muscle tests, a new full-color design, and a first-of-its-kind chart of upper extremity articulations.

Last updated on Thursday, March 30, 2017

THINKING, FAST AND SLOW by Daniel Kahneman

~ aboutreads ~ Leave a comment

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, No. 1 bestselling book of New York Times Best Sellers. A winner of the Nobel in economic science discusses how we make choices in business and personal lives and when we can and cannot trust our intuitions. For more New York Times Best Seller of Education best sellers, click here

Thinking, Fast and Slow

 by: Daniel Kahneman
No. 1 Best Seller on January 1, 2017.
Find in Library
Read Review

Major New York Times bestseller
Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award in 2012
Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of 2011
A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title
One of The Economist‘s 2011 Books of the Year
One of The Wall Street Journal‘s Best Nonfiction Books of the Year 2011
2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient

In the international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation—each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions.
Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives—and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2011, Thinking, Fast and Slow is destined to be a classic.

More books by Daniel Kahneman

1. HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Making Smart Decisions (with featured article ?Before You Make That Big Decision?? by Daniel Kahneman, Dan Lovallo, and Olivier Sibony)

 by: Harvard Business Review,  Daniel Kahneman,  Ram Charan
Release date: Mar 12, 2013
Find in Library
Read Review
NEW from the bestselling HBR’s 10 Must Reads series.
Learn why bad decisions happen to good managers—and how to make better ones.

If you read nothing else on decision making, read these 10 articles. We’ve combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you and your organization make better choices and avoid common traps.

Leading experts such as Ram Charan, Michael Mankins, and Thomas Davenport provide the insights and advice you need to:

• Make bold decisions that challenge the status quo
• Support your decisions with diverse data
• Evaluate risks and benefits with equal rigor
• Check for faulty cause-and-effect reasoning
• Test your decisions with experiments
• Foster and address constructive criticism
• Defeat indecisiveness with clear accountability


Looking for more Must Read articles from Harvard Business Review? Check out these titles in the popular series:
HBR’s 10 Must Reads: The Essentials
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Communication
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Collaboration
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Innovation
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Leadership
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategic Marketing
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Teams

2. Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases

 by: Daniel Kahneman,  Paul Slovic,  Amos Tversky
Release date: Apr 30, 1982
Find in Library
Read Review
The thirty-five chapters in this book describe various judgmental heuristics and the biases they produce, not only in laboratory experiments but in important social, medical, and political situations as well. Individual chapters discuss the representativeness and availability heuristics, problems in judging covariation and control, overconfidence, multistage inference, social perception, medical diagnosis, risk perception, and methods for correcting and improving judgments under uncertainty. About half of the chapters are edited versions of classic articles; the remaining chapters are newly written for this book. Most review multiple studies or entire subareas of research and application rather than describing single experimental studies. This book will be useful to a wide range of students and researchers, as well as to decision makers seeking to gain insight into their judgments and to improve them.

3. Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment

 by: Thomas Gilovich,  Dale Griffin,  Daniel Kahneman
Release date: Jul 08, 2002
Find in Library
Read Review
Judgment pervades human experience. Do I have a strong enough case to go to trial? Will the Fed change interest rates? Can I trust this person? This book examines how people answer such questions. How do people cope with the complexities of the world economy, the uncertain behavior of friends and adversaries, or their own changing tastes and personalities? When are people’s judgments prone to bias, and what is responsible for their biases? This book compiles psychologists’ best attempts to answer these important questions.

4. Choices, Values, and Frames

 by: Daniel Kahneman,  Amos Tversky
Release date: Sep 25, 2000
Find in Library
Read Review
Choices, Values, and Frames presents an empirical and theoretical challenge to classical utility theory, offering prospect theory as an alternative framework. Extensions and applications to diverse economic phenomena and to studies of consumer behavior are discussed. The book also elaborates on framing effects and other demonstrations that preferences are constructed in context, and it develops new approaches to the standard view of choice-based utility. As with the classic 1982 volume, Judgment Under Uncertainty, this volume is comprised of papers published in diverse academic journals. The editors have written several new chapters and a preface to provide a context for the work.

5. Happiness by Design: Change What You Do, Not How You Think

 by: Paul Dolan,  Daniel Kahneman
Release date: Jul 14, 2015
Find in Library
Read Review
“Bold and original.” —Daniel Kahneman, PhD, bestselling author of Thinking Fast and Slow 

There are a slew of books on the market dictating programs for achieving happiness, but Happiness by Design is the first to explain that happiness ultimately depends upon our experience of pleasure and purpose over time—and everyone has their own optimal balance. Combining the latest insights from economics and psychology, renowned behavior expert Paul Dolan, PhD, shows readers how to integrate his ground–breaking paradigm into a practical plan for deciding, designing, and doing the things that bring them true happiness.

6. Pensar rapido, pensar despacio (Psicologia (Debolsillo)) (Spanish Edition)

 by: Daniel Kahneman
Release date: Jan 14, 2014
Find in Library
Read Review
Daniel Kahneman, uno de los pensadores más importantes del mundo, recibió el premio Nobel de Economía por su trabajo pionero en psicología sobre el modelo racional de la toma de decisiones. Sus ideas han tenido un profundo impacto en campos tan diversos como la economía, la medicina o la política, pero hasta ahora no había reunido la obra de su vida en un libro. En Pensar rápido, pensar despacio, un éxito internacional, Kahneman nos ofrece una revolucionaria perspectiva del cerebro y explica los dos sistemas que modelan cómo pensamos. El sistema 1 es rápido, intuitivo y emocional, mientras que el sistema 2 es más lento, deliberativo y lógico. Kahneman expone la extraordinaria capacidad (y también los errores y los sesgos) del pensamiento rápido, y revela la duradera influencia de las impresiones intuitivas sobre nuestro pensamiento y nuestra conducta. El impacto de la aversión a la pérdida y el exceso de confianza en las estrategias empresariales, la dificultad de predecir lo que nos hará felices en el futuro, el reto de enmarcar adecuadamente los riesgos en el trabajo y en el hogar, el profundo efecto de los sesgos cognitivos sobre todo lo que hacemos, desde jugar en la Bolsa hasta planificar las vacaciones; todo esto solo puede ser comprendido si entendemos el funcionamiento conjunto de los dos sistemas a la hora de formular nuestros juicios y decisiones. Al implicar al lector en una animada reflexión sobre cómo pensamos, Kahneman consigue revelar cuándo podemos confiar en nuestras intuiciones y cuándo no, y de qué modo podemos aprovechar los beneficios del pensamiento lento. Además, ofrece enseñanzas prácticas e iluminadoras sobre cómo se adoptan decisiones en la vida profesional o personal, y sobre cómo podemos usar distintas técnicas para protegernos de los fallos mentales que nos crean problemas. Pensar rápido, pensar despacio cambiará para siempre nuestra manera de pensar sobre cómo pensamos. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION In the international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation?each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions. Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives?and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2011, Thinking, Fast and Slow is destined to be a classic.

7. Well-Being: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology

 by: Daniel Kahneman,  Edward Diener,  Norbert Schwarz
Release date: Feb 13, 2003
Find in Library
Read Review

The nature of well-being is one of the most enduring and elusive subjects of human inquiry. Well-Being draws upon the latest scientific research to transform our understanding of this ancient question. With contributions from leading authorities in psychology, social psychology, and neuroscience, this volume presents the definitive account of current scientific efforts to understand human pleasure and pain, contentment and despair.

The distinguished contributors to this volume combine a rigorous analysis of human sensations, emotions, and moods with a broad assessment of the many factors, from heredity to nationality, that bear on our well-being. Using the tools of experimental science, the contributors confront the puzzles of human likes and dislikes. Why do we grow accustomed and desensitized to changes in our lives, both good and bad? Does our happiness reflect the circumstances of our lives or is it determined by our temperament and personality? Why do humans acquire tastes for sensations that are initially painful or unpleasant? By examining the roots of our everyday likes and dislikes, the book also sheds light on some of the more extreme examples of attraction and aversion, such as addiction and depression.

