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Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life

by Julia Briggs

Published: 2005-11-01

Hardcover: 544 pages

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Virginia Woolf is one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century literature. She was original, passionate, vivid, dedicated to her art. Yet most writing about her still revolves around her social life and the Bloomsbury set. In this fresh, absorbing book, Julia Briggs puts the wr...

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My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson (Modern Library Paperbacks)

by Alfred Habegger

Published: 2002-09-17

Paperback: 800 pages

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Emily Dickinson, probably the most loved and certainly the greatest of American poets, continues to be seen as the most elusive. One reason she has become a timeless icon of mystery for many readers is that her developmental phases have not been clarified. In this exhaustively researched b...

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Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft

by Lyndall Gordon

Published: 2006-05-02

Paperback: 592 pages

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The founder of modern feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was the most famous woman of her era. A brilliant, unconventional rebel vilified for her strikingly modern notions of education, family, work, and personal relationships, she nevertheless strongly influenced political philosop...

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The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao

by Martha Batalha

Published: 2017-10-10

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Beguiling.... Has all that much changed? we can hear the author sighing between the breathless pauses of her fable-like saga."--The New York Times Book Review Named by Bustle as One of 9 Fall Book Debuts by Women You're Going to Want to Read Immediately: "You're going to love it. Batalha ...

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High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way

by Brendon Burchard

Published: 2017-09-19

Hardcover: 400 pages

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THESE SIX HABITS WILL MAKE YOU EXTRAORDINARY. After extensive original research and a decade as the world’s highest-paid performance coach, Brendon Burchard finally reveals the most effective habits for reaching long-term success. Based on one of the largest surveys ever conducted on high performers,...

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Humility Is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age

by Edward D. Hess, Katherine Ludwig

Published: 2017-01-16

Hardcover: 224 pages

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Humility Is the New Smart Your job is at risk—if not now, then soon. We are on the leading edge of a Smart Machine Age led by artificial intelligence that will be as transformative for us as the Industrial Revolution was for our ancestors. Smart machines will take over millions of jobs ...

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Leadership on the Line, With a New Preface: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Change

by Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky

Published: 2017-07-11

Hardcover: 288 pages

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To lead is to live dangerously. It's romantic and exciting to think of leadership as all inspiration, decisive action, and rich rewards, but leading requires taking risks that can jeopardize your career and your personal life. It requires putting yourself on the line, disrupting the status...

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The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do

by Ken Blanchard, Mark Miller

Published: 2014-09-02

Hardcover: 152 pages

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10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED In this new edition of their classic business fable, Ken Blanchard and Mark Miller get at the heart of what makes a leader successful. Newly promoted but struggling young executive Debbie Brewster asks her mentor the one question she desperatel...

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The Woman Who Says No: Françoise Gilot on Her Life With and Without Picasso - Rebel, Muse, Artist

by Malte Herwig

Published: 2016-05-10

Hardcover: 176 pages

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Pablo Picasso called Françoise Gilot ?The Woman Who Says No.” Tiny, talented, and feisty, and an accomplished artist in her own right, Gilot left Picasso after a ten-year relationship, the only woman to escape his intense attentions unscathed. From 2012 to 2014, German journalist and au...

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Three Floors Up

by Eshkol Nevo

Published: 2017-10-10

Paperback: 288 pages

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Set in an upper-middle-class Tel Aviv apartment building, this best-selling and warmly acclaimed Israeli novel examines the interconnected lives of its residents, whose turmoils, secrets, unreliable confessions, and problematic decisions reveal a society in the midst of an identity crisis....