Who becomes a legend most? For more than two years, a panel composed of such arbiters of culture as Leo Castelli, Rita Dove, Bruce Jenner, Joyce Carol Oates, Daniel Schorr, Gay Talese, Pierre Trudeau, and Eli Wallach pondered that question and came up with a list of the 200 most important icons of the 20th century. Their choices are compiled in this wonderfully designed book. Each icon merits a ...

Manufacturer: Overlook Hardcover
Written By: Barbara Cady, Jean-Jacques Naudet

Every year millions of people flock to New York City, drawn to its unparalleled theaters, museums, restaurants, and sights. While much has been written about these topics, one of the city's greatest attractions has gone largely unheralded: its characters. Among the masses, there are some that stand out from the crowd, a special group of New Yorkers that gives this city its flavor and makes it such ...

Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Written By: Gillian Zoe Segal

Manufacturer: Harcourt
Written By: James Newton

Manufacturer: Betterway Books
Written By: Lynn Nelson

Manufacturer: Museum of New Mexico Press
Written By: Angelico Chavez

Manufacturer: Booklocker.com
Written By: James E. White Esq, Jean-Gontran Quenum MBA

DNA & Genealogy is more than a textbook on DNA analysis for genealogy. Beginner, intermediate, and advanced readers will all find this book fascinating. In addition to tutorials on the use of DNA for genealogy, DNA & Genealogy contains many unusual sidelights on "DNA in the News" and "Weird DNA". Do you know that there are people who have more than one DNA profile? Would you like to know about the ...

Manufacturer: Rice Book Press
Written By: Colleen Fitzpatrick

Finding the right words at a time of loss can understandably cause a eulogist much angst and apprehension. How does one commemorate and honor a person whose life feels like a miracle and whose passing still feels incomprehensible? Fortunately, this book of eulogies can offer guidance as well as inspiration for the bereaved. For example, Wallace Stegner writes a specific yet universal memory to his ...

Manufacturer: Pantheon
Written By: Jill Werman Harris

Among his devoted fans, his pieces were known simply as McGs. With a "genius for illuminating that sometimes ephemeral apogee in people's lives when they prove capable of generating a brightly burning spark" (Columbia Journalism Review), Robert McG. Thomas Jr. commemorated fascinating, unconventional lives with signature style and wit.The New York Times received countless letters ...

Manufacturer: Scribner
Written By: Robert McG. Thomas

This first oral history of living Medal of Honor winners evokes Flags of Our Fathers with stirring accounts of patriotic valor. This epic account of legendary battlefield courage celebrates the larger-than-life sacrifices of those awarded the nation's highest honor for valor in combat. Exclusive interviews with these twenty-four men—firsthand accounts of battlefield sacrifice from ...

Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Written By: Larry Smith, Eddie Adams