Meticulous and compulsively readable, this is an extraordinary life of one of the most fascinating figures in American film.
After taking a series of aptitude tests, an ordinary man is deemed to be a genius, but his protests against the results land him in a mental hospital.
The Glorious Failure: Black Congressman Robert Brown Elliott and the Reconstruction in South Carolina
1982 Brazil tells the story of football's most exhilarating and entertaining World Cup side.
Born Losers is a pioneering work of American cultural history, which connects everyday attitudes and anxieties about failure to lofty ideals of individualism and salesmanship of self.
An award-winning professor of economics at MIT and a Harvard University political scientist and economist evaluate the reasons that some nations are poor while others succeed, outlining provocative perspectives that support theories about ...
The Purpose Of Failure
BONUS: This edition includes a reading group guide. Praise for Little Failure “Hilarious and moving . . .
Those winters, which brought snow and ice before Thanksgiving most years, were the real endurance test. Yet La Crossians embraced the season with skiing and skating and an annual winter carnival that featured dozens of floats and ...
Winner of the Caldecott Medal, this stunningly illustrated book depicts Louis Bleriot's historic first cross-Channel flight.