Jack Welch, CEO of General Electric, is seen by some as the model corporate leader and by others as the quintessential unmitigated pursuer of profit.

In this behind-the-scenes look at the most famous musical group in history, Hunter Davies gives the complete story of the Beatles...

In this commanding biography, eminent cultural critic Gary Giddins takes us on the remarkable journey that brought a provincial young law student…

In Double Victory, voices of Americans illustrate the various struggles and victories fought during World War II, including a Japanese-American at an internment camp…

Dower illuminates how shattering defeat, followed by years of American military occupation, affected every level of Japanese society in ways that neither the victor nor the vanquished could anticipate.

In this succinct audiobook, Dr. Roger Fritz conveys easy-to-follow modes for creating excellence and momentum in your life and work.

Highly regarded here and abroad for some 30 works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has now set down in one continuous narrative the sum of his discoveries and conclusions about the whole of Western culture since 1500.

Highly regarded here and abroad for some 30 works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has now set down in one continuous narrative the sum of his discoveries and conclusions about the whole of Western culture since 1500.

“The Guerrilla Group has done it again. Sit down at the feet of the masters and learn how to negotiate right. And while you’re at it, pray that your competition doesn’t read this book.”—Guy Kawasaki

The first book to apply guerrilla sales and marketing tactics to the unique, high-pressure environment of electronic communications…

In Hard Tack and Coffee, the everyday life of the foot soldier in the U.S. Army of more than one hundred years ago is presented in a fascinating, detailed account.

Performers have been doing it for centuries. Now, for the first time, Robert Lowe, a pioneer in the field of improvisation, hands you the techniques you need...

In 1940, inventor J. Ripley Kiel was taken by Secret Service men to the Oval Office, where he planted a microphone in FDR’s desk lamp and connected it to an experimental sound recording machine.

The descendants of Richard and Anne Lee have occupied a preeminent place in American history. They were among the first families of Virginia.

The twenty-one philosophical personalities who represent an adventure in thinking are: Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Epicurus, Marcus Aurelius…

This is Edward Bellamy’s prophetic novel about a young Boston gentleman who is mysteriously transported from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century…

Satchel Paige was forty-two years old in 1948 when he became the first black pitcher in the American League.

By focusing on the roles of the individual and of society in making terror work, Johnson answers such questions as: Who were the Gestapo officers?

The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence is a record of the conversations and letters exchanged between Brother Lawrence and people in his community, who came to him for advice.

Until now, much about Steven Spielberg’s personality and the forces that shaped it has remained enig-matic, in large part because of his tendency to mythologize his own past.

Charles Coffin’s The Story of Liberty, originally published in 1879, is not America’s story alone. It belongs to all those who are enjoying freedom and liberty in any part of the world.

This biography explains how Grant ultimately triumphed as he created a new approach to battle.

Subtitled Jimmy Carter's Journey Beyond the White House, Brinkley details how Jimmy Carter, unlike most ex-presidents, has done more since leaving the White House in 1980 than most people do in a lifetime.

The riveting story of two brothers on opposite sides of the battlefield continues, as one of America’s finest historical novelists concludes the Civil War saga he began with Look Away.

More than fifty years after giving testimony that sent Alger Hiss to prison, Chambers remains a controversial figure.