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Title: As Good As Dead
Author(s): Stephen L. Moore

Language: English
Published: 22 November 2016
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780399583551
Extension: EPUB
Size: 28 MB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, History, Military, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, History, Military, Nonfiction


"[A] truly uplifting tale of deliverance from certain death . . . A deeply personal read, in which the reader is drawn into the highs and lows of the action, the tragedy, and the salvation, because Moore has so successfully drawn out the characters. . . . Compelling reading and hard to put down."-Naval History
The heroic story of eleven American POWs who defied certain death in World War II, As Good as Dead is an unforgettable account of the Palawan Massacre survivors and their daring escape.
In late 1944, the Allies invaded the Japanese-held Philippines, and soon the end of the Pacific War was within reach. But for the last 150 American prisoners of war still held on the island of Palawan, there would be no salvation. After years of slave labor, starvation, disease, and torture, their worst fears were about to be realized. On December 14, with machine guns trained on them, they were herded underground into shallow air raid shelters-death pits dug with their own hands.
Japanese soldiers doused the shelters with gasoline and set them on fire. Some thirty prisoners managed to bolt from the fiery carnage, running a lethal gauntlet of machine gun fire and bayonets to jump from the cliffs to the rocky Palawan coast. By the next morning, only eleven men were left alive-but their desperate journey to freedom had just begun.
As Good as Dead is one of the greatest escape stories of World War II, and one that few Americans know. The eleven survivors of the Palawan Massacre-some badly wounded and burned-spent weeks evading Japanese patrols. They scrounged for food and water, swam shark-infested bays, and wandered through treacherous jungle terrain, hoping to find friendly Filipino guerrillas. Their endurance, determination, and courage in the face of death make this a gripping and inspiring saga of survival.

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Title: Have Dog, Will Travel
Author(s): Stephen Kuusisto

Published: 13 March 2018
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Extension: EPUB
Size: 1 MB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Pets, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Pets, Nonfiction


In a lyrical love letter to guide dogs everywhere, a blind poet shares his delightful story of how a guide dog changed his life and helped him discover a newfound appreciation for travel and independence.
Stephen Kuusisto was born legally blind-but he was also raised in the 1950s and taught to deny his blindness in order to "pass" as sighted. Stephen attended public college, rode a bike, and read books pressed right up against his nose. As an adult, he coped with his limited vision by becoming a professor in a small college town, memorizing routes for all of the places he needed to be. Then, at the age of thirty-eight, he was laid off. With no other job opportunities in his vicinity, he would have to travel to find work.

This is how he found himself at Guiding Eyes, paired with a Labrador named Corky. In this vivid and lyrical memoir, Stephen Kuusisto recounts how an incredible partnership with a guide dog changed his life and the heart-stopping, wondrous adventure that began for him in midlife. Profound and deeply moving, this is a spiritual journey, the story of discovering that life with a guide dog is both a method and a state of mind.

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Title: Requiem at Rogano
Author(s): Stephen Knight

Publisher: Valancourt Books
Extension: EPUB
Size: 1 MB
Subjects: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Categories: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Thriller


London, 1902. A string of murders committed by a killer the press has dubbed the Deptford Strangler has the security officer mystified. The victims seem to have nothing in common, and the crimes appear random and motiveless. Meanwhile, retired Inspector Brough and his nephew Nicholas Calvin, researching a book on the history of murder, unearth a series of killings committed in Rogano, Italy in 1454 identical in pattern to the present-day crimes. What possible connection could there be between these horrific events separated by over 450 years? Brough and Calvin are determined to find out-but they are not prepared for the terrible truth they will uncover.
Originally published in 1979, Requiem at Rogano was the only novel by Stephen Knight (1951-1985), best known for a nonfiction bestseller that promised the 'final solution' in the case of Jack the Ripper. This new edition of Knight's novel, a page-turning supernatural thriller whose plot twists will keep readers enthralled, features an introduction by Bernard Taylor.
"A superlative thriller . . . I have not had such a good weekend with a thriller for years . . . I recommend this to all who enjoy literate crime fiction."-Martin Seymour-Smith, Financial Times
"A confident debut."-The Guardian
"Ingenious."-The Observer


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Title: Another Kind of Madness
Author(s): Stephen Hinshaw

Language: English
Published: 20 June 2017
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9781250113368
Extension: EPUB
Size: 1 MB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Medical, Psychology, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Medical, Psychology, Nonfiction


