Houdini!!!: The Career of Ehrich Weiss
9 best books like Houdini!!!: The Career of Ehrich Weiss (Kenneth Silverman): Bless Me, Ultima, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan, The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West, The Leftovers, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals
| Author | Rudolfo Anaya |
| ISBN | 0446675369 |
Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima enters his life. She is a curandera, one who heals with herbs and magic. 'We cannot let her live her last days in loneliness,' says Antonio's mother. 'It is not the way of our people,' agrees his father. And so Ultima comes to live with Antonio's family in New Mexico....
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
| Author | Eric Schlosser |
| ISBN | 0060838582 |
Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but here Eric Schlosser makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry...
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
| Author | David Wallace-Wells |
| ISBN | 0525576703 |
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms...
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
| Author | Robert Kanigel |
| ISBN | 0349104522 |
The tale of a relationship between a young Indian mathematics genius, Ramanujan, and his tutor at Cambridge University, G.H. Hardy, in the years before World War I. Through their eyes the reader is taken on a journey through numbers theory. Ramanujan would regularly telescope 12 steps of logic into...
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
| Author | David McCullough |
| ISBN | 1501168681 |
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.
As...
| Author | Tom Perrotta |
| ISBN | 0312358342 |
What if — whoosh, right now, with no explanation — a number of us simply vanished? Would some of us collapse? Would others of us go on, one foot in front of the other, as we did before the world turned upside down? That's what the bewildered citizens of Mapleton, who lost many of their neighbors, friends...
All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
| Author | John Taliaferro |
| ISBN | 1416597301 |
From secretary to Abraham Lincoln to secretary of state for Theodore Roosevelt, John Hay remained a major figure in American history for more than half a century. His private life was as glamorous and romantic as it was privileged. This first full-scale biography since 1934 is a reflection of American...
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
| Author | David Epstein |
| ISBN | 0735214484 |
What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think.
Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. If you...
Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals
Growth is good. Through history, economic growth, in particular, has alleviated human misery, improved human happiness and opportunity, and lengthened human lives. Wealthier societies are more stable, offer better living standards, produce better medicines, and ensure greater autonomy, greater...