Among its wide ranging inquiries, Well-Being examines systematic differences in moods and behaviors between genders, explaining why women suffer higher rates of depression and anxiety than men, but are also more inclined to express positive emotions. The book also makes international comparisons, finding that some countries’ populations report higher levels of happiness than others. The contributors deploy an array of methods, from the surveys and questionnaires of social science to psychological and physiological experiments, to develop a comprehensive new approach to the study of well-being. They show how the sensory pleasures of the body can tells us something about the higher pleasures of the mind and even how the effectiveness of our immune system can depend upon the health of our social relationships.

8. Thrive: How Better Mental Health Care Transforms Lives and Saves Money

 by: Richard Layard,  David M. Clark,  Daniel Kahneman
Release date: Sep 15, 2015
Find in Library
Read Review

Mental illness is a leading cause of suffering in the modern world. In sheer numbers, it afflicts at least 20 percent of people in developed countries. It reduces life expectancy as much as smoking does, accounts for nearly half of all disability claims, is behind half of all worker sick days, and affects educational achievement and income. There are effective tools for alleviating mental illness, but most sufferers remain untreated or undertreated. What should be done to change this? In Thrive, Richard Layard and David Clark argue for fresh policy approaches to how we think about and deal with mental illness, and they explore effective solutions to its miseries and injustices.

Layard and Clark show that modern psychological therapies are highly effective and could potentially turn around the lives of millions of people at little or no cost. This is because treating psychological problems generates huge savings on physical health care, as well as massive economic savings through more people working. So psychological therapies would effectively pay for themselves, generating potential savings for nations the world over. Layard and Clark describe how various successful psychological treatments have been developed and explain what works best for whom. They also discuss how mental illness can be prevented through better schools and a better society, and the urgency of doing so.

Illustrating why we cannot afford to ignore the issue of mental illness, Thrive opens the door to new options and possibilities for one of the most serious problems facing us today.

9. التفكير: السريع والبطيء Thinking, Fast and Slow

 by: دانيال كانمان Daniel Kahneman
Release date: Dec 25, 2019
Find in Library
Read Review
في هذا الكتاب يأخذنا عالِم النفس المعروف دانيال كانمان في جولة سحرية داخل العقل البشري ويشرح لنا النظامين اللذين يحركان تفكيرنا: النظام الأول سريع وحدسي وعاطفي، في حين أن النظام الثاني أبطأ وأكثر تدبرًا وأكثر عقلانية. يعرض كانمان الإمكانيات غير العادية للتفكير السريع، وكذلك ما ينطوي عليه من أخطاء وتحيزات، كما يميط اللثام عن التأثير الهائل للانطباعات الحدسية على أفكارنا وسلوكياتنا. يوضح كانمان – الذي يجذب القارئ إلى حوار شائق حول طريقة تفكيرنا – متى يمكن أن نثق في انطباعاتنا الحدسية، ومتى لا يمكن ذلك، وكيف يمكننا الاستفادة من مزايا التفكير البطيء. كما يقدم أيضًا تحليلًا عمليًّا وتثقيفيًّا لطريقة اتخاذ القرارات في حياتنا العملية والشخصية على حد سواء، ويوضح كذلك كيف يمكن استخدام أساليب مختلفة للوقاية من زلات العقل التي كثيرًا ما توقعنا في المشكلات. إن هذا الكتاب سيغير نظرتك إلى التفكير تغييرًا جذريًّا.

10. HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Making Smart Decisions (with featured article ?Before You Make That Big Decision?? by Daniel Kahneman, Dan Lovallo, and Olivier Sibony)

 by: Harvard Business Review,  Daniel Kahneman,  Ram Charan
Release date: Mar 12, 2013
Find in Library
Read Review
NEW from the bestselling HBR’s 10 Must Reads series.
Learn why bad decisions happen to good managers—and how to make better ones.

If you read nothing else on decision making, read these 10 articles. We’ve combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you and your organization make better choices and avoid common traps.

Leading experts such as Ram Charan, Michael Mankins, and Thomas Davenport provide the insights and advice you need to:

• Make bold decisions that challenge the status quo
• Support your decisions with diverse data
• Evaluate risks and benefits with equal rigor
• Check for faulty cause-and-effect reasoning
• Test your decisions with experiments
• Foster and address constructive criticism
• Defeat indecisiveness with clear accountability


Looking for more Must Read articles from Harvard Business Review? Check out these titles in the popular series:
HBR’s 10 Must Reads: The Essentials
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Communication
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Collaboration
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Innovation
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Leadership
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategic Marketing
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Teams

11. Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases

 by: Daniel Kahneman,  Paul Slovic,  Amos Tversky
Release date: Apr 30, 1982
Find in Library
Read Review
The thirty-five chapters in this book describe various judgmental heuristics and the biases they produce, not only in laboratory experiments but in important social, medical, and political situations as well. Individual chapters discuss the representativeness and availability heuristics, problems in judging covariation and control, overconfidence, multistage inference, social perception, medical diagnosis, risk perception, and methods for correcting and improving judgments under uncertainty. About half of the chapters are edited versions of classic articles; the remaining chapters are newly written for this book. Most review multiple studies or entire subareas of research and application rather than describing single experimental studies. This book will be useful to a wide range of students and researchers, as well as to decision makers seeking to gain insight into their judgments and to improve them.

12. Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment

 by: Thomas Gilovich,  Dale Griffin,  Daniel Kahneman
Release date: Jul 08, 2002
Find in Library
Read Review
Judgment pervades human experience. Do I have a strong enough case to go to trial? Will the Fed change interest rates? Can I trust this person? This book examines how people answer such questions. How do people cope with the complexities of the world economy, the uncertain behavior of friends and adversaries, or their own changing tastes and personalities? When are people’s judgments prone to bias, and what is responsible for their biases? This book compiles psychologists’ best attempts to answer these important questions.

13. Choices, Values, and Frames

 by: Daniel Kahneman,  Amos Tversky
Release date: Sep 25, 2000
Find in Library
Read Review
Choices, Values, and Frames presents an empirical and theoretical challenge to classical utility theory, offering prospect theory as an alternative framework. Extensions and applications to diverse economic phenomena and to studies of consumer behavior are discussed. The book also elaborates on framing effects and other demonstrations that preferences are constructed in context, and it develops new approaches to the standard view of choice-based utility. As with the classic 1982 volume, Judgment Under Uncertainty, this volume is comprised of papers published in diverse academic journals. The editors have written several new chapters and a preface to provide a context for the work.

14. Happiness by Design: Change What You Do, Not How You Think

 by: Paul Dolan,  Daniel Kahneman
Release date: Jul 14, 2015
Find in Library
Read Review
“Bold and original.” —Daniel Kahneman, PhD, bestselling author of Thinking Fast and Slow 

There are a slew of books on the market dictating programs for achieving happiness, but Happiness by Design is the first to explain that happiness ultimately depends upon our experience of pleasure and purpose over time—and everyone has their own optimal balance. Combining the latest insights from economics and psychology, renowned behavior expert Paul Dolan, PhD, shows readers how to integrate his ground–breaking paradigm into a practical plan for deciding, designing, and doing the things that bring them true happiness.

15. Pensar rapido, pensar despacio (Psicologia (Debolsillo)) (Spanish Edition)

 by: Daniel Kahneman
Release date: Jan 14, 2014
Find in Library
Read Review
Daniel Kahneman, uno de los pensadores más importantes del mundo, recibió el premio Nobel de Economía por su trabajo pionero en psicología sobre el modelo racional de la toma de decisiones. Sus ideas han tenido un profundo impacto en campos tan diversos como la economía, la medicina o la política, pero hasta ahora no había reunido la obra de su vida en un libro. En Pensar rápido, pensar despacio, un éxito internacional, Kahneman nos ofrece una revolucionaria perspectiva del cerebro y explica los dos sistemas que modelan cómo pensamos. El sistema 1 es rápido, intuitivo y emocional, mientras que el sistema 2 es más lento, deliberativo y lógico. Kahneman expone la extraordinaria capacidad (y también los errores y los sesgos) del pensamiento rápido, y revela la duradera influencia de las impresiones intuitivas sobre nuestro pensamiento y nuestra conducta. El impacto de la aversión a la pérdida y el exceso de confianza en las estrategias empresariales, la dificultad de predecir lo que nos hará felices en el futuro, el reto de enmarcar adecuadamente los riesgos en el trabajo y en el hogar, el profundo efecto de los sesgos cognitivos sobre todo lo que hacemos, desde jugar en la Bolsa hasta planificar las vacaciones; todo esto solo puede ser comprendido si entendemos el funcionamiento conjunto de los dos sistemas a la hora de formular nuestros juicios y decisiones. Al implicar al lector en una animada reflexión sobre cómo pensamos, Kahneman consigue revelar cuándo podemos confiar en nuestras intuiciones y cuándo no, y de qué modo podemos aprovechar los beneficios del pensamiento lento. Además, ofrece enseñanzas prácticas e iluminadoras sobre cómo se adoptan decisiones en la vida profesional o personal, y sobre cómo podemos usar distintas técnicas para protegernos de los fallos mentales que nos crean problemas. Pensar rápido, pensar despacio cambiará para siempre nuestra manera de pensar sobre cómo pensamos. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION In the international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation?each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions. Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives?and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2011, Thinking, Fast and Slow is destined to be a classic.