WINNER: Best Autobiography/Memoir, 2018 Best Book Awards, sponsored by American Book Fest
Glenn Close says: "Another Kind of Madness is one of the best books I've read about the cost of stigma and silence in a family touched by mental illness. I was profoundly moved by Stephen Hinshaw's story, written beautifully, from the inside-out. It's a masterpiece."
A deeply personal memoir calling for an end to the dark shaming of mental illness
Families are riddled with untold secrets. But Stephen Hinshaw never imagined that a profound secret was kept under lock and key for 18 years within his family-that his father's mysterious absences, for months at a time, resulted from serious mental illness and involuntary hospitalizations. From the moment his father revealed the truth, during Hinshaw's first spring break from college, he knew his life would change forever.
Hinshaw calls this revelation his "psychological birth." After years of experiencing the ups and downs of his father's illness without knowing it existed, Hinshaw began to piece together the silent, often terrifying history of his father's life-in great contrast to his father's presence and love during periods of wellness. This exploration led to larger discoveries about the family saga, to Hinshaw's correctly diagnosing his father with bipolar disorder, and to his full-fledged career as a clinical and developmental psychologist and professor.
In Another Kind of Madness, Hinshaw explores the burden of living in a family "loaded" with mental illness and debunks the stigma behind it. He explains that in today's society, mental health problems still receive utter castigation-too often resulting in the loss of fundamental rights, including the inability to vote or run for office or automatic relinquishment of child custody. Through a poignant and moving family narrative, interlaced with shocking facts about how America and the world still view mental health conditions well into in the 21st century, Another Kind of Madness is a passionate call to arms regarding the importance of destigmatizing mental illness.


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Title: Last to Die
Author(s): Stephen Harding

Language: English
Published: 14 July 2015
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9780306823381
Extension: EPUB
Size: 12 MB
Subjects: History, Military, Nonfiction
Categories: History, Military, Nonfiction


On August 18, 1945 - three days after Japan announced it would cease hostilities and surrender - U.S. Army Air Forces Sergeant Anthony J. Marchione bled to death in the clear, bright sky above Tokyo. Just six days after his twentieth birthday, Tony Marchione died like so many before him in World War II - quietly, cradled in the arms of a buddy who was powerless to prevent his death. Though heartbreaking for his family, Marchione's death would have been no more notable than any other had he not had the dubious distinction of being the last American killed in World War II combat.
An aerial gunner who had already survived several combat missions, Marchione's death was the tragic culmination of an intertwined series of events. The plane that carried him that day was a trouble-plagued American heavy bomber known as the B-32 Dominator, which would prove a failed competitor to the famed B-29 Superfortress. And on the ground below, a palace revolt was brewing and a small number of die-hard Japanese fighter pilots decided to fight on, refusing to accept defeat.
Based on official American and Japanese histories, personal memoirs, and the author's exclusive interviews with many of the story's key participants, Last to Die is a rousing tale of air combat, bravery, cowardice, hubris, and determination, all set during the turbulent and confusing final days of World War II.

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Title: Leading Lady: Sherry Lansing and the Making of a Hollywood Groundbreaker
Author(s): Stephen Galloway

Language: English
Published: 25 April 2017
Publisher: Random House, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781101904770
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Performing Arts, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Performing Arts, Nonfiction


The definitive biography of movie executive and philanthropist Sherry Lansing traces her groundbreaking journey to become the first female head of a major motion picture studio, sharing behind-the-scenes tales from movie sets and Hollywood boardrooms.
When Sherry Lansing became the first woman ever to be named president of a major studio, the news ricocheted around the world. That was just the beginning of an extraordinary run that saw her head two studios, make hundreds of films, produce classic pictures such as Fatal Attraction and rule for twenty-five years as the most powerful woman Hollywood has ever known.
Award-winning writer Stephen Galloway takes us behind the scenes of Lansing's epic journey-inside the battles; up close with the stars; and into the heart of a creative world populated by the likes of Meryl Streep, Steven Spielberg, Jane Fonda, Angelina Jolie and Tom Cruise. He shows us the velvet touch that masked the iron hand, and the roller-coaster drama behind such movies as Titanic, Forrest Gump, Braveheart and Saving Private Ryan.
Above all, he takes us into the mind of Lansing, creating a revealing portrait of a dynamic, driven woman who overcame unimaginable odds, pushed boundaries and left Hollywood at the peak of her power to achieve the life she wanted.

