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Award-Winning, Veteran Author: Pietrusza’s books on American history include the Edgar Award Finalist Rothstein: The Life, Times and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series and 1920: The Year of Six Presidents. Critics have compared Pietrusza’s work to that of David McCullough, Theodore S. White, H. L. Mencken, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Gene Fowler.Frequent Media Appearances: He is a frequent guest and talking head about American history on NPR, MSNBC, The History Channel, C-SPAN and more. He has also appeared on Good Morning America, Morning Joe, The Voice of America, ESPN, and AMC.Site-by-Site Walking Tour of Infamous Roaring '20s Manhattan: GANGSTERLAND takes the reader on a journey—street by street, block by block, building by building—through some of the deadliest and juiciest gangster crimes of 1920s Times Square and Upper West Side.Ideal NYC Gift Book: GANGSTERLAND will fit nicely on any Barnes & Noble or Indie NYC display. Perfect for visitors, NYC history buffs, or mafia history enthusiasts.Hundreds of Gangster Tales: Filled with the era’s most fascinating murders and mayhem, like Arnold Rothstein’s storied nights at Lindy’s Restaurant, and his mysterious murder on a dreary Sunday evening in a conference room in Park Central Hotel.Recurring Cast of Characters: In addition to notorious kingpin Arnold Rothstein, Pietrusza introduces wild characters like con artists Nicky Arnstein, Wilson Mizner, and “Dapper Don” Collins; Crooked cops like the NYPD’s Lt. Charles Becker; Baseball’s John J. “Mugsy” McGraw, New York Giants owner Charles A. Stoneham, Giants outfielder Benny Kauff, and the 1919 Black Sox; Politicians “Gentleman Jimmy” Walker, “Big Tim” Sullivan, “Little Tim” Sullivan, Fiorello “The Little Flower” La Guardia, and James J. Hines; and many more.75-100 vintage B&W photographs, advertisements, and sketches

The blazing rock opera of the greatest drummer of all-time, Jim Gordon, from the legendary Wrecking Crew to redefining rock on the Seventies’ biggest hits and outrageous tours, and ultimately to the most shocking crime in rock history—a story of musical genius, uncontrollable madness, and the big fill Jim Gordon was the greatest rock drummer of all-time. Just ask the world-famous musicians who played with him—John Lennon, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Frank Zappa, Steely Dan, Ringo Starr, Harry Nilsson, Joe Cocker, and many more. They knew him for his superior playing, extraordinary training and technique, preternatural intuition, perfect sense of time, and his “big fill”—the mathematically-precise clatter that exploded like detonating fireworks on his drum breaks. And as best-selling author and award-winning journalist Joel Selvin reveals in Mad Rhythm, the story of Jim Gordon is the most brilliant, turbulent, and wrenching rock opera ever. Mad Rhythm follows Gordon as the very chemicals in his brain that gifted him also destroyed him. His head crowded with a hellish gang of voices screaming at him, demanding obedience, Gordon descended from the absolute heights of the rock world—playing with the most famous musicians of his generation—to working with a Santa Monica dive-bar band for $30 a night. And then he committed the most shocking crime in rock history. Based on his trademark extensive, detailed research, Joel Selvin’s Mad Rhythm is at once an epic journey through an artist’s monumental musical contributions, a rollicking history of rock drumming, and a terrifying downward spiral into unimaginable madness that Gordon fought a valiant but losing battle against. One of the great untold stories of rock is finally being told.

Journalist William J. Kole, reluctant but newly minted member of AARP, explores the looming era of super-aging—incredibly longer lifespans overall, and eight times more centenarians by the year 2050—through the lens of past, present, and future life at ages 50, 65, 80, and on to 100-plus. What happens to all of us when 65 is merely a life half-lived?By 2050, the world’s centenarian population—those aged 100 or more—will increase eightfold. Half of today’s 5-year-olds can expect to reach the same heights. It’s going to upend everything we thought we knew about health care, personal finance, retirement, politics, and more. Whether we’re 18 or 81, this tectonic demographic shift will affect us all. The Big 100 confronts readers with both the brightness and potential bleakness of a fate few of us thought possible. Journalist William Kole guides us on this journey into our future, an optimistic but sometimes fraught exploration of super-aging as the grandson of a centenarian. Along the way, there are expert sources, like Dr. Jane Goodall, longevity expert Dr. Thomas Perls, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and even 101-year-old influencer and fashionista Iris Apfel; along with surprises, including the truth about those so-called “Blue Zones” everyone thinks are centenarian factories. (Spoiler alert: They’re not.) And there’s the troubling truth that those reaching extreme longevity tend to be overwhelmingly white, a product of what experts deem the “weathering theory”: the idea that the health of African Americans begins to deteriorate in early adulthood as a physical consequence of socio-economic disadvantages. How long can we live? How long should we live? And what happens when 65 is merely a life half-lived? The Big 100 explores the most pressing questions of our super-aging future, and offers a glimpse of a reality that awaits us, our children, and our grandchildren.