Last updated on Thursday, March 30, 2017

I COULD PEE ON THIS by Francesco Marciuliano

~ aboutreads ~ Leave a comment

I Could Pee on This: And Other Poems by Cats by Francesco Marciuliano, No. 1 bestselling book of New York Times Best Sellers. In this book of tongue-in-cheek poetry, cats get help explaining their behavior. For more New York Times Best Seller of Animals best sellers, click here

I Could Pee on This: And Other Poems by Cats

 by: Francesco Marciuliano
No. 1 Best Seller on January 1, 2017.
Find in Library
Read Review
Cat lovers will laugh out loud at the quirkiness of their feline friends with these insightful and curious poems from the singular minds of housecats. In this hilarious book of tongue-in-cheek poetry, the author of the internationally syndicated comic strip Sally Forth helps cats unlock their creative potential and explain their odd behavior to ignorant humans. With titles like “Who Is That on Your Lap?,” “This Is My Chair,” “Kneel Before Me,” “Nudge,” and “Some of My Best Friends Are Dogs,” the poems collected in I Could Pee on This perfectly capture the inner workings of the cat psyche. With photos of the cat authors throughout, this whimsical volume reveals kitties at their wackiest, and most exasperating (but always lovable).

More books by Francesco Marciuliano

1. I Could Chew on This: And Other Poems by Dogs

 by: Francesco Marciuliano
Release date: Jul 30, 2013
Find in Library
Read Review
A New York Times bestseller? Oh, you know the dogs weren’t going to let the cats get away with that! This canine companion to I Could Pee on This, the beloved volume of poems by cats, I Could Chew on This will have dog lovers laughing out loud. Doggie laureates not only chew on quite a lot of things, they also reveal their creativity, their hidden motives, and their eternal (and sometimes misguided) effervescence through such musings as “I Dropped a Ball,” “I Lose My Mind When You Leave the House,” and “Can You Smell That?” Accompanied throughout by portraits of the canine poets in all their magnificence, I Could Chew on This is a work of unbridled enthusiasm, insatiable appetite, and, yes, creative genius.

2. You Need More Sleep: Advice from Cats

 by: Francesco Marciuliano
Release date: Sep 01, 2015
Find in Library
Read Review
Our feline friends have spent eons observing, napping, pondering, napping, and taking notes about the human condition. In between naps, they’ve realized that we humans could use some catlike guidance when it comes to handling the ups and downs of life. In this book they’ve condescended to share their invaluable wisdom in short advice columns such as “Always Stay at Least 30 Feet from a Loved One” and “Never Let Anyone Dress You.” Whether it’s coping with romance, surviving a social gathering, or clawing your way to the top of the corporate ladder only to realize you can’t get down, the cats in this book will have you relaxed and ready to take on the world! Just after one more nap.

3. I Could Pee on This, Too: And More Poems by More Cats

 by: Francesco Marciuliano
Release date: Aug 16, 2016
Find in Library
Read Review
There’s a new cat in town! This feisty sibling of the international bestseller I Could Pee on This will be making its own sensational mark in the cat-poetry world. I Could Pee on This, Too explores fresh feline emotions and philosophical musings through cats’ own poetry, such as “Welcome New Cat,” “Sleeping My Life Away,” and “You Also Live Here.” Any cat lover who’s longed for a deeper look into the enigmatic world of their cats will fall whiskers over paws for this well-versed follow-up.

4. I Knead My Mommy: And Other Poems by Kittens

 by: Francesco Marciuliano
Release date: Aug 05, 2014
Find in Library
Read Review
Just when we all thought things couldn’t get any cuter, from the author of the New York Times bestselling I Could Pee on This comes I Knead My Mommy, a book of confessional poems about the triumphs, trials, and daily discoveries of being a kitten. From climbing walls to claiming hearts, these little cats bare all in such instant classics as “And Then You Said ‘No,'” “Ode to a Lizard I Didn’t Know Is Also a Pet in This House,” and “I Will Save You.” With adorable photos of the poetic prodigies throughout, this volume gives readers a glimpse into their confused and curious feline minds as they encounter the world around them.

5. I Could Chew on This 2017 Wall Calendar

 by: Francesco Marciuliano
Release date: Jul 26, 2016
Find in Library
Read Review
Dog lovers will delight at this calendar, which features selections from I Could Chew on This in addition to six brand-new poems for a year’s worth of lovable canine humor, advice, and good-natured silliness.

6. I Could Pee on This 2018 Wall Calendar

 by: Francesco Marciuliano
Release date: Jul 18, 2017
Find in Library
Read Review
Cat lovers will adore this playful calendar of feline poetry, based on the bestselling book I Could Pee on This.

7. I Could Chew on This: 16 Notecards and Envelopes

 by: Francesco Marciuliano
Release date: Jul 19, 2016
Find in Library
Read Review
This is a collection of hilarious notecards to share with the dog lovers in your life. By the bestselling author of I Could Chew on This, this set includes four distinct cards, each with a dog poem inside covering a range of sentiments (Thank You, Congratulations, Happy Birthday, Thinking of You). These fun cards will cheer up anyone having a ruff day.

8. I Could Pee on This 2015 Wall Calendar

 by: Francesco Marciuliano
Release date: Jul 22, 2014
Find in Library
Read Review
This calendar of witty poems—including such classics as “Why Are You Screaming?,” “This is My Chair,” and “Meow”—offers twelve months’ worth of delightful feline advice, observations, and irrationality.

9. I Could Chew on This: And Other Poems by Dogs

 by: Francesco Marciuliano
Release date: Jul 30, 2013
Find in Library
Read Review
A New York Times bestseller? Oh, you know the dogs weren’t going to let the cats get away with that! This canine companion to I Could Pee on This, the beloved volume of poems by cats, I Could Chew on This will have dog lovers laughing out loud. Doggie laureates not only chew on quite a lot of things, they also reveal their creativity, their hidden motives, and their eternal (and sometimes misguided) effervescence through such musings as “I Dropped a Ball,” “I Lose My Mind When You Leave the House,” and “Can You Smell That?” Accompanied throughout by portraits of the canine poets in all their magnificence, I Could Chew on This is a work of unbridled enthusiasm, insatiable appetite, and, yes, creative genius.

10. You Need More Sleep: Advice from Cats

 by: Francesco Marciuliano
Release date: Sep 01, 2015
Find in Library
Read Review
Our feline friends have spent eons observing, napping, pondering, napping, and taking notes about the human condition. In between naps, they’ve realized that we humans could use some catlike guidance when it comes to handling the ups and downs of life. In this book they’ve condescended to share their invaluable wisdom in short advice columns such as “Always Stay at Least 30 Feet from a Loved One” and “Never Let Anyone Dress You.” Whether it’s coping with romance, surviving a social gathering, or clawing your way to the top of the corporate ladder only to realize you can’t get down, the cats in this book will have you relaxed and ready to take on the world! Just after one more nap.

11. I Could Pee on This, Too: And More Poems by More Cats

 by: Francesco Marciuliano
Release date: Aug 16, 2016
Find in Library
Read Review
There’s a new cat in town! This feisty sibling of the international bestseller I Could Pee on This will be making its own sensational mark in the cat-poetry world. I Could Pee on This, Too explores fresh feline emotions and philosophical musings through cats’ own poetry, such as “Welcome New Cat,” “Sleeping My Life Away,” and “You Also Live Here.” Any cat lover who’s longed for a deeper look into the enigmatic world of their cats will fall whiskers over paws for this well-versed follow-up.