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Title: The Reformer
Author(s): Stephen F. Williams

Language: English
Published: 07 November 2017
Publisher: Encounter Books
Extension: EPUB
Size: 5 MB
Subjects: History, Politics, Nonfiction
Categories: History, Politics, Nonfiction


Besides absolutists of the right (the tsar and his adherents) and left (Lenin and his fellow Bolsheviks), the Russian political landscape in 1917 featured moderates seeking liberal reform and a rapid evolution towards a constitutional monarchy. Vasily Maklakov, a lawyer, legislator and public intellectual, was among the most prominent of these, and the most articulate and sophisticated advocate of the rule of law, the linchpin of liberalism.
This book tells the story of his efforts and his analysis of the reasons for their ultimate failure. It is thus, in part, an example for movements seeking to liberalize authoritarian countries today-both as a warning and a guide.
Although never a cabinet member or the head of his political party-the Constitutional Democrats or "Kadets"-Maklakov was deeply involved in most of the political events of the period. He was defense counsel for individuals resisting the regime (or charged simply for being of the wrong ethnicity, such as Menahem Beilis, sometimes considered the Russian Dreyfus). He was continuously a member of the Kadets' central committee and their most compelling orator. As a somewhat maverick (and moderate) Kadet, he stood not only between the country's absolute extremes (the reactionary monarchists and the revolutionaries), but also between the two more or less liberal centrist parties, the Kadets on the center left, and the Octobrists on the center right. As a member of the Second, Third and Fourth Dumas (1907-1917), he advocated a wide range of reforms, especially in the realms of religious freedom, national minorities, judicial independence, citizens' judicial remedies, and peasant rights.


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Title: The Alps
Author(s): Stephen O'Shea

Language: English
Published: 21 February 2017
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393355697
Extension: EPUB
Size: 9 MB
Subjects: History, Nature, Travel, Nonfiction
Categories: History, Nature, Travel, Nonfiction


"An entertaining, turbocharged race among the high mountain passes of six alpine countries." -Liesl Schillinger, New York Times Book Review
For centuries the Alps have been witness to the march of armies, the flow of pilgrims and Crusaders, the feats of mountaineers, and the dreams of engineers. In The Alps, Stephen O'Shea ("a graceful and passionate writer"-Washington Post) takes readers up and down these majestic mountains. Journeying through their 500-mile arc across France, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria, and Slovenia, he explores the reality behind historic events and reveals how the Alps have profoundly influenced culture and society.


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Title: The Deal of the Century
Author(s): Coll, Steve;

Language: English
Published: 13 June 2017
Publisher: Open Road Media
Extension: EPUB
Size: 1 MB
Subjects: Business, Law, Technology, Nonfiction
Categories: Business, Law, Technology, Nonfiction


A New York Times-bestselling author's "superbly reported" account of the dismantling of the world's largest corporation (The Washington Post).
Written by the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars and Private Empire, The Deal of the Century chronicles the decade-long war for control of AT&T.

When the US Department of Justice brought an antitrust lawsuit against AT&T in 1974, the telecommunications giant held a monopoly on phone service throughout the country. Over the following decade, an army of lawyers, executives, politicians, and judges spent countless hours clashing over what amounted to the biggest corporate breakup in American history. From boardroom to courtroom, Steve Coll untangles the myriad threads of this complex and critical case and gives readers "an excellent behind-the-scenes look" at the human drama involved in the remaking of an entire industry ( The Philadelphia Inquirer).

Hailed by the New York Times Book Review as "rich, intricate and convincing," The Deal of the Century is the definitive narrative of a momentous turning point in the way America does business.



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Title: The Taking of Getty Oil
Author(s): Coll, Steve;

Language: English
Published: 13 June 2017
Publisher: Open Road Media
Extension: EPUB
Size: 1 MB
Subjects: Business, Law, Nonfiction
Categories: Business, Law, Nonfiction


A larger-than-life account of family, greed, and a courtroom showdown between Big Oil rivals from the New York Times-bestselling author of Private Empire.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll is renowned for "his ability to take complicated, significant business stories and turn them into quick-reading engaging narratives" ( Chicago Tribune). Coll is at the height of his talents in this "riveting" tale of one of the most spectacular-and catastrophic-corporate takeovers of all time ( Newsday).

As the head of a sprawling oil empire, J. Paul Getty was once the world's richest man. But by 1984, eight years after his death, Getty's legacy was in tatters: His children were locked in a bitter feud over the family trust and the company he founded was riven by boardroom turmoil. Then Pennzoil made an agreement with Getty's son, Gordon, to purchase Getty Oil. It was a done deal-until Texaco swooped in to claim the $10 billion prize.

