Author: Lisa See
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperback
Keywords: novel, fan, secret, flower, snow
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-02-21
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0812968069
ISBN-13: 9780812968064

In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven, is paired with a laotong, “old same,” in an emotional match that will last a lifetime. The laotong, Snow Flower, introduces herself by sending Lily a silk fan on which she’s painted a poem in nu shu, a unique language that Chinese women created in order to communicate in secret, away from the influence of men. As the years pass, Lily and Snow Flower send messages on fans, compose stories on handkerchiefs, reaching out of isolation to share their hopes, dreams, and accomplishm

Authors:Robert Rubin, Jacob Weisberg,
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperback
Keywords: street, washington, wall, choices, world, tough, uncertain
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2004-09-07
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0375757309
ISBN-13: 9780375757303

Robert Rubin was sworn in as the seventieth U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in January 1995 in a brisk ceremony attended only by his wife and a few colleagues. As soon as the ceremony was over, he began an emergency meeting with President Bill Clinton on the financial crisis in Mexico. This was not only a harbinger of things to come during what would prove to be a rocky period in the global economy; it also captured the essence of Rubin himself--short on formality, quick to get into the nitty-gritty.From his early years in the storied arbitrage department at Goldman Sachs to his current positio

Author: Ivan Van Sertima
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperback
Keywords: america, ancient, presence, african, columbus
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2003-09-23
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0812968174
ISBN-13: 9780812968170

This controversial book by Ivan Van Sertima, the Guyanese historian, linguist, and anthropologist, claims that Africans had been to the New World centuries before Columbus arrived there in 1492. Citing--among other things--the huge Negroid-looking Olmec heads of Central Mexico and the similarities between the Aztec and Egyptian calendars and pyramid structures, Van Sertima pieces together a hidden history of pre-Columbian contact between Africans and Native Americans. He also puts forth the possibility that Columbus may have already known about a route to the Americas from his years in Africa

Author: Laton McCartney
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperback
Keywords: house, steal, country, harding, bought, dome, scandal, oil, teapot
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2009-01-13
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0812973372
ISBN-13: 9780812973372

In this amazing and at times ribald story, Laton McCartney tells how Big Oil handpicked Warren G. Harding, an obscure Ohio senator, to serve as our twenty-third president. Harding and his “oil cabinet” made it possible for cronies to secure vast fuel reserves that had been set aside for use by the U.S. Navy. In exchange, the oilmen paid off senior government officials, bribed newspaper publishers, and covered the GOP campaign debt. When news of the scandal finally emerged, the consequences were disastrous. Drawing on contemporary records newly made available to McCartney, The Teapot Dome S

Authors:W. Timothy Gallwey,  Zach Kleiman, Pete Carrol
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperback
Keywords: mental, peak, performance, guide, classic, game, tennis, inner
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1997-05-27
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0679778314
ISBN-13: 9780679778318

A phenomenon when first published in 1972, the Inner Game was a real revelation. Instead of serving up technique, it concentrated on the fact that, as Gallwey wrote, "Every game is composed of two parts, an outer game and an inner game." The former is played against opponents, and is filled with lots of contradictory advice; the latter is played not against, but within the mind of the player, and its principal obstacles are self-doubt and anxiety. Gallwey’s revolutionary thinking, built on a foundation of Zen thinking and humanistic psychology, was really a primer on how to get out of yo

Author: T.R. Reid
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperback
Keywords: launched, revolution, microchip, invented, americans, chip
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2001-10-09
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0375758283
ISBN-13: 9780375758287

They’re everywhere, but where did they come from? Silicon chips drive just about everything that sucks power, from toys to heart monitors, but their inventors aren’t nearly as widely known as Edison and Ford. Journalist T.R. Reid has thoroughly updated The Chip, his 1985 exploration of the life work of inventors Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce, to reflect the colossal shift toward smarter gadgets that has taken place since then.Satisfying as both biography and basic science text, the book perfectly captures the independence and near-obsessive problem-solving talents of the two men. Tho

Author: Nassim Nicholas Tale
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperback
Keywords: life, markets, chance, role, randomness, hidden, fooled
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2005-08-23
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0812975219
ISBN-13: 9780812975215

If the prescriptions for getting rich that are outlined in books such as The Millionaire Next Door and Rich Dad Poor Dad are successful enough to make the books bestsellers, then one must ask, Why aren’t there more millionaires? In Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a professional trader and mathematics professor, examines what randomness means in business and in life and why human beings are so prone to mistake dumb luck for consummate skill. This eccentric and highly personal exploration of the nature of randomness meanders from the court of Croesus and trading rooms in New Y