12. I Knead My Mommy: And Other Poems by Kittens

 by: Francesco Marciuliano
Release date: Aug 05, 2014
Find in Library
Read Review
Just when we all thought things couldn’t get any cuter, from the author of the New York Times bestselling I Could Pee on This comes I Knead My Mommy, a book of confessional poems about the triumphs, trials, and daily discoveries of being a kitten. From climbing walls to claiming hearts, these little cats bare all in such instant classics as “And Then You Said ‘No,'” “Ode to a Lizard I Didn’t Know Is Also a Pet in This House,” and “I Will Save You.” With adorable photos of the poetic prodigies throughout, this volume gives readers a glimpse into their confused and curious feline minds as they encounter the world around them.

13. I Could Chew on This 2017 Wall Calendar

 by: Francesco Marciuliano
Release date: Jul 26, 2016
Find in Library
Read Review
Dog lovers will delight at this calendar, which features selections from I Could Chew on This in addition to six brand-new poems for a year’s worth of lovable canine humor, advice, and good-natured silliness.

14. I Could Pee on This 2018 Wall Calendar

 by: Francesco Marciuliano
Release date: Jul 18, 2017
Find in Library
Read Review
Cat lovers will adore this playful calendar of feline poetry, based on the bestselling book I Could Pee on This.

15. I Could Chew on This: 16 Notecards and Envelopes

 by: Francesco Marciuliano
Release date: Jul 19, 2016
Find in Library
Read Review
This is a collection of hilarious notecards to share with the dog lovers in your life. By the bestselling author of I Could Chew on This, this set includes four distinct cards, each with a dog poem inside covering a range of sentiments (Thank You, Congratulations, Happy Birthday, Thinking of You). These fun cards will cheer up anyone having a ruff day.

Last updated on Thursday, March 30, 2017

THE MAGNOLIA STORY by Chip Gaines,Joanna Gaines,Mark Dagostino

~ aboutreads ~ Leave a comment

The Magnolia Story (with Bonus Content) by Chip Gaines,Joanna Gaines,Mark Dagostino, No. 1 bestselling book of New York Times Best Sellers. The lives of the couple who star in the HGTV show “Fixer Upper.” For more New York Times Best Seller of Celebrities best sellers, click here

The Magnolia Story (with Bonus Content)

 by: Chip Gaines,  Joanna Gaines,  Mark Dagostino
No. 1 Best Seller on December 4, 2016.
Find in Library
Read Review

This eBook includes the full text of the book plus an exclusive additional chapter from Chip and Joanna that is not found in the hardcover!

Are you ready to see your fixer upper?

These famous words are now synonymous with the dynamic husband-and-wife team Chip and Joanna Gaines, stars of HGTV’s Fixer Upper. As this question fills the airwaves with anticipation, their legions of fans continue to multiply and ask a different series of questions, like—Who are these people?What’s the secret to their success? And is Chip actually that funny in real life? By renovating homes in Waco, Texas, and changing lives in such a winsome and engaging way, Chip and Joanna have become more than just the stars of Fixer Upper, they have become America’s new best friends.

The Magnolia Story is the first book from Chip and Joanna, offering their fans a detailed look at their life together. From the very first renovation project they ever tackled together, to the project that nearly cost them everything; from the childhood memories that shaped them, to the twists and turns that led them to the life they share on the farm today.

They both attended Baylor University in Waco. However, their paths did not cross until Chip checked his car into the local Firestone tire shop where Joanna worked behind the counter. Even back then Chip was a serial entrepreneur who, among other things, ran a lawn care company, sold fireworks, and flipped houses. Soon they were married and living in their first fixer upper. Four children and countless renovations later, Joanna garners the attention of a television producer who notices her work on a blog one day.

In The Magnolia Story fans will finally get to join the Gaines behind the scenes and discover:

  • The time Chip ran to the grocery store and forgot to take their new, sleeping baby

  • Joanna’s agonizing decision to close her dream business to focus on raising their children

  • When Chip buys a houseboat, sight-unseen, and it turns out to be a leaky wreck

  • Joanna’s breakthrough moment of discovering the secret to creating a beautiful home

  • Harrowing stories of the financial ups and downs as an entrepreneurial couple

  • Memories and photos from Chip and Jo’s wedding

  • The significance of the word magnolia and why it permeates everything they do

  • The way the couple pays the popularity of Fixer Upper forward, sharing the success with others, and bolstering the city of Waco along the way

And yet there is still one lingering question for fans of the show: Is Chip really that funny? “Oh yeah,” says Joanna. “He was, and still is, my first fixer upper.”

More books by Chip Gaines,Joanna Gaines,Mark Dagostino

Last updated on Thursday, March 30, 2017

SHAKEN by Tim Tebow,A. J. Gregory

~ aboutreads ~ Leave a comment

Shaken: Discovering Your True Identity in the Midst of Life’s Storms by Tim Tebow,A. J. Gregory, No. 1 bestselling book of New York Times Best Sellers. The Heisman Trophy winner writes about overcoming obstacles. For more New York Times Best Seller of Religion Spirituality and Faith best sellers, click here

Shaken: Discovering Your True Identity in the Midst of Life’s Storms

 by: Tim Tebow,  A. J. Gregory
No. 1 Best Seller on December 4, 2016.
Find in Library
Read Review

First, he was a beloved college football champion, Heisman trophy winner, media sensation, and best-selling author drafted in the first round of the 2010 Draft. Then he had a miracle playoff run with the Denver Broncos before being traded to the New York Jets. After one season he was cut by New York. Next he was signed by the New England Patriots then let go after training camp—a scenario that repeated itself the following summer with the Philadelphia Eagles. Tim Tebow has achieved big victories and plunged the depths of failure, all while never letting go of his faith, even in the face of doubt and disappointment. In Shaken he explains why neither the highs nor the lows of his life can define him—and he reveals how you, too, can find confidence in your identity and know who you are. In revealing passages, Tebow pulls back the curtain on his life, sharing the vulnerable moments of his career that have shaken him to his core—while also teaching the biblical principles that will enable you to keep the faith, no matter what comes your way.

More books by Tim Tebow,A. J. Gregory

1. Shaken Bible Study: Discovering Your True Identity in the Midst of Life’s Storms

 by: Tim Tebow,  A. J. Gregory
Release date: Dec 20, 2016
Find in Library
Read Review

Discover Who You Are and Live Like It Matters
 
Have you ever questioned God’s plan? Wondered why life has unraveled in an unexpected direction? Struggled with disappointment or doubted your purpose in life? Many of us have.

Riding the rollercoaster of highs and lows in his NFL journey, Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow has learned what it means to be grounded in who you are no matter what life throws your way. In this powerful, four-session Bible study, Tebow delivers a Scripture-packed message about what it means to fix your hope and your identity in a God who does not change. Follow Tebow as he highlights key players and passages from the Bible that will inspire you to:  

* Release bitterness from past hurts and trust in a loving God  
* Recognize and use your talents to make a difference in the world  
* Remain resilient and grounded in your faith despite extraordinary odds

Perfect for group use or individual reflection, this dynamic study also includes key quotations and in-depth discussion questions. Shaken Bible Study is the training ground for your greatest battles and will leave you spiritually and mentally prepared to face life’s challenges head-on.

2. Shaken Bible Study: Discovering Your True Identity in the Midst of Life’s Storms

 by: Tim Tebow,  A. J. Gregory
Release date: Dec 20, 2016
Find in Library
Read Review

Discover Who You Are and Live Like It Matters
 
Have you ever questioned God’s plan? Wondered why life has unraveled in an unexpected direction? Struggled with disappointment or doubted your purpose in life? Many of us have.

Riding the rollercoaster of highs and lows in his NFL journey, Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow has learned what it means to be grounded in who you are no matter what life throws your way. In this powerful, four-session Bible study, Tebow delivers a Scripture-packed message about what it means to fix your hope and your identity in a God who does not change. Follow Tebow as he highlights key players and passages from the Bible that will inspire you to:  

* Release bitterness from past hurts and trust in a loving God  
* Recognize and use your talents to make a difference in the world  
* Remain resilient and grounded in your faith despite extraordinary odds

Perfect for group use or individual reflection, this dynamic study also includes key quotations and in-depth discussion questions. Shaken Bible Study is the training ground for your greatest battles and will leave you spiritually and mentally prepared to face life’s challenges head-on.