What followed was an epic legal battle that pit "good ole boy" J. Hugh Liedtke of Pennzoil against the Wall Street brokers behind Texaco's offer. The scandalous details of the case would shock the business world and change the landscape of the oil industry forever.

With a large cast of colorful characters and the dramatic pacing of a novel, The Taking of Getty Oil is a "suspenseful" and "always intriguing" chronicle of one of the most fascinating chapters in American corporate history ( Publishers Weekly).


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Title: Eagle on the Street
Author(s): Coll, Steve; Vise, David A.;

Language: English
Published: 13 June 2017
Publisher: Open Road Media
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: Business, Finance, Law, Nonfiction
Categories: Business, Finance, Law, Nonfiction


A "spellbinding account" of Wall Street deregulation in the 1980s, based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post series (The New York Times Book Review).
Described by the New York Times Book Review as "worthy of being on the same shelf" as Liar's Poker, Greed and Glory on Wall Street, and Barbarians at the Gate, this eye-opening business history explains how Washington and Wall Street cut the deals that led to a decade of greed.

For the Securities and Exchange Commission, the 1980s brought sweeping changes. Under the sway of Reaganomics and the leadership of John Shad, the SEC came down hard on insider trading but introduced wide-ranging deregulation to the stock market, which helped to both fuel the legendary bull market and sow the seeds of the 1987 crash.

Shad, a former vice-chairman of the brokerage firm EF Hutton & Company and the first Wall Street executive to lead the SEC since Joseph Kennedy, was a true believer in the free market. His tenure touched all the big headlines and enduring images of this tumultuous decade, from leveraged buyouts to junk bonds, Manhattan skyscbangrs to Senate hearing rooms, Michael Milken to T. Boone Pickens.

David A. Vise and Steve Coll won the Pulitzer Prize for the original reporting in the Washington Post that would become Eagle on the Street. In an era when the costs, benefits, and risks of deregulation are under debate once again, their "engrossing account of the struggle for the soul of the SEC" is essential reading ( The Washington Post).


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Title: Directorate S
Author(s): Steve Coll

Language: English
Published: 06 February 2018
Publisher: Penguin Press
ISBN: 9780143132509
Extension: EPUB
Size: 3 MB
Subjects: History, Politics, Nonfiction
Categories: History, Politics, Nonfiction


[b][b]Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction [b]• [/b]Nominated for the National Book Award for Nonfiction
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars and The Achilles Trap, the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11[/b][/b]
Prior to 9/11, the United States had been carrying out small-scale covert operations in Afghanistan, ostensibly in cooperation, although often in direct opposition, with I.S.I., the Pakistani intelligence agency. While the US was trying to quell extremists, a highly secretive and compartmentalized wing of I.S.I., known as "Directorate S," was covertly training, arming, and seeking to legitimize the Taliban, in order to enlarge Pakistan's sphere of influence. After 9/11, when fifty-nine countries, led by the U. S., deployed troops or provided aid to Afghanistan in an effort to flush out the Taliban and Al Qaeda, the U.S. was set on an invisible slow-motion collision course with Pakistan.
Today we know that the war in Afghanistan would falter badly because of military hubris at the highest levels of the Pentagon, the drain on resources and provocation in the '. world caused by the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, and corruption. But more than anything, as Coll makes painfully clear, the war in Afghanistan was doomed because of the failure of the United States to apprehend the motivations and intentions of I.S.I.'s "Directorate S". This was a swirling and shadowy struggle of historic proportions, which endured over a decade and across both the Bush and Obama administrations, involving multiple secret intelligence agencies, a litany of incongruous strategies and tactics, and dozens of players, including some of the most prominent military and political figures. A sprawling American tragedy, the war was an open clash of arms but also a covert melee of ideas, secrets, and subterranean violence.
Coll excavates this grand battle, which took place away from the gaze of the American public. With unsurpassed expertise, original research, and attention to detail, he brings to life a narrative at once vast and intricate, local and global, propulsive and painstaking.
This is the definitive explanation of how America came to be so badly ensnared in an elaborate, factional, and seemingly interminable conflict in South Asia. Nothing less than a forensic examination of the personal and political forces that shape world history, Directorate S is a complete masterpiece of both investigative and narrative journalism.

