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• The spark
• Compensation
• Trial runs
• The palace of industry and the garden of earthly treasures
• Separate ways
• Sunburned and full of vim
• At sea
• A great slice of our geography.

"The epic road trips-and surprising friendship-of John Burroughs, nineteenth-century naturalist, and Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, inventors of the modern age"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Part I: Rise. New York, 1784
• Astoria, 1810
• Massacre Opera House, 1849
• 840 Fifth Avenue, 1908
• Waldorf-Astoria, 1928
• Hever Castle, 1916
• Part II: Fall. Rokeby, 1875
• Halifax, April 15, 1912
• Blackwell's Island, 1910
• Mrs. Astor's Bar, 1910 to 1966
• Ferncliff, 1952
• The last Astor, 2013
• Epilogue.

"The story of the Astors is an extraordinary but true tale of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention--and of cunning, determination, hard work, hubris, infighting, and greed. One of the wealthiest men to have ever lived, John Jacob Astor first arrived in New York in 1783 and built a fortune through a ruthless expansion of his beaver trapping business, which he grew into an empire through real estate that enriched him at the expense of Manhattan's poorest residents. In later generations, Astors ruled Gilded Age New York society--Caroline Schermerhorn Astor essentially invented it--and got into the hospitality business with the legendary Waldorf-Astoria hotel, among others. Yet for all their unimaginable success, the Astors also endured crushing tragedy and reversals of fortune. John Jacob Astor IV perished in the Titanic disaster, its most famous victim. His cousin William Waldorf Astor renounced the United States. Rifts would split siblings and pit cousins against one another, legal battles would create irreparable divides, and mansions would be built and razed, or fall into disrepair. By 2009, when Brooke Astor's son, was convicted of defrauding his elderly mother--who had herself married into the family for money--the Astor dynasty was effectively over. In this unconventional, page-turning historical biography, featuring black-and-white and color photographs, Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe chronicle the lives of the Astors and offer a window onto the making of America itself"--Dust jacket flap.

• New York, 1784
• Astoria, 1810
• Massacre Opera House, 1849
• 850 Fifth Avenue, 1908
• Waldorf-Astoria, 1928
• Hever Castle, 1916
• Rokeby, 1875
• Halifax, April 15, 1912
• Blackwell's Island, 1910
• Mrs. Astor's Bar, 1910 to 1966
• Ferncliff, 1952
• The last Astor, 2013
• Epilogue.

• New York, 1784
• Astoria, 1810
• Massacre Opera House, 1849
• 850 Fifth Avenue, 1908
• Waldorf-Astoria, 1928
• Hever Castle, 1916
• Rokeby, 1875
• Halifax, April 15, 1912
• Blackwell's Island, 1910
• Mrs. Astor's Bar, 1910 to 1966
• Ferncliff, 1952
• The last Astor, 2013
• Epilogue.

• Part I: Eastern seaboard. Getting her camera, May-August 1949
• Daddy and Mummy, 1929-1948
• Part II: Europe. A new language, August-October 1949
• Paris, October-November 1949
• The "terrific" vacation, November 1949-January 1950
• Autonomy, January-June 1950
• Liberté, June-September 1950
• Part III: Families. East Hampton, September 1950
• Newport, September-October 1950
• Part IV: Writing. George Washington University, October-December 1950
• Last semester, January-March 1951
• Vogue, April-June 1951
• Lee, June-September 1951
• Office clerk, September-December 1951
• Palm Beach, December 1951
• Part V: The paper. The blue room, January 1952
• Out on the street, February 1952
• Byline, March 1952
• Working woman, April 1952
• A second dinner, May-June 1952
• Part VI: The campaign. Hyannis Port, July 1952
• Summer in the city, August-September 1952
• Massachusetts, October-November 1952
• Palm Beach, II, November-December 1952
• Inauguration, January 1953
• Part VII: Courtship. Love and sex, February 1953
• Meeting of the minds, March 1953
• The Vietnam report, March-April 1953
• Dating, April-May 1953
• Coronation, May-June 1953
• Engagement, June 1953
• Partner, July-September 1953.

