A–Z catalog · Part 18 of 21

Reviewed Book Summaries

1. The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning by Henry Mintzberg
2. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte
3. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte
4. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy
5. The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire by Brian Crozier
6. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
7. The Rise of Superman by Steven Kotler
8. The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance by Steven Kotler
9. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
10. The Rising by Brian Keene
11. The River Between by Paulo Maurício Borges
12. The River of Souls by David Hair
13. The Riverpark Rebellion by Homer Greene
14. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
15. The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck
16. The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck
17. The Road to Character by David Brooks
18. The Road to Independence: Virginia 1763-1783 by Government and Geography Service Virginia. History
19. The Road to Jonestown by Jeff Guinn
20. The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose
21. The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe by Roger Penrose
22. The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek
23. The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
24. The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America by Timothy Snyder
25. The Robbers by Friedrich Schiller
26. The Rollercoaster by Peter Sís
27. The Rook by Daniel O'Malley
28. The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion
29. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
30. The Rosie Result by Graeme Simsion
31. The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures by Daniel Nehring
32. The Royal Institution: Its Founder and First Professors by Bence Jones
33. The Russian Revolution: A New History by Sean McMeekin
34. The San Francisco Fairy: A Tale of Early Times by Anonymous
35. The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
36. The Scar by China Miéville
37. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
38. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
39. The Scarlet Plague by Jack London
40. The school and society by John Dewey
41. The School of Life by Alain de Botton
42. The Science of Everyday Life by Louis A. Bloomfield
43. The Science of Everyday Life: An Entertaining and Enlightening Examination of Everything We Do and Everything We See by Louis A. Bloomfield
44. The Science of Interstellar by Kip S. Thorne
45. The Science of Interstellar by Kip Thorne
46. The Science of Life by H. G. Wells
47. The Science of Life by H. G. Wells, Julian Huxley, G. P. Wells
48. The Science of Life: The Living World by Julian Huxley, H.G. Wells, G.P. Wells
49. The Science of Middle-earth by Henry Gee
50. The Science of Middle-earth: Explaining Middle-earth Science and Technology by Henry Gee
51. The Science of Middle-earth: Explaining the Science Behind the Fiction by Henry Gee
52. The Science of Trust: Emotional Attunement for Couples by John M. Gottman
53. The Scientific American Book of the Brain by Scientific American Editors
54. The Scientific Tourist through Ireland in which the traveller is directed to the principal objects of antiquity, art, science & the picturesque by Thomas Walford
55. The Scientists: An Epic of Discovery by Andrew Robinson
56. The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
57. The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef
58. The Scrapbook by Heather Clark
59. The Sea by John Banville
60. The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
61. The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav
62. The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee
63. The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson
64. The Second Mountain by David Brooks
65. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
66. The Second World War by Winston S. Churchill
67. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
68. The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
69. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
70. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
71. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
72. The Secret History of Costaguana by Gabriel García Márquez
73. The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire by Jack Weatherford
74. The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig
75. The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
76. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
77. The Secret Life of the Mind by Marvin Minsky
78. The Secret of the Mansion by Julie Campbell Tatham
79. The Secret of the Nagas by Amish Tripathi
80. The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene
81. The Secret of the Yellow Death by Gordon Thomas
82. The Secret River by Kate Grenville
83. The Secrets of Jin-shei by Jennie Liu
84. The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity by Bruce Hood
85. The Self-Taught Programmer: The Definitive Guide to Programming Professionally by Cory Althoff
86. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
87. The Sellout by Paul Beatty
88. The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker
89. The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Steven Pinker
90. The Serpent's Promise: The Bible Retold as Science by Deborah Haarsma
91. The Serpent's Secret by Sayantani DasGupta
92. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
93. The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John Gottman and Nan Silver
94. The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
95. The Shadow Children by Margaret Peterson Haddix
96. The Shadow Girls by Jennifer McMahon
97. The Shadow Hero by Gene Luen Yang
98. The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
99. The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad
100. The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh
101. The Shadow of the Crescent Moon by Fatima Bhutto
102. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
103. The Shadow Speaker by Nnedi Okorafor
104. The Shadow Spinner by Susan Fletcher