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Title: Civilisation
Author(s): Steve Braunias

Language: English
Published: 01 December 2012
Publisher: Awa Press
ISBN: 9781877551352
Extension: EPUB
Size: 1 MB
Subjects: Travel, Nonfiction
Categories: Travel, Nonfiction


Civilisation is Steve Braunias at his best, the scavenger of social lodestone, rich, fascinating and occasionally disturbing stories of settlements-from Kawakawa in the north, to Mosgiel in the south, and Samoa and Antarctica over the seas-and the people who live in them, their lives, loves, aspirations, and sometimes dark secrets.


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Title: The Scene of the Crime
Author(s): Steve Braunias

Language: English
Published: 01 November 2015
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Extension: EPUB
Size: 600 KB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Sociology, True Crime, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Sociology, True Crime, Nonfiction


Twelve extraordinary tales of crime and punishment: a collection of true crime writing by New Zealand's award-winning master of non-fiction.

A court is a chamber of questions. Who, when, why, what happened and exactly how - these are issues of psychology and the soul, they're general to the human condition, with its infinite capacity to cause pain.
A brutal murder of a wife and daughter ... A meth-fuelled Samurai sword attack ... A banker tangled in a hit-and-run scandal ... A top cop accused of bang ... A murder in the Outback ... A beloved entertainer's fall from grace ...
In the hands of award-winning journalist and author Steve Braunias these and other extraordinary cases become more than just courtroom dramas and sensational headlines. They become a window onto another world - the one where things go badly wrong, where once invisible lives become horrifyingly visible, where the strangeness just beneath the surface is revealed.
Acutely observed, brilliantly written, and with the Mark Lundy case as its riveting centrepiece, this collection from the courts and criminal files of the recent past depicts a place we rarely enter, but which exists all around us.



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Title: Roosters I Have Known
Author(s): Steve Braunias

Language: English
Published: 01 April 2009
Publisher: Awa Press
ISBN: 9780958275057
Extension: EPUB
Size: 197 KB
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Nonfiction
Categories: Literary Criticism, Nonfiction


Well crafted and piercingly insightful, this collection of Steve Braunias's 2007 interviews of New Zealand's famous and infamous-both publicity-seekers and those desperate to hide from the spotlight-is a humorous and biting survey of the national psyche. Ranging from the disturbingly naïve to the gloriously vain, from food critics to politicians, these profiles are uniquely New Zealand focused.


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Title: Flesh and Blood
Author(s): Stephen McGann

Language: English
Published: 27 July 2017
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
ISBN: 9781471160813
Extension: EPUB
Size: 37 MB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction


His family survived famine-ravaged Ireland in the 1850s.
His ancestors settled in poverty-rife Victorian Liverpool, working to survive and thrive.
Some of them became soldiers serving in Gallipoli and on the Western Front.
One would be the last man to step off the SS Titanic as it sank beneath the icy waves. He would testify at the inquest.
This is their story.
Stephen McGann is Doctor Turner in the BBC hit-drama series Call the Midwife.
Flesh and Blood is the story of the McGann family as told through seven maladies - diseases, wounds or ailments that have afflicted Stephen's relatives over the last century and a half, and which have helped mould him into what he now perceives himself to be. It's the story of how health, or the lack of it, fuels our collective will and informs our personal narrative. Health is the motivational antagonist in the drama of our life story - circumscribing the extent of our actions, the quality of our character and the breadth of our ambition. Our maladies are the scribes that write the restless and mutating genome of our self-identity.
Flesh and Blood combines McGann's passion for genealogy with an academic interest in the social dimensions of medicine - and fuses these with a lifelong exploration of drama as a way to understand what motivates human beings to do the things they do. He looks back at scenes from his own life that were moulded by medical malady, and traces the crooked roots of each affliction through the lives of his ancestors, whose grim maladies punctuate the public documents or military records of his family tree. In this way he asks a simple, searching question: how have these maladies helped to shape the story of the person he is today?

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Title: The Unmade Bed
Author(s): Stephen Marche

Published: 07 March 2017
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9781476780160
Extension: EPUB
Size: 1 MB
Subjects: Ethics, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Nonfiction
Categories: Ethics, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Nonfiction


"Satisfying food for thought on the ever-changing dynamics of men and women as they interact and go about their individual lives" (Kirkus Reviews) as cultural commentator Stephen Marche examines contemporary male-female relations-with the help of his wife, writer and editor Sarah Fulford.
One morning in New York City, Stephen Marche, then a new father and tenure-track professor, got the call: his wife had been offered her dream job...in Canada. Their decision to prioritize her career over his and move to Toronto sheds new light on the gender roles in their marriage (and in the world around them). As Marche provocatively argues, we are no longer engaged in a war of the sexes, but rather stuck together in a labyrinth of contradictions. And that these contradictions are keeping women from power and confounding male identity.

