Authors:Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Iain Carson,
Publisher: Twelve
Keywords: car, future, fuel, race, global, zoom
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2007-10-01
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 044658004X
ISBN-13: 9780446580045

"Zoom goes zero to sixty in nothing flat. It’s an exciting ride into the future of the world’s favorite physical object, the automobile."-Gregg Easterbrook, author of THE PROGRESS PARADOX"Zoom offers a new way to think about cars and energy that’s key to understanding the forces shaping business today. It’s smart, well-informed and insightful--exactly what one would expect from two of The Economist’s best journalists."-Chris Anderson, author of THE LONG TAIL"Zoom puts oil in its sights and squeezes off one telling round after another. Car lovers will see a sunny

Author: Jennifer 8 Lee
Publisher: Twelve
Keywords: chinese, food, world, adventures, cookie, chronicles, fortune
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-03-03
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0446580074
ISBN-13: 9780446580076

If you think McDonald’s is the most ubiquitous restaurant experience in America, consider that there are more Chinese restaurants in America than McDonalds, Burger Kings, and Wendys combined. New York Times reporter and Chinese-American (or American-born Chinese). In her search, Jennifer 8 Lee traces the history of Chinese-American experience through the lens of the food. In a compelling blend of sociology and history, Jenny Lee exposes the indentured servitude Chinese restaurants expect from illegal immigrant chefs, investigates the relationship between Jews and Chinese food, and weaves

Author: Sebastian Junger
Publisher: Twelve
Keywords: war
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2010-05-11
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 0446556246
ISBN-13: 9780446556248

Evan Thomas and Sebastian Junger: Author One-on-One In this Amazon exclusive, we brought together authors Sebastian Junger and Evan Thomas and asked them to interview each other. Evan Thomas is one of the most respected historians and journalists writing today. He is the author of The War Lovers. Sebastian Junger is an internationally acclaimed author and a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, and has been awarded a National Magazine Award and an SAIS Novartis Prize for journalism. He is the author of War. Read on to see Sebastian Junger and Evan Thomas talk about their books. Evan Thomas:

Author: Sheena Iyengar
Publisher: Twelve
Keywords: choosing, art
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2010-03-01
List price: $25.99
ISBN-10: 0446504106
ISBN-13: 9780446504102

Every day we make choices. Coke or Pepsi? Save or spend? Stay or go?Whether mundane or life-altering, these choices define us and shape our lives. Sheena Iyengar asks the difficult questions about how and why we choose: Is the desire for choice innate or bound by culture? Why do we sometimes choose against our best interests? How much control do we really have over what we choose? Sheena Iyengar’s award-winning research reveals that the answers are surprising and profound. In our world of shifting political and cultural forces, technological revolution, and interconnected commerce, our d

Author: Dave Cullen
Publisher: Twelve
Keywords: columbine
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2010-03-03
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 0446546925
ISBN-13: 9780446546928

On April 20, 1999, two boys left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their goal was simple: to blow up their school, Oklahoma-City style, and to leave "a lasting impression on the world." Their bombs failed, but the ensuing shooting defined a new era of school violence-irrevocably branding every subsequent shooting "another Columbine."When we think of Columbine, we think of the Trench Coat Mafia; we think of Cassie Bernall, the girl we thought professed her faith before she was shot; and we think of the boy pulling himself out of a school window -- the whole world was watching him. Now,

Author: Edward M. Kennedy
Publisher: Twelve
Keywords: memoir, compass, true
Number of Pages: 532
Published: 2009-09-14
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0446539252
ISBN-13: 9780446539258

Edward M. Kennedy is widely regarded as one of the great Senators in the nation’s history. He is also the patriarch of America’s most heralded family. In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Kennedy speaks with unprecedented candor about his extraordinary life. The youngest of nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, he came of age among siblings from whom much was expected. As a young man, he played a key role in the presidential campaign of his brother, John F. Kennedy. In 1962, he was elected to the U.S. Senate, where he le

Author: David Gilmour
Publisher: Twelve
Keywords: memoir, club, film
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-06-01
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0446199303
ISBN-13: 9780446199308

"I loved David Gilmour’s sleek, potent little memoir, The Film Club. It’s so, so wise in the ways of fathers and sons, of movies and movie-goers, of love and loss." --- Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Empire Falls"If all sons had dads like David Gilmour, then Oedipus would be a forgotten legend and Father’s Day would be a worldwide film festival."--Sean Wilsey, author of Oh the Glory of It All"David Gilmour is a very unlikely moral guidance counselor: he’s broke, more or less unemployed and has two children by two different women. Yet when it looks as