Robert Sullivan

"Thoreau is one of those authors that readers think they know, even if they don't. He's the solitary curmudgeon with the shack out in the woods, the mystic worshipping solemnly in the quiet church of nature. He's our national Natural Man, the prophet of environmentalism. But here Robert Sullivan--who himself has been called an 'urban Thoreau' (New York Times Book Review) --presents the Thoreau you don't know: the activist, the organizer, the gregarious...

"Thoreau went to Walden Pond to live simply in the wild and contemplate his own place in the world by observing nature. Robert Sullivan went to a disused, garbage-filled alley in lower Manhattan to contemplate the city and its lesser-known inhabitants - by observing the rat." "Rats live in the world precisely where humans do; they survive on the effluvia of human society; they eat our garbage. While dispensing gruesomely fascinating rat facts and...

Provides answers to such questions about the weather as "What makes the weather?", "Does air have weight?", "How big are hailstones?", and "What is El Niño?"

Text and photographs provide a history of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, discussing the tradition's beginning as a suggestion in 1924 by a group of Macy's employees to details of the floats, memorable balloons, the Radio City Rockettes, and notable parade happenings.

Combination of photographs and writing that capture the entire panorama of racing, from the wild and woolly early days to the bigger-than-life, modern-day heroes, from the emergence of the Indy 500 as the world's greatest single race to the unparalleled impact of NASCAR.

This book reviews the lives of Prince William and Princess Catherine up to their royal wedding.

The story of the American military is told in pictures, from George Washington's Continental Army to the ground troops in Afghanistan, from John Paul Jones and the "Bonhomme Richard" to the deck of the USS "Eisenhower" stationed in the Gulf.