The Unmade Bed is a deeply researched, deeply personal exploration into the moments in everyday life where women and men meet. After all, within offices and homes, on the street, online, and in bed, we constantly ask ourselves: What are we expected to sacrifice? Is it possible to be equal? As he attempts to answer these questions, Marche explores the issues that define our modern conversations on gender, from mansplaining and sexual morality to parenthood and divisions of the domestic sphere. In the process, he discovers that true power remains shockingly elusive for women while the idea of masculinity struggles in a state of uncertainty. The only way out of these mutual struggles is together.

With footnote commentary throughout the book from Marche's wife, The Unmade Bed is a "compelling" ( The Globe and Mail, Toronto), uniquely balanced, and honest approach to the revolution going on in our everyday lives-a thought-provoking work of social science that is sure to be a conversation starter.

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Title: Fragile Lives
Author(s): Stephen Westaby

Language: English
Published: 20 June 2017
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780465094837
Extension: EPUB
Size: 1 MB
Subjects: Medical, Nonfiction
Categories: Medical, Nonfiction


In gripping prose, one of the world's leading cardiac surgeons lays bare both the wonder and the horror of a life spent a heartbeat away from death
When Stephen Westaby witnessed a patient die on the table during open-heart surgery for the first time, he was struck by the quiet, determined way the surgeons walked away. As he soon understood, this detachment is a crucial survival strategy in a profession where death is only a heartbeat away. In Open Heart, Westaby reflects on over 11,000 surgeries, showing us why the procedures have never become routine and will never be. With astonishing compassion, he recounts harrowing and sometimes hopeful stories from his operating room: we meet a pulseless man who lives with an electric heart pump, an expecting mother who refuses surgery unless the doctors let her pregnancy reach full term, and a baby who gets a heart transplant-only to die once it's in place.
For readers of Atul Gawande's Being Mortal and of Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, Open Heart offers a soul-baring account of a life spent in constant confrontation with death.

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Title: Clive Cussler
Author(s): Stuart Leuthner

Language: English
Published: 22 December 2016
Publisher: New Word City, Inc.
Extension: EPUB
Size: 5 MB
Subjects: Biography/Literary
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction


Books by Clive Cussler, grand master of adventure, have been published in over 40 languages and 100 countries, appearing more than nineteen times on The New York Times bestseller list. Set against a backdrop of the world's mysterious, uncharted, and treacherous oceans, his intrepid protagonists battle megalomaniacal villains intent on world domination. In addition to his flagship Dirk Pitt Adventure series, Cussler has enlisted a coterie of talented co-authors to work with him on the NUMA Files, Oregon Files, Isaac Bell Adventures, and Fargo Adventures.
Stuart Leuthner's biography of Cussler follows the author's journey from his early life as manager of a California dive shop to his position as the icon of a publishing empire Forbes described as a "the literary equivalent of a theme park."
Based on extensive conversations with Cussler, as well as interviews with more than 100 relatives, employees, business associates, and friends, this biography reveals the fascinating man who lived many of the events behind his characters, from founding the actual National Underwater and Marine Agency to discovering the H. L. Hunley.
"Clive Cussler['s] . . . biography . . . reads like one of Pitt's adventures."
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Title: From Gaza to Jerusalem
Author(s): Stuart Hadaway

Language: English
Published: 01 October 2015
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 9781803992594
Extension: EPUB
Size: 7 MB
Subjects: History, Nonfiction
Categories: History, Nonfiction


The Palestine campaign of 1917 saw Britain's armed forces rise from defeat to achieve stunning victory. After two failed attempts in the spring, at the end of the year they broke through the Ottoman line with an innovative mixture of old and new technology and tactics, and managed to advance over 50 miles, from Gaza to Jerusalem, in only two months. As well as discussions of military strategy, Stuart Hadaway's gripping narrative of the campaign gives a broad account of the men on both sides who lived and fought in the harsh desert conditions of Palestine, facing not only brave and determined enemies, but also the environment itself: heat, disease and an ever-present thirst. Involving Ottoman, ANZAC, British and Arab forces, the campaign saw great empires manoeuvring for the coveted Holy Land. It was Britain's victory in 1917, however, that redrew the maps of the Middle East and shaped the political climate for the century to come.

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