Last updated on Thursday, March 30, 2017

THE UNDOING PROJECT by Michael Lewis

~ aboutreads ~ Leave a comment

The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis, No. 1 bestselling book of New York Times Best Sellers. How the psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky upended assumptions about the decision-making process and invented the field of behavioral economics. Their close friendship and porous collaboration style became one of the greatest partnerships in the history of science. For more best sellers, click here

The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

 by: Michael Lewis
No. 1 Best Seller on January 1, 2017.
Find in Library
Read Review

How a Nobel Prize–winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.

Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred, systematically, when forced to make judgments in uncertain situations. Their work created the field of behavioral economics, revolutionized Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation, and made much of Michael Lewis’s own work possible. Kahneman and Tversky are more responsible than anybody for the powerful trend to mistrust human intuition and defer to algorithms.

The Undoing Project is about a compelling collaboration between two men who have the dimensions of great literary figures. They became heroes in the university and on the battlefield—both had important careers in the Israeli military—and their research was deeply linked to their extraordinary life experiences. Amos Tversky was a brilliant, self-confident warrior and extrovert, the center of rapt attention in any room; Kahneman, a fugitive from the Nazis in his childhood, was an introvert whose questing self-doubt was the seedbed of his ideas. They became one of the greatest partnerships in the history of science, working together so closely that they couldn’t remember whose brain originated which ideas, or who should claim credit. They flipped a coin to decide the lead authorship on the first paper they wrote, and simply alternated thereafter.

This story about the workings of the human mind is explored through the personalities of two fascinating individuals so fundamentally different from each other that they seem unlikely friends or colleagues. In the process they may well have changed, for good, mankind’s view of its own mind.

More books by Michael Lewis

1. It Can’t Happen Here (Signet Classics)

 by: Sinclair Lewis,  Michael Meyer,  Gary Scharnhorst
Release date: Jan 07, 2014
Find in Library
Read Review
“The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump’s authoritarian appeal.”—Salon

It Can’t Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis’s later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America.

Written during the Great Depression, when the country was largely oblivious to Hitler’s aggression, it juxtaposes sharp political satire with the chillingly realistic rise of a president who becomes a dictator to save the nation from welfare cheats, sex, crime, and a liberal press.

Called “a message to thinking Americans” by the Springfield Republican when it was published in 1935, It Can’t Happen Here is a shockingly prescient novel that remains as fresh and contemporary as today’s news.

With an Introduction by Michael Meyer
and an Afterword by Gary Scharnhorst

2. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

 by: Michael Lewis
Release date: Feb 01, 2011
Find in Library
Read Review
The real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn’t shine and the SEC doesn’t dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower–and middle–class Americans who can’t pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was or might be happening were paralyzed by hope and fear; in any case, they weren’t talking.

Michael Lewis creates a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his #1 bestseller Liar’s Poker. Out of a handful of unlikely–really unlikely–heroes, Lewis fashions a story as compelling and unusual as any of his earlier bestsellers, proving yet again that he is the finest and funniest chronicler of our time.

The #1 New York Times bestseller: “It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top of his game. And it’s essential reading.”—Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair

3. Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

 by: Michael Lewis
Release date: Mar 23, 2015
Find in Library
Read Review

#1 New York Times Bestseller ― With a new Afterword

“Guaranteed to make blood boil.” ―Janet Maslin, New York Times

In Michael Lewis’s game-changing bestseller, a small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders. They band together―some of them walking away from seven-figure salaries―to investigate, expose, and reform the insidious new ways that Wall Street generates profits. If you have any contact with the market, even a retirement account, this story is happening to you.

4. Liar’s Poker (Norton Paperback)

 by: Michael Lewis
Release date: Mar 15, 2010
Find in Library
Read Review

The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker.

Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street’s premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to bond salesman, raking in millions for the firm and cashing in on a modern-day gold rush.

Liar’s Poker is the culmination of those heady, frenzied years—a behind-the-scenes look at a unique and turbulent time in American business. From the frat-boy camaraderie of the forty-first-floor trading room to the killer instinct that made ambitious young men gamble everything on a high-stakes game of bluffing and deception, here is Michael Lewis’s knowing and hilarious insider’s account of an unprecedented era of greed, gluttony, and outrageous fortune.

5. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

 by: Michael Lewis
Release date: Mar 17, 2004
Find in Library
Read Review

Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manger, Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts, Michael Lewis has written not only “the single most influential baseball book ever” (Rob Neyer, Slate) but also what “may be the best book ever written on business” (Weekly Standard).

“I wrote this book because I fell in love with a story. The story concerned a small group of undervalued professional baseball players and executives, many of whom had been rejected as unfit for the big leagues, who had turned themselves into one of the most successful franchises in Major League Baseball. But the idea for the book came well before I had good reason to write it—before I had a story to fall in love with. It began, really, with an innocent question: how did one of the poorest teams in baseball, the Oakland Athletics, win so many games?”

With these words Michael Lewis launches us into the funniest, smartest, and most contrarian book since, well, since Liar’s Poker. Moneyball is a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something that money apparently can’t buy: the secret of success in baseball. The logical places to look would be the front offices of major league teams, and the dugouts, perhaps even in the minds of the players themselves. Lewis mines all these possibilities—his intimate and original portraits of big league ballplayers are alone worth the price of admission—but the real jackpot is a cache of numbers—numbers!—collected over the years by a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts: software engineers, statisticians, Wall Street analysts, lawyers and physics professors.

What these geek numbers show—no, prove—is that the traditional yardsticks of success for players and teams are fatally flawed. Even the box score misleads us by ignoring the crucial importance of the humble base-on-balls. This information has been around for years, and nobody inside Major League Baseball paid it any mind. And then came Billy Beane, General Manager of the Oakland Athletics.

Billy paid attention to those numbers —with the second lowest payroll in baseball at his disposal he had to—and this book records his astonishing experiment in finding and fielding a team that nobody else wanted. Moneyball is a roller coaster ride: before the 2002 season opens, Oakland must relinquish its three most prominent (and expensive) players, is written off by just about everyone, and then comes roaring back to challenge the American League record for consecutive wins.

In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis shows us how and why the new baseball knowledge works. He also sets up a sly and hilarious morality tale: Big Money, like Goliath, is always supposed to win…how can we not cheer for David?

“One of the best baseball—and management—books out….Deserves a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame.”—Forbes

6. Step-Up to USMLE Step 2 CK

 by: Dr. Brian Jenkins,  Michael McInnis,  Chris Lewis
Release date: Oct 27, 2015
Find in Library
Read Review
Now thoroughly updated and revised, the Fourth Edition of Step-Up to USMLE Step 2 CK provides a high-yield, systems-based review – ideal for preparing for the end-of-rotation NBME shelf exam and studying for the USMLE Step 2 CK. Full-color illustrations and “Quick Hits” provide essential information in an efficient, easy-to-remember manner, which makes this ideal for students in medical, physician assistant, and nurse practitioner programs.
 
Step-Up to USMLE Step 2 CK, Fourth Edition delivers exactly what you need to know in order to be test-ready and ace key exams. 

  • Completely revised and updated content reflects the current USMLE exam
  • Succinct, outline approach keeps “extra” material to a minimum, focusing on the core content you need to know
  • “Quick Hits” in the margins highlight highly testable topics
  • Easy-to-remember mnemonics help you “file away” clinical information for handy retrieval at test time
  • “Next Steps” margin notes guide you through the workup of a patient with practical tips to success
  • Easy-to-follow algorithms show examples of effective clinical reasoning, particularly for similar complaints
  • Includes must-know information on causes, risk factors, history and physical exam, lab studies and radiology, treatment, and complications for the most common diseases and disorders
  • 300 USMLE-style questions, included with the eBook, feature complete explanations to help you gain confidence for the exam.

7. Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement

 by: John Lewis,  Michael D’Orso
Release date: Feb 10, 2015
Find in Library
Read Review
The award-winning national bestseller, Walking with the Wind, is one of our most important records of the American civil rights movement. Told by John Lewis, who Cornel West calls a “national treasure,” this is a gripping first-hand account of the fight for civil rights and the courage it takes to change a nation.

