Documents the activities of Ralph Heath's Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary, a wildlife conservation mission on the Gulf Coast of Florida that provides refuge and rehabilitation for over 5,000 birds a year.

Birdman of St. Petersburg

Shachtman, Tom

Biographies & Memoirs

Atheneum

Describes the daily activities of two young members of the Masai tribe.

Growing Up Masai

Children's Books

Examining the crisis of articulate expression and loss of ability to argue without coming to blows, the author identifies the causes of this decline--technology, political and corporate doublespeak, proliferation of specialists--and offers a multifaceted program for rehabilitating eloquence.

Inarticulate Society: Eloquence and Culture in America

History

Americas

Free Press

This is the vivid, vigorously written, anecdote-filled story of the bizarre interval-the hush before the tempest-that preceded the full-scale horrors of World War II. In range and resonance it compels the reader's spellbound interest.

The Phony War: 1939-1940

Military

Harper

A city with eight million people has eight million ways to die For fifteen years, Shiya Ribowsky worked as a medicolegal investigator in New York City’s medical examiner’s office—the largest, most sophisticated organization of its kind in the world. Utilizing his background in medicine, he led the investigations of more than eight thousand individual deaths, becoming a key figure in some of New York’s most bizarre death cases and eventually taking charge of the largest forensic investigation ever attempted: identifying the dead in the aftermath of the September 11 tragedies. 
Now, in this mesmerizing book, Ribowsky pulls back the curtain on the New York City’s medical examiner’s office, giving an enthralling, never-before-seen glimpse into death and the city. Born and raised in New York City’s orthodox Jewish community, Ribowsky seems an unlikely candidate for this macabre profession. Nevertheless he has forsaken a promising career of medical work with the living, descending instead into the realm of the dead, enticed by the challenge of confronting death on a daily basis. Taking you through the vermin-infested Bowery flophouses and posh Upper East Side apartments of the city’s dead, Ribowsky explores in gruesome detail the skeletons that hang in the Big Apple’s closets. Combing through the autopsy room, he also exposes the grim secrets that only a scalpel and a dead body can tell and explains how forensic investigation does not merely solve crimes—it saves lives. 
But it is in the aftermath of September 11 that the ME’s office is handed its biggest challenge: to identify as many of the fallen as possible. With poignant descriptions, Ribowsky provides a dramatic account of the office’s diligent and unflappable work with the families of the victims, helping them emerge from the ashes of this tragedy while displaying the strength, grit, intelligence, and compassion that Americans expect from true New Yorkers. 
At once compelling and heartbreaking, Dead Center is a story of New York unlike any other, blending the haunting with the sublime, while painting a striking portrait of death (and life) in the city that never sleeps.

Dead Center: Behind the Scenes at the World's Largest Medical Examiner's Office

Ribowsky, Shiya

True Crime

William Morrow

A city with eight million people has eight million ways to die For fifteen years, Shiya Ribowsky worked as a medicolegal investigator in New York Citys medical examiners officethe largest, most sophisticated organization of its kind in the world. Utilizing his background in medicine, he led the investigations of more than eight thousand individual deaths, becoming a key figure in some of New Yorks most bizarre death cases and eventually taking charge of the largest forensic investigation ever attempted: identifying the dead in the aftermath of the September 11 tragedies. Now, in this mesmerizing book, Ribowsky pulls back the curtain on the New York Citys medical examiners office, giving an enthralling, never-before-seen glimpse into death and the city. Born and raised in New York Citys orthodox Jewish community, Ribowsky seems an unlikely candidate for this macabre profession. Nevertheless he has forsaken a promising career of medical work with the living, descending instead into the realm of the dead, enticed by the challenge of confronting death on a daily basis. Taking you through the vermin-infested Bowery flophouses and posh Upper East Side apartments of the citys dead, Ribowsky explores in gruesome detail the skeletons that hang in the Big Apples closets. Combing through the autopsy room, he also exposes the grim secrets that only a scalpel and a dead body can tell and explains how forensic investigation does not merely solve crimesit saves lives. But it is in the aftermath of September 11 that the MEs office is handed its biggest challenge: to identify as many of the fallen as possible. With poignant descriptions

Leaders & Notable People

William Morrow Paperbacks

An exposGe of the neo-conservative movement throughout the past four decades documents its role in undermining the Nixon administration, supporting Reagan, and promoting the war in Iraq, in a report that draws on declassified documents and other official sources.

The Forty Years War: The Rise and Fall of the Neocons, from Nixon to Obama

Colodny, Len

In Around the Block, Tom Shachtman makes Adam Smith's "invisible hand" visible in the daily life of a number of small businesses in an ordinary, middle class block in New York City. Looking at The Block's economic life over the course of a year, Shachtman explores the everyday tragedies and triumphs hidden from view behind the shop windows and in offices. Behind the abstractions of economists, a single block in the Chelsea section of Manhattan is the stage for the personal commitments and risks of small business-a father commits suicide so that his business can avoid bankruptcy; a Korean liquor store owner finds himself caught between tow worlds; a computer game programmer leaves her job and risks her career for an idea of her own. Shachtman puts a human face on the challenges that businesses weather every day. We see how small business is integral to America's national health, responsible for job growth while building social ties in a country mired by polarization. In this very human story about work and community, Tom Shachtman writes not the economics of textbooks and graphs buth the stuff of our lives.

Around The Block: The Business of a Neighborhood

Business & Money

Industries

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Addresses the importance of establishing a corporate image and examines the success of Lippincott &amp; Margulies, a company that has shaped the images of leading American corporations

Image by Design: From Corporate Vision to Business Reality

Chajet, Clive

Management & Leadership

Addison-Wesley

A chronicle of one man's life-long career tracking serial killers introduces the FBI detective who pioneered psychological profiling as a way to catch some of the nation's most dangerous and deranged criminals. National ad/promo. Tour.

Whoever Fights Monsters

Politics & Social Sciences

RESSLER,Robert K.

Social Sciences

St Martins Pr

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Books by Shachtman, Tom

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Birdman of St. Petersburg

Growing Up Masai

Inarticulate Society: Eloquence and Culture in America

The Phony War: 1939-1940

Dead Center: Behind the Scenes at the World's Largest Medical Examiner's Office

Dead Center: Behind the Scenes at the World's Largest Medical Examiner's Office

The Forty Years War: The Rise and Fall of the Neocons, from Nixon to Obama

Around The Block: The Business of a Neighborhood

Image by Design: From Corporate Vision to Business Reality

Whoever Fights Monsters