You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in the City of LightParis.With the self-guided tours in this book, you’ll explore the grand Champs-Elysees, the eye
King Power Stadium, countdown to kick off. Out on the pitch a lone brass player sounds the haunting Post Horn Gallop, for 80 years the home players' entrance tune. Spines tingle. Air is gulped into lu
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Barcelona.With the self-guided tours in this book, you'll ramble down the Ramblas, explore the medieval Old City
The stunning story of Russia’s slide back into a dictatorship?and how the West is now paying the price for allowing it to happen.The ascension of Vladimir Putin?a former lieutenant colonel of the KGB?
In this exuberant celebration of the world’s museums, great and small, revered writers like Ann Patchett, Julian Barnes, Neil Gaiman, and more tell us about their favorite museums, including the Lower
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling through Florence and Tuscany.With the self-guided tours in this book, you’ll discover the geographic heart of Italy
Go Figure: Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know brings together for the first time the very best explainers and charts, written and created by top journalists to help us understand such brain-bendin
The 1980 rape and murder of four American women - three of them Catholic nuns - by the U.S.-trained military of El Salvador shocked the American public and set off a decade of debate over Cold War po
Modern life is warped by the trend of specialization?the push for each person to be an expert in their own little niche. But is this serving us well? In business, government, personal life, sports, a
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Spain.In this guide, you’ll find an inviting mix of exciting cities and cozy towns. Explore the lively cities of
“A friend of mine, an American, was once asked to mention the two features of English life which had made most impression on him. He hesitated a moment, and then said, ‘The dogs and the children.’ The
"Dear Mr. Madoff: Just why did you do it? . . . . "Thus began Eugene Soltes’ fascinating look into the rarified world of the corporate executive turned criminal: A simple letter to prominent people wh
The combined value of all M&A deals from 1980 to the end of 2015 was almost $65 trillion?bigger than the current annual world economy value outside the US. In that same period, almost 900,000 deals we
On an average day in America, seven young people aged nineteen or under will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning Guardian journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of th
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in London.With the self-guided tours in this book, you’ll explore historic Big Ben, bustling Trafalgar Square, and
The average person checks email 77 times a day, sends and receives more than 122 email messages a day, and spends 28 percent or more of their workweek managing a constant influx of email. Even when we
A look inside the personal life of every first lady in American history, based on original interviews with major historiansC-SPAN’s yearlong history series, First Ladies: Influence and Image, featured
How would we remember Abraham Lincoln if not for the Civil War?This may seem like a silly questionLincoln is applauded for starting a war over a moral outrage he couldn't bear, so there's little reaso
The finance sector of Western economies is too large and attracts too many of the smartest college graduates. Financialization over the past three decades has created a structure that lacks resilience
When Emma Sky volunteered to help rebuild Iraq after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, she had little idea what she was getting in to. Her assignment was only supposed to last three months. She
The inspiration for the original television seriesIt was the 1960sa time of economic boom and social strife. Young women poured into the workplace, but the Help Wanted” ads were segregated by gender a
Experience the best of the best with Rick Steves Best of Germany.Rick Steves Best of Germany puts the very best of Germany in your hands, with Rick’s straightforward, time-tested advice in an easily s
October 2016 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party. Photojournalist Bryan Shih, who has been interviewing and taking portraits of the surviving Panthers around the
The untold story of an enigmatic genius who changed warfare foreverIn the World War II era, Geoffrey Pyke was described as one of the world’s great mindsto rank alongside Einstein. Pyke was an invento
Charting the transformation of Vladimir Putin from a passionate fan of the West and a liberal reformer into a hurt and introverted outcast,All the Kremlin’s Men is a historical detective story, full o
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in the Eternal City of Rome.With the self-guided tours in this book, you’ll walk the same streets as the Caesars an
Tetris is perhaps the most instantly recognizable, popular video game ever made. Sales of authorized copies total near $1 billion to date, and that is just a fraction of the money made from knockoffs
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when planning a Grand Tour of Europe. In this guide, Rick covers the best of Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany
Our intuition on how the world works could well be wrong. We are surprised when new competitors burst on the scene, or businesses protected by large and deep moats find their defenses easily breached,
On August 21, 2015, Ayoub al-Khazzani boarded the 15:17 train in Brussels, bound for Paris. Khazzani's mission was clear: he had an AK-47, a pistol, a box cutter, and enough ammunition to obliterate e
In this lyrical debut, Ryan Berg immerses readers in the gritty, dangerous, and shockingly underreported world of homeless LGBTQ teens in New York. As a caseworker in a group home for disowned LGBTQ t
Diego Maradona, Gabriel Batistuta, Juan Román Riquelme, Sergio Agüero, Lionel Messi... Argentina is responsible for producing some of the greatest soccer players of all time. Their rich, volatile hist
This book is a godsend a moving portrait for anyone wanting to go beyond the simplified labels and metrics and really understand an urban high school, and its highly individual, resilient, eager and b
Through the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned neuroscientist explains why the "disease model" of addiction is wrong and illuminates the p
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Dubrovnik.In this compact guide, Rick Steves and Cameron Hewitt cover the essentials of Dubrovnik, including Pel
Authoritative and original, The Long Game is a controversial assessment of President Obama’s foreign policy legacy. Too often, critical discussions concerning American foreign policy are divorced from
Now with a new epilogue.Few American institutions have inflicted greater suffering on ordinary people than the Supreme Court of the United States. Since its inception, the justices of the Supreme Cour
On July 8, 2014, Israel launched air strikes on Hamas-controlled Gaza, followed by a ground invasion. The ensuing conflict led to 51 days of war that left over 2,000 people dead, the vast majority of
With the end of the Cold War came not the end of history, but the end of America’s sense of its strategic purpose in the world. Then, after a decade of drift, the US was violently dragged back into in
Advances in technology are creating the next economy and enabling us to make things/do things/connect with others in smarter, cheaper, faster, more effective ways. But the price of this progress has b
