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Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium
Lucy Inglis · Pegasus Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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An intelligent and authoritative history of opium -- a drug that has both healed and harmed since the beginning of civilization.Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: humankind has been in thrall to the "Milk of Paradise" for millennia. The latex of papaver somniferum is a bringer... |
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I Think You're Wrong
Sarah Stewart Holland · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Two friends on opposite sides of the aisle provide a practical guide to grace-filled political conversation while challenging readers to put relationship before policy and understanding before argument.More than ever, politics seems driven by conflict and anger. People sitting together... |
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Young Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity
Nick Bunker · Knopf
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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In this new account of Franklin's early life, Pulitzer finalist Nick Bunker portrays him as a complex, driven young man who elbows his way to success.From his early career as a printer and journalist, to his scientific work and his role as a founder of a new republic, Benjamin Franklin... |
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What Would Cleopatra Do?: Life Lessons from 50 of History's Most Extraordinary Women
Elizabeth Foley · Scribner
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Irreverent, inspirational, and a visual delight, What Would Cleopatra Do? shares the wisdom and advice passed down from Cleopatra, Queen Victoria, Dorothy Parker, and forty-seven other heroines from past eras on how to handle an array of common problems women have encountered throughout... |
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Silence: A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives
Jane Brox · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the "dazzling epic"* Brilliant, a compelling history of silence as a powerful shaper of the human mind - in prisons, in places of contemplation, and in our own lives Through her evocative intertwined histories of the penitentiary and the monastery, Jane Brox... |
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Adam Higginbotham · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
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Journalist Adam Higginbotham's definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster - and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters.Early in the morning... |
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Fidel Castro and Baseball: The Untold Story
Peter C. Bjarkman · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Few political figures of the modern age have been so vilified as Fidel Castro, and both the vilification and worship generated by the Cuban leader have combined to distort the true image of Castro. The baseball myths attached to Fidel have loomed every bit as large as the skewed political... |
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