Author: Jon Krakauer
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: faith, violent, story, heaven, banner
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2004-06-08
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1400032806
ISBN-13: 9781400032808

Jon Krakauer’s literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. He now shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within our own borders, taking readers inside isolated American communities where some 40,000 Mormon Fundamentalists still practice polygamy. Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God.At the core of Krakauer’s book are brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist th

Author: Simon Singh
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: egypt, quantum, cryptography, ancient, secrecy, book, science, code
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2000-08-29
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0385495323
ISBN-13: 9780385495325

In his first book since the bestselling Fermat’s Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo Code Talkers who helped the Allies win World War II, to the incredible (and incredibly simple) logisitical breakthrough that made Internet commerce secure, The Code Book tells the story of the most powerful intellectual weapon ever known: secrecy.Throughout the text are clear technological and mat

Author: Geoffrey Miller
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: evolution, human, nature, shaped, choice, mind, sexual, mating
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2001-04-17
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 038549517X
ISBN-13: 9780385495172

At once a pioneering study of evolution and an accessible and lively reading experience, The Mating Mind marks the arrival of a prescient and provocative new science writer. Psychologist Geoffrey Miller offers the most convincing–and radical–explanation for how and why the human mind evolved. Consciousness, morality, creativity, language, and art: these are the traits that make us human. Scientists have traditionally explained these qualities as merely a side effect of surplus brain size, but Miller argues that they were sexual attractors, not side effects. He bases his argument o

Author: Thomas Frank
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: market, economic, democracy, populism, extreme, god, one, capitalism
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2001-09-18
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0385495048
ISBN-13: 9780385495042

In a book that has been raising hackles far and wide, the social critic Thomas Frank skewers one of the most sacred cows of the go-go ’90s: the idea that the new free-market economy is good for everyone. Frank’s target is "market populism"--the widely held belief that markets are a more democratic form of organization than democratically elected governments. Refuting the idea that billionaire CEOs are looking out for the interests of the little guy, he argues that "the great euphoria of the late nineties was never as much about the return of good times as it was the giddy triumph o

Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: editors, writers, dictionary, bryson
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2009-05-12
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0767922700
ISBN-13: 9780767922708

From one of America’s most beloved and bestselling authors, a wonderfully useful and readable guide to the problems of the English language most commonly encountered by editors and writers.What is the difference between “immanent” and “imminent”? What is the singular form of graffiti? What is the difference between “acute” and “chronic”? What is the former name of “Moldova”? What is the difference between a cardinal number and an ordinal number? One of the English language’s most skilled writers answers these and many othe

Author: Anne Frank
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: girl, diary
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1996-02-01
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0385480334
ISBN-13: 9780385480338

More than fifty years after its first publication, Doubleday’s definitive edition of Anne Frank’s famous diary generated an extraordinary amount of excitement when it was published in early 1995. Enthusiastically received by critics and readers alike, it reigned for nine weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and will remain for all time the version that millions of readers will cherish.In a handsome package with flaps, rough front, and printed endpapers, this Anchor trade paperback will be the perfect gift for anyone who seeks insight into the indestructible nature of

Authors:Jung Chang, Jon Halliday,
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: story, unknown, mao
Number of Pages: 864
Published: 2006-11-14
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0679746323
ISBN-13: 9780679746324

In the epilogue to her biography of Mao Tse-tung, Jung Chang and her husband and cowriter Jon Halliday lament that, "Today, Mao’s portrait and his corpse still dominate Tiananmen Square in the heart of the Chinese capital." For Chang, author of Wild Swans, this fact is an affront, not just to history, but to decency. Mao: The Unknown Story does not contain a formal dedication, but it is clear that Chang is writing to honor the millions of Chinese who fell victim to Mao’s drive for absolute power in his 50-plus-year struggle to dominate China and the 20th-century political landscape