"Camera Girl brings to cinematic life Jackie Kennedy's years as a young woman chafing at the expectations of her family and her era as she seeks to follow her dreams of becoming a famous writer. Set primarily during the underexamined years of 1950-1954, when Jackie was 20 to 25 years old, the book recounts the extraordinary story of her late college years, coming-of-age, and her life as a young female journalist. Before she met Jack Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier was a columnist at the Washington Times-Herald, the paper's "Inquiring Camera Girl," who posed intelligent and amusing questions to the public on the streets of D.C. (while also snapping their photos with her unwieldy Leica camera). She then fashioned the results into a daily column, 600 of which were published in total. Carl Anthony, author and leading expert on First Ladies, uses these columns and other writings of hers from that time, as well as a trove of revealing interviews he has conducted with her friends and colleagues, to offer a fresh and modern perspective on the young woman who would later become one of the world's most beloved icons. It's a glamorous, surprising, and distinctly feminist story about a woman determining her own priorities and defining herself, told with admiration and empathy, as well as journalistic rigor and historical accuracy"-- Provided by publisher.

• Chronologie
• Voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier
• Avant-propos
• Acte I Les semelles de Mercure (1605-1632)
• Scène 1. L'homme à peau de mouton
• Scène 2. L'aventurier
• Scène 3. La carte et le territoire
• Scène 4. Constantinople
• Scène 5. "Ispahan est la moitié du monde"
• Scène 6. Le désert
• Acte II Douce France (1633-1638)
• Scène 1. "La mer n'a pas d'amis"
• Scène 2. L'art de la guerre
• Scène 3. Comment Tavernier fut poursuivi par un navire pirate, puis contraint de s'arrêter à Malte, où une tempête changerait le cours de sa vie
• Scène 4. Un jour en France
• Scène 5. L'avare
• Acte III À la conquête des Indes (1638-1645)
• Scène 1. En route
• Scène 2. Constantinople en émoi
• Scène 3. Une étonnante rencontre
• Scène 4. La cannelle au son du canon
• Scène 5. L'été indien
• Scène 6. L'importance d'être Constant
• Scène 7. Un naufrage
• Scène 8. Le réseau clandestin
• Acte IV Des diamants à croquer (1647-1651)
• Scène 1. L'ambassadeur de Venise
• Scène 2. Le dîner des aveugles
• Scène 3. À la mine
• Scène 4. Le grand inquisiteur
• Scène 5. L'aube de la mondialisation
• Scène 6. À l'Est, rien de nouveau
• Scène 7. Veillée funèbre
• Scène 8. Le cap
• Scène 9. L'île des esclaves
• Acte V Le marchand des Indes (1651-1662)
• Scène 1. "Jan Tavernier" sous surveillance
• Scène 2. Touché, coulé
• Scène 3. On ne se méfie jamais assez des nourrissons
• Scène 4. L'argent
• Scène 5. Cachez ces diamants que je ne saurais voir
• Acte VI Les noces barbares (1662-1668)
• Scène 1. Charivari
• Scène 2. Le successeur
• Scène 3. Amadouer le shah
• Scène 4. La France dans la danse
• Scène 5. Les lettres anglaises
• Scène 6. Qui veut tuer Tavernier ?
• Scène 7. La Compagnie des Indes
• Scène 8. Le trône du paon
• Scène 9. Le saint des guenilles
• Scène 10. Sur la route
• Acte VII Un satrape occidental (1669-1677)
• Scène 1. Le plus grand roi du monde
• Scène 2. Le baron d'Aubonne
• Scène 3. Le diamant bleu
• Scène 4. Double meurtre aux Provinces-Unies
• Scène 5. L'embuscade
• Scène 6. Mémoires de deux fous
• Scène 7. L'étranger
• Scène 8. La célébrité
• Acte VIII Le protestant errant (1678-1689)
• Scène 1. L'attaque
• Scène 2. L'union du vice et de l'infortune
• Scène 3. Pour la gloire de Dieu et le salut du monde
• Scène 4. Le ravissement de Schyck Ally Beg
• Scène 5. Le camouflet
• Scène 6. Les mouches de Sa Majesté
• Scène 7. La fuite
• Scène 8. Le dernier voyage.

