St. Martin's Press / Nature, recreation and sports

Simple Prosperity

by David Wann

In his bestseller Affluenza, David Wann and his co-authors diagnosed the debilitating disease of over-consumption.  In Simple Prosperity he shows readers how we can overcome this disease by investing in a...

Business Lessons from a Radical Industrialist

by Ray C. Anderson & Robin White

In 1994, Interface founder and chairman Ray Anderson set an audacious goal for his commercial carpet company: to take nothingfrom the earth that can't be replaced by the earth. Now, Anderson leads the way forward...

Task Force Black

by Mark Urban

When American and British forces invaded Iraq in March 2003, select teams of special forces and intelligence operatives got to work looking for the WMD their governments had promised were there. They quickly...

Not Dead Yet

by Phil Southerland & John Hanc

Part memoir, part sports adventure, Not Dead Yet tells the inspirational story of Phil Southerland’s battle with Type 1 diabetes and how from diagnosis to sheer determination, Phil Southerland beat all odds...

SEAL Team Six

by Howard E. Wasdin & Stephen Templin

A book that takes you inside SEAL Team Six – the covert squad that killed Osama Bin Laden

SEAL Team Six is a secret unit tasked with counterterrorism, hostage rescue, and counterinsurgency. In this dramatic,...

Deep Future

by Curt Stager

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title

A bold, far-reaching look at how our actions will decide the planet’s future for millennia to come.

Imagine a planet where North American and Eurasian navies are...

Basketball Junkie

by Chris Herren & Bill Reynolds

I was dead for thirty seconds.

That’s what the cop in Fall River told me. 

When the EMTs found me, there was a needle in my arm and a packet of heroin in the front seat.

At basketball-crazy Durfee High School...

Sniper One

by Dan Mills

When Sgt. Dan Mills and the rest of the 1st Battalion, The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment flew into Iraq in April, 2004, they were supposed to be winning hearts and minds. They were soon fighting for their...

Fool Me Once

by Rick Lax

Rick Lax was paranoid to begin with. He saw lies everywhere. And when he saw them, he spoke up. But when his girlfriend gets conned by a violent drug dealer, nothing Rick does seems to help. So what if he...

Poisoned Legacy

by Mike Magner

The story is all too-familiar: On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, killing eleven workers and creating the largest oil spill in the history of U.S. offshore drilling. But, this wasn’t...

The Imbible

by Alex Bash

The Imbible is the definitive guide to drinking games by Alex Bash, a recent college graduate, therefore an authority on the subject.

What do you do when you wake up in an unfamiliar neighborhood hand-cuffed...

True Boo

by Boo Weekley & Paul Brown

From the deep South to the PGA Tour, the hilarious and inspiring memoir of golfer Boo Weekley

Ever since his breakout performance at the 2008 Ryder Cup, professional golfer Thomas Brent Weekley, known affectionately...

The New Normal

by David Wann

In Simple Prosperity, Dave Wann showed readers how to have an abundant, sustainable life. In The New Normal, he challenges us to do some heavy lifting and transform our non-sustainable culture...

The Blueberry Years

by Jim Minick

“A truly inspiring story, in gorgeous prose, about one family’s journey into blueberry farming. Delicious reading.” —Naomi Wolf, author of The End of America  The Blueberry Years is a mouth-watering...

The Cowboy and His Elephant

by Malcolm Macpherson

In the late 1980s, a female baby elephant was born into a herd that lived on the plains of southern Africa. Her mother has carried her for two years, and normally she would have nursed her for five more. But...

Babylon's Ark

by Lawrence Anthony & Graham Spence

***This ebook edition does not contain the photo insert that appears in the print edition.*** When the Iraq war began, conservationist Lawrence Anthony could think of only one thing: the fate of the Baghdad...

Michael Phelps

by Bob Schaller, Rowdy Gaines & Jason Lezak

Michael Phelps is an American sports hero, perhaps the greatest Olympic athlete the world has ever known. His unprecedented eight gold medals in the 2008 Summer Olympics have made him a superstar. But his journey...

The 100 Day Action Plan to Save the Planet

by William S. Becker

When the 44th President of the United States is elected, he will face urgent crises on three major fronts: the American economy, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the growing threat to the world environment...

Hurricane Almanac

by Bryan Norcross

Essential Information from CBS News' Hurricane Analyst Bryan Norcross's pioneering and courageous TV coverage of Hurricane Andrew in 1992 helped millions of people in Florida cope with the killer storm. This...

Seeds of Terror

by Gretchen Peters

Most Americans think of the Taliban and al Qaeda as a bunch of bearded fanatics fighting an Islamic crusade from caves in Afghanistan. But that doesn't explain their astonishing comeback along the Pakistan-Afghanistan...