Books from Summit Books
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The Royal Year, 1991
By Tim GrahamThe Queen and Prince Philip's oldest grandchildren , Peter and Zara Phillips are pupils at the school . Below : Zara Phillips during the gymnastics display put on for the royal visitors . Facing page above : Peter Phillips showing the ...
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Inside Central America: Its People, Politics, and History
By Clifford KraussKrauss first went to Central America in 1977 to cover the Sandinista insurrection against the U.S.-backed Somoza regime. In this gripping and vidid report, this veteran Wall Street Journal and...
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The Well Child Book
By Nancy Samuels, Mike SamuelsThis manual is designed to be used by parents and children together to help ensure health from conception until age four. It includes medical advice on how to deal with...
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Saved!: The Story of the Andrea Doria, the Greatest Sea Rescue in History
By William HofferCompelling personal stories of both courage and cowardice mark this vivid narrative of the 1956 sea disaster in which the Italian luxury liner and the Stockholm collided during a thick...
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The Ivory Trade: Music and the Business of Music at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
By Joseph HorowitzMet lit. opg. Met reg. Study of music competitions in America. As well as a history of music competition, it includes a series of intimate portraits of six pianists. On...
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Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts about the Sixties
By Peter Collier, David HorowitzDestructive Generation is the untold story of the 1960s-the tragic consequences of everything-goes hedonism and the destructiveness of revolutionary passion that typified the attitude of many young radicals. Destructive Generation,...
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The Kennedys: An American Drama
By Peter Collier, David Horowitz, University Lecturer in French Peter CollierThe Kennedys may be the most photographed, written about, talked about, admired, hated and controversial family in American history. But the real story was not told until Collier and Horowitz...
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Trial: A Novel
By Clifford IrvingWith the legal-behind-the-scenes finesse and courtroom drama of Presumed Inocent, Trial is a taut and exciting novel of a lawyer caught between two clients. He struggles to wrest justice from...
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Moments of Reprieve
By Primo LeviThese are Levi's memories of friends, of people he had traveled with, even of adversaries - begging him to help them survive.
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First Strike: The Exclusive Story of how Israel Foiled Iraq's Attempt to Get the Bomb
By Shelomoh NaḳdimonFirst Strike: The Exclusive Story of how Israel Foiled Iraq's Attempt to Get the Bomb
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Sparrows Point: Making Steel : the Rise and Ruin of American Industrial Might
By Mark ReutterProfiles the Sparrow's Point steel plant--its history and founders, the big-time magnates who ran it, the workers, and its operations--and details the social, political, and economic situations that have contributed...
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Moscow Spring
By William Taubman, Jane TaubmanHere is the remarkable story of how two Americans found themselves in the center of Gorbachev's Soviet revolution--a time as important, they believe, as John Reed's ten days that shook...
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The Day They Stole the Mona Lisa
By Seymour ReitThe Day They Stole the Mona Lisa
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The Right to Lifers: Who They Are, how They Operate, where They Get Their Money
By Connie PaigeAn in-depth examination of the "Right to Life" movement analyzes its strengths, weaknesses, political bases, and strategies, identifies its dominant leaders, ideologues, and financial backers, and assesses its political power
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Facing the Music
By Harold C. SchonbergContains a selection of the distinguished, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic's writings on music and music criticism, composers, contemporary music, singers and vocal music, musicians, pianists, conductors, and performance practice
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American Genesis: The American Indian and the Origins of Modern Man
By Jeffrey GoodmanAmerican Genesis: The American Indian and the Origins of Modern Man
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Musical Events: A Chronicle, 1980-1983
By Andrew PorterMusical Events: A Chronicle, 1980-1983
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Mystery Dance: On the Evolution of Human Sexuality
By Dorion Sagan, Lynn MargulisThis remarkable book unveils the biological evolution of our sexual behavior--revealing the ancestral origins of our pleasure, passions, perversity, and complex feelings about the sexual act.
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The War Against Women
By Marilyn FrenchBestselling author and feminist scholar Marilyn French has written a shocking and fascinating analysis of the history of women's political, cultural, physical, and economic repression that is as controversial as...
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Performance Power: Transforming Stress Into Creative Energy
By Irmtraud Krüger, Irmtraud TarrPerformance Power: Transforming Stress Into Creative Energy