"Les connaisseurs associent Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605-1689) à un diamant bleu, le plus beau du monde, dit-on, connu pour sa légende maudite. Mais pour les autres, le nom, jadis célèbre par toute l'Europe, a sombré dans l'oubli. À tort À dix-huit ans, cet apprenti libraire sans appui ni fortune prend son balluchon pour courir le monde. Tour à tour voyageur, page, soldat, diplomate, interprète, peut-être même espion, il combat les armées catholiques et protestantes, sert les grands, participe aux intrigues dans des royaumes dévastés par la guerre de Trente Ans. Bientôt, l'Europe ne suffit plus. Après l'Empire ottoman, il s'attaque à la Perse, aux terres du Grand Moghol, aux sultanats des Indes, visite Ceylan et pousse jusqu'à Java. Trafiquant de tout à l'échelle du monde, il infiltre les compagnies commerciales en plein essor, se livre à la contrebande et collecte les plus somptueux joyaux de la Création. Les rois le reçoivent, les savants l'écoutent, les curieux le lisent, Louis XIV l'anoblit. Mais à trop étaler son succès, Tavernier, devenu le respectable baron d'Aubonne, provoque l'envie. Ses ennemis, parfois fort puissants, ses amis, non moins dangereux, les aventuriers s'intéressent de près à ses trésors trop éclatants. Jusqu'à provoquer sa chute ? À partir d'archives inédites, Pierre Ménard restitue dans un style enlevé cette épopée méconnue. Dans un monde en plein bouleversement où Londres, Amsterdam, Smyrne et Surate se disputent en temps de paix et trafiquent en temps de guerre, le lecteur arpente un gigantesque jeu de piste mêlant argent, épices, armes, pouvoir et religion. Au-delà des aventures de Tavernier, s'esquisse ainsi une plongée dans les prémices de la mondialisation."--Page 4 of cover.

• A son's tribute to his mother
• Crime and punishment
• A Han emporer accepting the blame
• Letters home
• A natural philosopher's account of his life
• A father writing to his son
• An abducted woman on returning home
• Military men touting their merits
• The pain of separation
• An emporer's discourse on karma and vegetarianism
• Late Tang writers on life beyond office-holding
• Mourning friends and relations
• An advocate of the simple life
• Records of things seen and heard
• Chanting about oneself
• An envoy's trip to the Jin court
• Women and suicide
• Witnessing dynastic collapse
• Peaceful abodes
• A female doctor's life and work
• An eccentric considers suicide
• Life in the examination hell
• A royal consort's song
• Environmental catastrophes
• A con man posing as an official
• A private secretary's itinerant life
• Tributes to close relatives
• A teenager captured by the Nian rebels
• Keeping family members informed
• Appendix: A select list of widely available translations of prose personal accounts to 1880

Personal accounts help us understand notions of self, interpersonal relations, and historical events. Chinese Autobiographical Writing contains full translations of works by fifty individuals that illuminate the history and conventions of writing about oneself in the Chinese tradition. From poetry, letters, and diaries to statements in legal proceedings, these engaging and readable works draw us into the past and provide vivid details of life as it was lived from the pre-imperial period to the nineteenth century. Some focus on a person's entire life, others on a specific moment. Some have an element of humor, others are entirely serious. Taken together, these selections offer an intimate view of how Chinese men and women, both famous and obscure, reflected on their experiences as well as their personal struggles and innermost thoughts.With an introduction and list of additional readings for each selection, this volume is ideal for undergraduate courses on Chinese history, literature, religion, and women and family. Read individually, each piece illuminates a person, place, and moment. Read in chronological order, they highlight cultural change over time by showing how people explored new ways to represent themselves in writing.The open access publication of this book was made possible by a grant from the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation

• Harry Smith : an introduction
• A boy's life
• Dark they were, with golden eyes
• Harry the Hipster
• Harry Smith in New York
• The anthologist
• The parapsychologist
• The anthropologist
• Nights in Bohemia
• Mahagonny
• Lost and found
• A New York ending.