Beautiful deluxe packaging includes jacket design of Desmond Child, paper-over-board design of his first band Rouge's album art, and endpapers with handwritten liner notes of his songs. Foreword by KISS’s cofounder, co-frontman and guitarist, Paul Stanley, who Desmond Child cites as his biggest songwriting influence and mentor.Introduction by legendary music writer and Desmond’s biography cowriter David Ritz.Over 125 black and white photos throughout the book demonstrate a lifetime in the music industry.List of songs written by Desmond Child can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_written_by_Desmond_Child but some highlights include:  "Before Your Love" (Kelly Clarkson), "Inside Your Heaven" (Carrie Underwood), "You Give Love a Bad Name" and "Livin' on a Prayer" (Bon Jovi), "Livin’ la Vida Loca" and "She Bangs" (Ricky Martin), "How Can We Be Lovers" (Michael Bolton), "Dude Looks Like a Lady" (Aerosmith), "Waking Up In Vegas" (Katy Perry), "I Was Made For Loving You" (Kiss), and “Kings & Queens” (Ava Max) among others.

A Revelatory Account Of The 2020 Election-The Most Secure, Verifiable, And Transparent In American History-And The Heroes Brave Enough To Get It RightThe Big Truth illuminates a crowning achievement in America's quest for a robust democracy in the face of slander by sore losers and opportunists. Filled with interviews of the guardians of democracy-election workers, January 6th Committee members Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) and Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland), Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, and more-it is an overpowering counterattack against the Big Lie.CBS Chief Washington Correspondent Major Garrett and National Election Expert David Becker, the Executive Director of the nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation & Research, reveal why Big Lie "fraud" allegations evaporate under scrutiny. They report what actually happened in 2020 while calling out each Trumpian misdirection designed to con and beguile Americans into chasing phantom allegations of election crimes.The 2020 election was not what Trumpist deniers claim. Our political parties knew the rules and procedures. We had record turnout and few election snarls. The result: an accurate count, a seven-million-vote margin of victory, 306 electoral votes for Joe Biden, and Republican gains in congressional and state races. But then-President Trump stoked paranoia-never looking for evidence, contesting results even before anyone cast a ballot, and seeking to bend our system until it almost broke with a violent Capitol riot.The Big Lie-the true corruption of American democracy-has shaken our confidence in stable self-government. On the heels of voter-fraud claims, the Capitol siege, and damaging voting laws, the next midterm and presidential election will test our democracy more severely than at any time since the Civil War. How we react may well determine if we are led into another war against ourselves. The Big Truth debunks the 2020 election conspiracy myth once and for all, while celebrating those who held up our democracy under arguably the most intense scrutiny in American electoral history.

With a focus on the economic battlefront and in-depth analysis of the diplomatic, military, and ideological arenas, the world's foremost expert on US-China global competition offers a rousing, strategic call to action and playbook-harvesting all of our nation's ingenuity, confidence, and will power-to outcompete the long-term strategies of China and its Communist Party.

United States History award-winner from the International Book Awards, Best Nonfiction True Crime award from BookFest, and Five Stars from Reader's Favorite among other accolades.

Finally, a college prep book that actually prepares students for college!Almost all first-year college students discover that college courses are moreacademically challenging than they expected, and certainly harder thanclasses in high school. Professors expect students not just to absorbmaterial, but to analyze and synthesize it, consider multipleperspectives, evaluate conflicting evidence, and then apply what they've learned in new contexts.Thinking Critically in College explains how to do all this and more.Louis E. Newman draws on decades of experience as a professor at CarletonCollege and Dean of Academic Advising and Associate Vice Provost forUndergraduate Education at Stanford, offering the guidance you need tosucceed both in college and in life post-graduation. Unique amongcollege prep books, Thinking Critically in College builds on thelatest research in learning, spells out the key critical thinking skills you need, shows you how to tackle actual college assignments, andprovides exercises throughout to reinforce the lessons.Written in a personal, engaging style, Thinking Critically in College explains how to do the work your professors will require-exactly thepreparation you need, no matter what your academic background.Practical, accessible, comprehensive, and interactive, Thinking Critically in College is the definitive guide, not only for those in college or headed there,but for everyone who needs a refresher on thinking clearly.

A story of courage, perseverance, and patriotism behind the 75th Ranger Regiment's rescue mission following one of the deadliest Special Ops incidents in Afghanistan-a grueling search for twelve Navy SEAL casualties and eight downed Night Stalkers . . . but just one lone survivorOn June 28th, 2005, a four-man Navy SEAL reconnaissance team under Operation Red Wings was ambushed in northeastern Afghanistan-as depicted in the book and film Lone Survivor. A quick reaction force was dispatched. Turbine 33, carrying eight Navy SEALs and eight members of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, was struck by a rocket propelled grenade-careening the dual rotor Chinook toward the rugged peak of Sawtalo Sar.The result was the single deadliest incident in Special Operations history at the time.Commanders called on the largest element of US Special Forces, the 75th Ranger Regiment. The rescue mission: Operation Red Wings II.Author Tony Brooks gives a first-hand account of the daring recovery of Turbine 33 and the subsequent search for the remaining compromised Navy SEAL recon team-one of whom was Marcus Luttrell, the lone survivor. The Rangers were up against lack of intel, treacherous terrain, violent weather, and an enemy that was raised to fight.Tony Brooks lived-and many of his fellow Rangers died-by the axiom, "Leave No Man Behind." He is the first to tell the story other books and films have omitted, one of overcoming overwhelming odds to accomplish a mission: to bring every American soldier home.

