THE SOUL OF A NEW MACHINE (BUSINESS LIBRARY)

Tracy Kidder

Business & Money

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Tracy Kidder won the Pulitzer Prize for The Soul of a New Machine. House and Among Schoolchildren were national bestsellers. Now this "crackerjack reporter with a common touch" (Philip Lopate, The Washington Post) has turned his talents to his most important and universal theme in this, a close-in study of old age in America. With care and exactitude, with the human compassion and humor for which he is famed, Kidder opens up a fascinating world to us that is, at the same time, foreign and compelling. The narrative takes place entirely in a nursing home and focuses on two old men struggling with their circumstances, their memories, and their mortality.

Old Friends

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Penguin Books / Granta

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Granta 38, Winter 1991: We're So Happy!

Literature & Fiction

Ivan Klíma

Louise Erdrich

JEREMY RIFKIN

Contemporary

Granta Books

The Soul Of A New Machine

House (Picador Books)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Home Improvement & Design

Macmillan

AMONG SCHOOLCHILDREN

Macmillan Education Australia

Chronicles the dedication and perseverance of fifth-grade teacher Chris Zajac of Holyoke, Massachusetts, in her effort to educate the economically and emotionally deprived urban children in her classroom

Among Schoolchildren

Houghton/Mifflin

Home Town

In this splendid book, one of America's masters of nonfiction takes us home--into Hometown, U.S.A., the town of Northampton, Massachusetts, and into the extraordinary, and the ordinary, lives that people live there. As Tracy Kidder reveals how, beneath its amiable surface, a small town is a place of startling complexity, he also explores what it takes to make a modern small city a success story. Weaving together compelling stories of individual lives, delving into a rich and varied past, moving among all the levels of Northampton's social hierarchy, Kidder reveals the sheer abundance of life contained within a town's narrow boundaries. Does the kind of small town that many Americans came from, and long for, still exist? Kidder says yes, although not quite in the form we may imagine. A book about civilization in microcosm, Home Town makes us marvel afresh at the wonder of individuality, creativity, and civic order--how a disparate group of individuals can find common cause and a code of values that transforms a place into a home. And this book makes you feel you live there.

History

Americas

Random House]

"A perfectly executed, exquisitely reported parable of the Internet age and the wild, mad adventure that is start-up culture."-Charles Duhigg Fortune, mania, genius, philanthropy-the bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains gives us the inspiring story of Paul English, the founder of Kayak.

A Truck Full of Money

Processes & Infrastructure

BOOKS ON TAPE]

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