105. The Sheikh's Reluctant Bride by Kate Hardy
106. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
107. The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
108. The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace (Young Readers Edition) by Jeff Hobbs
109. The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
110. The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – but Some Don't by Nate Silver
111. The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
112. The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
113. The Silent Cry by Kenzaburō Ōe
114. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
115. The Silent Songs by Argula von Grumbach
116. The Silk Road: A New History by Valerie Hansen
117. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
118. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
119. The Simple Path to Wealth by J.L. Collins
120. The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil
121. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
122. The Six Sigma Way by Peter S. Pande, Robert P. Neuman, and Roland Cavanagh
123. The Six Sigma Way by Peter S. Pande
124. The Six Sigma Way: How GE, Motorola, and Other Top Companies Are Honing Their Performance by Peter S. Pande, Robert P. Neuman & Roland Cavanagh
125. The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
126. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
127. The Skin I'm In by Sharon G. Flake
128. The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
129. The Slave Tree by Adrienne Young
130. The Sleep Solution by W. Chris Winter
131. The Sleepwalker by Chris Bohjalian
132. The Sleepwalkers by Hermann Broch
133. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark
134. The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson
135. The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss
136. The Snow Spider by Jenny Nimmo
137. The Snowman by Jo Nesbø
138. The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
139. The Social Animal by David Brooks
140. The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson
141. The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement by Elliot Aronson
142. The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement by David Brooks
143. The Social Construction of Reality by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann
144. The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge by Peter L. Berger
145. The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann
146. The Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky
147. The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout
148. The Software Craftsman: Professionalism, Pragmatism, Pride by Sanders McConnell
149. The Software Craftsman: Professionalism, Pragmatism, Pride by Sandro Mancuso
150. The Solar System by David A. Rothery
151. The Son by Jo Nesbø
152. The Son of the Cellar by Aliya Whiteley
153. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
154. The Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee
155. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee
156. The Song of the Dodo by David Quammen
157. The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions by David Quammen
158. The Song of the Jade Lily by Lisa See
159. The Song of the Sea by Jenn Alexander
160. The Songbird's Lament by Tessa Dryer
161. The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson
162. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
163. The Sot-weed Factor: or, A Voyage to Maryland. A Satyr. In which is Describ'd The Laws, Government, Courts and Constitutions of the Country, and also the Buildings, Feasts, Frolicks, Entertainments and Drunken Humours of the Inhabitants of that Part of America. In Burlesque Verse. by Ebenezer Cooke
164. The Soul and the Forms by Gyorgy Lukacs
165. The Soul of a Butterfly by Muhammad Ali with Hana Yasmeen Ali
166. The Soul of a Butterfly by Muhammad Ali
167. The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder
168. The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren
169. The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
170. The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
171. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
172. The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata
173. The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
174. The Soviet World of American Communism by Harvey Klehr
175. The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge by Paul Preston
176. The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas
177. The Special Theory of Relativity Bound with Relativity: a Very Elementary Exposition by Herbert Dingle
178. The Special Theory of Relativity Bound with Relativity: a Very Elementary Exposition by Herbert Dingle and Sir Oliver Lodge
179. The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz
180. The Spider's Web by Agatha Christie
181. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
182. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
183. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre
184. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré
185. The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville by Claire Mulley
186. The Star of Redemption by Franz Rosenzweig
187. The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company by Steve Blank & Bob Dorf
188. The Startup Playbook: Secrets of the Fastest-Growing Startups from Their Founding Entrepreneurs by David Kidder
189. The Startup Way by Eric Ries
190. The State of Affairs by Esther Perel
191. The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali
192. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
193. The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich
194. The Story of Babar by Jean de Brunhoff
195. The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
196. The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi
197. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
198. The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller
199. The Story of My Mind; Or, How I Became a Rationalist by M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch) Mangasarian
200. The Story of Science in America by L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp