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Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power
Michael Kranish · Scribner
Pages: 431
Format: Print book
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Authoritative, timely, and provocative, this deeply researched biography of Donald Trump provides a complex portrait of the man who - despite broad skepticism - could be the next president of the United States.Who is Donald J. Trump? Despite decades of scrutiny, many aspects of his life... |
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Why We Lost: A General's Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
Daniel P Bolger · Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A high-ranking general's gripping insider account of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and how it all went wrong.Over a thirty-five-year career, Daniel Bolger rose through the army infantry to become a three-star general, commanding in both theaters of the U.S. campaigns in Iraq... |
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When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
KARA COONEY · National Geographic
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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This riveting narrative explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cleopatra--women who ruled with real power--and shines a piercing light on our own perceptions of women in power today.Female rulers are a rare phenomenon--but thousands of years ago in ancient... |
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Spring 1865: The Closing Campaigns of the Civil War
Perry D. Jamieson · University of Nebraska Press
Format: Hardcover
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When Gen. Robert E. Lee fled from Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia, in April 1865, many observers did not realize that the Civil War had reached its nadir. A large number of Confederates, from Jefferson Davis down to the rank-and-file, were determined to continue fighting. Though Union... |
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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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The Viking Wars: War and Peace in King Alfred's Britain: 789?955
MAX ADAMS · Pegasus Books
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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A history of Britain in the violent and unruly era between the first Scandinavian raids in 789 and the final expulsion of the Vikings from York in 954.In 865, a great Viking army landed in East Anglia, precipitating a series of wars that would last until the middle of the following century.... |
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The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle
Malinda Maynor Lowery · The University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
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Jamestown, the Lost Colony of Roanoke, and Plymouth Rock are central to America's mythic origin stories. Then, we are told, the main characters--the "friendly" Native Americans who met the settlers--disappeared. But the history of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina demands... |
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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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The Bowery: The Strange History of New York's Oldest Street
Stephen Paul DeVillo · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 280
Format: eBook
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From peglegged Peter Stuyvesant to CBGB's, the story of the Bowery reflects the history of the city that grew up around it. It was the street your mother warned you about - even if you lived in San Francisco. Long associated with skid row, saloons, freak shows, violence, and vice, the Bowery... |
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Living Hell
Michael C. C. Adams · Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Book
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Many Americans argues Michael C C Adams tend to think of the Civil War as more glorious less awful than the reality Millions of tourists flock to battlefields each year as vacation destinations their perceptions of the war often shaped by reenactors who work hard for verisimilitude but who cannot... |
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Earth in Human Hands: The Rise of Terra Sapiens and Hope for Our Planet
David Grinspoon · Grand Central Pub
Pages: 496
Format: Print book
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For the first time in Earth's history, one species--humans--is knowingly altering our planet's evolution, exerting increasing influence and attempting stewardship. How we handle this juncture may very well determine the fate not just of our species, but of life, and the planet. Without... |
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