books by Farrar, Straus and Giroux     books:     Farrar, Straus and...      Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found Marie Brenner Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 Marie tells her story with grace, humor and a rare frankness All her life, Marie Brenner struggled to understand her older brother, Carl. They had very little in common: Carl was a one-time lawyer turned apple farmer in Washington State; Marie was an investigative journalist in New York City, espousing every cultural and ...             Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and ... Melody Petersen Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 A fascinating read Great writing style making it a hard book to put down. Every medical provider should read this book. As a provider for 15 years I have seen the tactics, I have watched drugs come in as samples and being promoted as some the best thing next to sliced cheese. I went ...             Lush Life: A Novel Richard Price Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 Fast-Paced Novel of the Contemporary Big City Richard Price, author of "Freedomland" and a scriptwriter for "The Wire," writes about New York City. His novels are fast-paced, gritty and real. The dialogue is slangy and real, but this does not exclude the reader so much as take him or her on a headlong, cinematic ...             Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making David Rothkopf Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 Enlightening and Empowering I had the pleasure of hosting David Rothkopf at Stanford University a few weeks ago as a speaker in our Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders lecture series. His talk was riveting and the students responded with great enthusiasm. He used the lecture to emphasis the key theme ...             The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down Anne Fadiman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998 What else can I add? Except this is my favorite book, ever. If anyone's been patient enough to read all hundred-plus reviews up to this point, they already know what this book is about, how well-written it was, how well researched, and how terribly humane. All I can add is that, though I read (well, start, at any rate) ...             A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Ishmael Beah Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 Remarkable Ishmael Beah makes no plea for forgiveness nor does he beg a place in this world. Yet this memoir earns him both. The horrible atrocities that Beah was both victim and perpetrator of are described with a sort of detached sensitivity that makes this readable to those ...             Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America Thomas L. Friedman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 Thomas L. Friedman’s no. 1 bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy—both of which could poison our world if we do not act quickly and collectively. His argument ...             The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century Alex Ross Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 The Pedantic Mister Alex Ross I've decided to give this book four stars for a number of reasons, including its highly informative content, its ability to transform and inspire the reader to become a musicologist in the model of the author, and its ability to make obscure, avant-garde pieces of ...             Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel Rivka Galchen Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 re: Anne Bartholomew "...what Leo Liebenstein coolly terms a "simulacrum"..." Leo Liebenstein did not coin the term "simulacrum"!!! You need to go back to grad school!!!             The Story of a Marriage: A Novel Andrew Sean Greer Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 "But you know the heart: every night it grows a thorn." The 1950s are looked upon with some nostalgia, America's innocent days before the turbulence of the 60s. But for those who lived through them, the 1950s were defined by the end of a world war, the Korean conflict, nearing a close in 1953, mothers anguishing over broken ...             Exiles: A Novel Ron Hansen Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 "We sometimes seem God's playthings. The dice he rolls." After reading Ron Hansen's 1992 Mariette In Ecstasy, I thought: "This is it. This is the peak of his career as a novelist. Hansen will never be able to top this." I was wrong. His new novel, Exiles, a curious and effective combination of novel and biography, is ...             Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect with Others Marco Iacoboni Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 Not exactly what I had in mind This book tells you a great deal about the people who study mirror neurons. You will learn, for example that Vittorio Gallese is one of twenty-seven members of an exclusive club in Parma in which each member personifies one of Giuseppi Verdi's twenty-seven operas. You ...             Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy (FSG Classics) Jostein Gaarder Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 Fun, Fascinating, possibly even Educational (but who cares) I forget where I found this book - not, I think, on Amazon. I took it on vacation, thinking a novel about philosophy should at least help me sleep at night. Not only did I race through it eagerly, but my better half, who has not been seen reading a book for pleasure ...             Beijing Coma: A Novel Ma Jian Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 Brilliant Ma Jian's latest novel Beijing Coma, captures the horrors that occurred in Tiananmen Square in June 1989. The main protagonist is PhD student Dai Wei, who is shot in the head by the army. Lying in a coma Dai Wei is conscious yet unable to communicate and can only ...             Breath: A Novel Tim Winton Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 Breath- " It's funny, you don't think about breathing until it's all you think about.". This is a powerful coming of age tale set against a background of life in a small South Coast, West Australian town, surfing and a series of events that affect the rest of the young, 15 year old, Bruce Pike's life. The novel commences with a middle aged Para Medic, ...          products you might be interested in search for books atmospheric, disturbances, pharmaceutical, prescription, themselves, transformed randomly chosen DVD: The Departed [Blu-ray]