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The End of White Christian America
Robert P Jones · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Robert P. Jones, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) , challenges us to grasp the profound political and cultural consequences of a new reality - that America is no longer a majority white Christian nation.For most of our nation's history, White Christian America (WCA)... |
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Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom
RUSSELL SHORTO · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the acclaimed history The Island at the Center of the World, an intimate new epic of the American Revolution that reinforces its meaning for today.With America's founding principles being debated today as never before, Russell Shorto looks back to the era in which those... |
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Turtle Recall: The Discworld Companion. . .So Far
Terry Pratchett · Harper
Format: Book
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For every Pratchett fan, the must-have fully updated guidebook to Discworld!The Discworld, as everyone knows, is a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants which, in turn, stand on the shell of the giant star turtle, the Great ATuin, as it slowly swims through space.It is also... |
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Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert
Patricia Cornwell · Amazon Publishing
Pages: 570
Format: Print book
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From New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell comes Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert, a comprehensive and intriguing exposé of one of the world's most chilling cases of serial murder - and the police force that failed to solve it.Vain and charismatic Walter Sickert... |
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Citizen Canine: Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs
Laurel Braitman · PublicAffairs
Format: Kindle Edition
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From Barnes & NobleA recent scientific study by international researchers indicated that dogs may have been domesticated as far back as 32,000 years ago. Cats became human pets much more recently, but even these relative newcomers are now generally regarded as family members or surrogate... |
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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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The West Point History of the Civil War
The United States Military Academy · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive military history of the Civil War, featuring the same exclusive images, tactical maps, and expert analysis commissioned by The United States Military Academy to teach the history of the art of war to West Point cadets.The United States Military Academy at West Point is the gold... |
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Sgt. Reckless: America's War Horse
Robin Hutton · Regnery History
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller!From the racetrack to the battlefielddauntless, fearless, and exemplar of Semper Fishe was Reckless, pride of the Marines. A Mongolian mare who was bred to be a racehorse, Ah-Chim-Hai, or Flame-of-the-Morning, belonged to a young boy named Kim-Huk-Moon. In order... |
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The Constitution: An Introduction
Michael Stokes Paulsen · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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From war powers to health care, freedom of speech to gun ownership, religious liberty to abortion, practically every aspect of American life is shaped by the Constitution. This vital document, along with its history of political and judicial interpretation, governs our individual lives... |
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Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
Blake J. Harris · It Books
Format: Hardcover
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Following the success of The Accidental Billionaires and Moneyball comes Console Wars—a mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary and a team of rebels, took on the juggernaut Nintendo and revolutionized... |
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Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
David Oshinsky · Doubleday
Pages: 387
Format: Print book
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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine. Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled... |
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The Great Divide: The Conflict between Washington and Jefferson that Defined a Nation
Thomas Fleming · Da Capo
Pages: 440
Format: Hardcover
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In the months after her husband's death, Martha Washington told several friends that the two worst days of her life were the day George died - and the day Thomas Jefferson came to Mount Vernon to offer his condolences.What could elicit such a strong reaction from the nation's original... |
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Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France
Caroline Moorehead · Harper; First U.S. First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the absorbing story of a French village that helped save thousands hunted by the Gestapo during World War II—told in full for the first time.Le Chambon-sur-Lignon is a small village of scattered houses high in the mountains... |
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The Marines in World War II
Michael E Haskew · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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2016 will mark the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor that pushed the United States into World War II and sent thousands of US Marines to fight and die on tiny islands half a world away. Today, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and Tarawa are household names that hold legendary status on the Marines'... |
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