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A World Erased: A Grandson's Search for His Family's Holocaust Secrets
Noah Lederman · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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This poignant memoir by Noah Lederman, the grandson of Holocaust survivors, transports readers from his grandparents' kitchen table in Brooklyn to World War II Poland. In the 1950s, Noah's grandparents raised their children on Holocaust stories. But because tales of rebellion and death... |
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The Day Will Pass Away: The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard: 1935-1936
Ivan Chistyakov · Pegasus Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A rare first-person testimony of the hardships of a Soviet labor camp -- long suppressed -- that will become a cornerstone of understanding the Soviet Union. Originally written in a couple of humble exercise books, which were anonymously donated to the Memorial Human Rights Centre in Moscow,... |
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Scars of Independence: America's Violent Birth
Holger Hoock · Crown
Pages: 559
Format: Hardcover
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A magisterial new work that rewrites the story of America's foundingThe American Revolution is often portrayed as an orderly, restrained rebellion, with brave patriots defending their noble ideals against an oppressive empire. It's a stirring narrative, and one the founders did their best... |
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The Gene: An Intimate History
Siddhartha Mukherjee · Scribner
Pages: 608
Format: Paperback
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THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post and Seattle Times Best Book of the Year From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies - a fascinating history of the gene and "a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously,... |
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Be Free or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero
Cate Lineberry · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"Be Free or Die makes you want to stand up and cheer. Cate Lineberry has done us all a great service by telling this incredibly moving, thrilling, and important story about an American hero who deserves to be remembered, and admired." -- Candice Millard, author of Hero of the EmpireFacing... |
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The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
Robert Hughes · Vintage Books; 1st Vintage Books Edition 1988 edition
Pages: 628
Format: Paperback
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The history of the birth of Australia which came out of the suffereing and brutality of England's infamous convict transportation system. With 16 pages of illustrations and 3 maps. |
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From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: Disruptive Innovation in the Age of the Internet
John Naughton · Quercus
Pages: 292
Format: Hardcover
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John Naughton is The Observer's "Networker" columnist, a prominent blogger, and Vice-President of Wolfson College, Cambridge. The Times has said that his writings, "[it] draws on more than two decades of study to explain how the internet works and the challenges and opportunities... |
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Complete Book of Decorative Paint Techniques.
Annie Sloan · Gramercy
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Exquisite, full-color, complete guide to decorative painting. Learn gilding, stenciling, mural and furniture painting techniques in the tradition of the greatest artisans in history. Practical, step-by-step ways to transform one's h ome. Hundreds of full-color photographs. 8 3/8"... |
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Bitter Freedom: Ireland in a Revolutionary World
Maurice Walsh · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 525
Format: Print book
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"Sets Ireland's post-1916 history in its global and human context, to brilliant effect." -- Neil Hegarty, Irish Times Books of the Year 2015The Irish Revolution has long been mythologized in American culture but seldom understood. Too often, the story of Irish independence and its grinding... |
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Oh Florida! : how America's weirdest state influences the rest of the country
Craig Pittman · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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Oh, Florida! That name. That combination of sounds. Three simple syllables, and yet packing so many mixed messages. To some people, it's a paradise. To others, it's a punchline. As Oh, Florida! shows, it's both of these - and, more importantly, it's a Petri dish, producing trends that end up influencing... |
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A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn · Harperperennial, 2015.
Pages: 768
Format: Print book
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With a new introduction by Anthony Arnove, this updated edition of the classic national bestseller reviews the book's thirty-five year history and demonstrates once again why it is a significant contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history.Since its original... |
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Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World
Ann Shen · Chronicle Books
Pages: 216
Format: Print book
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Aphra Behn, first female professional writer. Sojourner Truth, activist and abolitionist. Ada Lovelace, first computer programmer. Marie Curie, first woman to win the Nobel Prize. Joan Jett, godmother of punk. The 100 revolutionary women highlighted in this gorgeously illustrated book were... |
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Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
Dan L Flores · Basic Books
Pages: 271
Format: Print book
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With its uncanny night howls, unrivaled ingenuity, and amazing resilience, the coyote is the stuff of legends. In Indian folktales it often appears as a deceptive trickster or a sly genius. But legends don't come close to capturing the incredible survival story of the coyote. As soon as Americans... |
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