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The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend
Bob Drury - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn astonishing untold story of the American West The great Sioux warrior-statesman Red Cloud was the only American Indian in history to defeat the United States Army in a war, forcing the government to sue for peace on his terms. At the peak of Red Cloud's powers... |
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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
David McCullough - Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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The dramatic and enthralling story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, the world’s longest suspension bridge at the time, a tale of greed, corruption, and obstruction but also of optimism, heroism, and determination, told by master historian David McCullough.This monumental book... |
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Formosan Odyssey: Taiwan, Past and Present
John Grant Ross
Format: Print book
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Until the early twentieth century, Taiwan was one of the wildest places in Asia. Its coastline was known as a mariners' graveyard, the mountainous interior was the domain of headhunting tribes, while the lowlands were a frontier area where banditry, feuding, and revolts were a |
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The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison
Pete Earley
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A stunning account of life behind bars at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, where the nation's hardest criminals do hard time. "A page-turner, as compelling and evocative as the finest novel. The best book on prison I've ever read.&qu |
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The Mismeasure of Man
Stephen Jay Gould - Tantor; Unabridged CD edition
Format: Audio CD
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When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits. Yet the idea of of biology as destiny dies hard, as witness the attention devoted... |
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FDR
Jean Edward Smith
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "A model presidential biography... Now, at last, we have a biography that is right for the man" - Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book WorldOne of today's premier biographers has written a modern, comprehensive, indeed ul |
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Classified Woman-The Sibel Edmonds Story: A Memoir
Sibel Edmonds
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In this startling new memoir, Sibel Edmonds - the most classified woman in U.S. history - takes us on a surreal journey that begins with the secretive FBI and down the dark halls of a feckless Congress to a stonewalling judiciary and finally, to the national security whistleblower |
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J D Vance - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NAMED BY THE TIMES AS ONE OF "6 BOOKS TO HELP UNDERSTAND TRUMP'S WIN" AND SOON TO BE A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD "You will not read a more important book about America this year." - The Economist "A riveting book."... |
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The Informant: A True Story
Kurt Eichenwald - Broadway; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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From an award-winning New York Times investigative reporter comes an outrageous story of greed, corruption, and conspiracy--which left the FBI and Justice Department counting on the cooperation of one man . . .It was one of the FBI's biggest secrets: a senior executive with America's... |
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Paperback
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System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing... |
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The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
Robert Kanigel - Washington Square Pr
Format: Book
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SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JEREMY IRONS AND DEV PATEL!In 1913, a young unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G H Hardy, begging the preeminent English mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had about numbers. Realizing the letter was the work of a genius, Hardy... |
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Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
Bill Browder - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times bestseller: “[Red Notice] does for investing in Russia and the former Soviet Union what Liar’s Poker did for our understanding of Salomon Brothers, Wall Street, and the mortgage-backed securities business in the 1980s. Browder’s business saga meshes well... |
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Whoever Steals This Book, Vol. 2
Fukamidori, Nowaki - Yen Press
Format: Book
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The “books’ curse”―an ancient hex that activates when a volume is stolen from the massive library known as Mikura Hall. Its power has transformed the town of Yomunaga into a storybook world not once but twice! And the person tracking down the serial novel-napper is none other than... |
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Seat of Empire: The Embattled Birth of Austin, Texas
Jeffrey Stuart Kerr - Texas Tech University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In 1838 Texas vice president Mirabeau B. Lamar, flush from the excitement of a successful buffalo hunt, gazed from a hilltop toward the paradise at his feet and saw the future. His poetic eye admired the stunning vista before him, with its wavering prairie grasses gradually yielding to clusters... |
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