In 1957, a teenaged boy named John Lewis left a cotton farm in Alabama for Nashville, the epicenter of the struggle for civil rights in America. Lewis’s adherence to nonviolence guided that critical time and established him as one of the movement’s most charismatic and courageous leaders. Lewis’s leadership in the Nashville Movement—a student-led effort to desegregate the city of Nashville using sit-in techniques based on the teachings of Gandhi—set the tone for major civil rights campaigns of the 1960s. Lewis traces his role in the pivotal Selma marches, Bloody Sunday, and the Freedom Rides. Inspired by his mentor, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Lewis’s vision and perseverance altered history. In 1986, he ran and won a congressional seat in Georgia, and remains in office to this day, continuing to enact change.

The late Edward M. Kennedy said of Lewis, “John tells it like it was…Lewis spent most of his life walking against the wind of the times, but he was surely walking with the wind of history.”

8. Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World

 by: Michael Lewis
Release date: Sep 04, 2012
Find in Library
Read Review

“Lewis shows again why he is the leading journalist of his generation.”―Kyle Smith, Forbes

The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge.

Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack at it. The Germans wanted to be even more German; the Irish wanted to stop being Irish.

Michael Lewis’s investigation of bubbles beyond our shores is so brilliantly, sadly hilarious that it leads the American reader to a comfortable complacency: oh, those foolish foreigners. But when he turns a merciless eye on California and Washington, DC, we see that the narrative is a trap baited with humor, and we understand the reckoning that awaits the greatest and greediest of debtor nations.

9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe CD (The Chronicles of Narnia)

 by: C. S. Lewis,  Michael York
Release date: Nov 19, 2013
Find in Library
Read Review

Open the door and enter a new world.

Narnia . . . the land beyond the wardrobe door, a secret place frozen in eternal winter . . . a magical country waiting to be set free.

Lucy is the first to find the secret of the wardrobe in the professor’s mysterious old house. At first her brothers and sister don’t believe her when she tells of her visit to the land of Narnia. But soon Edmund, then Peter and Susan step through the wardrobe themselves. In Narnia they find a country buried under the evil enchantment of the White Witch. When they meet the Lion Aslan, they realize they’ve been called to a great adventure and bravely join the battle to free Narnia from the Witch’s sinister spell.

10. It Can’t Happen Here (Signet Classics)

 by: Sinclair Lewis,  Michael Meyer,  Gary Scharnhorst
Release date: Jan 07, 2014
Find in Library
Read Review
“The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump’s authoritarian appeal.”—Salon

It Can’t Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis’s later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America.

Written during the Great Depression, when the country was largely oblivious to Hitler’s aggression, it juxtaposes sharp political satire with the chillingly realistic rise of a president who becomes a dictator to save the nation from welfare cheats, sex, crime, and a liberal press.

Called “a message to thinking Americans” by the Springfield Republican when it was published in 1935, It Can’t Happen Here is a shockingly prescient novel that remains as fresh and contemporary as today’s news.

With an Introduction by Michael Meyer
and an Afterword by Gary Scharnhorst

11. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

 by: Michael Lewis
Release date: Feb 01, 2011
Find in Library
Read Review
The real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn’t shine and the SEC doesn’t dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower–and middle–class Americans who can’t pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was or might be happening were paralyzed by hope and fear; in any case, they weren’t talking.

Michael Lewis creates a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his #1 bestseller Liar’s Poker. Out of a handful of unlikely–really unlikely–heroes, Lewis fashions a story as compelling and unusual as any of his earlier bestsellers, proving yet again that he is the finest and funniest chronicler of our time.

The #1 New York Times bestseller: “It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top of his game. And it’s essential reading.”—Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair

12. Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

 by: Michael Lewis
Release date: Mar 23, 2015
Find in Library
Read Review

#1 New York Times Bestseller ― With a new Afterword

“Guaranteed to make blood boil.” ―Janet Maslin, New York Times

In Michael Lewis’s game-changing bestseller, a small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders. They band together―some of them walking away from seven-figure salaries―to investigate, expose, and reform the insidious new ways that Wall Street generates profits. If you have any contact with the market, even a retirement account, this story is happening to you.

13. Liar’s Poker (Norton Paperback)

 by: Michael Lewis
Release date: Mar 15, 2010
Find in Library
Read Review

The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker.

Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street’s premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to bond salesman, raking in millions for the firm and cashing in on a modern-day gold rush.

Liar’s Poker is the culmination of those heady, frenzied years—a behind-the-scenes look at a unique and turbulent time in American business. From the frat-boy camaraderie of the forty-first-floor trading room to the killer instinct that made ambitious young men gamble everything on a high-stakes game of bluffing and deception, here is Michael Lewis’s knowing and hilarious insider’s account of an unprecedented era of greed, gluttony, and outrageous fortune.

14. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

 by: Michael Lewis
Release date: Mar 17, 2004
Find in Library
Read Review

Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manger, Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts, Michael Lewis has written not only “the single most influential baseball book ever” (Rob Neyer, Slate) but also what “may be the best book ever written on business” (Weekly Standard).

“I wrote this book because I fell in love with a story. The story concerned a small group of undervalued professional baseball players and executives, many of whom had been rejected as unfit for the big leagues, who had turned themselves into one of the most successful franchises in Major League Baseball. But the idea for the book came well before I had good reason to write it—before I had a story to fall in love with. It began, really, with an innocent question: how did one of the poorest teams in baseball, the Oakland Athletics, win so many games?”

With these words Michael Lewis launches us into the funniest, smartest, and most contrarian book since, well, since Liar’s Poker. Moneyball is a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something that money apparently can’t buy: the secret of success in baseball. The logical places to look would be the front offices of major league teams, and the dugouts, perhaps even in the minds of the players themselves. Lewis mines all these possibilities—his intimate and original portraits of big league ballplayers are alone worth the price of admission—but the real jackpot is a cache of numbers—numbers!—collected over the years by a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts: software engineers, statisticians, Wall Street analysts, lawyers and physics professors.

What these geek numbers show—no, prove—is that the traditional yardsticks of success for players and teams are fatally flawed. Even the box score misleads us by ignoring the crucial importance of the humble base-on-balls. This information has been around for years, and nobody inside Major League Baseball paid it any mind. And then came Billy Beane, General Manager of the Oakland Athletics.

Billy paid attention to those numbers —with the second lowest payroll in baseball at his disposal he had to—and this book records his astonishing experiment in finding and fielding a team that nobody else wanted. Moneyball is a roller coaster ride: before the 2002 season opens, Oakland must relinquish its three most prominent (and expensive) players, is written off by just about everyone, and then comes roaring back to challenge the American League record for consecutive wins.

In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis shows us how and why the new baseball knowledge works. He also sets up a sly and hilarious morality tale: Big Money, like Goliath, is always supposed to win…how can we not cheer for David?

“One of the best baseball—and management—books out….Deserves a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame.”—Forbes

15. Step-Up to USMLE Step 2 CK

 by: Dr. Brian Jenkins,  Michael McInnis,  Chris Lewis
Release date: Oct 27, 2015
Find in Library
Read Review
Now thoroughly updated and revised, the Fourth Edition of Step-Up to USMLE Step 2 CK provides a high-yield, systems-based review – ideal for preparing for the end-of-rotation NBME shelf exam and studying for the USMLE Step 2 CK. Full-color illustrations and “Quick Hits” provide essential information in an efficient, easy-to-remember manner, which makes this ideal for students in medical, physician assistant, and nurse practitioner programs.
 
Step-Up to USMLE Step 2 CK, Fourth Edition delivers exactly what you need to know in order to be test-ready and ace key exams. 

  • Completely revised and updated content reflects the current USMLE exam
  • Succinct, outline approach keeps “extra” material to a minimum, focusing on the core content you need to know
  • “Quick Hits” in the margins highlight highly testable topics
  • Easy-to-remember mnemonics help you “file away” clinical information for handy retrieval at test time
  • “Next Steps” margin notes guide you through the workup of a patient with practical tips to success
  • Easy-to-follow algorithms show examples of effective clinical reasoning, particularly for similar complaints
  • Includes must-know information on causes, risk factors, history and physical exam, lab studies and radiology, treatment, and complications for the most common diseases and disorders
  • 300 USMLE-style questions, included with the eBook, feature complete explanations to help you gain confidence for the exam.

