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John D. Rockefeller, Sr.--history's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's most famous dynasty--is an icon whose true nature has eluded three generations of historians. Now Ron Chernow, the National Book Award-winning biographer of the Morgan and Warburg banking families, gives us a history of the mogul "etched with uncommon objectivity and literary grace . . . as detailed, balanced, and psychologically insightful a portrait of the tycoon as we may ever have" (Kirkus Reviews). Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller's exceptionally rich...

The book compiles a series of recorded conversations between painter, architect and muralist O̓Gorman and his long time friend, art critic Antonio Luna Arroyo, dictated in 1970 and first published in 1973. Pioneer of the functionalist architecture in Mexico, O̓Gorman, narrates in a simple and moving way his encounters with art personalities and politicians of post-revolutionary Mexico, his work legacy, the occasional censure and details of his intimate life.

Compiles the stories of Mexico's best-known criminal women of the past two centuries, including the young heiress who killed her newborn to avoid dishonor and went to a dance immediately thereafter, and the beauty queen who murdered her unfaithful husband.

A senator and physician considers the threat of bioterrorism in the United States and offers protective strategies, discussing biological agents including anthrax and smallpox, as well as chemical weapons and possible dangers to food and water supplies. (Current Affairs)