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|  | Mans Search for Meaning by Simon Vance, Viktor E. Frankl
Psychiatrist Victor Frankl tells the story of the three years he spent as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, where he discovered that the will to find meaning in life motivates human existence. One of the 10 most influential books in the Library of Congress/Book-of-the-Month Club`s 1991 Survey of Lifetime Readers. AUTHOR: Simon Vance, Viktor E. Frankl
PUBLISHER: Pocket Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | My Days by R. K. Narayan
Narayan`s wry sense of humor, coupled with compassion for his fellow creatures, is as evident in this entertaining memoir as in his fiction. AUTHOR: R. K. Narayan
PUBLISHER: HarperTrade
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester
Winchester, acclaimed for THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN, retells the story of William Smith, who in 1815--despite his lower-class status--laid the foundations for modern geology. AUTHOR: Simon Winchester
PUBLISHER: HarperTrade
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Walden & Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, Michael Meyer
Thoreau's classic account of the solitary life, describing his attempts to simplify his life and sort out his priorities by living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond for nearly two years, is one of the most influential books ever written. The bible of the environmental movement, WALDEN vividly portrays Thoreau's reverence for nature, and his understanding of the idea that nature is made up of crucially interrelated parts. Civil Disobedience, Thoreau's 1849 essay, justifies his decision to go to jail rather than pay a poll tax that supported the Mexican War. AUTHOR: Henry David Thoreau, Michael Meyer
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Sacred Monsters by John Richardson
Description not available.In an incisive and opinionated anthology of articles, essays, and reviews, the author of The Life of Picasso offers a close-up, personal study of an eclectic group of writers, artists, and tastemakers, including Truman Capote, Andy Warhol, Peggy Guggenheim, Armand Hammer, Picasso, Judy Chicago, and others. 20,000 first printing. AUTHOR: John Richardson
PUBLISHER: Random House, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Death of the Banker by Ron Chernow
For anyone interested in the world behind the business-page headlines, this is the book to read. --Publishers WeeklyWith the same breadth of vision and narrative elan he brought to his monumental biographies of the great financiers, Ron Chernow examines the forces that made dynasties like the Morgans, the Warburgs, and the Rothschilds the financial arbiters of the early twentieth century and then rendered them virtually obsolete by the century's end. As he traces the shifting balance of power among investors, borrowers, and bankers, Chernow evokes both the grand theater of capital and the personal dramas of its most fascinating protagonists. Here is Siegmund Warburg, who dropped a client in the heat of a takeover deal because the man wore monogrammed shirt cuffs, as well as the imperious J. P. Morgan, who, when faced with a federal antitrust suit, admonished Theodore Roosevelt to send your man to my man and they can fix it up. And here are the men who usurped their power, from the go-getters of the 1920s to the masters of the universe of the 1980s. Glittering with perception and anecdote, The Death of the Banker is at once a panorama of twentieth-century finance and a guide to the new era of giant mutual funds on Wall Street. Chernow . . . delivers a sound, accessible account of the forces shaping capital, credit, currency, and securities markets on the eve of a new millennium. --Kirkus Reviews AUTHOR: Ron Chernow
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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