Craig Nelson

A publishing vice president, executive editor, author, and winner of the 2007 Henry Adams Prize recreates the story of the Apollo 11 moon mission through interviews, NASA oral histories, and declassified CIA documents.

The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon

Rocket Men

A narrative of the Atomic Age by the award-winning author of Rocket Man explores the complexities of nuclear energy, citing the contributions of such individuals as Marie Curie, Albert Einstein and Robert Oppenheimer while sharing lesser-known historical details.

The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era

The Age of Radiance

Adventures in the Great Wide Open

Let's Get Lost

Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations

Thomas Paine

Celebrating the amazingly bad shows that have made it onto television and into the American psyche, a hilarious TV nostalgia book gives out awards to bad classics in every category, recognizing the worst of the worst in TV history. Original.

The Very Best of the Very Worst

Bad TV

A profile of the United States and French Republic founder describes him as a controversial figure who helped shape the revolutionary age, in an account that provides coverage of his unlikely rise to fame and prominence, his best-selling books, and his relationships with his contemporaries.

“A valuable reexamination” (Booklist, starred review) of the event that changed twentieth-century America—Pearl Harbor—based on years of research and new information uncovered by a New York Times bestselling author. The America we live in today was born, not on July 4, 1776, but on December 7, 1941, when an armada of 354 Japanese warplanes supported by aircraft carriers, destroyers, and midget submarines suddenly and savagely attacked the United States, killing 2,403 men—and forced America’s entry into World War II. Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness follows the sailors, soldiers, pilots, diplomats, admirals, generals, emperor, and president as they engineer, fight, and react to this stunningly dramatic moment in world history. Beginning in 1914, bestselling author Craig Nelson maps the road to war, when Franklin D. Roosevelt, then the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, attended the laying of the keel of the USS Arizona at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Writing with vivid intimacy, Nelson traces Japan’s leaders as they lurch into ultranationalist fascism, which culminates in their scheme to terrify America with one of the boldest attacks ever waged. Within seconds, the country would never be the same. Backed by a research team’s five years of work, as well as Nelson’s thorough re-examination of the original evidence assembled by federal investigators, this page-turning and definitive work “weaves archival research, interviews, and personal experiences from both sides into a blow-by-blow narrative of destruction liberally sprinkled with individual heroism, bizarre escapes, and equally bizarre tragedies” (Kirkus Reviews). Nelson delivers all the terror, chaos, violence, tragedy, and heroism of the attack in stunning detail, and offers surprising conclusions about the tragedy’s unforeseen and resonant consequences that linger even today.

From Infamy to Greatness

Pearl Harbor

New York Times bestselling historian Craig Nelson reveals how FDR confronted an American public disinterested in going to war in Europe, skillfully won their support, and pushed government and American industry to build the greatest war machine in history, “the arsenal of democracy” that won World War II. As Nazi Germany began to conquer Europe, America’s military was unprepared, too small, and poorly supplied. The Nazis were supported by robust German factories that created a seemingly endless flow of arms, trucks, tanks, airplanes, and submarines. The United States, emerging from the Great Depression, was skeptical of American involvement in Europe and not ready to wage war. Hardened isolationists predicted disaster if the country went to war. In this fascinating and deeply researched account, Craig Nelson traces how Franklin D. Roosevelt steadily and sometimes secretively put America on a war footing by convincing America’s top industrialists such as Henry Ford Jr. to retool their factories, by diverting the country’s supplies of raw materials to the war effort, and above all by convincing the American people to endure shortages, to work in wartime factories, and to send their sons into harm’s way. Within a few years, the nation’s workers were producing thousands of airplanes and tanks, hundreds of warships and submarines. Under FDR’s resolute leadership, victory at land and sea and air across the globe began at home in America—a powerful and essential narrative largely overlooked in conventional histories of the war but which, in Nelson’s skilled, authoritative hands, becomes an illuminating and important work destined to become an American history classic.

Franklin Roosevelt's American Revolution and the Triumph of World War II

V Is For Victory

U.S. Policy During the Marcos Years, 1965-1986 : Guide and Index

The Philippines

Artist Craig Nelson shares secrets to drawing faces. From basics like materials, proportion and tone to finer details such as rendering noses from various angles, you will have all the essentials you need to get started drawing portraits immediately. Clear instruction and two step-by-step portrait demonstrations help you to create realistic faces with accuracy and ease.

Drawing Faces for Beginners

The Must-Have Reference for Drawing People! Your complete guide to drawing people, packed with everything you need to know about materials, techniques and drawing styles. Learn the secrets to drawing figures and faces correctly and creatively using an amazing array of tools from basic pencils to full-color drawing instruments. Learn how to: Capture seated and standing figures, as well as figures in motion Depict individual attitudes of your subjects Use clothing to show movement and gesture

Secrets of Drawing - Figures and Faces

Stéphane Vialette

Over the last decade great investments have been made in the acquisition of enormous amounts of gene sequence data from a diverse collection of org- isms. Realizing the full potential of these investments will require the continued development of computational tools for comparative genomics and the intel- gent application of these tools to address biologically relevant questions. The RECOMB Workshop on Comparative Genomics (RECOMB-CG) is devoted to bringingtogetherscientistsworkingonallaspectsofcomparativegenomics,from the development of new computational approaches to genome sequence analysis andcomparison,to the genome-wideapplicationofcomputationaltools to study the evolutionary dynamics of prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes. This volume contains the 19 papers presented at the 6th Annual RECOMB- ´ CG workshop held during October 13–15 at the Ecole Normale Sup´ erieure, in Paris, France. The papers selected for presentation and published in these p- ceedings were selected from 48 submissions from scientists around the world. Each paper was reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee in a stringent and thoughtful peer-review process.

International Workshop, RECOMB-CG 2008, Paris, France, October 13-15, 2008, Proceedings

Comparative Genomics

Immediately after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sought to restore the honor of the United States with a dramatic act of vengeance: a retaliatory bombing raid on Tokyo. On April 18, 1942, eighty brave young men, led by the famous daredevil Jimmy Doolittle, took off from a navy carrier in the mid-Pacific on what everyone regarded as a suicide mission but instead became a resounding American victory and helped turn the tide of the war. The First Heroes is the story of that mission. Meticulously researched and based on interviews with twenty of the surviving Tokyo Raiders, this is a true account that almost defies belief, a tremendous human drama of great personal courage, and a powerful reminder that ordinary people, when faced with extraordinary circumstances, can rise to the challenge of history.

The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raid--America's First World War II Vict ory

The First Heroes

Walt Hendrick

Andrea Zaferes

Written for instructors, dive team captains, surface teams, and underwater personnel alike, this book offers definitive information on procedures for safe operations, proper methods of training, and how to make appropriate purchasing decisions. Various techniques and types of equipment are discussed and assessed. Included also are chapters on methods of search in black water, swift water, and contaminated water, as well as techniques for evidence recovery.

Public Safety Diving

Craig Nelson has experienced places most people only dream about. He has walked the Great Wall of China; taught New Guinea cannibals how to dance; communed with a sign-language-speaking orangutan in Borneo; gotten into an altercation with the People's Liberation Army in Tiananmen Square; and taken psychoactive pharmaceuticals with a male witch in the depths of the Amazon jungle. In this vastly entertaining, often hilarious, and sometimes poignant book, he shares his global jaunts and haunts with armchair travelers everywhere.

Craig Nelson

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