Last updated on Thursday, March 30, 2017

GO THE — TO SLEEP by Adam Mansbach,Ricardo Cortés

~ aboutreads ~ Leave a comment

Go the F**k to Sleep by Adam Mansbach,Ricardo Cortés, No. 1 bestselling book of New York Times Best Sellers. A children’s book parody for tired parents. Originally published in 2011. For more New York Times Best Seller of Family best sellers, click here

Go the F**k to Sleep

 by: Adam Mansbach,  Ricardo Cortés
No. 1 Best Seller on January 1, 2017.
Find in Library
Read Review
“Nothing has driven home a certain truth about my generation, which is approaching the apex of its childbearing years, quite like this.”
—The New Yorker

“A parenting zeitgeist”
—Washington Post

“A hilarious take on that age-old problem: getting the beloved child to go to sleep.”
–National Public Radio

“A new Bible for weary parents”
—New York Times

“Resonates powerfully with almost everyone”
—Boston Globe

“Go the F*** to Sleep challenges stereotypes, opens up prototypes, and acknowledges that shared sense of failure that comes to all parents who weary of ever getting their darling(s) to sleep and briefly resuming the illusion of a life of their own.”
—Midwest Book Review

Go the F*** to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, California Book Award-winning author Adam Mansbach’s verses perfectly capture the familiar–and unspoken–tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. In the process, they open up a conversation about parenting, granting us permission to admit our frustrations, and laugh at their absurdity.

With illustrations by Ricardo Cortes, Go the F*** to Sleep is beautiful, subversive, and pants-wettingly funny–a book for parents new, old, and expectant. You probably should not read it to your children.

Seriously, Just Go to Sleep, a children’s book inspired by Go the F*** to Sleep and appropriate for kids of all ages, is forthcoming from Akashic Books in April 2012 and available NOW for pre-order.

More books by Adam Mansbach,Ricardo Cortés

1. Seriously, Just Go to Sleep

 by: Adam Mansbach,  Ricardo Cortés
Release date: Mar 27, 2012
Find in Library
Read Review
“Now there’s a version, complete with more of the gorgeous, yet weirdly subversive illustrations. The best part? It’s still funny. The rhythms, the plodding rhymes, the illustrations, the clever play on the overused trope of the world at bedtime — they all work together to take Seriously, Just Go to Sleep beyond parody and into the realm where good children’s books belong: things that parents, and children, can honestly come to from different places and enjoy together. I can imagine reading Seriously, Go to Sleep nightly, and even to the point where you’re begging the child to choose something else (the ultimate compliment for a picture book) and yet still finding something to enjoy. It captures a different ‘zeitgeist’ of modern parenting.”
—New York Times

“From the team that touched off the irreverent humor trend Go the F**k to Sleep, author Adam Mansbach and illustrator Ricardo Cortes, comes a new kid-friendly version of their instant comic classic. Seriously, Just Go to Sleep brings children in on the joke, helping them understand their own tactics and why their parents just want them to go . . . to sleep.”
—Publishers Weekly

Critical success for the original Go the F*** to Sleep, a #1 best seller at: New York Times, Amazon.com, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, and many more!

Seriously, Just Go to Sleep is the G-rated, traditional-sized, children’s version of the book every parent has been talking about. Go the F*** to Sleep, the picture book for adults, became a cultural sensation by striking a universal chord for parents. Now, Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortés reunite with Seriously, Just Go to Sleep, inviting the children themselves in on the joke. As parents know, kids are well aware of how difficult they can be at bedtime. With Cortés’s updated illustrations (including a cameo appearance by Samuel L. Jackson, who narrated the audio book version of Go the F*** to Sleep) and Mansbach’s new child-appropriate narrative, the book allows kids to recognize their tactics, giggle at their own mischievousness, and empathize with their parents’ struggles–a perspective most children’s books don’t capture. Most importantly, it provides a common ground for children and their parents to talk about one of the most stressful aspects of parenting.

Seriously, Just Go to Sleep came to be when Mansbach read a highly censored rendition of the original book to his three-year-old daughter, and she recognized herself as the culprit and was delighted. “We were getting a lot of feedback from parents, saying that their kids loved the book–read in an altered form–because they recognized themselves in the character of the mischievous kid who’s winning the bedtime battle, and thought it was hilarious. So we figured we’d do a companion volume that lets kids in on the fun.”

2. ¡ Duérmete, carajo! (Celebra Books) (Spanish Edition)

 by: Adam Mansbach,  Ricardo Cortes,  Achy Obejas,  Norberto Codina
Release date: Oct 04, 2011
Find in Library
Read Review
¡Duérmete, carajo! es un cuento para dormir para los padres que viven en el mundo real, en el cual un par de gatitos ronroneando y unas líneas simpáticas no son lo suficiente para zumbar a un niño pequeño a dormir felizmente. Profano, cariñoso y franco de manera radical, cuenta la conocida y callada tribulación de acostar a su angelito. Bello, subversivo y para mearse ¡Duérmete, carajo! es un libro para padres experimentados, nuevos e incipientes. (Y probablemente es mejor no leérselo a los pequeños.)

3. Go de Rass to Sleep: (A Jamaican translation)

 by: Adam Mansbach,  Ricardo Cortés,  Kwame Dawes,  Kellie Magnus
Release date: Jun 10, 2014
Find in Library
Read Review
Named one of the 20 Greatest New Father’s Day Gifts by Advocate.com!

“No matter what the country or the language, parents all over the world–loving, frustrated, exhausted parents–know what Adam Mansbach means. Since 2011, his comically obscene picture book has sold more than 1.5 million copies in dozens of languages from Afrikaans to Japanese to Nynorsk. And later this year, his little book will venture into new territory with a Jamaican patois translation: ‘Go de R–s to Sleep.'”
—The Washington Post/Style Blog

“This version of Adam Mansbach’s profane, affectionate, and radically honest book will remind whole new audiences about the absurdities of parenting. Just don’t read it to the kids.”
—Advocate.com, The 20 Greatest New Father’s Day Gifts

Praise for Go the Fuck to Sleep:

“A new Bible for weary parents.”
—New York Times

“Incredibly appealing.”
—NPR

“A parenting zeitgeist…A phenomenon that has stunned the publishing world and may just redefine the modern ‘parenting’ market.”
—Washington Post

“Delightfully obscene.”
—Newsweek

“Nothing has driven home a certain truth about my generation, which is approaching the apex of its childbearing years, quite like this deranged book.”
—New Yorker

The best-selling Go the F*** to Sleep has been translated into over thirty languages worldwide. Now it is finally translated for Jamaican and other Caribbean parents of the world. Given how many West Indians live in the US and Canada, the market for this book should be broad, but focused mainly on areas with a large Caribbean community.

Go de Rass to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, California Book Award–winning author Adam Mansbach’s verses perfectly capture the familiar–and unspoken–tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. In the process, they open up a conversation about parenting, granting us permission to admit our frustrations, and laugh at their absurdity.

With illustrations by Ricardo Cortés, Go de Rass to Sleep is beautiful, subversive, and pants-wettingly funny–a book for parents new, old, and expectant. You probably should not read it to your children.

4. dors et fais pas chier

 by: Adam,  Cortes, Ricardo Mansbach
Release date: Dec 25, 2019
Find in Library
Read Review
32pages. 21x16x1cm. Broché.

5. VAI Dormir P*##@ (Porra) – Go the F**k to Sleep – Portuguese Edition

 by: Adam Mansbach/Ricardo Cortes
Release date: Dec 25, 2019
Find in Library
Read Review
Vai Dormir, P*##A

Vai Dormir, P*##A foi escrito para pais que vivem no mundo real, em que histórias sobre gatinhos sonolentos e rimas fofinhas não conseguem fazer as crianças embarcarem para a abençoada viagem ao mundo dos sonhos.

Profano, afetivo e radicalmente honesto, o livro captura a frustração dos pais ao tentarem, sem sucesso, colocar seus filhos para dormir. Escrito para pais e mães de primeira viagem, experientes ou que ainda estão esperando, Vai Dormir, P*##A é subversivo, catártico e de morrer de rir.

O contraste entre o desespero crescente dos versos e as idílicas ilustrações torna este livro inesquecível, principalmente na hora de colocar os anjinhos na cama. Mas cuidado: talvez você não deva ler esta história para seus filhos dormirem.

