Found 36 results for "award:national_book_award=nonfiction"
The Art of War
by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman
ACCORDING TO AN OLD STORY, a lord of ancient China once asked his physician, a member of a family of healers, which of t...
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Doctor Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars ab...
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens, Groth
MOST PEOPLE in the publishing and education industries agree that there are some books that everyone should read.
In the Heart of the Sea
by Nathaniel Philbrick
IT WAS, HE LATER REMEMBERED, "the most pleasing moment of my life"-the moment he stepped aboard the whaleship Essex for ...
Me Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris
ANYONE WHO WATCHES EVEN THE SLIGHTEST amount of TV is familiar with the scene: An agent knocks on the door of some seemi...
The making of the atomic bomb
by Richard Rhodes
In London, where Southampton Row passes Russell Square, across from the British Museum in Bloomsbury, Leo Szilard waited...
The Voice That Challenged a Nation
by Russell Freedman
Despite cold and threatening weather, the crowd began to assemble long before the concert was to begin.
The House of Morgan
by Ron Chernow
WHEN Baltimore merchant George Peabody sailed for London in 1835, the world was in the throes of a debt crisis.
From Beirut to Jerusalem
by Thomas L. Friedman
In June 1979, my wife, Ann, and I boarded a red-and-white Middle East Airlines 707 in Geneva for the four-hour flight to...
The Sea Around Us
by Rachel Carson
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy, and so it is with the beginnings of that great mother of life, the sea.
Arctic dreams
by Barry Lopez
ON A WINTER AFTERNOON-a day without a sunrise, under a moon that had not set for six days-I stand on the frozen ocean 20...
