Authors:Chris Kidder, The Outer Banks History Center, Associ
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: history, series, postcard, postcards, banks, vintage, outer
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2005-04-11
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0738517682
ISBN-13: 9780738517681

The Outer Banks of North Carolina have been a destination for seasonal visitors since Algonkian Indians hunted and fished on the islands. In 1584, English explorers arrived and before long were promoting the area as a land of natural abundance and beauty, pleasant weather, and kindly natives. Not much has changed in that respect. By the beginning of the 20th century, visitors and residents alike were using postcards to share the things that make the Outer Banks unique with family and friends in other places.

Author: Tracy Kidder
Publisher: Back Bay Book
Keywords: machine, new, soul
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2000-06-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0316491977
ISBN-13: 9780316491976

The computer revolution brought with it new methods of getting work done--just look at today’s news for reports of hard-driven, highly-motivated young software and online commerce developers who sacrifice evenings and weekends to meet impossible deadlines. Tracy Kidder got a preview of this world in the late 1970s when he observed the engineers of Data General design and build a new 32-bit minicomputer in just one year. His thoughtful, prescient book, The Soul of a New Machine, tells stories of 35-year-old "veteran" engineers hiring recent college graduates and encouraging them to work h

Author: Tracy Kidder
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: remains, strength
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-08-25
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 1400066212
ISBN-13: 9781400066216

Amazon Best of the Month, September 2009: Strength in What Remains is an unlikely story about an unreasonable man. Deo was a young medical student who fled the genocidal civil war in Burundi in 1994 for the uncertainty of New York City. Against absurd odds--he arrived with little money and less English and slept in Central Park while delivering groceries for starvation wages--his own ambition and a few kind New Yorkers led him to Columbia University and, beyond that, to medical school and American citizenship. That his rise followed a familiar immigrant’s path to success doesn’t ma

Author: Rushworth M. Kidder
Publisher: Harper Paperback
Keywords: ethical, living, dilemmas, resolving, tough, choices, people
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2003-12-01
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0688175902
ISBN-13: 9780688175900

Should you take a much-needed vacation or save money for your children’s education? Should you protect the endangered owl or maintain jobs forloggers? How do you handle questions such as these? We frequently face ethical dilemmas in our daily lives, and few have trouble with the “right vs. wrong” choices. However, the “right vs. right” dilemmas, in which neither choice is clearly or widely accepted as wrong, many times present obstacles that call for value-based decisions, and that’s where we often need help.Kidder -- the founder of the Institute for Global Ethi

Author: Tracy Kidder
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: schoolchildren, among
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1990-09-01
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0380710897
ISBN-13: 9780380710898

Tracy Kidder -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of a New Machine and the extraordinary national bestseller House -- spent nine months in Mrs. Zajac’s fifth-grade classroom in the depressed "Flats" of Holyoke, Massachusetts. For an entire year he lived among twenty schoolchildren and their indomitable, compassionate teacher -- sharings their joys, their catastrophes, and their small but essential triumphs. As a result, he has written a revealing, remarkably poignant account of education in America . . . and his most memorable, emotionally charged, and important book to date.

Author: Tracy Kidder
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Keywords: mountains, random, house, reader, circle, world, cure, quest, paul, farmer, man
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2009-08-25
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0812980557
ISBN-13: 9780812980554

This compelling and inspiring book, now in a deluxe paperback edition, shows how one person can work wonders. In Mountains Beyond Mountains, Pulitzer Prize—winning author Tracy Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who loves the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it.In medical school, Paul Farmer found his life’s calling: to cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. Kidder’s magnificent account takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba, and Russia as Farmer changes minds and practices through his dedicati

Author: Rushworth M. Kidder
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Keywords: courage, moral
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2006-03-01
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0060591560
ISBN-13: 9780060591564

Why did a group of teenagers watch a friend die instead of putting their own reputations at risk? Why did a top White House official decide to come clean and accept a prison sentence during Watergate? Why did a finance executive turn down millions out of respect for her employer? Why are some willing to risk their futures to uphold principles? What gives us the strength to stand up for what we believe? As these questions suggest, the topic of moral courage is front and center in today’s culture. Enron, Arthur Andersen, the U.S. Olympic Committee, abusive priests, cheating students, domes