An exhilarating satire of Eighties excess that captures the effervescent spirit of New York, from one of the greatest writers of modern American prose.Sherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and self-appointed 'Master of the Universe'. He has a fashionable wife, a Park Avenue apartment and a Southern mistress. His spectacular fall begins the moment he is involved in a hit-and-run accident in the Bronx. Prosecutors, newspaper hacks, politicians and clergy close in on h...

NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIESA dissection of greed-obsessed America a decade after The Bonfire of the Vanities and on the cusp of the millennium, from the master chronicler of American culture Tom WolfeCharlie Croker, once a fabled college football star, is now a late-middle-aged Atlanta real estate entrepreneur-turned conglomerate king. His expansionist ambitions and outsize ego have at last hit up against reality. Charlie has a 28,0...

Don't miss the star-studded mini series adaptation of A Man in Full-coming soon to Netflix.Big men. Big money. Big games. Big libidos. Big trouble.The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college football star, now a late-middle-aged Atlanta real-estate entrepreneur turned conglomerate king, whose expansionist ambitions and outsize ego have at last hit up against reality. Charlie has a 28,000-acre quail-shooting plantation, a young and demanding second wife--and a half-emp...

After completing military service, veterans can have a difficult time finding employment when returning to civilian life. Out of Uniform, Second Edition is designed to help all transitioning military personnel, regardless of service, branch, rank, rating, time in service, time in grade, or specialty. Although all service members share common denominators, each individual brings something unique to the job market. Not only does this book cover the basics—search techniques, networki...

The Bonfire of the Vanities author, Tom Wolfe, ingeniously dissects the turbulent heart of America’s racial vortex in this exhilarating tale of sweltering MiamiAs the police boat speeds across Miami’s Biscayne Bay, the scene is set for Officer Nestor Camacho’s great moment of heroism. Except that in this feverous melting pot of a city, Nestor's one act of heroism can be seen as an utter betrayal of his Cuban roots.As Nestor’s world disintegrates – ...

Tom Wolfe's debut collection of essays - a brilliant, form-bending dive into the future of America as it careened through the 1960sIn 1965, Tom Wolfe dropped like a bomb onto the American literary scene with his first book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, an incandescent panorama of American counter-culture, its dances, bouffant hairdos, customised cars and rock concerts. Capturing the energy of the age ...

'A great journalist with a whip-like satirical prose style… Wolfe’s great gift is to make the heavy seem light and this book is such an entertaining polemic that I read it in a day and immediately wanted to read it again.' - Bryan Appleyard, Sunday TimesTom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey through language. The Kingdom of Speech is a paradigm-shifting argument that speech - not evolution - is responsible ...

The Purple Decades brings together the author's own selections from his list of critically acclaimed publications, including the best from The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Radical Chic, From Bauhaus to Our House, The Right Stuff and the complete text of Mau-Mauing and the Flak Catchers. An essential introduction to the non-fiction writing of the inventor of New Journalism.

Imagine falling asleep in your bed and waking up in the body of a teenage wolf, living in a world inhabited by anthropomorphic animals, with the neighborhood and the house where you live being better, with you having everything you wished for in your human reality, and where the history of your country took a completely different course. Soon you realize that the wolf your consciousness now occupies is, in some way, another version of yourself—more popular, with a seemingly perfect life an...

Pedro was a hyena boy who lived in a small town in the center west of Brazil, he had many friends like Yuri the leopard, Marx the lion, Nicole the tigress, he had an emo dog and Thomace, a hyena girl that Pedro dated, Pedro grew up with his friends and loved the place where he was born and wanted to stay there for the rest of his life and marry Thomace, but he needs to change his plans when his mother is promoted at work and Pedro has to leave the city where he grew up and his friends and ...

Have you heard about Bitcoin or Blockchain Technology but you are still unsure about what they are or how you can benefit from them? This book is for you! Your non technical step by step guide to Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Investing, Wallets, Mining, Altcoins ICO and the Internet of Things. Learn to spot and avoid scams.

Arthur Carhart (1892-1978), America's first champion of wilderness, the first Forest Service landscape architect, and the most popular conservation writer of mid-century America, never won the titan status of his contemporary, Aldo Leopold. A political maverick, he refused to side with any major advocacy group and none has made him its saint. Carhart was a grassroots thinker in a top-down era.Arthur Carhart, the first biography of this Republican environmentalist and major...