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Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life In the Minor Leagues of Baseball
John Feinstein · Anchor
Format: eBook |
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From the acclaimed #1 bestselling author . . . a riveting journey through the world of minor-league baseball“No one grows up playing baseball pretending that they’re pitching or hitting in Triple-A.” —Chris Schwinden, Triple-A pitcher“If you don’t... |
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Fifty States: Every Question Answered
Lori Baird · Thunder Bay Press
Format: Hardcover |
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What was the last state to join the Union? What does the state quarter for Alabama look like? What is the state bird of Texas? All the answers are contained in Fifty States: Every Question Answered! Whether you’re a student or just a history buff, this book is a great reference manual... |
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Cleveland Calamities:: A History of Storm, Fire and Pestilence
Alan F Dutka · The History Press
Pages: 143
Format: Print book |
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For the first time under one cover, here are the tales of Cleveland's greatest blizzards, most destructive tornados, nastiest snowstorms and worst floods--and so much more. A pseudo tidal wave once pounded the Lake Erie shore from Bay Village to the Pennsylvania border. A phantom ice age caused... |
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The Incas
Terence N D?Altroy · Wiley
Pages: 566
Format: eBook : Document : English : 2nd edView all editions and formats |
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The Incas is a captivating exploration of one of the greatest civilizations ever seen. Seamlessly drawing on history, archaeology, and ethnography, this thoroughly updated new edition integrates advances made in hundreds of new studies conducted over the last decade. *... |
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Give Me a Fast Ship: The Continental Navy and America's Revolution at Sea
Tim McGrath · NAL; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Five ships against hundreds - the fledgling American Navy versus the greatest naval force the world had ever seen ... America in 1775 was on the verge of revolution - or, more likely, disastrous defeat. After the bloodshed at Lexington and Concord, England's King George sent hundreds... |
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Navy SEALs: Their Untold Story
William Doyle · William Morrow
Format: Hardcover |
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The most complete history of the U.S. Navy SEALs - from their roots in World War II to their celebrated efforts in the War on Terror - written with the unprecedented cooperation of the Naval Special Warfare community. The book will tie-in with a fall 2014 PBS series.Over the last fifty... |
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Whirlwind: The American Revolution and the War That Won It
John Ferling · Bloomsbury Press; 1 edition
Format: eBook |
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Amid a great collection of scholarship and narrative history on the Revolutionary War and the American struggle for independence, there is a gaping hole one that John Ferlings latest book, Whirlwind, will fill. Books chronicling the Revolution have largely ranged from multivolume tomes... |
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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Nancy Isenberg · Viking
Pages: 460
Format: Print book |
The New York Times bestseller
"Formidable and truth-dealing...necessary." -The New York Times
"With the election looming, this eye-opening investigation into our country's entrenched social hierarchy is acutely relevant." -O Magazine
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That's the Way It Is: A History of Television News in America
Charles L. Ponce de Leon · University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover |
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When critics decry the current state of our public discourse, one reliably easy target is television news. It's too dumbed-down, they say; it's no longer news but entertainment, celebrity-obsessed and vapid. The critics may be right. But, as Charles L. Ponce de Leon explains in That's... |
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How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery
Kevin Ashton · Doubleday
Format: Kindle Edition |
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As a technology pioneer at MIT and as the leader of three successful start-ups, Kevin Ashton experienced firsthand the all-consuming challenge of creating something new. Now, in a tour-de-force narrative twenty years in the making, Ashton leads us on a journey through humanity's greatest... |
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Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race
Margot Lee Shetterly · William Morrow
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover |
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The #1 New York Times bestseller The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA at the leading edge of the feminist and civil rights movement, whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space - a powerful, revelatory contribution... |
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Liberty's First Crisis: Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech
Charles Slack · Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover |
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When the United States government passed the Bill of Rights in 1791, its uncompromising protection of speech and of the press were unlike anything the world had ever seen before. But by 1798, the once-dazzling young republic of the United States was on the verge of collapse partisanship... |
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann · Doubleday
Pages: 338
Format: Hardcover |
From New Yorker staff writer David Grann, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Lost City of Z, a twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita... |
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