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Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power
Susan Cahan · Duke University Press, 2016.
Pages: 360
Format: Print book
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Prior to 1967 fewer than a dozen museum exhibitions had featured the work of African American artists. And by the time the civil rights movement reached the American art museum, it had already crested: the first public demonstrations to integrate museums occurred in late 1968, twenty years... |
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His Day Is Done: A Nelson Mandela Tribute
Maya Angelou · Random House
Pages: 64
Format: Hardcover
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He was a son of Africa who became father to a nation and, for billions of people around the world, a beacon of hope, courage, and perseverance in the face of opposition. Now, acclaimed poet Maya Angelou honors the life and remarkable soul of Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa... |
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The Nile: A Journey Downriver Through Egypt's Past and Present
Toby Wilkinson · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 292
Format: Hardcover
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A hypnotic journey in the company of one of the world's most acclaimed Egyptologists over the fabled river telling how the Nile continually brought life to an ancient civilization now dead and how it sustained its successors, now in tumult.Renowned Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson leads... |
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The Lion's Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War
Steven Pressfield · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 430
Format: Hardcover
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"A brilliant look into the psyche of combat. Where he once took us into the Spartan line of battle at Thermopylae, Steven Pressfield now takes us into the sands of the Sinai, the alleys of Old Jerusalem, and into the hearts and souls of soldiers winning a spectacularly improbable victory... |
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Northmen: The Viking Saga AD 793-1241
John Haywood · Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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From Finland to Newfoundland and Jelling to Jerusalem, follow in the wake of the Vikings -- a transformative story of a people that begins with paganism and ends in Christendom. In AD 800, the Scandinavians were just barbarians in longships. Though they held sway in the north, their power... |
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The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House, 1918-1939
Adrian Tinniswood · Basic Books
Pages: 344
Format: Print book
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As WWI drew to a close, change reverberated through the halls of England's country homes. As the sun set slowly on the British Empire, the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand stately homes.In The Long Weekend, historian Adrian Tinniswood introduces us to the tumultuous, scandalous... |
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When Women Win: EMILY's List and the Rise of Women in American Politics
Ellen Malcolm · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 358
Format: Print book
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The dramatic inside story of the rise of women in elected office over the past quarter-century, from the pioneering founder of three-million-member EMILY's List - one of the most influential players in today's political landscape In 1985, aware of the near-total absence of women in Congress,... |
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The Red River Campaign and Its Toll : 69 Bloody Days in Louisiana, March-May 1864
Henry O Robertson · McFarland & Company
Format: Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"This book takes a fresh look at the fierce battles at Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, the Union army's escape from Monett's Ferry and the burning of Alexandria, and explains the causes and consequences of the war in Central Louisiana"--
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The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014
Carlotta Gall · Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 329
Format: Hardcover
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Carlotta Gall has reported from Afghanistan and Pakistan for almost the entire duration of the American invasion and occupation, beginning shortly after 9/11. She knows just how much this war has cost the Afghan people, and how much damage can be traced to Pakistan and its duplicitous government... |
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The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
Arkady Ostrovsky · Viking
Pages: 374
Format: Print book
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WINNER OF THE 2016 ORWELL PRIZE FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR "Fast-paced and excellently written ... much needed, dispassionate and eminently readable." - New York Times "Filled with sparkling prose and deep analysis." -The Wall Street Journal How did a country... |
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Printer's Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History
Rebecca Romney · Harpercollins
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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A funny and entertaining history of printed books as told through absurd moments in the lives of authors and printers, collected by television's favorite rare-book expert from HISTORY's hit series Pawn Stars.Since the Gutenberg Bible first went on sale in 1455, printing has been... |
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