by George F. Will · Macmillan
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning political commentator and longtime baseball fanatic George F. Will--the #1 bestselling ultimate insider's look at the exacting craft of baseball
by Dave Barry · Crown
"Just the ticket for the '90s." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE If you're too young for a nursing home yet too old to be a rock star, if your marriage is as exciting as scraping grass off the lawnmower blades, then this hilarious book by Pulitzer-Prize-winning columnist and author is for you. Put on your protective eyewear and take a probing look inside your increasingly Spam-like body at: The Midlife (Yawn) Marriage; Wise Financial Planning for Irresponsible Scum Such as Yourself; Sex After 40 (or, Sex? After 40?), and other harsh, but amusing realities that leave you laughing, crying and drooling.
by Thomas J. Watson Jr. and Peter Petre · Bantam
Autobiografie van de Amerikaanse industrieel, die tussen 1956 en 1971 IBM leidde.
by Robert Fulghum · Villard
From the author to the reader: Show-and-Tell was the very best part of school for me, both as a student and as a teacher. As a kid, I put more into getting ready for my turn to present than I put into the rest of my homework. Show-and-Tell was real in a way that much of what I learned in school was not. It was education that came out of my life experience. As a teacher, I was always surprised by what I learned from these amateur hours. A kid I was sure I knew well would reach down into a paper bag he carried and fish out some odd-shaped treasure and attach meaning to it beyond my most extravagant expectation. Again and again I learned that what I thought was only true for me . . . only valued by me . . . only cared about by me . . . was common property. The principles guiding this book are not far from the spirit of Show-and-Tell. It is stuff from home—that place in my mind and heart where I most truly live. P.S. This volume picks up where I left off in All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, when I promised to tell about the time it was on fire when I lay down on it.
by Michael Lewis · Norton
Selvbiografisk reportage om den unge kunsthistoriker der gjorde lynkarriere i Wall Street i 1980'erne som bankier
by Helen Hayes with Katherine Hatch · Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
With Katherine Hatch.
by Barbara Ehrenreich · Pantheon
"These men crafted and popularized the ideology that had supported the breadwinner ethic, and when the ideology changed, it was because they changed it. For this reason I feel justified in using a more active construction than the 'collapse of the breadwinner ethic' and talking about a male revolt--though hardly organized and seldom conscious of its goals--against the breadwinner ethic. As a feminist, I have been busy with another revolt for the past twelve years, and I approached this one with initial antagonisim, a gradual increase in understanding and, finally, a certain impatience. The great irony, as I will argue later, is that the right-wing, antifeminist backlash that emerged in the 1970s is a backlash not so much against feminism as against the male revolt. We live in a time that is dangerous to dissidents of all persuasions, and not least to those too helpless and impoverished to dissent. The question is whether we rebels of both sexes have enough in common to work together toward a more generous, dignified and caring society."--Introduction (page 13)
by Dave Pallone with Alan Steinberg · Viking Press
"REVELATIONS AND ALLEGATIONS THAT HAVE MADE WAVES." Sports Illustrated HHHHHHHHHHHH Dave Pallone was an umpire with two strikes against him. He worked ringed by fellow umpires aching to get even with him for landing his job when they were on strike. And he was gay in a sports world where you were supposed to be straight or get straight out. In this revealing look at baseball, Pallone traces his life both personal and public, and offers behind-the-scenes accounts of the players, owners, coaches, managers, and umpires and the outlandish incidents, on and off the field, which the public never hears about. Funny, poignant, shockingly honest, this explosive story is bound to raise a storm of controversy, as it opens eyes about how the game is really played and about the deeply ingrained homophobia in the national pastime. HHHHHHHHHHHH "CANDID AND RIVETING!" Publishers Weekly "TELLS US HE PERSONALLY KNOWS A HALF-DOZEN GAY PLAYERS, INCLUDING SOME OF THE STARS gives us a touching vignette of his affair with one." San Francisco Chronicle "A MUST READ!" Cincinnati Enquirer
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