"A biography of filmmaker, anthropologist, and mystic Harry Smith"-- Provided by publisher.

• The mathematical cult leader Pythagoras, and his incredibly stupid death
• Confucius was an ugly nerd with low self-esteem
• Never, ever hire Leonardo da Vinci
• Galileo utterly fails to read the room
• The entirely unbelievable life of Tycho Brahe
• When René Descartes got baked
• Isaac Newton and the Philosopher's Stone
• Mozart uses his superstar status to tell us all to kiss his arse ... over and over again
• Benjamin Franklin uses world-changing technology to prank friends, self
• Émilie du Châtelet cares not for your social mores, and she will fight you in her underwear to prove it
• Johann Christian Reil invents psychiatry and things get really weird really quickly
• Napoleon Bonaparte's fluffiest foe
• Lord Byron, the patron saint of fuckboys
• Ada Lovelace's (husband's) family jewels
• Galois hunting
• John Couch Adams ignores his mail, loses Neptune
• You really wouldn't want to hang out with Karl Marx
• Charles Darwin: glutton; worm dad; murderer?
• James Glaisher, the Victorian weatherman who nearly became an astronaut
• Sigmund Freud used cocaine so much he thought numbers wanted to kill him
• Arthur Conan Doyle gets pranked so hard he claims fairies exist
• Thomas Edison's lesser-known invention: dial-a-ghost
• Real-life supervillain Nicola Tesla takes the term "pigeon fancying" a bit too literally
• Marie Curie defies all the odds to accidentally poison both herself and thousands of strangers
• Albert Einstein: public nuisance, love rat
• Kurt Gödel, the Disney princess who broke time
• Maya Angelou, in: Stop! or my mom will shoot
• Ernest Hemingway may have been the worst double agent ever
• Yukio Mishima and the shortest, gayest fascist coup in history
• NASA forgets about women, toilets and the metric system.

"Overturn everything you knew about history's greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, where it turns out there's a finer line between "genius" and "idiot" than we've previously known. As Albert Einstein almost certainly never said, everyone is a genius - but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." So begins Katie Spalding's spunky takedown of the Western canon, and how genius may not be as irrefutably great as we commonly understand. While most of us may never become Einstein, it may surprise you to learn that there's probably a bunch of stuff you can do that Einstein couldn't. And, as Spalding shows, the famous prodigies she explores here were quite odd by any definition."--Amazon.com.

• Together and apart
• Privileged prodigies
• Promise and disruption
• Caught in the whirlwind
• Arguing Aristotle
• Inventing a world history
• From peace to chaos
• Nemesis : Mahmud of Ghazni
• Ibn Sina, encyclopedist
• Expanding the known world
• Ibn Sina's adventures
• Biruni's masterpiece
• The canon of medicine
• Biruni's canon for Masud
• The cure
• Biruni's encore
• Ibn Sina's encore
• Biruni and Ibn Sina through the ages
• Biruni and Ibn Sani, a millennium on.

• Together and apart
• Privileged prodigies
• Promise and disruption
• Caught in the whirlwind
• Arguing Aristotle
• Inventing a world history
• From peace to chaos
• Nemesis : Mahmud of Ghazni
• Ibn Sina, encyclopedist
• Expanding the known world
• Ibn Sina's adventures
• Biruni's masterpiece
• The canon of medicine
• Biruni's Canon for Masud
• The cure
• Biruni's encore
• Ibn Sina's encore
• Biruni and Ibn Sina through the ages
• Biruni and Ibn Sani, a millennium on.

"This is a book about two of the most outstanding thinkers to have lived between ancient Greece and the European Renaissance: Ibn Sina and Biruni. Both are known to specialists who have explored and analyzed their writings (what remains of them) for 150 years. But the general public has yet to discover these men and to appreciate their achievements. I hope this will help in that effort"-- Provided by publisher.