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Berlin Now: The City After the Wall
Peter Schneider · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A smartly guided romp, entertaining and enlightening, through Europe's most charismatic and enigmatic cityIt isn't Europe's most beautiful city, or its oldest. Its architecture is not more impressive than that of Rome or Paris; its museums do not hold more treasures than those... |
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Monongalia County,
Melba Pender Zinn · Heritage Books
Pages: 334
Format: Paperback
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Abstracts of the only surviving court records for the early years of Monongalia County derived from the District Court which served Monongalia, Harrison, Randolph, and Ohio counties, and the surrounding counties. The cases deal predominantly with civil ma |
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Art in detail : 100 masterpieces.
Susie Hodge · W W Norton
Format: Print book : English
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A comprehensive yet accessible sourcebook for curators and amateurs alike that examines the finer points of 100 well-known works of artGreat paintings cannot be fully understood in a single encounter. Art lovers want to revisit and reconsider the masterpieces again and again throughout... |
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The Penguin State of the Middle East Atlas: Completely Revised and Updated Third Edition
Dan Smith · Penguin Books, 2016.
Pages: 160
Format: Print book
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From the author of The Penguin State of the World Atlas, an essential tool for understanding the modern Middle EastThe Middle East is in a constant state of change, and understanding it has never been more important. In this essential guide to the region and its politics, Dan Smith unravels... |
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Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
Paul Watson · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The spellbinding true story of the greatest cold case in Arctic history -- and how the rare mix of marine science and Inuit knowledge finally led to the recent discovery of the shipwrecks.Spanning nearly 200 years, Ice Ghosts is a fast-paced detective story about Western science, indigenous... |
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Open to Debate: How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line
Heather Hendershot · Broadside
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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A unique and compelling portrait of William F. Buckley as the champion of conservative ideas in an age of liberal dominance, taking on the smartest adversaries he could find while singlehandedly reinventing the role of public intellectual in the network television era.When Firing Line premiered... |
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Midnight's Descendants: A History of South Asia since Partition
John Keay · Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group,
Pages: 392
Format: Print book
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Dispersed across India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, Midnight's Descendants - the generations born since the 1947 "midnight hour partition" of British India - are the world's fastest growing population. This vast region and its peoples wield an enormous... |
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The Fashion of Film: Fashion design inspired by cinema
Amber Jane Butchart · Mitchell Beazley
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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The Fashion of Film is the perfect book for the fashion fan. In it, fashion historian Amber Butchart takes a journey through the last 100 years of cinema style and its influence on the catwalks. With beautiful imagery and thoroughly-researched text, she looks at how our most iconic... |
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True Believer: Stalin's Last American Spy
Kati Marton · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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This astonishing real-life spy thriller, filled with danger, misplaced loyalties, betrayal, treachery, and pure evil, with a plot twist worthy of John le Carré, is relevant today as a tale of fanaticism and the lengths it takes us to.True Believer reveals the life of Noel Field, an American... |
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots
David Fisher · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 310
Format: Print book
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The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historical docudrama Legends and Lies: The Patriots, an exciting and eye-opening look at the Revolutionary War through the lives of its leadersThe American Revolution was neither inevitable nor a unanimous cause. It pitted neighbors against each... |
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Teche: A History of Louisiana's Most Famous Bayou
Shane K. Bernard · University Press of Mississippi
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Shane K. Bernard's Teche examines this legendary waterway of the American Deep South. Bernard delves into the bayou's geologic formation as a vestige of the Mississippi and Red Rivers, its prehistoric Native American occupation, and its colonial settlement by French, Spanish, and,... |
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