“Um livro infantil para adultos. Eu ri alto. Hilário.” – David Byrne, músico, pai de uma menina

“Finalmente, alguém que diz as coisas como elas realmente são. É engraçado sem culpa, uma dádiva.” – Cristina García, autora de “As Irmãs Agüero”, mãe de uma menina

Ilustrador: Ricardo Cortés
Tradutor: Angélica Lopes

Editora: GMT EDITORES
Autor: ADAM MANSBACH
ISBN: 9788575426784
Origem: Nacional
Ano: 2011
Edição: 1
Número de páginas: 32

8. Duermete, carajo! (Celebra Books) (Spanish Edition)

 by: Adam Mansbach,  Ricardo Cortes,  Achy Obejas,  Norberto Codina
Release date: Oct 04, 2011
Find in Library
Read Review

¡Duérmete, carajo! es un cuento para dormir para los padres que viven en el mundo real, en el cual un par de gatitos ronroneando y unas líneas simpáticas no son lo suficiente para zumbar a un niño pequeño a dormir felizmente. Profano, cariñoso y franco de manera radical, cuenta la conocida y callada tribulación de acostar a su angelito. Bello, subversivo y para mearse ¡Duérmete, carajo! es un libro para padres experimentados, nuevos e incipientes. (Y probablemente es mejor no leérselo a los pequeños.)

9. Seriously, Just Go to Sleep

 by: Adam Mansbach,  Ricardo Cortés
Release date: Mar 27, 2012
Find in Library
Read Review
“Now there’s a version, complete with more of the gorgeous, yet weirdly subversive illustrations. The best part? It’s still funny. The rhythms, the plodding rhymes, the illustrations, the clever play on the overused trope of the world at bedtime — they all work together to take Seriously, Just Go to Sleep beyond parody and into the realm where good children’s books belong: things that parents, and children, can honestly come to from different places and enjoy together. I can imagine reading Seriously, Go to Sleep nightly, and even to the point where you’re begging the child to choose something else (the ultimate compliment for a picture book) and yet still finding something to enjoy. It captures a different ‘zeitgeist’ of modern parenting.”
—New York Times

“From the team that touched off the irreverent humor trend Go the F**k to Sleep, author Adam Mansbach and illustrator Ricardo Cortes, comes a new kid-friendly version of their instant comic classic. Seriously, Just Go to Sleep brings children in on the joke, helping them understand their own tactics and why their parents just want them to go . . . to sleep.”
—Publishers Weekly

Critical success for the original Go the F*** to Sleep, a #1 best seller at: New York Times, Amazon.com, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, and many more!

Seriously, Just Go to Sleep is the G-rated, traditional-sized, children’s version of the book every parent has been talking about. Go the F*** to Sleep, the picture book for adults, became a cultural sensation by striking a universal chord for parents. Now, Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortés reunite with Seriously, Just Go to Sleep, inviting the children themselves in on the joke. As parents know, kids are well aware of how difficult they can be at bedtime. With Cortés’s updated illustrations (including a cameo appearance by Samuel L. Jackson, who narrated the audio book version of Go the F*** to Sleep) and Mansbach’s new child-appropriate narrative, the book allows kids to recognize their tactics, giggle at their own mischievousness, and empathize with their parents’ struggles–a perspective most children’s books don’t capture. Most importantly, it provides a common ground for children and their parents to talk about one of the most stressful aspects of parenting.

Seriously, Just Go to Sleep came to be when Mansbach read a highly censored rendition of the original book to his three-year-old daughter, and she recognized herself as the culprit and was delighted. “We were getting a lot of feedback from parents, saying that their kids loved the book–read in an altered form–because they recognized themselves in the character of the mischievous kid who’s winning the bedtime battle, and thought it was hilarious. So we figured we’d do a companion volume that lets kids in on the fun.”

10. ¡ Duérmete, carajo! (Celebra Books) (Spanish Edition)

 by: Adam Mansbach,  Ricardo Cortes,  Achy Obejas,  Norberto Codina
Release date: Oct 04, 2011
Find in Library
Read Review
¡Duérmete, carajo! es un cuento para dormir para los padres que viven en el mundo real, en el cual un par de gatitos ronroneando y unas líneas simpáticas no son lo suficiente para zumbar a un niño pequeño a dormir felizmente. Profano, cariñoso y franco de manera radical, cuenta la conocida y callada tribulación de acostar a su angelito. Bello, subversivo y para mearse ¡Duérmete, carajo! es un libro para padres experimentados, nuevos e incipientes. (Y probablemente es mejor no leérselo a los pequeños.)

11. Go de Rass to Sleep: (A Jamaican translation)

 by: Adam Mansbach,  Ricardo Cortés,  Kwame Dawes,  Kellie Magnus
Release date: Jun 10, 2014
Find in Library
Read Review
Named one of the 20 Greatest New Father’s Day Gifts by Advocate.com!

“No matter what the country or the language, parents all over the world–loving, frustrated, exhausted parents–know what Adam Mansbach means. Since 2011, his comically obscene picture book has sold more than 1.5 million copies in dozens of languages from Afrikaans to Japanese to Nynorsk. And later this year, his little book will venture into new territory with a Jamaican patois translation: ‘Go de R–s to Sleep.'”
—The Washington Post/Style Blog

“This version of Adam Mansbach’s profane, affectionate, and radically honest book will remind whole new audiences about the absurdities of parenting. Just don’t read it to the kids.”
—Advocate.com, The 20 Greatest New Father’s Day Gifts

Praise for Go the Fuck to Sleep:

“A new Bible for weary parents.”
—New York Times

“Incredibly appealing.”
—NPR

“A parenting zeitgeist…A phenomenon that has stunned the publishing world and may just redefine the modern ‘parenting’ market.”
—Washington Post

“Delightfully obscene.”
—Newsweek

“Nothing has driven home a certain truth about my generation, which is approaching the apex of its childbearing years, quite like this deranged book.”
—New Yorker

The best-selling Go the F*** to Sleep has been translated into over thirty languages worldwide. Now it is finally translated for Jamaican and other Caribbean parents of the world. Given how many West Indians live in the US and Canada, the market for this book should be broad, but focused mainly on areas with a large Caribbean community.

Go de Rass to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, California Book Award–winning author Adam Mansbach’s verses perfectly capture the familiar–and unspoken–tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. In the process, they open up a conversation about parenting, granting us permission to admit our frustrations, and laugh at their absurdity.

With illustrations by Ricardo Cortés, Go de Rass to Sleep is beautiful, subversive, and pants-wettingly funny–a book for parents new, old, and expectant. You probably should not read it to your children.

12. dors et fais pas chier

 by: Adam,  Cortes, Ricardo Mansbach
Release date: Dec 25, 2019
Find in Library
Read Review
32pages. 21x16x1cm. Broché.

13. VAI Dormir P*##@ (Porra) – Go the F**k to Sleep – Portuguese Edition

 by: Adam Mansbach/Ricardo Cortes
Release date: Dec 25, 2019
Find in Library
Read Review
Vai Dormir, P*##A

Vai Dormir, P*##A foi escrito para pais que vivem no mundo real, em que histórias sobre gatinhos sonolentos e rimas fofinhas não conseguem fazer as crianças embarcarem para a abençoada viagem ao mundo dos sonhos.

Profano, afetivo e radicalmente honesto, o livro captura a frustração dos pais ao tentarem, sem sucesso, colocar seus filhos para dormir. Escrito para pais e mães de primeira viagem, experientes ou que ainda estão esperando, Vai Dormir, P*##A é subversivo, catártico e de morrer de rir.

O contraste entre o desespero crescente dos versos e as idílicas ilustrações torna este livro inesquecível, principalmente na hora de colocar os anjinhos na cama. Mas cuidado: talvez você não deva ler esta história para seus filhos dormirem.

“Um livro infantil para adultos. Eu ri alto. Hilário.” – David Byrne, músico, pai de uma menina

“Finalmente, alguém que diz as coisas como elas realmente são. É engraçado sem culpa, uma dádiva.” – Cristina García, autora de “As Irmãs Agüero”, mãe de uma menina

Ilustrador: Ricardo Cortés
Tradutor: Angélica Lopes

Editora: GMT EDITORES
Autor: ADAM MANSBACH
ISBN: 9788575426784
Origem: Nacional
Ano: 2011
Edição: 1
Número de páginas: 32

Last updated on Thursday, March 30, 2017