A haunting account of the sixteen years when a young Jamie Gehring and her family lived closer than anyone to Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, sharing their Montana land, their home, and their dinner table with a hermit with a penchant for murder-and Gehring's investigative quest twenty-five years later to reclaim a piece of her childhood by answering the questions, why, how?

For readers enticed by Arianna Huffington's The Sleep Revolution but looking for the medical research to support the claims, two doctors have penned a guide using the latest research in an effort to get people to the state of being sleepy, the ultimate goal for insomniacs.

Recently named by Elon Musk ask one of his favorite books of all time, Twelve Against the Gods is William Bolitho's 1929 collection of biographical essays on the lives and accomplishments of famed fortune-hunters, adventurers, daredevils, and explorers including Alexander the Great, Casanova, Isadora Duncan, and Napoleon.

¿ Dramatic and Chilling Cold Case: Cold case true crime stories are hugely popular, and a new postscript by the authors with updates on the major players reinvigorates this much-followed story by bringing it up to date.¿ Nashville Story: Originally profiled in Nashville¿s The Tennessean in 2007, the story of Janet March¿s disappearance and murder captured the city¿s attention, and Glasgow and Gobbell will do so again with this reissue. ¿ New Package: Fourteen years after its original publication in mass market trim, Diversion will reissue An Unfinished Canvas in a new paperback trim with a cover design that brings the book into conversation with current market trends in true crime.¿ Historical True Crime: The true crime genre continues to dominate the zeitgeist, and this edition with its new postscript will capture fans of cold case stories, publishing twenty-five years after Janet March¿s disappearance.

With multiple new murder charges brought in 2018, this updated edition of THE DEATH SHIFT chronicles one of the most shocking and insidious cases in the history of medicine: the crimes of Nurse Genene Jones, hidden by a hospital for years, that prosecutors believe account for the deaths of up to 60 Texas children in the early 1980s

Senator Joseph Lieberman offers a master class in effective government by probing his forty years in elective office-from the Vietnam War era to the Presidency of Barack Obama-and by shining a light on historic acts of centrism and compromise, extracting productive and problem-solving lessons and techniques we need now more than ever. In this era of extremism, our largest problems remain unsolved and our international leadership is compromised. Having two fiercely opposed political parties is what John Adams, the second President of the United States, dreaded "as the greatest political evil under our Constitution." If American government is to work, it must do so in the center-where open discussion, hard negotiation, and effective compromise take place. No living politician knows this better than former Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, who served for forty years in state and national government, including twenty-four in the United States Senate and a campaign for the Vice Presidency. In this vivid account of his political life, Senator Lieberman shows how legislative progress and all-inclusive government occurs when politicians reject extremism and embrace productive compromise. In The Centrist Solution, he shines a light on ten milestones of centrist success during his time in government-from the Clean Air Act of 1990 and the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the repeal of the military's anti-gay "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, along with a Vice Presidential run with Presidential Candidate Al Gore, and being vetted by John McCain to be his potential running mate on the 2008 Republican Ticket.In the telling, Senator Lieberman extracts clear lessons and proven methods of centrist collaboration that can carry us forward after years of partisan warfare and legislative inaction. The centrist solution leads to government truly of the people, by the people, and for the people-a citizenry looking for solutions, not extremist standoffs.

Stephen Henderson describes a fascinating series of culinary adventures, during which he spent time laboring alongside many gastrophilanthropists, or chefs who make feeding the needy their form of charity. Part memoir, and part how-to guide, Henderson's field reports from across the globe show how much joy a good meal will give to a homeless and hungry person.

From a rising star in financial and life coaching comes an informative, accessible, and relatable guide for worried parents who want to proactively plan to earn and save more money while protecting their finances and families from crisis * Budgeting * Passive Income Strategies * Wills and Trusts * 401(k)s and IRAs * Tax Red

The Lamoureux twins-Olympic gold medalists on the historic 2018 US women's ice hockey team-tell their story of grit and determination, from youth hockey dominated by boys to the big business of elite international sports, fighting for gender equity in hockey, sports, and beyond

The remarkable rags-to-riches story of Ruffhouse Records founder Chris Schwartz, who battled poverty, abuse, and addiction to start one of the most pivotal labels in hip-hop history and launch the careers of Ms. Lauryn Hill, The Fugees, Wyclef Jean, NAS, Cypress Hill, DMX, Jermaine Dupri, Kriss Kross, Schoolly D and many more.