A bestselling author and award-winning journalist follows a year in the life of a big, urban hospital, painting a revealing portrait of how medical care is delivered in America today.
In 1978, lawyer Bob Rowe brutally murdered his wife and three children. After several years in an institution for the criminally insane, Rowe was released, and he remarried and had a daughter. His second wife, Colleen, was aware of his terrible past, but loved and trusted him nonetheless. Meanwhile, friends of Rowe's deceased first wife were ...
Salamon examines the rules of giving that were set out by Maimonides (also known as Rambam) as a ladder the thoughtful giver could climb. The result is a thoughtful book that will encourage readers to live better by giving better.
"Bonfire of the Vanities" was to be the film of the year. But behind the cameras a story unfolded that often imitated the story being filmed. With vanity never in short supply, ambitions and tempers and expenses escalated, the director rebelled, the crew balked and Tom Wolfe would have nothing to do with it. Even so, no one dreamed that the result ...
Reporter Julie Salamon got more than she bargained for when she was granted back-lot access to the making of Brian De Palma's THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES. As the anticipated blockbuster metamorphosed into one of contemporary Hollywood's most problematic creations, she was there to dish the details.
A classic behind-the-scenes account of how a Hollywood blockbuster turned into a bomb that illuminates "how not to make a movie."--New York Times. When Brian De Palma agreed to allow Julie Salamon unlimited access to the film production of Tom Wolfe's best-selling book The Bonfire of the Vanities , both director and journalist must have felt like ...
The story of the Rockefeller Christmas tree, 1996, which came from a convent in New Jersey, and of the old nun who watched the tree, a Norwegian spruce, grow from a sapling.
With insight and humor, the reader follows the life of feature writer Jamaica Just--her struggle for survival and intregity in the age of anxiety and her attempts to save the sick, the sad and the starving with the quarters from her purse or her nationally syndicated news features.
The story of the Rockefeller Christmas tree, 1996, which came from a convent in New Jersey, and of the old nun who watched the tree, a Norwegian spruce, grow from a sapling.
The 1996 bestselling fable about a nun, a gardener, and the most famous tree in the world is back, packaged with a beautiful ornament for Christmas trees everywhere. Full-color. Between Oct. 16, 1997, and January 3, 1998, Random House donates a portion of the proceeds to Save the Children Federation, Inc.
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780143115366ISBN:0143115367
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