Author: Roger Lowenstein
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Keywords: capital, management, term, rise, failed, genius
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-10-09
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0375758259
ISBN-13: 9780375758256

John Meriwether, a famously successful Wall Street trader, spent the 1980s as a partner at Salomon Brothers, establishing the best--and the brainiest--bond arbitrage group in the world. A mysterious and shy midwesterner, he knitted together a group of Ph.D.-certified arbitrageurs who rewarded him with filial devotion and fabulous profits. Then, in 1991, in the wake of a scandal involving one of his traders, Meriwether abruptly resigned. For two years, his fiercely loyal team--convinced that the chief had been unfairly victimized--plotted their boss’s return. Then, in 1993, Meriwether mad

Author: D.Q. Mcinerny
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Keywords: thinking, guide, logical
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2005-05-10
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0812971159
ISBN-13: 9780812971156

Whether regarded as a science, an art, or a skill–and it can properly be regarded as all three–logic is the basis of our ability to think, analyze, argue, and communicate. Indeed, logic goes to the very core of what we mean by human intelligence. In this concise, crisply readable book, distinguished professor D. Q. McInerny offers an indispensable guide to using logic to advantage in everyday life. Written explicitly for the layperson, McInerny’s Being Logical promises to take its place beside Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style as a classic of lucid, invaluable ad

Author: Curtis Sittenfeld
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Keywords: times, notable, books, york, new, wife, novel, american
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 2009-02-10
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0812975405
ISBN-13: 9780812975406

A kind, bookish only child born in the 1940s, Alice Lindgren has no idea that she will one day end up in the White House, married to the president. In her small Wisconsin hometown, she learns the virtues of politeness, but a tragic accident when she is seventeen shatters her identity and changes the trajectory of her life. More than a decade later, when the charismatic son of a powerful Republican family sweeps her off her feet, she is surprised to find herself admitted into a world of privilege. And when her husband unexpectedly becomes governor and then president, she discovers that she is m

Author: Bernard-Henri Levy
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Keywords: footsteps, tocqueville, america, traveling, vertigo, american
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-04-10
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0812974719
ISBN-13: 9780812974713

What does it mean to be an American, and what can America be today? To answer these questions, celebrated philosopher and journalist Bernard-Henri Levy spent a year traveling throughout the country in the footsteps of another great Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, whose Democracy in America remains the most influential book ever written about our country. The result is American Vertigo, a fascinating, wholly fresh look at a country we sometimes only think we know. From Rikers Island to Chicago mega-churches, from Muslim communities in Detroit to an Amish enclave in Iowa, Levy investigates is

Author: Anna Quindlen
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Keywords: novel, thing, true, one
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2006-08-08
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0812976185
ISBN-13: 9780812976182

A mother.  A daughter.  A shattering choice.From Anna Quindlen, bestselling author of Black and Blue, comes a novel of life, love and everyday acts of mercy."A triumph."--San Francisco ChronicleFrom the Paperback edition.

Author: Carol Gilligan
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Keywords: novel, kyra
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-06-09
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 081297123X
ISBN-13: 9780812971231

From the internationally renowned author of In a Different Voice, a remarkable debut novel: a love story that introduces an unforgettable character in modern fiction, Kyra, and a superb new fiction writer, Carol Gilligan. Kyra is an architect designing a new city, a woman of humor and courage living in a vibrant world of family, friends, and colleagues and determined to break out of old structures. When she meets Andreas, a director staging an innovative production of Tosca, neither wants to fall in love–and yet, inevitably, they do. Their story takes us from Cambridge and an island off the

Author: Rob Gifford
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Keywords: rising, power, future, journey, road, china
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-06-03
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0812975243
ISBN-13: 9780812975246

Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of the social and economic revolution that is turning China upside down.In this utterly surprising and deeply personal book, acclaimed National Public Radio reporter Rob Gifford, a fluent Mandarin speaker, takes the dramatic journey along Route 312 from its start in the boomtown of Shanghai to its end on the border with K