Product Description: Hailed by Entertainment Weekly as "the next best thing to a road trip," These United States is a celebration of the magnificence of the United States of America and a tribute to all that makes it great. Inspired by the deluxe limited edition, Rizzoli is proud to present These United States in a slightly smaller format...read more

Product Description: This edition features 3 audio CDs with actual broadcasts and includes a new afterword from NBC's Brian Williams."Altogether, the book and CDs are a keeper, offering both valuable history lessons and a dramatic record of the definitive moments for generations of Americans...read more

Product Description: This three-CD audio tells of the "pilgrim journey" of the wife of Billy Graham. Narrated by Walter Cronkite, the story is artistically conveyed through interviews with those who know Ruth best, and is accented by her own impressive poetry...read more

A collection of dispatches records the first eyewitness observations of the devasted Japanese city of Nagasaki, along with the accounts of Allied prisoners who recalled their years of torture and captivity in Japanese POW camps.

Product Description: Of all the celebrities who served their country during World War II -and they were legion -Jimmy Stewart was unique. On December 7th, when the attack on Pearl Harbor woke so many others to the reality of war, Stewart was already in uniform - as a private on guard duty south of San Francisco at the Army Air Corps Moffet Field...read more

The long-awaited memoirs of America's most trusted journalist describe Cronkite's youth, his early career as a reporter, his work as a war correspondent, and his rise to the pinnacle of television news, sharing his views on the media, news, and the American condition. 500,000 first printing. $500,000 ad/promo.

An extraordinary selection of photographs, compiled by a veteran UPI photographer, offers more than two hundred black-and-white images that capture key moments and personalities of the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, and other aspects of late-twentieth-century life, accompanied by information on the stories behind the pictures.

Product Description: The United States Constitution established both a strong central power and protected states’ rights. But to say that something is of two parts is not to say that the parts are equal. Advocates of state sovereignty believed the Constitution created an executive power that was so strong it might as well have been a monarchy, while advocates of national government felt that a strong executive was essential to steer America through crisis...read more

Product Description: The Constitution of the United States created a nation with a strong centralized government. In 1791, the Constitution was amended to include ten amendments, commonly referred to as the Bill of Rights. These were guarantees of individual liberty upon which critics of the Constitution have insisted...read more

Product Description: In 1783, America emerged from a long and bitter war for Independence. The thirteen colonies were now thirteen sovereign states, bound together by the Articles of Confederation. After years of war, men like Thomas Jefferson saw the possibility of something new under the sun: a government which derived its just power from the consent of those governed...read more

Product Description: This compendium of inspiration and information by international peace leaders is focused on helping young people in their own search for finding ways to make the world a more peaceful place. Included in this book are articles by * famed primatologist, Jane Goodall * Nobel Prize Laureate, Mairead Corrigan Maguire * Body Shop founder, Dame Anita Roddick * President of Soka Gakka International, Daisaku Ikeda * Theodore Hesburgh and many others...read more

Product Description: This three-CD audio tells of the "pilgrim journey" of the wife of Billy Graham. Narrated by Walter Cronkite, the story is artistically conveyed through interviews with those who know Ruth best, and is accented by her own impressive poetry...read more

Product Description: This unique, comprehensive anthology gathers together more than two hundred poems about the American experience of war--narratives, meditations, elegies, lamentations, odes, tributes, and battle hymns--many of them classics. Written by soldier-poets as well as poets on the home front, they are deeply personal, reflecting love of country, sacrifice, tragedy, glory, and sometimes disillusionment or dissent...read more

Presents a collection of photographs taken by reporters and photographers who covered World War II for the Associated Press, arranged sequentially to relate the history of the war from early planning operations to V-E Day celebrations.

The author of Yankee Doodle Gals reviews the history of American women's involvement in the Armed Forces, from the Revolutionary War and Civil War to the present involvement in the Persian Gulf.

Compiles the responses given to the author by celebrities who were asked to share a word that has special meaning to them, and to give a short explanation of why.

Recounts the story of the historic Christmas Truce during World War I when soldiers ceased fire and exchanged gifts and holiday traditions, and includes Walter Cronkite's narration of the story.

In a witty travelogue, the award-winning journalist describes his odyssey around the coastlines of America, from the easternmost tip of Maine, to the islands off the coast of Texas, to California's Redwood Coast, documenting the people and places, past and present, that have shaped the United States. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

More than 350 black-and-white photographic images accompany this timely celebration of the power of nonviolence in a tribute to seventy-five of the world's peacemakers, including spiritual leaders, activists, scientists, and writers such as Jimmy Carter, Colin Powell, Jane Goodall, Coretta Scott King, Mother Teresa, and others. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

The famous former broadcaster edits this moving collection of more than two hundred revealing letters written home by soldiers during World War II in which a Canadian nurse describes the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, a British general details the horrors of a concentration camp, and an American soldier grieves over the death of his twin brother. 150,000 first printing.

"From this lively and personal account, we learn that we can all practice inventorship to great advantage-measured either in gold or pleasure, or perhaps both!"-From the Foreword by Walter Cronkite"Inventorship is truly the stuff from which the future will be molded. Giving us an insight into the everyday thought processes of great inventive minds, Greene's wonderful collection of stories and ideas is a model for each of us in the art of inventiveness."-Pat Hallberg, Executive Director, National Inventors Hall of Fame"This entertaining and well-written work educates without pain and motivates the reader to learn more. It should be widely read not only by business people and entrepreneurs, but by young people, their parents, and their teachers. The lesson: Inventorship is for everyone and can change lives for the better."-Joseph N. Hankin, President, Westchester Community College"After all the scholarly books and articles about innovation and the entrepreneurial process by theorists, how refreshing it is to hear from a real live inventor holding hundreds of patents in fields as diverse as aeronautics, sailing, chess, and skiing! He has even invented a word, 'inventorship', to describe the process and guide us through dozens of examples. A very useful book."-John Diebold, Chairman, The JD Consulting Group, Inc.

Recounts the experiences of Richard Threlkeld and his wife, Betsy Aaron, as they spend three years reporting from Moscow and meet a variety of people from throughout Russia, including reindeer herders from the Arctic and Kuzbass coal miners. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Places of Power, John Sexton's third book, transports the viewer to places few have experienced firsthand. This beautifully produced book explores the haunting mystery of ancient Anasazi cliff dwellings, the monumental scale of Hoover Dam, the massive energy of steam turbine power plants, and the intricacies of the Space Shuttle -- the single most complex system ever assembled in human history...read more